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Queen / ‘Queen 1’ collector’s box set

Remixed and expanded to seven discs

By Paul Sinclair

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Queen / Queen I 6CD+LP collector's edition

Queen’s self-titled 1973 debut album is being reissued across a number of formats next month.

What was called Queen now becomes Queen I for this campaign. It features the singles ‘Keep Yourself Alive’ and ‘Liar’. Neither were hits but nevertheless the album eventually achieved Gold sales in the UK and in the USA.

All formats of this album reissue see the album remixed in stereo for the first time and they all include the non-album track ‘Mad The Swine‘ (a bonus track on the 1991 Hollywood Records CD reissue) placed into the album as track 4, which is, apparently, what Queen originally wanted. It was left off at the time over disagreements with producer Roy Thomas Baker.

This is not just a remaster, this is a brand new 2024 rebuild of the entire Queen debut album, which, with the benefit of hindsight, we have re-titled QUEEN I.” 

Brian May

May offers some more explanation of the goals of the remix: “All the performances are exactly as they originally appeared in 1973, but every instrument has been revisited to produce the ‘live’ ambient sounds we would have liked to use originally. The result is Queen as it would have sounded with today’s knowledge and technology – a first“.

Queen I box set. Click image to enlarge.

The Collector’s Edition box set of Queen I is a 6CD+LP package and offers De Lane Lea Demos, previously released in 2011, but newly mixed here for the first time. There’s also a CD featuring unreleased Queen I session out-take music and dialogue; a CD of instrumental and backing track versions of the album; a live CD featuring live performances of songs from this album (some previously unreleased); and finally, a disc comprised of Queen I tracks that were recorded for BBC Radio One.

The box set comes with a 108-page 12-inch hardback book, and includes a poster and four photo prints. There are also 2CD and single LP editions, with the former offering a bonus disc of sessions (the same as CD3 in the box). A single CD version is also available.

Queen I will be released on 25 October 2024, via EMI. Other formats will be added below, as links come through.

Tracklisting

Queen / Queen I reissue

Queen Queen I /

    • 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. Liar
      7. The Night Comes Down
      8. Modern Times Rock ‘n’ Roll
      9. Son And Daughter
      10. Jesus
      11. Seven Seas Of Rhye…
    • CD 2: De Lane Lea Demos – 2024 Mix
      1. Keep Yourself Alive
      2. The Night Comes Down
      3. Great King Rat
      4. Jesus
      5. Liar
    • CD 3: 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)
    • CD 4: 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. Liar
      7. The Night Comes Down
      8. Modern Times Rock ‘n’ Roll
      9. Son And Daughter
      10. Jesus
      11. Seven Seas Of Rhye…
    • CD 5: 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)
    • Vinyl LP: Queen I (2024 Mix)
      Side One
      1. Keep Yourself Alive
      2. Doing All Right
      3. Great King Rat
      4. Mad The Swine
      5. My Fairy King
      Side Two
      1. Liar
      2. The Night Comes Down
      3. Modern Times Rock ‘n’ Roll
      4. Son And Daughter
      5. Jesus
      6. Seven Seas Of Rhye…

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