QUEEN "QUEEN ROCKS" DOUBLE LP COMPILATION - RARE
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Description
This is a double LP in a gatefold sleeve, with lyrics on the inside of the gatefold. A compilation of 18 of Queen's heavier songs, Queen Rocks was released in 1997 on Parlophone, but the vinyl edition was not widely available in the shops. The catalogue number is 7243 8 23091 1 6.
A label on the front states:
New!Special Heavy Vinyl
18 Classic Queen rock anthems
including their brand new single
No-One But You
(ONLY THE GOOD DIE YOUNG)
PLUS
We Will Rock You, One Vision,
Fat Bottomed Girls & I Want It All
The LPs are held in illustrated glossy card sleeves, with drawings on one side and a tracklist on the other. A view of one of the sleeves is shown in the above photograph alongside a shot of the front sleeve.
The tracklist is as follows:
We Will Rock YouTie Your Mother Down
I Want It All
Seven Seas of Rhye
I Can't Live With You (1997 'Rocks' Retake)
Hammer to Fall
Stone Cold Crazy
Now I'm Here
Fat Bottomed Girls
Keep Yourself Alive
Tear It Up
One Vision
Sheer Heart Attack
I'm In Love With My Car
Put Out The Fire
Headlong
It's Late
No-One But You (Only the Good Die Young)
The record has only been played a couple of times, and everything is in mint condition.
Postage and packing within the UK and Europe will be £3; elsewhere at cost. The record will be well packaged to avoid damage. Payment by PayPal, or cheque, postal order or international money order in pounds sterling.
Album Notes (from Muze info):Queen: John Deacon, Brian May, Freddie Mercury, Roger Taylor. Producers: Queen, David Richards, Roy Thomas Baker, Mack, John Anthony. Engineers include: Mike Stone, David Richards, Justin Shirley-Smith. Although Queen's GREATEST HITS and CLASSIC QUEEN compilations did an excellent job of collecting all of the band's most familiar hits, many key album tracks were left out due to time restrictions. The problem has finally been resolved with QUEEN ROCKS. Although there is some overlap with the two aforementioned albums. this serves as a good introduction for newcomers, and longtime fans will notice a pair of tracks that are unavailable anywhere else--a "1997 Rocks Retake" of 1991's "I Can't Live With You" and a brand new composition by the three remaining Queen members, "No-One But You (Only The Good Die Young)." QUEEN ROCKS is not comprised completely of obscurities, however. Chances are even casual fans are already familiar with "We Will Rock You," "Keep Yourself Alive," and "Fat Bottomed Girls." But overlooked tracks far outnumber the hits, which isn't a bad thing at all. A couple of politically-charged anthems--the anti-nuclear arms "Hammer To Fall" and the anti-gun "Put Out The Fire"--are highlights. So is Queen's answer to punk rock ("Sheer Heart Attack"), and a track which Metallica has covered ("Stone Cold Crazy"). QUEEN ROCKS proves definitively that this legendary band could rock with the best of them.
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