Queen, a collector’s edition of the first album from 1973 is released
“Queen”the English band’s debut album from 1973, has been expanded into a six-CD/1-LP Collector’s Edition containing remixed and remastered versions of songs from the original album and will be released on October 25.
For this reprint the gift has been renamed “Queen I”The new work includes a revised tracklist of the 1973 album with the song “Mad the Swine”omitted from the original version, now part of the setlist.
Sixty-three tracks including demos, recording sessions, live rehearsals and an unreleased recording of the band’s first live performance.Queen in London in August 1970. Plus a 108-page book of handwritten lyrics and memorabilia.
In the notes accompanying the release, the band’s guitarist
Brian May
writes: “This isn’t just a remaster. This is a brand new 2024 reconstruction of the entire Queen debut album, which, with the benefit of hindsight, we’ve renamed Queen I. All the performances are exactly as they originally appeared in 1973, but every instrument has been revised to produce the ambient ‘live’ sounds we originally intended to use. The result is ‘Queen’ as it would have sounded with today’s knowledge and technology: a first. ‘Queen I’ is the debut album we’ve always dreamed of bringing you.”
THE
Queen
began work on their first album in May 1972, working for four months on the songs that would be released on July 13, 1973. The box set traces the process, starting with demos the band recorded in London before the sessions began. From there, the set includes a session disc with unused masters, guide vocals, and different takes from those released on the album. A backing track disc is also included. The final two discs of
“Queen I”
contain performances of the album’s songs on the BBC in 1973 and 1974 and live tracks from the group’s concerts at the Rainbow in 1974, in San Diego in 1976 and two songs from the August 1970 concert at Imperial College.
Tracklist:
CD1: Queen I – 2024 Mix
1 Keep Yourself Alive
2 Doing All Right
3 Great King Rat
4 Mad The Swine
5 My Fairy King
6 Liars
7 The Night Comes Down
8 Modern Times Rock ‘n’ Roll
9 Son And Daughter
10 Jesus
11 Seven Seas Of Rhye…
CD2: De Lane Lea Demos – 2024 Mix
1 Keep Yourself Alive
2 The Night Comes Down
3 Great King Rat
4 Jesus
5 Liars
CD3: Queen I Sessions
1 Keep Yourself Alive (Trident Take 13 – Unused Master)
2 Doing All Right (Trident Take 1 – with Guide Vocal)
3 Great King Rat (De Lane Lea Take 1 – with Guide Vocal)
4 Mad The Swine (Trident Take 3 – with Guide Vocal)
5 My Fairy King (Trident Backing Track In Development)
6 Liar (Trident Take 1 – Unused Master)
7 The Night Comes Down (De Lane Lea Takes 1 & 2 – with Guide Vocal)
8 Modern Times Rock ‘n’ Roll (Trident Takes 8 & 9)
9 Son And Daughter (Trident Takes 1 & 2 – with Guide Vocal)
10 Jesus (De Lane Lea Take 2 – with Guide Vocal)
11 Seven Seas Of Rhye… (Trident Take 3)
12 See What A Fool I’ve Been (De Lane Lea Test Session)
CD4: Queen I Backing Tracks
1 Keep Yourself Alive
2 Doing All Right
3 Great King Rat
4 Mad The Swine
5 My Fairy King
6 Liars
7 The Night Comes Down
8 Modern Times 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 Keep Yourself Alive (BBC Session 1, February 1973)
3 Doing All Right (BBC Session 1, February 1973)
4 Liar (BBC Session 1, February 1973)
5 Keep Yourself Alive (BBC Session 2, July 1973)
6 Liar (BBC Session 2, July 1973)
7 Son And Daughter (BBC Session 2, July 1973)
8 Modern Times Rock ‘n’ Roll (BBC Session 3, December 1973)
9 Great King Rat (BBC Session 3, December 1973
10 Son And Daughter (BBC Session 3, December 1973
11 Modern Times Rock ‘n’ Roll (BBC Session 4, April 1974)
CD6: Queen I Live
1 Son And Daughter (Live at the Rainbow – March 1974)
2 Guitar Solo (Live at the Rainbow – March 1974)
3 Son And Daughter (Reprise) (Live at the Rainbow – March 1974)
4 Great King Rat (Live at the Rainbow – March 1974)
5 Keep Yourself Alive (Live at the Rainbow – March 1974)
6 Drum Solo (Live at the Rainbow – March 1974)
7 Keep Yourself Alive (Reprise) (Live at the Rainbow – March 1974)
8 Modern Times Rock ‘n’ Roll (Live at the Rainbow – March 1974)
9 Liar (Live at the Rainbow – March 1974)
10 Hangman (Live in San Diego – March 1976)
11 Doing All Right (Live in San Diego – March 1976)
12 Jesus (Live at Imperial College – August 1970)
13 I’m A Man (Live at Imperial College – August 1970)
