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Queen Rocks
QueenRocks
Compilation album by Queen
Released 1997
Recorded 1972-1997
Length 83:54
Format CD/Vinyl
Genre Hard rock, glam rock, heavy metal, baroque rock
Label Parlophone / Hollywood


Compilation Chronology
Preceding The 12" Collection (1992)
This Album Queen Rocks (1997)
Succeeding Greatest Hits III (1999)

Queen Rocks is a compilation album by Queen and was released on 3 November 1997. It focuses on songs from the band's heavier side rather than the soft rock side.

Track Listings[]

Side One[]

  1. We Will Rock You (from News Of The World, 1977) (Brian May) - 2:01
  2. We Are The Champions (from News Of The World, 1977) (Freddie Mercury) - 3:00
  3. Tie Your Mother Down (single version from A Day At The Races, 1976) (May) - 3:45
  4. I Want It All (hybrid version from The Miracle, 1989) (May) - 4:30
  5. Seven Seas Of Rhye (from Queen II, 1974) (Mercury) - 2:48
  6. I Can't Live With You (Edited version from Innuendo, 1991) (May) - 4:47

Side Two[]

  1. Hammer To Fall (album version from The Works, 1984) (May) - 4:25
  2. Stone Cold Crazy (from Sheer Heart Attack, 1974) (Queen) - 2:16
  3. Now I'm Here (from Sheer Heart Attack, 1974) (May) - 4:14
  4. Fat Bottomed Girls (album version from Jazz, 1978) (May) - 4:15
  5. Death On Two Legs (single version from A Night At The Opera, 1975) (Mercury) - 3:06
  6. Keep Yourself Alive (from Queen, 1973) (May) - 3:44

Side Three[]

  1. Tear It Up (from The Works, 1984) (May) - 3:29
  2. One Vision (album version from A Kind Of Magic, 1986) (Roger Taylor) - 5:10
  3. Bohemian Rhapsody (from A Night At The Opera, 1975) (Mercury) - 5:54
  4. Sheer Heart Attack (from News Of The World, 1977) (Taylor) - 3:26
  5. I'm In Love With My Car (hybrid version from A Night At Opera, 1975) (Taylor) - 3:05

Side Four[]

  1. Put Out The Fire (from Hot Space, 1982) (May) - 3:20
  2. Headlong (from Innuendo, 1991) (May) - 4:39
  3. It's Late (from News Of The World, 1977) (May) - 6:28
  4. No One But You (Only The Good Die Young) (previously unreleased) (May) - 4:12
  5. The Show Must Go On (from Innuendo, 1991) (May) - 4:36

Omitted Tracks[]

Personnel[]

Freddie Mercury: lead and backing vocals, handclaps, footstomps, synthesizer, piano, organ (except on Track 21)

Brian May: co-lead vocals on Tracks 21, 4, 22, 12 (bridge), 10 (chorus), and 18 (falsetto at end of the verse), backing vocals, electric/acoustic guitars, handclaps, footstomps, keyboards, piano, synthesizer, sampler, drum programming

Roger Taylor: lead vocals on Track 17, co-lead vocals on Tracks 21, 12 (bridge), and 16, backing vocals, acoustic/electric drums, percussion, tambourine, cowbell, handclaps, footstomps, rhythm guitar, bass guitar

John Deacon: bass guitar, handclaps, footstomps (except Track 16), double bass on Track 11

Additional Personnel[]

David Richards: keyboards on Track 6 and keyboard programming on Track 4

Fred Mandel: Synthesizer on Track 7.

Trivia[]

  • This album is one of the two compilation albums to feature the album version of 'Fat Bottomed Girls', with the other being the 1992 US version of 'Greatest Hits'
  • This album is the only compilation album to not feature 'Bicycle Race' together with 'Fat Bottomed Girls'.
  • This album is the second album to feature the single version of 'Death On Two Legs' as it was first included on "Queen's First E.P.' and last included on Rare Cuts Vol. 2
  • This album was released 6 years after Mercury's death.
  • This album is the only compilation to not have songs written individually by John Deacon.
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