Queen
News Of The World LP vinyl

'News of the World' is the sixth studio album by Queen, released in 1977. 'News of the World' was the second album to be produced solely by the band (the first being 'A Day at the Races'). Famous for its anthemic opening salvo, 'We Will Rock You / We Are The Champions' - at once an acknowledgement of and delight in their new-found stadium status - it's possible to see 'News Of The World' as the last album of Queen's 'classic' period, when their fusion of gaudy operatics, tearful ballads and '70s guitar-rock came together most congruently and well. With 'Spread Your Wings' the band crafted another of their typically artful paeans to hedonistic freedom, and 'My Melancholy Blues' is one of Freddie Mercury's most engaging displays of self-indulgence - though they stepped up the pace appreciably on 'Sheer Heart Attack,' which proved that they could match anyone for sheer muscle, when the urge seized them. The album's most successful cut, however - Brian May's 'It's Late' - successfully married the guitarist's power chord-fetish with Mercury's infatuated romantic melodrama: the result, overblown on both counts, stands as a near-definitive record of this band and their sound.

NEW / Released in 1977 / Reissue 2015

Tracklist:

A1 We Will Rock You

A2 We Are The Champions

A3 Sheer Heart Attack

A4 All Dead, All Dead

A5 Spread Your Wings

A6 Fight From The Inside

B1 Get Down, Make Love

B2 Sleeping On The Sidewalk

B3 Who Needs You

B4 It's Late

B5 My Melancholy Blues