Releasing 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. June 17 will see the limited edition 6LP color vinyl set released in a slipcase with brand new artwork. Each piece of vinyl will be a different color 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.
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FEATURES:
- Rigid slipcase with brand new artwork
- 6 x 180g heavyweight color vinyl – each disc a unique color
- Each piece of vinyl to come in its own individually designed sleeve making this set different to any version of their Greatest Hits albums released to date
- 24-page 12″ photo booklet
- Printed inner bags
- Limited Edition
- Genre: Rock
- Format: Vinyl
- Limited Edition, Color Vinyl
- Box Set
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Track Listings
- Disc 1
- 1Bohemian Rhapsody
- 2Another One Bites the Dust
- 3Killer Queen
- 4Fat Bottomed Girls
- 5Bicycle Race
- 6You're My Best Friend
- 7Don't Stop Me Now
- 8Save Me
- Disc 2
- 1Crazy Little Thing Called Love
- 2Somebody to Love
- 3Now I'm Here
- 4Good Old-fashioned Lover Boy
- 5Play the Game
- 6Flash
- 7Seven Seas of Rhye
- 8We Will Rock You
- 9We Are the Champions
- Disc 3
- 1A Kind of Magic
- 2Under Pressure
- 3Radio Ga Ga
- 4I Want It All
- 5I Want to Break Free
- 6Innuendo
- 7It's a Hard Life
- 8Breakthru
- 9Who Wants to Live Forever
- Disc 4
- 1Headlong
- 2The Miracle
- 3I'm Going Slightly Mad
- 4The Invisible Man
- 5Hammer to Fall
- 6Friends Will Be Friends
- 7The Show Must Go On
- 8One Vision
- Disc 5
- 1The Show Must Go On (Live at Théâtre National De Chaillot, Paris, 1997)
- 2Under Pressure
- 3Barcelona (Single Version)
- 4Too Much Love Will Kill You
- 5Somebody to Love (The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, Live at Wembley Stadium, 20 April 1992)
- 6You Don't Fool Me
- 7Heaven for Everyone
- 8Las Palabras De Amor (The Words of Love)
- Disc 6
- 1Driven By You
- 2Living On My Own
- 3Let Me Live
- 4The Great Pretender
- 5Princes of the Universe
- 6Another One Bites the Dust
- 7No-one But You (Only the Good Die Young)
- 8These Are the Days of Our Lives
- 9Thank God It's Christmas
