Year : 2025 (UMG Recordings Records Remastered Edition)
Style : Rock
Country : United Kingdom
Audio : 320 kbps + front
Size : 91 mb
Bio:
Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1970, originally consisting of Freddie Mercury (lead vocals, piano), Brian May (guitar, vocals), John Deacon (bass guitar), and Roger Taylor (drums, vocals). Queen's earliest works were influenced by progressive rock, hard rock and heavy metal, but the band gradually ventured into more conventional and radio-friendly works, incorporating further diverse styles into their music.Before joining Queen, Brian May and Roger Taylor had been playing together in a band named Smile with bassist Tim Staffell. Freddie Mercury (then known by his birth name of Farrokh "Freddie" Bulsara) was a fan of Smile, and encouraged them to experiment with more elaborate stage and recording techniques after Staffell's departure in 1970. Mercury himself joined the band shortly thereafter, changed the name of the band to "Queen", and adopted his familiar stage name. John Deacon was recruited prior to recording their eponymous debut album in 1973. Queen enjoyed success in the UK with their debut and its follow-up, Queen II in 1974, but it was the release of Sheer Heart Attack later in 1974 and A Night at the Opera in 1975 that gained the band international success. The latter featured "Bohemian Rhapsody", which stayed at number one in the UK Singles Chart for nine weeks; it charted at number one in several other territories, and gave the band their first top ten hit on the US Billboard Hot 100. Their 1977 album, News of the World, contained two of rock's most recognisable anthems, "We Will Rock You" and "We Are the Champions".By the early 1980s, Queen were one of the biggest stadium rock bands in the world, with "Another One Bites the Dust" their best selling single, and their performance at 1985's Live Aid is regarded as one of the greatest in rock history. In 1991, Mercury died of bronchopneumonia, a complication of AIDS, and Deacon retired in 1997. Since then, May and Taylor have occasionally performed together, including a collaboration with Free and Bad Company vocalist Paul Rodgers under the name Queen + Paul Rodgers which ended in May 2009. Since 2011, May and Taylor have collaborated with vocalist Adam Lambert under the name of Queen + Adam Lambert. In late 2014, Queen will release a new album, Queen Forever, featuring vocals from the late Freddie Mercury.The band have released a total of 18 number one albums, 18 number one singles, and 10 number one DVDs. Estimates of their record sales generally range from 150 million to 300 million records, making them one of the world's best-selling music artists. They received the Outstanding Contribution to British Music Award from the British Phonographic Industry in 1990, and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001.
Album:
Especially compiled and overseen by Brian May & Roger Taylor, here’s one of the last QUEEN‘s thematic series compilations made in association with UMG Recordings – ”QUEEN – Ballads” – grouping songs in the same musical style from the band’s 3-decade career catalog.All over their career, Queen delivered some glorious, heartfelt tunes. There are 15 Queen songs with “love” in the title, and it was a word that lead singer Freddie Mercury used all the time in conversation. “Most of the songs I write are about love and things to do with sadness, torture and pain, but at the same time, it’s frivolous and tongue-in-cheek. That’s basically my whole nature, I guess.” Mercury once said.Included into ”QUEEN – Ballads” there’s one song rarely mentioned as classic, but in our opinion, among the best Queen ballads; 1976’s ‘You Take My Breath Away’. Although Queen are renowned for their pulsating stadium rock hits, they’re a band capable of subtlety, too. One of their most heartfelt love songs is the sparse “You Take My Breath Away”. When Mercury recorded it for the album, he left “You Take My Breath Away” as a straightforward piano-led song, multi-tracking himself on vocals. The simplicity worked a treat in a slow, haunting ballad about his need for affection.Of course we find here as well the excellent ‘Who Wants To Live Forever’, and classic ‘Love of My Life’ in its original studio version.One of Mercury’s most haunting break-up songs was ‘Love of My Life,’ from the album Night at the Opera. It is believed to be about his former lover Mary Austin. “It’s fair to say she was the love of Freddie’s life,” said May.The studio version reflected Mercury’s classical music influences and featured May on harp (“I remember thinking, ‘I’m going to force him to play until his fingers drop off!’” Mercury later joked). The pair transformed the song for live versions, with Mercury often just singing solo with May playing a 12-string guitar. “Wherever we did ‘Love of My Life,’ the crowd instinctively knew that they had to sing it,” said Mercury. “It’s amazing to watch. I didn’t have to tell them: they just automatically knew their role. I like an audience to respond like that.”1977’s ‘Spread Your Wings’ another very good power ballad from Queen, and pretty unique. The song is unusual for the band in that it uses a third-person narrative, and also it’s the only Queen single that does not have the rest of the group providing backing vocals to Mercury’s lead.
Line Up:
Freddie Mercury – vocals, piano, keyboards, occasional guitar (1970–1991; his death) (R.I.P. 1991)
Brian May – guitars, vocals, keyboards, bass guitar (1970–present)
John Deacon – bass guitar, guitars, keyboards, occasional backing vocals (1971–1997)
Roger Taylor – drums, vocals, percussion, guitars, keyboards, bass guitar (1970–present)
Tracklist:
01. Love Of My Life (Remastered 2011)
02. Sail Away Sweet Sister (Remastered 2011)
03. Life Is Real (Song For Lennon) (Remastered 2011)
04. Spread Your Wings (Remastered 2011)
05. Too Much Love Will Kill You (Remastered 2011)
06. Jealousy (Remastered 2011)
07. Nevermore (Remastered 2011)
08. You Take My Breath Away (Remastered 2011)
09. Who Wants To Live Forever (Remastered 2011)
10. Las Palabras De Amor (The Words Of Love) (Remastered 2011)
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