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 | News of the World - Queen
Publisher: Parlophone
Released on 27 September 1993
List Price: £8.99
Famous for its anthemic opening salvo, "We Will Rock You/We Are The Champions"--at once an acknowledgement of and delight in their new-found stadium status--it's possible to see News Of The World as the last album of Queen's "classic" period, when their fusion of gaudy operatics, tearful ballads and '70s guitar-rock came together most congruently and well. With "Spread Your Wings" the band crafted another of their typically artful paeans to hedonistic freedom, and "My Melancholy Blues" is one of Freddie Mercury's most engaging displays of self-indulgence--though they stepped up the... Read More |
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