News of the World is the sixth studio album by British rock group Queen, released in 1977. Containing hit songs "We Will Rock You", "We Are the Champions" and "Spread Your Wings", the album went platinum in the United Kingdom, four times platinum in the United States and achieved high certifications elsewhere throughout the world as well. News of the World was the second album to be produced solely by the band (the first being A Day at the Races) and was recorded at Sarm West and Wessex Studios, England and co-produced and engineered by Mike Stone. After releasing A Day at the Races, Queen's self-producing debut and followup to A Night at the Opera which featured their magnum opus "Bohemian Rhapsody", having received some criticism that Races was a "boring" album, Queen decided to shift their musical focus towards the mainstream, but remaining as the producers of the next album. After completing the A Day at the Races Tour, the quartet re-entered the studio to begin work on their sixth studio offering in July 1977, enlisting Mike Stone as assistant producer at the Basing Street Studios in Wessex, London. The group completed recording and production of the album two months later in September and released the album on 28 October. News of the World initially received mixed reviews, mostly reflecting on the differences to the previously predominantly progressive rock sound produced by Queen, and this album's vast shift towards a more pop-rock oriented sound. Following the immense success of singles "We Will Rock You" and "We Are the Champions", the critical reception shifted towards a more positive stance, as it became evident that the band was displaying another field of their musical ability.
01- We Will Rock You 02- We Are The Champions 03- Sheer Heart Attack 04- All Dead, All Dead 05- Spread Your Wings 06- Fight From The Inside 07- Get Down, Make Love 08- Sleeping On The Sidewalk 09- Who Needs You 10- It's Late 11- My Melancholy Blues
Queen Rock Montreal is a live album by English band Queen. It was released in 2007 as a double CD / triple vinyl on 28 October in Australia, 29 October in Europe, and 30 October in the US. It was recorded in Montreal, Quebec, Canada at the Montreal Forum on 24 November and 25 November 1981, ten years to the date before lead singer Freddie Mercury died of complications related to AIDS. This marks the first official release of the film soundtrack to the concert film We Will Rock You on an audio-only format. Unlike the original video release of We Will Rock You, which has been re-released as Queen Rock Montreal, the album and CD features the full show (including "Flash" and "The Hero" not on the film) fully remixed. Before "Killer Queen", Freddie remarked to the unusually docile crowd, "If you guys want to move around and shift your asses a little it's OK by us... You can take all your clothes off if you like too, doesn't matter,". Freddie gets notably frustrated with the crowd's lack of enthusiasm and orders them to "Move it, you fuckers, come on!" during "Jailhouse Rock", unbeknownst to him being reserved is part of the culture of the province and Canada. Freddie states on the album, "We must tell you that we are filming this as you know and it's the last show in this series, it sounds like a television game, but forget the cameras, it's just you and us, alright?".
01- Intro 02- We Will Rock You (Fast) 03- Let Me Entertain You 04- Play the Game 05- Somebody to Love 06- Killer Queen 07- I'm in Love With My Car 08- Get Down, Make Love 09- Save Me 10- Now I'm Here 11- Dragon Attack 12- Now I'm Here 13- Love of My Life
Disc Two:
01- Under Pressure 02- Keep Yourself Alive 03- Drum and Tympani Solo 04- Guitar Solo 05- Flash 06- The Hero 07- Crazy Little Thing Called Love 08- Jailhouse Rock 09- Bohemian Rhapsody 10- Tie Your Mother Down 11- Another One Bites the Dust 12- Sheer Heart Attack 13- We Will Rock You 14- We Are the Champions 15- God Save the Queen
Queen recorded a total of 25 different tracks at 2 different BBC studios in 1973, 1974 and 1977. 'Keep Yourself Alive', 'Liar', 'Modern Times Rock And Roll', and 'Son And Daughter' were the only numbers recorded twice in two different sessions. This is a very nice bootleg featuring all the songs recorded by Queen at the BBC which weren’t included on the oficially released “Queen at the Beeb” album. All these Beeb versions sound a bit different to the oficial studio versions. Recommended.
From session 2 Recorded at Langham One Studio, London, 25 July 1973 Producer: Jeff Griffin and Chris Lycett Engineer: John Etchells Broadcast on Radio One, 24 September 1973
01- See What a Fool I've Been 02- Liar 03- Son and Daughter 04- Keep Yourself Alive
From session 4 Recorded at Langham One Studio, London, 3 April 1974 Producer and engineer unknown Broadcast on Radio One, 15 April 1974
05- Modern Times Rock’n’Roll 06- Nevermore 07- White Queen (As it Began)
From session 5 Recorded at Maida Vale Studio, London, 16 October 1974 Producer: Jeff Griffin Engineer unknown Broadcast on Radio One, 4 November 1974
08- Now I’m Here 09- Stone Cold Crazy 10- Flick of the Wrist 11- Tenement Funster
From session 6 (and last) Recorded at Maida Vale Studio, London, 28 October 1977 Producer: Jeff Griffin Engineer: Mike Robinson Broadcast on Radio One, 14 November 1977
12- We Will Rock You 13- It's Late 14- Melancholy Blues 15- Spread Your Wings
A Day at the Races is the fifth album by British rock group Queen, released in December 1976. A Day at the Races was the Queen's first completely self-produced album, and the first not to feature producer Roy Thomas Baker. Recorded at Sarm East, The Manor and Wessex Studios in England, A Day at the Races was engineered by Mike Stone. The title of the album followed suit with its predecessor A Night at the Opera in taking its name from a film by the Marx Brothers. A Day at the Races peaked at number one in the UK, Japan and the Netherlands. It reached number five on the US Billboard 200 and was Queen's fifth album to ship gold (500,000 units shipped) in the US. It subsequently reached platinum status (one million shipped) in the US.
