Press Release: News Of The World - 40th Anniversary Edition

I am really looking forward to this set! Come on, unheard Freddie vocals? Brian unreleased guitars from 1977? Sleeping on the Sidewalk Live?! Roger's demo?! The documentary is also more than welcome, even if way too short.

Of course the rest doesn't appeal to most of us, but when you think the set is expensive, think of us Brazilians paying a 3.2 exchange rate plus around 100% extra on import taxes.

I am certainly not complaining, anyway. In fact, I wish they would do the same to as many albums as they can.

Bring it on!!!

Cheers,

Ogre-

Correct me if I’m wrong. RAW sessions disc contains songs without cuts?

[QUOTE] [b]rocknrolllover wrote:[/b]

Correct me if I’m wrong. RAW sessions disc contains songs without cuts?
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In theory.

According to Amazon many customers are pleased with their purchase and have been telling so in their reviews since before the pre-order has been available.
Incredible!
https://www.amazon.co.uk/News-World-40th-Anniversary-Queen/product-reviews/B0758ZN38H/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_show_all_btm?ie=UTF8&reviewerType=all_reviews&sortBy=recent

I wish they were doing a version without the vinyl. Although I love vinyl a lot of us don't have a turntable anymore and I don't want to pay for something I won't be using.

[QUOTE] [b]BobbytheCat wrote:[/b]

According to Amazon many customers are pleased with their purchase and have been telling so in their reviews since before the pre-order has been available.
Incredible!
https://www.amazon.co.uk/News-World-40th-Anniversary-Queen/product-reviews/B0758ZN38H/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_show_all_btm?ie=UTF8&reviewerType=all_reviews&sortBy=recent
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But this is common practice at Amazon, because they always mix up reviews of different editions for the same product (being it a music album, book title, movie etc etc).
In this case, what you´re reading are reviews for other editions of NOTW that have been already released (most likely the 2011 remaster).

Since a new NOTW 40th Anniversary edition is announced, Amazon automatically inserts those older reviews they have.

I must say I'm very sadend that they haven't added Houston, but the rest is OK for me at least, I'm very interested in the Documentary and parts of the other discs so overall it's a 75% hit for me, not overly worried about he price, seems about standard for these things these days

I'd love to know what thought process goes on in the heads of the people who put these sets together and then, ultimately, what's going on in the head(s) of the person/people who make the final decision.

For the Beatle's Sgt pepper box, they were thinking "50 years of Sgt Pepper. Want to produce a good package that's value for money. We issued remasters in 2009 so we MUST provide something different.
Ok. Let's remix the entire album from scratch utilising the pre-bounce multitracks to make it sound better than ever but still keep the die hard fans happy by making sure it sounds like it always has, but in stereo.
Whilst we are at it we may as well create a surround sound mix as well since the format is obviously still alive and enjoyed by many, which we will include on the DVD/Bluray along with an hour long documentary on the making of the album and the relevant promo videos.
Let's also add TWO CDs worth of outtakes/demos which, for the majority, have two or more different takes to show the progression of the song. Sure, we will also include a remastered mono version of the original album for those who haven't heard the mono version and we will include some hard to find overseas single versions to fill it up.
Add a few superfluous extras and an AMAZING 145 page book packed with photos and detailed text on the album, add a lovely 3D lenticular print of the album cover to the slipsleeve and I think that should justify the £100 price tag these type of sets seem to command.
Oh, we're selling it through Universal records...."

Now compare that to the NOTW boxset....

[QUOTE] [b]Arnaldo "Ogre-" Silveira wrote:[/b]

I am really looking forward to this set! Come on, unheard Freddie vocals? Brian unreleased guitars from 1977? Sleeping on the Sidewalk Live?! Roger's demo?! The documentary is also more than welcome, even if way too short.

Of course the rest doesn't appeal to most of us, but when you think the set is expensive, think of us Brazilians paying a 3.2 exchange rate plus around 100% extra on import taxes.

I am certainly not complaining, anyway. In fact, I wish they would do the same to as many albums as they can.

Bring it on!!!

Cheers,

Ogre-[/QUOTE]

I agree .....If Queen would do the same with the other albums It would be amazing. Maye they have sail away sweet sister by Freddie. I am looking forward to it. Im hoping for the next anniversairy some more unheard demo like sandbox.....

Hopefully, Houston '77 show will have a proper release some day. This may be the reason why it doesn't get, almost, any mention on the NOTW box.

[QUOTE] [b]brians wig wrote:[/b]

I'd love to know what thought process goes on in the heads of the people who put these sets together and then, ultimately, what's going on in the head(s) of the person/people who make the final decision.

For the Beatle's Sgt pepper box, they were thinking "50 years of Sgt Pepper. Want to produce a good package that's value for money. We issued remasters in 2009 so we MUST provide something different.
Ok. Let's remix the entire album from scratch utilising the pre-bounce multitracks to make it sound better than ever but still keep the die hard fans happy by making sure it sounds like it always has, but in stereo.
Whilst we are at it we may as well create a surround sound mix as well since the format is obviously still alive and enjoyed by many, which we will include on the DVD/Bluray along with an hour long documentary on the making of the album and the relevant promo videos.
Let's also add TWO CDs worth of outtakes/demos which, for the majority, have two or more different takes to show the progression of the song. Sure, we will also include a remastered mono version of the original album for those who haven't heard the mono version and we will include some hard to find overseas single versions to fill it up.
Add a few superfluous extras and an AMAZING 145 page book packed with photos and detailed text on the album, add a lovely 3D lenticular print of the album cover to the slipsleeve and I think that should justify the £100 price tag these type of sets seem to command.
Oh, we're selling it through Universal records...."

Now compare that to the NOTW boxset....[/QUOTE]

Completely agree with you.

[QUOTE] [b]Viper wrote:[/b]

Hopefully, Houston '77 show will have a proper release some day. This may be the reason why it doesn't get, almost, any mention on the NOTW box.[/QUOTE]

Of course I'd love that to be materialized, but now it's seems very unlikely due to quality issues.

[QUOTE] [b]The Real Wizard wrote:[/b]

[QUOTE] [b]Rick wrote:[/b]

This is exactly why my love for Queen has pretty much died.

Rainbow was stellar. This is utter shite.[/QUOTE]

I'd say this seems about on par. They both had roughly an hour of unheard material.

And while there's a ton of live stuff out there, there aren't a lot of studio outtakes from 1977. Sure, there's a lot of superfluous stuff here - but

focus on the good. There's a lot of it.
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That may be true but don't forget the leap in sound quality. It was a huge improvement compared to the Box of Tricks version and the available bootlegs.

Brian: "We have a new vinyl mastering, which comes straight off the mix tapes as opposed to off copies of the mix tapes. So this is the most faithful reproduction of those master mixes ever."

So this is the problem - vinyl mastering from copies, instead of the original mix tapes. Wow! I always thought the problem of recent vinyls is digitally fucked sound. My mistake.

[QUOTE] [b]Kuijpy wrote:[/b]

I think Freddie would be ashamed if he see/hear this...

After his dead only a few things were crazy, Made in Heaven, Rainbow Box, Wembley Box, but the rest...... nothing new, oh wait.. The Freddie Mercury Boxset and Let me in your heart, [/QUOTE]

I don't understand why everything concerning Innuendo (videos, making of, behind the scenes, etc.) hasn't been released on either Blu Ray or DVD. That's what we could call incompetence.