Queen ON Air

^ Excellent!

Reissues of Greatest Hits I & II?

Ideed, excellent news with Queen On Air, wish to know the tracklist...

Not only a 3LP will be released, but also a 1CD and a 6CD version. Content unknown.

6 CD??? One per session?

Sounds great. :)

Are there actually 6 BBC sessions? Do they have multi-tracks or will it be just be "remasters" of stuff we've already heard?

Taken from Queenpedia:

SESSION 1
Recorded: 5 February 1973

My Fairy King
Keep Yourself Alive
Doing All Right
Liar

SESSION 2
Recorded: 25 July 1973

See What A Fool I've Been
Liar
Son And Daughter
Keep Yourself Alive

IN CONCERT
Recorded: 13 September 1973

Procession
Father To Son
Son And Daughter
See What A Fool I've Been
Ogre Battle
Liar
Jailhouse Rock
Stupid Cupid
Be Bop A Lula
Big Spender
Bama Lama Bama Loo

SESSION 3
Recorded: 3 December 1973

Nevermore
Modern Times Rock'n'Roll
White Queen (As It Began)
The March Of The Black Queen

SESSION 5
Recorded: 16 October 1974

Flick Of The Wrist
Tenement Funster
Now I'm Here
Stone Cold Crazy

SESSION 6
Recorded: 28 October 1977

Spread Your Wings
It's Late / Get Down, Make Love (interlude) / It's Late (reprise)
My Melancholy Blues
We Will Rock You (slow) / spoken word segment / We Will Rock You (fast)

If there are truly 6 cd's...

1 for the concert (Golder Greers)
1 for sessions 1 and 2
1 for sessions 3 and 4
1 for sessions 5 and 6

And the other two cd's? 160 mins top with what, interviews maybe?

But many of those sessions have tracks that are almost exactly identical to the album versions. Why would they bother make 6 CD's and including those?

Not many. March of the Black Queen is the only one identical. The rest have some resounding differences - some more than others. If they are going to do an On Air released based on BBC recordings than similarities or not it should be as complete as possible - every session, every recording - I'd even want them to include Black Queen.

I'd want to see a more firm source about 6 CDs to believe it. Sorry Walter....I mean I hope you're right. I was realistically hoping for a 3 CD, the 6 sessions and Golders Green Show. 3 EXTRA CDs worth of stuff would be awesome - hopefully not *ALL* Interviews. I expect at *LEAST* one cd to be full of interviews though - radio appearances, etc. Either way, I think this is a release I'll highly enjoy.

I want the 6 cd theory confirmed too.

Just a crazy thought, if is called "On Air" and not "Live at BBC" technically couldn't be the last two discs Argentina 81 or Mannheim 86? Those shows were broadcasted aswell. It will also makes sense, a show from the first tour (Golders) and another from the last one (Mannheim)

Probably not...

Oscar J wrote:

But many of those sessions have tracks that are almost exactly identical to the album versions. Why would they bother make 6 CD's and including those?

Based on some of the 2011 bonus content, pointless CD singles boxes, and countless hits collections, that's exaactly what they do...!!

6 discs, one disc for each session lasting 15-20 minutes. It's Queen Productions after all!

Walter, your source ?!

Are the rumors about a 1982 session total BS? I remember once seeing a photo of something that looked like the video for Las Palabras de Amor, but with an audience. I think someone posted the pic here at some point.