Over half a century since its launch, 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 in which the band at all times wished it to. A brand new tracklisting, different takes, demos and dwell tracks have now been added to create probably the most full model of this pivotal work. That is the very first time {that a} Queen album has ever obtained a brand new stereo combine.
“This isn’t only a remaster, it is a model new 2024 rebuild of all the Queen debut album, which, with the good thing about hindsight, we now have re-titled QUEEN I,” writes Brian Could within the CD sleeve insert notes. “All of the performances are precisely as they initially appeared in 1973, however each instrument has been revisited to provide the ‘dwell’ ambient sounds we’d have favored to make use of initially. The result’s “Queen“ as it will have sounded with at present’s data and expertise – a primary.”
The 6CD + 1 LP Queen I field set accommodates 63 tracks with 43 model new mixes, comprising the unique album with its supposed working order restored, intimate fly-on-the-wall audio of Queen within the studio, demos, uncommon dwell tracks, and beforehand unheard recordings from Queen’s first ever dwell efficiency in London, August 1970. Absent from the 1973 launch, the music “Mad the Swine” has been reinstated to its authentic place within the working order. A 108-page e-book containing handwritten lyrics and memorabilia accompanies the discharge.
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