180g Vinyl LP Reissue Sourced from the Original Master Tapes

Theatrical, imaginative, diverse, melodic and unpredictable, Queen had a sound and a look all their own. Sitting alongside contemporaries like Led Zep and David Bowie, Queen set the standard for British rock in the 1970's and became one of the most thrilling, glamorous and downright rock n roll bands of all time, directly influencing a contemporary roll call of artists from Foo Fighters and Axl Rose to Lady Gaga and Katy Perry. Eponymous 1973 debut Queen, nominated by Dave Grohl as his favorite album of all time, was recorded in the same studio that Bowie was recording Ziggy Stardust. Because they didn't have any money, the album was recorded during Bowie's downtime, so Queen were literally recording at 3AM after Bowie he had gone to bed. Queen is their heaviest album, influenced by The Who, Hendrix and Led Zep and contains some of their hardest rocking songs, and also some of their most imaginative. Like all subsequent Queen albums, no two songs sound the same and there are mixtures of light and shade, the band teasing one minute with a lullaby, then blowing your head off.