320 kbps | MP3 | 2011 | 01:00:44


Cover: 
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Tracklisting:


CD 01:

01. Mustapha 
02. Fat Bottomed Girls 
03. Jealously 
04. Bicycle Race 
05. If You Can`t Beat Them 
06. Let Me Entertain You 
07. Dead On Time 
08. In Only Seven Days 
09. Dreamers Ball 
10. Fun It 
11. Leaving Home Ain`t Easy 
12. Don`t Stop Me Now 
13. More Of The Jazz 


CD 02:

01. Fat Bottomed Girls [Single Version] 
02. Bicycle Race [Instrumental] 
03. Don`t Stop Me Now [With Long-Lost Guitars] 
04. Let Me Entertain You [Live In Montreal, November 1981] 
05. Dreamers Ball [Early Acoustic Take, August 1978]



As part of the band`s 40th Anniversary celebrations – `News of the World`, `Jazz`, `The Game`, `Flash Gordon` and `Hot Space`. The reissues will be accompanied by the second in the `Queen: Deep Cuts` series, which looks at some of the lesser known tracks from these albums. 

These five albums were recorded as Queen`s UK stadium success spread to the USA, South America, Europe and Asia and are the sound of a band breaking through the crash barriers of their own limitless ambition. The early 80`s saw the band conquer South America for the first time, creating rock history when they played at the Morumbi Stadium in Brazil to 131,000 people - then the largest paying audience for a single band anywhere in the world. 

If the early 70`s and the first five albums Queens released represented the band`s hard-rocking years, then the late 70`s and early 80`s represented their hard partying era. As Brian, Roger, Freddie and John toured the world their reputation for off-stage rock`n`roll extravagance grew with stories of legendary party excess from Kensington to Copacabana informing the Queen mythology. 

The Queen image changed too in the second half of the 70s. Infamously Sid Vicious bumped into Freddie Mercury at Wessex Studios where both Pistols and Queen are recording - `Ullo Fred - I see you`ve bought ballet to the masses then!` Says Sid, eyeing up Freddie`s legendary ballet pumps. `Ah Mr Ferocious. Yes, doing my best dear` retorted Freddie. 

It was also during this period that one of the most iconic images in contemporary music was developed, when in 1980 Freddie Mercury grew perhaps the most famous moustache of modern times! Inspired by his adventures in the Lower East Side New York nightlife of the late 70`s, the moustache and attendant leathers completely reinvented the band`s look. Famously the moustache caused outrage among many fans who mailed him disposable razors. 

Queens 40th Anniversary year has kicked off in spectacular style so far with their first ever major exhibition `Stormtroopers in Stilettos` in London`s East End which drew an incredible crowd of over 20,000 visitors in two weeks, and kicked off with a star studded launch party attended by the likes of Foo Fighters and Jessie J. The Sun advised `Get down there, it`s an impressive collection`. Meanwhile the bands first five albums have been reissued to considerable acclaim. The Telegraph said of their early work, `Queen`s greatest music was extravagantly innovative, technically brilliant and created with a jeweller`s care.` 

These five albums highlight the diverse talent, musical ambition and already global success of a band made up of some of the best songwriters, musicians and performers of all time.