Queen - The Platinum Collection [Greatest Hits] (6LP)

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Available for the first time on vinyl, Queen's original 2000 compilation 'The Platinum Collection' features all three of their Greatest Hits albums. This 6LP set shows their unrivalled track record of chart-topping, award-winning, record-breaking rock and pop classics. With four songwriters in the band - Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon - Queen created a glorious legacy of all-time anthems that still ring out across the ages.

Undimmed by time or fashion, The Platinum Collection is a reminder that Queen were always colourful, always dynamic, always ablaze with passion and pride. Each record in this box set is a different colour and packaged in their own individually designed sleeve. The set also comes with an exclusive 24-page 12" photo booklet.

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QUEEN Greatest Hits, first released in 1981, is the best-selling album of all time in the UK, having sold over 6.8 million copies, with global sales in excess of 25 million. Spanning Queen's triumphant first act, from 1974 to 1980, Greatest Hits includes some of the world's most beloved rock standards, including the stadium-sized symphonic chart-topper "Bohemian Rhapsody" and the roof-raising "We Are The Champions". This album also dazzles with its stylistically promiscuous range, from the crowd rousing "We Will Rock You", the tongue in cheek "Fat Bottomed Girls", the stomp-stomp-stomp late '70s disco inspired "Another One Bites the Dust", to the finger-snapping jukebox retro-rock homage "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" and the soaring, impassioned, gospel-fired Aretha-isms of "Somebody To Love".

TRACKLISTING:

  1. Bohemian Rhapsody
  2. Another One Bites The Dust
  3. Killer Queen
  4. Fat Bottomed Girls
  5. Bicycle Race
  6. You're My Best Friend
  7. Don't Stop Me Now
  8. Save Me
  9. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
  10. Somebody To Love
  11. Now I'm Here
  12. Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy
  13. Play The Game
  14. Flash
  15. Seven Seas Of Rhye
  16. We Will Rock You
  17. We Are The Champions

QUEEN Greatest Hits II, originally released shortly before Freddie Mercury's death in 1991, has sold over 19 million copies worldwide. It spans 1981 to 1991, the period which followed Queen having dropped their famous no synthesizers rule elevating them to new heights of creativity. Opening up their guitar-heavy sound to embrace funk, disco and electronics resulted in rich rewards, transforming these former Seventies glam rockers into a glossy, streamlined, emphatically contemporary super-group. Rebooted and rewired, Queen produced some of their most immortal hits during this imperial Eighties phase. Built around an improvised studio jam, their infectious David Bowie collaboration "Under Pressure" became a global chart-topping smash. The retro-futurist epic "Radio Gaga" and the humorously romantic "I Want To Break Free" stand as testaments to their early mastery of synthesizers, while the muscular ripcord riffs of "Hammer To Fall" and octave-vaulting grand-piano acrobatics of "It's a Hard Life" are vintage Queen both sonically and lyrically. Greatest Hits II also features the tender sentiments of "Friends Will Be Friends", the planet-sized synth-rock fanfares of "One Vision", and the heroically defiant swan song "The Show Must Go On", featuring Freddie in his last days still playing shamelessly to the gallery.

TRACKLISTING:

  1. A Kind Of Magic
  2. Under Pressure - Queen + David Bowie
  3. Radio Ga Ga
  4. I Want It All
  5. I Want To Break Free
  6. Innuendo
  7. It's A Hard Life
  8. Breakthru
  9. Who Wants To Live Forever
  10. Headlong
  11. The Miracle
  12. I'm Going Slightly Mad
  13. The Invisible Man
  14. Hammer To Fall
  15. Friends Will Be Friends
  16. The Show Must Go On
  17. One Vision

QUEEN Greatest Hits III, rarely available on vinyl, features their latter-day songs, the band members' solo hits and the band's collaborations with other artists including Elton John, Montserrat Caballé, George Michael and Wyclef Jean.

TRACKLISTING:

  1. The Show Must Go On - Queen + Elton John
  2. Under Pressure (Rah Mix) - Queen + David Bowie
  3. Barcelona - Freddie Mercury + Montserrat Caballé
  4. Too Much Love Will Kill You
  5. Somebody To Love - George Michael + Queen
  6. You Don't Fool Me
  7. Heaven For Everyone
  8. Las Palabras De Amor
  9. Driven By You - Brian May
  10. Living On My Own - Freddie Mercury
  11. Let Me Live
  12. The Great Pretender - Freddie Mercury
  13. Princes Of The Universe
  14. Another One Bites The Dust - Queen + Wyclef Jean
  15. No-one But You
  16. These Are The Days Of Our Lives
  17. Thank God It's Christmas
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