QUEEN "SHEER HEART ATTACK" 1974 EMI UK NM-/EX W/LYRIC SLEEVE 3U/4U YAX 4881/4882

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THE PHOTO'S MAY BE A LITTLE BLURRY, HAVE A LITTLE GLARE, SOME REFLECTIONS OR IN SOME CASES YOU MAY SEE SPECKS OF DUST. BUT THE PHOTO'S ARE OF THE ACTUAL ITEM YOU ARE BIDDING ON. I DO COMBINE SHIPPING. BUT I DO NOT ACCEPT “BEST OFFERS”, THE MONIES GO TO MY FRIENDS WIDOW.

THESE ARE VISUALLY & PLAY GRADED.

ARTISTS: QUEEN

TITLE: “SHEER HEART ATTACK”

TRACK LISTING: SEE PHOTO'S & BELOW

A1

Brighton Rock

A2

Killer Queen

A3

Tenement Funster

A4

Flick Of The Wrist

A5

Lily Of The Valley

A6

Now I'm Here

B1

In The Lap Of The Gods

B2

Stone Cold Crazy

B3

Dear Friends

B4

Misfire

B5

Bring Back That Leroy Brown

B6

She Makes Me (Stormtrooper In Stilettoes)

B7

In The Lap Of The Gods... Revisited

Companies, etc.

• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Trident Audio Productions Ltd.

• Copyright (c) – Queen Productions Ltd.

• Made By – Garrod & Lofthouse

• Printed By – Garrod & Lofthouse

• Published By – Feldman

• Published By – Trident Music (2)

• Recorded At – Trident Studios

• Recorded At – Wessex Sound Studios

• Recorded At – Rockfield Studios

• Recorded At – Air Studios

• Pressed By – EMI Records

• Record Company – EMI Records Ltd.

Credits

• Art Direction, Photography By – Mick Rock

• Bass Guitar, Double Bass, Acoustic Guitar – John Deacon

• Crew [Equipment And Crew Supervision] – John Harris

• Design Concept [Sleeve Concept], Composed By, Arranged By, Performer – Queen

• Drums, Vocals, Percussion, Performer [Screams] – Roger Taylor

• Engineer – Mike Stone

• Guitar, Vocals, Piano, Orchestrated By [Guitars], Banjo [Genuine George Formby Ukelele-Banjo] – Brian May

• Management [For T.A.P.] – Jack Nelson

• Producer – Queen, Roy Thomas Baker

• Vocals, Piano, Piano [Jangle], Performer [Vocal Extravaganzas] – Freddie Mercury

Notes

Inner sleeve with lyrics and credits.
Special thanks to Geoff Workman
"no synthesizers"

? 1974 Trident Audio Productions Ltd.
Made and printed in Great Britain.
Crest design © Queen Productions Ltd 1975

Inner sleeve has round cut corners, and CREST DESIGN (c) QUEEN PRODUCTIONS LTD 1975 added beneath the crest on both sides of the inner sleeve.
Differs From:
Sheer Heart Attack: Has a different (yellow) label
Sheer Heart Attack: Has a different angle cut inner sleeve and no crest copyright
Sheer Heart Attack: Has a different print outer sleeve and different print layout inner sleeve
Sheer Heart Attack: Mastered at TML

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Matrix / Runout (Side A Label): YAX.4881

• Matrix / Runout (Side B Label): YAX.4882

• Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, stamped, variant 1): YAX 4881-3U

• Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, stamped, variant 1): YAX 4882-4U

• Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, stamped, variant 2): YAX 4881-5U

• Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, stamped, variant 2): YAX 4882-3U

• Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, stamped, variant 3): YAX 4881-3U

• Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, stamped, variant 3): YAX 4882-3U

• Matrix / Runout (Variant 4): YAX 4881-6U

• Matrix / Runout (Variant 4): YAX 4882-3U
  

LABEL: EMI RECORDS UK

CAT.#: EMC 3061

YEAR: 1974

RECORD CONDITION: THE RECORD IS IN EX/NM CONDITION. BOTH LABELS ARE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION.. VISUALLY NICE SHINEY LUSTER TO THE VINYL. NO SCUFFS, BLEMS, LINES, VISIBLE SCRATCHES. VISUALLY THE RECORD LOOKS NEAR NEW. THE SONGS PLAY SUPER CLEAN! SONGS SOUND GREAT.

SLEEVE CONDITION: THE JACKET IS IN EX/NM CONDITION. NICE STRAIT EDGES, NO WRITING, TEARS, WRINKLES, CREASES.

MORE INFO: THIS RECORD IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT. UK IMPORT. INCLUDES ORIGINAL INNER SLEEVE W/LYRICS.

MORE INFO ON THE ARTISTS/RELEASE:

Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1970. Their classic line-up was Freddie Mercury (lead vocals and piano), Brian May (lead guitar and vocals), Roger Taylor (drums and vocals) and John Deacon (bass guitar). Their earliest works were influenced by progressive rock, hard rock and heavy metal, but the band gradually ventured into more conventional and radio-friendly works by incorporating further styles, such as arena rock and pop rock.