01- Tie Your Mother Down 02- You Take My Breath Away 03- Long Away 04- The Millionaire Waltz 05- You and I 06- Somebody to Love 07- White Man 08- Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy 09- Drowse 10- Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together)
A Night at the Opera is the fourth album by English rock group Queen, released in November 1975. Co-produced by Roy Thomas Baker and Queen, A Night at the Opera was, at the time of its release, the most expensive album ever recorded. It was originally released by EMI in the UK where it topped the charts for nine weeks, and Elektra Records in the United States where the album peaked at number four, eventually being certified triple platinum (three million units shipped). The album takes its name from the Marx Brothers film A Night at the Opera, which the band watched one night at the studio complex when recording. Since its release, critical reception of A Night at the Opera was immensely positive from both fans and critics. In particular, "Bohemian Rhapsody", the album's centerpiece, received acclaim and is still considered among the greatest songs ever recorded. The album was ranked number 230 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. Channel 4 named it the 13th greatest album of all time. It was also ranked #41 on Q's "100 Greatest British Albums" and #16 on Q's "50 Best British Albums Ever!". In 2006 it was voted the ninth greatest Number One album of all time by the British public.The album is included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
01- Death on Two Legs (Dedicated to...) 02- Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon 03- I'm in Love With My Car 04- You're My Best Friend 05- '39 06- Sweet Lady 07- Seaside Rendezvous 08- The Prophet's Song 09- Love of My Life 10- Good Company 11- Bohemian Rhapsody 12- God Save the Queen
Sheer Heart Attack is a Queen album from 1974. It was their third studio album, and was produced by Queen and Roy Thomas Baker for EMI in the UK, and Elektra in the US. The release of Sheer Heart Attack coincided with Queen's first tour of Japan, which caused country-wide hysteria with numerous Japanese fans watching the band's first tour in Asia. Sheer Heart Attack was Queen's first album to hit the US Top 20 peaking at #12 in 1975 and was certified Gold in sales by the R.I.A.A. in 1975. The album is included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
01- Brighton Rock 02- Killer Queen 03- Tenement Funster 04- Flick Of The Wrist 05- Lily Of The Valley 06- Now I'm Here 07- In The Lap Of The Gods 08- Stone Cold Crazy 09- Dear Friends 10- Misfire 11- Bring Back That Leroy Brown 12- She Makes Me [Stormtroopers In Stilettos] 13- In The Lap Of The Gods... Revisited
“Queen II” is the second album by EnglishrockbandQueen, originally released in 1974. It was recorded at Trident Studios, London, England in August 1973, and engineered by Mike Stone. The two sides of the original LP were labeled "Side White" and "Side Black" (instead of the conventional sides "A" and "B"), with corresponding photos of the band dressed in white or in black on either side of the record's label face. The album is also a loose concept album, with the white side having songs with a more emotional theme and the black side almost entirely about fantasy, often with quite dark themes. Mick Rock's album cover photograph was frequently re-used by the band throughout its career, most notably in the music video for the song "Bohemian Rhapsody" (1975). There are two versions of this photograph, one with black for the background and foreground (right), the other with a brown foreground. Numerous problems beset the album's release. Its completion coincided with the 1973 oil crisis and consequently, government-enforced measures for energy conservation delayed its manufacture by several months. The lead vocalist Freddie Mercury composed the entire "Black" side, contributing virtuosic piano and harpsichord pieces and a wide range of distinctive vocal performances. The "White" side is very diverse: four of the five numbers were composed by Brian May, where one is instrumental, one is sung by Mercury and Taylor (with May at the piano), the next is sung by Mercury, and the last by May. The closing track of The "White" Side is Taylor's only composition in the album. John Deacon played acoustic guitar as well as bass on most of the album, except the songs "White Queen" and "Some Day One Day", which were performed by May, partly on an inexpensive Hairfred guitar that he had owned since his childhood. The album is included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
http://rapidshare.com/files/217759599/Queen_II.rar 01- Procession 02- Father to Son 03- White Queen (As It Began) 04- Some Day One Day 05- The Loser in the End 06- Ogre Battle 07- The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke 08- Nevermore 09- The March of the Black Queen 10- Funny How Love Is 11- Seven Seas of Rhye
