Easter Eggs:
There are two Easter eggs on Hits 2, being two alternative clips for the song Who Wants To Live Forever. The first egg, on disc 1, can be accessed by pressing enter on your remote control at the time when the title of this song appears. This will take you to an alternative clip that is basically identical to the original, but just with some footage from the film Highlander interspersed with the Queen footage; actually I think this version of the clip is better than the original, as the extra Highlander footage helps to break it up visually and make it more interesting to watch, not to mention putting the song into its proper context. As it is, we only get this "alternative" clip in 1.33:1 video and 2 channel audio. The second alternate clip for Who Wants To Live Forever can be accessed via the "Hot Space" menu. Move the cursor to the "Play All" option, then press cursor up, left then right and it will start playing. This is an alternate version of the song, re-arranged by Brian May in early 1989 so that it can be sung by children and released as a fund raiser for the British Bone Marrow Donor Appeal. The sad story surrounding this clip revolves around the death of a young girl of leukemia in early 1989 and the playing of the song Who Wants To Live Forever at her funeral. The young girl fought until the day she died to raise money for this appeal, being a charity set up to raise money for a computer register of bone marrow donors so that sufferers could be found a suitable donor quickly. When Brian found about this story, he agreed to become involved and help re-arrange and re-record the song for the benefit of the appeal. As it is, it doesn't appear from the clip that Brian actually played guitar on the track, however both John Deacon and Roger Taylor can be seen contributing bass and percussion. If there is a degree of "cringe factor" with the end result of this clip, with these young kids' rendition of the song, then it was certainly for a worthwhile cause.