EMI MUSIC AND QUEEN TO RE-RELEASE ENTIRE QUEEN STUDIO ALBUMS
CATALOGUE ON HEAVYWEIGHT VINYL
First Set of Releases March 16, 2009:
Queen II – ICPN 5099926657219
Sheer Heart Attack – ICPN 5099926657318
A Night at the Opera – ICPN 5099926658513
A Day at the Races – ICPN 5099926659510
EMI
Music and Queen are announcing the re-release over two years of the
entire Queen studio album catalogue on long playing vinyl albums. The
album packaging will include every detail of the original releases in
their original 12” format. Bonus posters, extra pictures, and all the
unique content of the original albums will be faithfully reproduced.
The
first group of releases, out March 16th, will consist of four classic
Queen albums Queen II, Sheer Heart Attack, A Night At The Opera and A
Day At the Races.
Following
in May 2009 will be come five further albums including the very first
album, Queen, along with News Of The World, Flash Gordon, A Kind of
Magic and Innuendo, with successive releases coming approximately every
6 months.
In
a deliberate move, the albums are not being released chronologically
but instead sequenced over the twenty-two year period of release
allowing buyers wider choice with each new batch of releases.
Queen’s original studio albums: