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What is it about Queen that resonated with our dads so much? Did they really know what \"queen\" meant? And what percentage of royalties was awarded to Brian May's weave? Check out our companion slaylist which has more Queen songs than karaoke with Elizabeth, Charles and co. This episode sees the boys back together in socially distant Studio 1A for the first time since the beginning of this cycle and asking ALL of the important questions. The band's fourth studio album, and home to their definitive classic Bohemian Rhapsody, is part 70's stadium concert, part-honky tonk romp by the sea, and part acid-laced chaotic trip. Our gateway drug into the land of rock royalty is 1975's A Night at the Opera. So much so that when Freddie Mercury passed away in 1991 from AIDS-related bronchopneumonia, he had left us with ten careers-worth of music despite only being 45. For decades the iconic four-piece - fronted by the frontman to end all frontmen - pumped out hit after hit after hit. It's prog rock with a sense of humor as well as dynamics, and Queen never bettered their approach anywhere else.If you're a human being with ears under the age of 40, Queen have never not existed. But the appeal - and the influence - of A Night at the Opera is in its detailed, meticulous productions. No one in the band takes anything too seriously, otherwise the arrangements wouldn't be as ludicrously exaggerated as they are. Night at the Opera Queen 1,840 Vinyl 31 offers from 29.24 A Night At The Opera Remastered Queen 3,369 Audio CD 5 offers from 9.33 Crime Of The Century Remastered Supertramp 2,408 Audio CD 32 offers from 3.88 A Day At The Races Remastered Queen 1,439 Audio CD 15 offers from 5. Using the multi-layered guitars of its predecessor as a foundation, A Night at the Opera encompasses metal ("Death on Two Legs," "Sweet Lady"), pop (the lovely, shimmering "You're My Best Friend"), campy British music hall ("Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon," "Seaside Rendezvous"), and mystical prog rock ("'39," "The Prophet's Song"), eventually bringing it all together on the pseudo-operatic "Bohemian Rhapsody." In short, it's a lot like Queen's own version of Led Zeppelin IV, but where Zep find dark menace in bombast, Queen celebrate their own pomposity. Indeed, the album from whence Bohemian Rhapsody sprung Queen’s fourth studio effort, November 1975’s A Night at the Opera was itself a masterstroke of mid-1970s multitrack recording, an achievement I’d venture to say was not totally appreciated at the time of its initial release, revisionist history to the contrary. Naturally, Opera has seen its fair share of multiple-format releases over its 44-year lifespan. Queen were straining at the boundaries of hard rock and heavy metal on Sheer Heart Attack, but they broke down all the barricades on A Night at the Opera, a self-consciously ridiculous and overblown hard rock masterpiece. Overall, A Night at the Opera is equal parts anthemic, operatic, and bombastic all of it having been done with a level of abject earnestness, raw talent, and somewhat fraught charm that would be, well, downright cheeky in the hands of lesser acts.
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