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Queen - Queen I (2024 Mix, Super Deluxe Edition, LP Vinyl + 6 CDs)
Over half a century since its release and a vital chapter in the band's story, Queen's self-titled 1973 debut album has been remixed and restored by Justin Shirley-Smith, Joshua J Macrae and Kris Fredriksson to sound the way the band always wanted it to. A new tracklisting, alternative takes, demos and live tracks have now been added to create the most complete version of this pivotal work. This is the very first time that a Queen album has ever received a new stereo mix.
The Super Deluxe 6CD + 1 LP Queen I box set contains 63 tracks with 43 brand new mixes, comprising the original album with its intended running order restored, intimate fly-on-the-wall audio of Queen in the studio, demos, rare live tracks, and previously unheard recordings from Queen's first-ever live performance in London, August 1970. Absent from the 1973 release after a difference of opinion between the band and one of its producers, the song "Mad the Swine" has been reinstated to its rightful place as the album's fourth song, in between "Great King Rat" and "My Fairy King," just as Queen wanted it to be in 1972. A 108-page book containing handwritten lyrics and memorabilia accompanies the release.
This is not just a remaster, this is a brand new 2024 rebuild of the entire Queen debut album, which, with the benefit of hindsight, we have re-titled QUEEN I.
All the performances are exactly as they originally appeared in 1973, but every instrument has been revisited to produce the 'live' ambient sounds we would have liked to use originally. The result is 'Queen' as it would have sounded with today's knowledge and technology – a first.
Queen I is the debut album we always dreamed of bringing to you.
- Brian May and Roger Taylor, 2024
Title: Queen I
Artist: Queen
Label: Hollywood Records
UPC: 050087556006
Genre: Rock
Release Date: 10/25/2024
Track List:
CD 1: Queen I (2024 Mix)
Keep Yourself Alive
Doing All Right
Great King Rat
Mad the Swine
My Fairy King
Liar
The Night Comes Down
Modern Times Rock 'n' Roll
Son and Daughter
Jesus
Seven Seas of Rhye...
CD 2: De Lane Lea Demos - 2024 Mix
Keep Yourself Alive
The Night Comes Down
Great King Rat
Jesus
Liar
CD 3: Queen I Sessions
Keep Yourself Alive (Trident Take 13 - Unused Master)
Doing All Right (Trident Take 1 - with Guide Vocal)
Great King Rat (De Lane Lea Take 1 - with Guide Vocal)
Mad the Swine (Trident Take 3 - with Guide Vocal)
My Fairy King (Trident Backing Track In Development)
Liar (Trident Take 1 – Unused Master)
The Night Comes Down (De Lane Lea Takes 1 & 2 - with Guide Vocal)
Modern Times Rock 'n' Roll (Trident Takes 8 & 9)
Son and Daughter (Trident Takes 1 & 2 - with Guide Vocal) Jesus (De Lane Lea Take 2 - with Guide Vocal)
Seven Seas of Rhye… (Trident Take 3)
See What a Fool I've Been (De Lane Lea Test Session)
CD 4: Queen I Backing Tracks
Keep Yourself Alive
Doing All Right
Great King Rat
Mad the Swine
My Fairy King
Liar
The Night Comes Down
Modern Times Rock 'n' Roll
Son and Daughter
Jesus
Seven Seas of Rhye…
CD 5: Queen I At the BBC
My Fairy King (BBC Session 1, February 1973)
Keep Yourself Alive (BBC Session 1, February 1973)
Doing All Right (BBC Session 1, February 1973)
Liar (BBC Session 1, February 1973)
Keep Yourself Alive (BBC Session 2, July 1973)
Liar (BBC Session 2, July 1973)
Son and Daughter (BBC Session 2, July 1973)
Modern Times Rock 'n' Roll (BBC Session 3, December 1973)
Great King Rat (BBC Session 3, December 1973
Son and Daughter (BBC Session 3, December 1973
Modern Times Rock 'n' Roll (BBC Session 4, April 1974
CD 6: Queen I Live
Son and Daughter (Live at the Rainbow - March 1974)
Guitar Solo (Live at the Rainbow - March 1974)
Son and Daughter (Reprise) (Live at the Rainbow - March 1974)
Great King Rat (Live at the Rainbow - March 1974)
Keep Yourself Alive (Live at the Rainbow - March 1974
Drum Solo (Live at the Rainbow - March 1974)
Keep Yourself Alive (Reprise) (Live at the Rainbow - March 1974)
Modern Times Rock 'n' Roll (Live at the Rainbow - March 1974)
Liar (Live at the Rainbow - March 1974)
Hangman (Live in San Diego - March 1976)
Doing All Right (Live in San Diego - March 1976)
Jesus (Live at Imperial College - August 1970)
I'm a Man (Live at Imperial College - August 1970)
LP: Queen I (2024 Mix)
Side One:
Keep Yourself Alive
Doing All Right
Great King Rat
Mad the Swine
My Fairy King
Side Two:
Liar
The Night Comes Down
Modern Times Rock 'n' Roll
Son and Daughter
Jesus
Seven Seas of Rhye…
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