QUEEN - GREATEST HITS REISSUE TO CELEBRATE THE START OF 40TH ANNIVERSARY

January 1st 2011 sees Island Records re-issue Queen’s Greatest Hits and Greatest Hits 2 collections. Greatest Hits remains the best selling UK album of all time and combined with Greatest Hits 2 presents the definitive Queen collection. Together they form among one the seminal collections in rock history jointly selling an incredible 40 million copies worldwide.

Both albums have been digitally re-mastered for 2011 by Bob Ludwig, the legendary mastering engineer who has worked with U2, Coldplay and Radiohead, and come complete with refreshed sleeve notes.

The Greatest Hits re-issues start what is going to be a huge year for Queen, as 2011 marks the 40th anniversary of their formation in 1971.

The Anniversary year kicks off with a major exhibition, ‘Stormtroopers in Stilettos’ – a comprehensive look at the early part of Queen’s career. Taking place in The Old Truman Brewery in the heart of London’s East End the exhibition opens on February 25th running through to March 12th, and will cover the band pre-Queen, their formation and their first five albums from the first half of the 1970’s.

Newly signed to legendary label Island Records, and to coincide with the exhibition, the first five albums that Queen released – “Queen”, “Queen II”, “Sheer Heart Attack”, “A Night At The Opera” and “A Day At The Races – will be re-mastered and re-packaged into special deluxe album formats released in March 2011

Subsequent to the exhibition there will be a major BBC TV Documentary featuring a rare interview with Roger Taylor and Brian May and many other surprises and releases to come through the rest of the year. 2011 will see filming begin of a major Hollywood movie about Queen, starring Sacha Baron Cohen as Freddie Mercury. Acclaimed script writer Peter Morgan (“The Queen”,” Frost/Nixon” ) is working on the project, which is being produced by GK Films, Robert de Niro’s Tribeca Productions and Queen Films.

Pre Order here:

Greatest Hits: Amazon, Play.com, HMV

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Greatest Hits 2: Amazon, Play.com, HMV

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Source: http://www.queenonline.com/news/1925/

How 'happy' I was when I saw it on my mailbox... Can't wait to buy my twentieth edition of GH.

notimeforlosers wrote: How 'happy' I was when I saw it on my mailbox... Can't wait to buy my twentieth edition of GH.

Do You think new remastering of this collected will be better than first release these collected?

SERIOUSLY FUCK GREATEST HITS. I mean seriously...how many more of them do we need? This better not be the only "surprise" coming out in 2011 for the 40th anniversary...there better be some live concerts.

I agree. Give us a big piece of video concerts, and a small part of the songs.

Resolution of the top image is more exciting than Greatest Hits 2011 for me...

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What will be the next Queen video? "Live At The Old Wembley" or "Queen Rock Again Montreal"

Queenzone Ghost wrote:

Newly signed to legendary label Island Records, and to coincide with the exhibition, the first five albums that Queen released will be re-mastered and re-packaged into special deluxe album formats released in March 2011

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*That* is good news though.

WOW! Can't wait to add the GH 2011 to my collection....

Ok.... seriously... I hope the artwork is great LOL

community wrote: notimeforlosers wrote: How 'happy' I was when I saw it on my mailbox... Can't wait to buy my twentieth edition of GH.

Do You think new remastering of this collected will be better than first release these collected?

Sarcasm? Oh yeah.

I'm suprised these are being released after Christmas...

Queen - Greatest Hits Reissue To Empty Your Pockets Once More 40th Anniversary Edition

"This release features a remastered version of WWRY where the countdown has been succesfully edited out. Hence, we call this the Clean Version. Throw your old copies away, this IS the definitive version. For now." ~ Greg Brooks

"The loudness is even more severe than the other releases. Deafness unavoidable. Must buy." ~ New York Times

"Queen sure knows how to milk the cash cow. The solution to the financial crisis is near." ~ The Daily Mail

"Queen has been part of a solid recycle policy for years and we love them for that." ~ The Sun

"Wow, once again nothing new from the legendary rock band Queen. But who gives? The general public wants this." ~ Rolling Stones Magazine

"Queen has let down their fans many times, including this release. But why care about fans? It's the money that counts. Congratulations Queen, you delivered a great job." ~ Financial Times

David Jones wrote: I'm suprised these are being released after Christmas...

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Fortunately, not the whole world population - 6,886,600,001 approx, the -001 includes me (?) - is Christian.

Again, again, again and again...... again again!!!!

More than just Christians 'celebrate' Christmas. I'm not surprised it's being sold after the holidays. Queen & Co seem to be doing the opposite of whats right these days...

DavidRFuller wrote: More than just Christians 'celebrate' Christmas. I'm not surprised it's being sold after the holidays. Queen & Co seem to be doing the opposite of whats right these days...
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Which is why I say that the members of Queenzone could do a better job with Queen's products!