Queen’s 1973 debut album is being expanded right into a six-CD/1-LP Collector’s Version that can function remixed and remastered variations of the unique file’s songs.
Renamed Queen I for this reissue, the band’s debut included fan favorites “Maintain Your self Alive” and “Liar.” The upcoming field set options these songs and others because it charts the album from the demo stage to the live performance corridor.
The set features a revised monitor itemizing of the 1973 album with the track “Mad the Swine,” omitted from the unique launch, now a part of the lineup. The reworked album, out on Oct. 25, can even be accessible in abridged CD, vinyl, cassette and digital editions.
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Sixty-three tracks embody demos, periods, dwell cuts and a beforehand unreleased recording from Queen’s first-ever dwell efficiency in London in August 1970. There’s additionally a 108-page e-book that includes handwritten lyrics and memorabilia.
“This isn’t only a remaster,” guitarist Brian Could writes within the notes. “It is a model new 2024 rebuild of the whole Queen debut album, which, with the good thing about hindsight, we’ve got retitled Queen I.
“All of the performances are precisely as they initially appeared in 1973, however each instrument has been revisited to supply the ‘dwell’ ambient sounds we might have appreciated to make use of initially. The result’s Queen as it will have sounded with immediately’s information and know-how – a primary. Queen I is the debut album we at all times dreamed of bringing to you.”
What’s on the Expanded Reissue of Queen’s Debut Album?
Queen began work on their first album in Could 1972, working for 4 months on the songs that will be launched on July 13, 1973. The upcoming field charts the method, beginning with demos the band recorded in London earlier than periods started.
From there, the set features a disc of recording periods that includes unused masters, information vocals and completely different takes from these on the launched album. A disc of backing tracks can be included.
The ultimate two discs of Queen I function performances of the album’s songs from the BBC all through 1973 and 1974, and dwell tracks from the band’s exhibits on the Rainbow in 1974, from San Diego in 1976 and two songs from their August 1970 live performance at Imperial Faculty.
You’ll be able to see the monitor itemizing for the set under.
‘Queen I’ Collector’s Version
CD1: Queen I – 2024 Combine
1 Maintain Your self Alive
2 Doing All Proper
3 Nice King Rat
4 Mad The Swine
5 My Fairy King
6 Liar
7 The Evening Comes Down
8 Trendy Instances Rock ‘n’ Roll
9 Son And Daughter
10 Jesus
11 Seven Seas Of Rhye…
CD2: De Lane Lea Demos – 2024 Combine
1 Maintain Your self Alive
2 The Evening Comes Down
3 Nice King Rat
4 Jesus
5 Liar
CD3: Queen I Periods
1 Maintain Your self Alive (Trident Take 13 – Unused Grasp)
2 Doing All Proper (Trident Take 1 – with Information Vocal)
3 Nice King Rat (De Lane Lea Take 1 – with Information Vocal)
4 Mad The Swine (Trident Take 3 – with Information Vocal)
5 My Fairy King (Trident Backing Monitor In Growth)
6 Liar (Trident Take 1 – Unused Grasp)
7 The Evening Comes Down (De Lane Lea Takes 1 & 2 – with Information Vocal)
8 Trendy Instances Rock ‘n’ Roll (Trident Takes 8 & 9)
9 Son And Daughter (Trident Takes 1 & 2 – with Information Vocal)
10 Jesus (De Lane Lea Take 2 – with Information Vocal)
11 Seven Seas Of Rhye… (Trident Take 3)
12 See What A Idiot I’ve Been (De Lane Lea Take a look at Session)
CD4: Queen I Backing Tracks
1 Maintain Your self Alive
2 Doing All Proper
3 Nice King Rat
4 Mad The Swine
5 My Fairy King
6 Liar
7 The Evening Comes Down
8 Trendy Instances Rock ‘n’ Roll
9 Son And Daughter
10 Jesus
11 Seven Seas Of Rhye…
CD5: Queen I At The BBC
1 My Fairy King (BBC Session 1, February 1973)
2 Maintain Your self Alive (BBC Session 1, February 1973)
3 Doing All Proper (BBC Session 1, February 1973)
4 Liar (BBC Session 1, February 1973)
5 Maintain Your self Alive (BBC Session 2, July 1973)
6 Liar (BBC Session 2, July 1973)
7 Son And Daughter (BBC Session 2, July 1973)
8 Trendy Instances Rock ‘n’ Roll (BBC Session 3, December 1973)
9 Nice King Rat (BBC Session 3, December 1973
10 Son And Daughter (BBC Session 3, December 1973
11 Trendy Instances Rock ‘n’ Roll (BBC Session 4, April 1974)
CD6: Queen I Dwell
1 Son And Daughter (Dwell on the Rainbow – March 1974)
2 Guitar Solo (Dwell on the Rainbow – March 1974)
3 Son And Daughter (Reprise) (Dwell on the Rainbow – March 1974)
4 Nice King Rat (Dwell on the Rainbow – March 1974)
5 Maintain Your self Alive (Dwell on the Rainbow – March 1974)
6 Drum Solo (Dwell on the Rainbow – March 1974)
7 Maintain Your self Alive (Reprise) (Dwell on the Rainbow – March 1974)
8 Trendy Instances Rock ‘n’ Roll (Dwell on the Rainbow – March 1974)
9 Liar (Dwell on the Rainbow – March 1974)
10 Hangman (Dwell in San Diego – March 1976)
11 Doing All Proper (Dwell in San Diego – March 1976)
12 Jesus (Dwell at Imperial Faculty – August 1970)
13 I’m A Man (Dwell at Imperial Faculty – August 1970)
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