I think Night At The Opera is probably at or near the top of "most iterations of an album" in my music collection. DVD release of Live At The Bowl, Blu-ray release of Live in Montreal and Live At The Rainbow.Īlso a couple live DVD bootlegs from '77 - '80 tours. Home Video: Laserdisc releases of (Volume 1,2,3) Magic Years documentary, We Will Rock You (1981 Montreal), Live In Japan (1982), Live In Rio and Freddy Mercury Tribute concert. If youre a fan of that last title, or only of 'Bohemian Rhapsody,' the album is worth having, even if the vinyl is noisier than the usual RTI. Also DCC cd of NATO and MFSL cds of NATO, NOTW and The Game. I pulled out Joni Mitchells Court and Spark (LPZ-2044), Stan Getz and Charlie Byrds Jazz Samba (LPZ-2011), and, on vinyl, Queens A Night at the Opera (LPZ-2072). Also, MFSL pressing of NATO.ĬD: original UK/EMI NATO, NOTW and Hot Space (I stupidly sold off the rest of the catalog when I bought the first Hollywood remasters in the early 90's), entire run of Hollywood 2 CD remasters up to A Kind Of Magic including Live Killers., Live At The Rainbow and original '92 Classic Queen compilation.
Vinyl: original UK pressings of Sheer Heart Attack, Night At The Opera, News Of The World, Jazz, original US pressings of NATO(x2) and all the other studio albums up to Hot Space. I also saw them twice live, in 1980 (Game tour) and 1982 (Hot Space tour).
Also, the first time a couple friends and I drove to Las Vegas from SoCal while we were still in High School, we had 3 or 4 8 Track tapes that we played to death on that irresponsible weekend road trip, one of which was Night At The Opera. I still have my beat to hell original US/Electra vinyl of Night At The Opera that was a birthday gift and one of my first LPs from a High School girlfriend.
No where near a completist with this band, however I have a fair amount of Queen in my collection and they were one of the first bands I really got into in the mid 70's.