Before forming Queen, May and Taylor had played together in the band Smile. Mercury was a fan of Smile and encouraged them to experiment with more elaborate stage and recording techniques. He joined in 1970 and suggested the name "Queen". Deacon was recruited in March 1971, before the band released their eponymous debut album in 1973. Queen first charted in the UK with their second album, Queen II, in 1974. Sheer Heart Attack later that year and A Night at the Opera in 1975 brought them international success. The latter featured "Bohemian Rhapsody", which stayed at number one in the UK for nine weeks and helped popularise the music video format.

The band's 1977 album News of the World contained "We Will Rock You" and "We Are the Champions", which have become anthems at sporting events. By the early 1980s, Queen were one of the biggest stadium rock bands in the world. "Another One Bites the Dust" (1980) became their best-selling single, while their 1981 compilation album Greatest Hits is the best-selling album in the UK and is certified eight times platinum in the US. Their performance at the 1985 Live Aid concert has been ranked among the greatest in rock history by various publications. In August 1986, Mercury gave his last performance with Queen at Knebworth, England. In 1991, he died of bronchopneumonia - a complication of AIDS, and Deacon retired in 1997. Since 2004, May and Taylor have toured under the "Queen +" name with vocalists Paul Rodgers and Adam Lambert.

Estimates of Queen's record sales range from 170 million to 300 million records, making them one of the world's best-selling music artists. In 1990, Queen received the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music from the British Phonographic Industry. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001. Each member has composed hit singles, and all four were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2003. In 2005, Queen received the Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Song Collection from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers, and Authors. In 2018, they were presented the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

Sheer Heart Attack is the third studio album by the British rock band Queen, released on 8 November 1974 by EMI Records in the United Kingdom and by Elektra Records in the United States. Digressing from the progressive themes featured on their first two albums, this album featured more pop-centric and conventional rock tracks and marked a step towards the "classic" Queen sound. It was produced by the band and Roy Thomas Baker and launched Queen to mainstream popularity in the UK and throughout the world.

After the release of Queen II, the group embarked on a promotional tour with Mott the Hoople. However, in the middle of the tour, Brian May was struck down with illness, forcing the entire tour to end early. Much of the album was written while May was recovering in hospital; nonetheless, the album's first single "Killer Queen" reached number 2 in the British charts and provided them with their first top 20 hit in the U.S., peaking at number 12 on the Billboard singles chart. Sheer Heart Attack was the first Queen album to hit the U.S. top 20, peaking at number 12 in 1975. The album has been acknowledged for containing "a wealth of outstanding hard rock guitar tracks".Retrospectively, it has been listed by multiple publications as one of the band's best works and has been deemed an essential glam rock album.

After completing their second album, the group embarked on their Queen II Tour as a support act for Mott the Hoople. They toured extensively throughout the UK, at which point the two groups decided to tour through the US, in what was Queen's first US tour. The two bands would remain on friendly terms for the rest of their career, with Ian Hunter performing "All the Young Dudes" at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert. They played their first US show on 4 April in Denver, Colorado, as a support which Freddie Mercury reportedly disliked, saying "Being support is one of the most traumatic experiences of my life". However, at the climax of the tour in Boston, Brian May was discovered to have hepatitis, possibly from the use of a contaminated needle during vaccinations the group received before travelling to Australia. The remainder of the tour was subsequently cancelled and Queen flew back home, where May was hospitalised. The group began writing new material until May was rushed back to hospital with an undiagnosed stomach ulcer. This left the remaining members with two weeks to write their next album, the majority of which was done in the studio.

Unlike their earlier albums, Sheer Heart Attack was recorded at four different studios; though they still worked at Trident Studios, they began moving to AIR, Rockfield and Wessex Sound Studios.They left spaces on their songs for May to record his guitar and vocal parts upon return. When May returned to work, he remembered it as a strange experience, citing that “It was very weird, because I was able to see the group from the outside, and was pretty excited by what I saw”.Gary Langang, who was a tape operator on "Now I'm Here" and "Brighton Rock", recalled “When we finished work at Sarm, we’d meet them at a club called the Valbonne in Soho. That’s when they let their hair down.”

Overview

The album noticeably shifts away from the progressive rock themes of its predecessors, and has been categorised as hard rock and glam rock. The Daily Vault described it as "an important transition album" because it showcased "what the band would soon become while giving a nod to their hard-rock past," while Stephen Thomas Elerwine of Allmusic observed that although there are still references to the fantasy themes of their earlier works, particularly on "In the Lap of the Gods" and "Lily of the Valley", "the fantasy does not overwhelm as it did on the first two records".

"Killer Queen" was written in a single night, which contrasts with the "ages" it took to write "The March of the Black Queen" as Mercury put it,while John Deacon would write his very first song, "Misfire". "Brighton Rock" was written during the making of Queen II, "Stone Cold Crazy" had its genesis in Mercury's pre-Queen band Wreckage, and Mercury had written "Flick of the Wrist" during May's absence. Sheer Heart Attack was also the first album in which all four band members contributed songs; "Stone Cold Crazy" was the first song in which all four band members would receive a writing credit. 

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