Queen - Classic Queen (CD)
ORIGINAL 1992 CD RELEASE!!!
No Skips, No Freeze ups!!!
No Scratches, No Scuff Marks!!!
CD and all artwork included.
CD in Excellent Like New condition.
Jewel Case has normal wear.
This is an excellent collection of one of the most popular and
influential rock bands of all time, though it omits "We Are the
Champions" and "Fat Bottomed Girls" (these, however, can be found on the
Greatest Hits album, which together with Classic Queen
gets you a comprehensive selection of their work). There's some great
stuff here, including rockers like "Hammer to Fall," "Stone Cold Crazy,"
"I Want It All," "Headlong," and the hilarious "Tie Your Mother Down."
There's also a good sampling of ballads, performed with an energy and
sincerity that sets them apart: "Who Wants to Live Forever" is
sorrowfully beautiful, and "The Show Must Go On" is only echoed by songs
like Queensryche's "Is There Anybody Listening." Rounding things off is
a fine selection of the unclassifiable, such as "Under Pressure," "I'm
Going Slightly Mad," and "Radio Ga Ga."
Track
listing
1. Kind of Magic, A
2. Bohemian
Rhapsody
3. Under Pressure
4. Hammer to
Fall
5. Stone Cold Crazy
6. One Year of Love
7. Radio Ga Ga
8. I'm Going Slightly Mad
9. I Want It All
10. Tie Your Mother Down
11. Miracle, The
12. These Are the Days of Our
Lives
13. One Vision
14. Keep Yourself Alive
15. Headlong
16. Who Wants to Live Forever
17. Show Must Go On, The
Product Details
- Audio CD (March 10, 1992)
- Original Release Date: March 10, 1992
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Hollywood Records
Queen Biography
English rock band Queen were one of the most popular bands in the
world, and have sold an estimated 300 million records internationally.
Known for their theatrical style, and the flamboyant showmanship of lead
singer Freddie Mercury, the band built a reputation through the 1970s
with million-selling albums and emphatic live performances.
Their
breakthrough was the 1974 album Queen II, which hit No.5 in the
British charts and included a Top 10 single, Seven Seas of Rhye.
Third album Sheer Heart Attack (1974) was the first Queen
record to win over critics as well as fans, and is often regarded as
their first true classic. They embarked on a world tour and won the
hearts of every crowd they played to.
A Night at the Opera
(1975) was, at the time, the most expensive album ever recorded, but it
proved to be worth the cost. It spent more than a year in both the UK
and US charts, eventually selling over three million copies in the US. A
Night at the Opera is often regarded as Queen's magnum opus, and
features on many critics' lists of great albums. It also featured their
signature song, "Bohemian Rhapsody", which topped the UK charts for nine
weeks and is one of Britain's biggest-selling singles ever. It is also
regularly voted as one of the greatest singles ever, and its video is
considered to be a landmark in the history of music promotion - after
"Bohemian Rhapsody", every band demanded videos for their singles.
Now
one of the biggest bands in the world, Queen continued to enjoy
incredible commercial success with A Day At The Races (1976)
and News Of The World (1977), containing the massive hits
"Somebody to Love", "We Will Rock You" and "We are the Champions". In
1976 they performed a free concert in Hyde Park, London, in front of a
crowd estimated at close to 200,000. 1978's Jazz was an
eclectic album that went nowhere near jazz, while the band achieved
their first US No.1s at the turn of the decade with "Crazy Little Thing
Called Love" and "Another one Bites the Dust".
The band continued
to tour in stadiums and set attendance records on a South American tour,
playing to hundreds-of-thousands of fans every night. "Under Pressure"
(with David Bowie) was another huge hit, as were "Radio Ga Ga" and "I
Want to Break Free". 1985 was a pivotal year for the band: they broke
more attendance records by twice performing in front of 325,000 fans in
Rio, before their blockbusting set at Live Aid. Watched by a worldwide
TV audience of over a billion, it was recently voted 'The Greatest Live
Performance Ever' by a BBC poll. In 1988 Queen stopped performing live
and concentrated on their studio work, which continued to yield
million-selling albums.
By 1988 rumours were beginning to
circulate that Mercury was suffering from AIDS. The rumours were
consistently denied, but in 1991 Mercury issued a statement admitting
that it was true. He died the next day, at the age of 45.
The
following year a massive fundraising concert took place in Mercury's
memory, featuring stars like Bowie, Robert Plant, Elton John, Guns n'
Roses and Metallica. It was broadcast to over a billion viewers
worldwide and raised over £20 million for AIDS charities. Later,
"Bohemian Rhapsody" was featured prominently in the film Wayne's
World, leading to a renaissance in the song's popularity among a
new generation of fans. An album called Made in Heaven was
released in 1995 comprising finished versions of tracks started with
Mercury in the studio several years earlier. In 2005, guitarist Brian
May and drummer Roger Taylor commenced touring again with Paul Rodgers,
known together as Queen + Paul Rodgers so as to avoid the impression
that Mercury was being replaced by Rodgers. As everyone who has seen a
Queen performance from the 70s or 80s knows, Freddie Mercury is simply
irreplaceable.
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