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26th place: “Keep Yourself Alive” – Queen, 1973
On the first queen single, Brian May showed where it goes. A phalanx made of guitar overdubs that blunt harmoniously and received rhythm and structure through over-the-top effects. So this reefs, which would have been enough for an entire album, pressed into a single song.
Brian May, Queen’s string virtuoso, probably the only guitarist with a degree in astrophysics, is a research traveler. And looking for new effects. So an early goal was to “be the first to play a perfect three -part harmony in the studio”. And how he demonstrated it with his solo of “Killer Queen”!
May loved dozens of guitar tracks on top of each other to build a Wall of Sound. And even his instrument is the result of excessive imagination. His most important guitar, the “Red Special” alias “Old Lady”, is a self -made miracle that May and his father carved out of the wood of a fireplace cladding in the early 1960s.
We reported beforehand:
“Queen I”
Queen have announced a deluxe edition of their debut album “Queen I” from 1973. The work was re -mixed, newly mastered. And appears expanded in a 6cD+1lp box. In retail from October 25, 2024.
Queen guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor are still very proud of the debut, as can be read in the press release. “Queen I is the debut album that we always dreamed of.”
For the first time, a Queen album will receive a new stereo mix
At the same time, they announced that the sound restoration of Justin Shirley-Smith, Joshua J Macrae and Kris Fredriksson came close to the sound as the band always wanted.
Alternative recordings, demos and live songs have been added to the new title list to create the most complete version of this important work. For the first time, a Queen album also receives a new stereo mix.
On the Reissue of “Queen I” there are 63 songs with 43 new mixes. Including the album in its original title order, as well as demos and live tracks from the first concert, in London in August 1970. “Mad the Swine” also made it back onto the record. A 108-page book with texts and memorabilia is also on the set.