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9 ноя 2025 :	QUEEN Releases 'The Greatest Special: Episode 2': 'The Path To A Night At The Opera' (Part 1)
3 ноя 2025 :	QUEEN: New 'The Greatest' Series Celebrates 50th Anniversary Of 'Bohemian Rhapsody'
19 сен 2025 :	QUEEN's 'A Night At The Opera' Album And 'Bohemian Rhapsody' Single To Get Lavish 50th-Anniversary Vinyl Reissues
5 сен 2025 :
20 мар 2025 :	BRIAN MAY On Possibility Of New QUEEN Music: 'I Think It Could Happen'
16 фев 2025 :	QUEEN's 'Crazy Little Thing Called Love' Surpasses One Billion Streams On SPOTIFY
25 янв 2025 :	QUEEN Release Queen The Greatest Special: The Drum Sound; Video
25 дек 2024 :	Watch QUEEN's 1975 Performance Of "Keep Yourself Alive" From London's Hammersmith Odeon; Official Video
23 дек 2024 :	QUEEN Share Queen The Greatest Special: The Album Cover; Video
14 дек 2024 :	QUEEN Release Queen The Greatest Special: Behind The Promo Videos
24 ноя 2024 :	Watch QUEEN Perform "Liar" Live At London's Rainbow Theatre In 1974; Video
11 ноя 2024 :	QUEEN Release Queen The Greatest Special: The Story Of Queen 1 - Episode 3: "The Night Comes Down"; Video
2 ноя 2024 :	QUEEN Release "Queen The Greatest Special: The Story Of Queen 1 - Episode 2"; Video
28 окт 2024 :	QUEEN Release Re-Edited And Restored Promo Video For First Ever Single "Keep Yourself Alive"
23 окт 2024 :	QUEEN’s BRIAN MAY Says Retired Bassist JOHN DEACON “Still Has A ‘Yes’ Or ‘No’ Say” In Band Decisions
20 окт 2024 :	QUEEN Release "Queen The Greatest Special: The Story Of Queen 1 - Part 1"; Video
17 окт 2024 :	QUEEN's BRIAN MAY Unboxes Queen I: Collector's Edition; Video
16 окт 2024 :	ROGER TAYLOR On Possibility Of New QUEEN Music: 'I Don't See Why Not'
13 окт 2024 :	QUEEN Performs "Modern Times Rock 'N' Roll" In Earliest Professionally Filmed Video Footage
8 окт 2024 :	QUEEN - Official Video Teaser For Queen I: Collector's Edition Available
26 сен 2024 :	Watch QUEEN's 1975 Performance Of "Son And Daughter" From London's Hammersmith Odeon; Official Video
15 сен 2024 :	QUEEN Premier Brand New Music Video For Debut Album Track "The Night Comes Down"
14 сен 2024 :	QUEEN's Groundbreaking 1973 Debut Album Remixed, Remastered And Expanded
15 июл 2024 :	Vocalist GABBI GUNN Performs QUEEN Classic "Who Wants To Live Forever" For The Ken Tamplin Music Academy (Video)
21 июн 2024 :	QUEEN Catalog To Be Acquired By SONY MUSIC For $1.27 Billion
8 июн 2024 :	Report: Sony Music In Talks To Buy QUEEN's Music Catalog In Potential $1 Billion Deal

9 ноя 2025

QUEEN Releases 'The Greatest Special: Episode 2': 'The Path To A Night At The Opera' (Part 1)

QUEEN recently launched "The Greatest Special" video series celebrating "A Night At The Opera" vinyl reissue and 50th anniversary of "Bohemian Rhapsody".

With QUEEN's classic 1975 album newly reissued on limited-edition crystal-clear vinyl — and its most famous song celebrating a half-century — guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor take us behind the scenes in an exclusive video series released throughout November.

Having previously revealed the songs that paved the way for "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "A Night At The Opera" in exclusive new interviews for "Queen The Greatest", Taylor and May reveal how the technical experiences on the band's first three albums enabled them to realize their outrageous ambitions for their make-or-break fourth album, "A Night At The Opera".

For QUEEN, the recording studio was an instrument in its own right. And while the young band were forced to toe the line while creating 1973's debut album at Trident Studios, their expanding popularity gave them more control on each record — culminating in the unbound experimentation of 1975's "A Night At The Opera".

Now, as that classic fourth album celebrates its 50th anniversary with a new celebratory clear-vinyl reissue, this week's episode of "Queen The Greatest" shares further exclusive new interviews in which May and Taylor recall how the band's early studio experiences shaped their identity.

"Really, I think 'Queen II' was the first time we were allowed a certain amount of freedom in the studio, whereas with the first album we weren't", says Taylor , "so basically it sounds better and more like the way we wanted it to sound. I don't think its perfect by a long way, but we were building our confidence in the studio. It had a lot more light and shade."

As Brian affirms, the shifting balance of power can be heard in the ambitious soundscapes of 1974's "Queen II". "I've always been a big advocate of that album because I think it was a giant step," he says. "We're going from a band that is hardly allowed in the studio — except a few hours in dead time — to a band that actually has studio time. We can indulge ourselves. We can experiment, and we make a giant leap with painting pictures on the canvas of the tapes on 'Queen II'. I love that album."

By contrast, Roger recalls the band largely dialling back the production on third album "Sheer Heart Attack", released in November 1974. "In general, that was a hard-hitting, more simplified album," he says. "And, in my opinion, that was to its credit. The songs were good, they weren't too long, weren't over-elaborate. It was more stuff we could actually play live without getting too much into studio trickery."

But as Brian counters, the band's natural tendency towards the ambitious and grandiose set their course for 1975's "A Night At The Opera". "We go complex again," he remembers of album sessions that at the time were the most ambitious and expensive in history. "You know, let's pursue our dreams a bit further. We've done 'Sheer Heart Attack'; it's done quite well. But, really, our heart is in chiseling out these unusual places. In those days, it was fun, because it's like getting a new car and seeing what you can do with it. It's the four of us — with Mike Stone, the engineer and Roy Baker, our producer — and we're all learning how to use the studio. Pushing things ever further."

While QUEEN's first three albums made them stars, by 1975, the band were still living in penury, and as Brian recalled, had this fourth album failed, "I think we would have just disappeared under the ocean." Thankfully, "A Night At The Opera" flew to a U.K. No. 1, and half a century later, the new vinyl reissue presents a record that broke all the rules, its head-spinning material roaming from the seething rock of "Death On Two Legs" to "Seaside Rendezvous" vaudeville whimsy.

"For any song we took on, no matter who amongst the four of us had brought it in, it was an exhilarating process," remembers Brian, "challenging, sometimes difficult, sometimes argumentative — but really rewarding, because what you got in the end was something so shiny, rounded, adventurous and dangerous. It became QUEEN stuff — and QUEEN stuff was a million times greater than anything that any one of the four of us could come up with on their own…"

The new series "Queen The Greatest" continues weekly throughout November.

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