The Platinum Collection

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Queen

The Platinum Collection

Universal Music

UMG-602435877518

6LP Color

$165

Released for the first time on vinyl
Remastered, 180g, 24 page 12" photo book
6x 180g Coloured LPs ( Yellow, Red, Pink, Purple, Blue, Green)

Description

Released for the first time on vinyl, Queen’s compilation ‘The Platinum Collection’, featuring all three of their Greatest Hits albums, 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. For past and future fans alike, they will rock you!

Living up to its name, The Platinum Collection was recently certified by the UK music industry organisation the BPI as having gone 8 x Platinum, representing sales of 2.4 million achieved since its June 2011 re-release as part of Queen’s 40th-anniversary celebrations.

Today sees the limited edition 6LP colour vinyl set released in a slipcase with brand new artwork. Each piece of vinyl will be a different colour and come in its own individually designed sleeve. The set also comes with an exclusive 24-page 12″ photo booklet.

‘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, which was named the most catchy song of all time by a team of scientists in 2011. But 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 70’s 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.

‘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. Officially the tenth best-selling album of all time in the UK, Greatest Hits 2 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.

‘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.

Undimmed by time or fashion, ‘The Platinum Collection’ is a reminder that Queen were always colourful, always dynamic, always ablaze with passion and pride.

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
18 A Kind of Magic
19 Under Pressure (with David Bowie)
20 Radio Ga Ga
21 I Want It All
22 ⁠I Want to Break Free
23 ⁠Innuendo
24 It’s a Hard Life
25 Breakthru
26 Who Wants to Live Forever
27 Headlong
28 The Miracle
29 I’m Going Slightly Mad
30 The Invisible Man
31 Hammer to Fall
32 Friends Will Be Friends
33 The Show Must Go On
34 One Vision
35 The Show Must Go On (Live with Elton John)
36 Under Pressure (Rah Mix)
37 Barcelona (Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballé)
38 Too Much Love Will Kill You
39 Somebody to Love (Live with George Michael)
40 You Don’t Fool Me
41 Heaven for Everyone
42 Las Palabras de Amor (The Words of Love)
43 Driven by You (Brian May)
44 Living on My Own (Freddie Mercury)
45 ⁠Let Me Live
46 ⁠The Great Pretender (Freddie Mercury)
47 Princes of the Universe
48 Another One Bites the Dust (with Wyclef Jean)
49 No-One but You (Only the Good Die Young)
50 These Are the Days of Our Lives
51 Thank God It’s Christmas

Queen

The Platinum Collection

Preview Tracklist

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

18 A Kind of Magic

19 Under Pressure (with David Bowie)

20 Radio Ga Ga

21 I Want It All

22 ⁠I Want to Break Free

23 ⁠Innuendo

24 It’s a Hard Life

25 Breakthru

26 Who Wants to Live Forever

27 Headlong

28 The Miracle

29 I’m Going Slightly Mad

30 The Invisible Man

31 Hammer to Fall

32 Friends Will Be Friends

33 The Show Must Go On

34 One Vision

35 The Show Must Go On (Live with Elton John)

36 Under Pressure (Rah Mix)

37 Barcelona (Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballé)

38 Too Much Love Will Kill You

39 Somebody to Love (Live with George Michael)

40 You Don’t Fool Me

41 Heaven for Everyone

42 Las Palabras de Amor (The Words of Love)

43 Driven by You (Brian May)

44 Living on My Own (Freddie Mercury)

45 ⁠Let Me Live

46 ⁠The Great Pretender (Freddie Mercury)

47 Princes of the Universe

48 Another One Bites the Dust (with Wyclef Jean)

49 No-One but You (Only the Good Die Young)

50 These Are the Days of Our Lives

51 Thank God It’s Christmas