Dear Friends:
I would like to know where did that CD came from. It was very difficult for me to get it and it dosen't appear in any web-page (at least the ones I know) as an official release.
Please, help me with this doubt.
Thanks !
Salutes
Sebas
It was an US-only release. Same artwork as GH II and apparently based on that, driven by the Queen-revival with BoRhap in "Waynes World". It not only contains the singles from the 80s, but as a reminder for the old and new Queen-Audience over there (and due to the lack of US-Hits in the 80s) they included the "Classic"-70s Tracks. It was a massive hit in the states.
Regor hit it.
If GH2 came out in the US as in the UK, no-one would have known any songs on it.
So a new GH1 was released with some tracks thrown on to CQ (GH2) so the US people would have some songs they recognized.
That is why the release of the WWRY:GH1 recently was a "big deal".
True. The normal Greatest Hits released in the early 80's featured songs like Flash's Theme and Bohemian Rhapsody. The Hollywood Records release of GH didn't have those, but had Body Language and I Want To Break Free, which were slight hits in the US (Body Language hit #11 i believe)
Classic Queen was sort of the Greatest Hits II to the first GH from 1992. You had Bohemian Rhapsody, Under Pressure, Who Wants To Live Forever, and other Queen essentials not released on the first or second Greatest Hits.
Why Hollywood Records did this is way beyond me lol
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I got both the "Classic Queen"-CD from 1992 and the re-released "Greatest Hits"-CD from 1992 (both from Hollywood Records) together with an Interview-CD (one hour interview with Queen about the release of "The Miracle" in 1989) at my local Virgin Megastore in Vienna in 1994 - and it's very obvious, why HR chose this strange selection of titles.
Because "Greatest Hits 2" contained all the Eighties Hits of Queen (plus material from Innuendo") they were afraid, it would not sell in Americ. Queen were megastars of the 80s in Europe, but America did not like their new pop-sound (and Freddie being gay). So they took four Queen-Tracks from the 70s (BoRap, Tie Your Mother Down, Keep Yourself Alive, Stone Cold Crazy) and hoped that fans would buy the record therefore. In this process however they threw "Innuendo"!!!, "I Want To Break Free" and "It's a hard life" out (plus two others), instead they should have left the first two songs on the album (and discarded "The Invisible Man").
Result: a curious mish mash - and "Greatest Hits" isn't better in its selection. As a new re-release of their 1981 album it contains all their hits up to 1980 (and should remained fans of their 70s glory in the us)- but since HR had stuck "BoRap" already on "Classic Queen" they couldn't inlude in on "Greatest Hits" - but a Greatest Hits 1973-1980 without BoRap is a joke!!
To confuse things further they also discarded "Flash", but instead added "I Want To Break Free" and "Body Language", so two 80s songs are found on what is a Queen Greatest Hits album of the 70s!!!
I still wonder why Brian, Roger and John didn´t do a proper song selection - at least including "BoRap" on both albums and adding the quintessential 80s number "I Want to Breal Free" to the "Classic Queen"-CD. Anyway The US-fans were happy and both album went to Nr. 4 and Nr. 11 in the US-charts respectively. But "Greatest Hits from 1981 and Greatest Hits 2 are the only proper releases of their hit material from 1973 to 1991.
Peter, the Invisible Man isn't on Classic Queen.
As for Body Language, it had some chart success in America. It actually hit number one here in Canada.
Liquid Scream wrote: Peter, the Invisible Man isn't on Classic Queen.
As for Body Language, it had some chart success in America. It actually hit number one here in Canada.
Body Language was not in Classic Queen
it was in the re-realease of GH in the US
MexQueenFM - Sorry, I should of clarified I was referring to Peter's comments about Body Language being on the re-released North American Greatest Hits from 92.
I think that if they'd included BoRhap in Greatest Hits, then no one would buy Classic Queen. Seems like a buisness strategy. It's annoying, but it worked.