Greatest Hits II

by Queen

Overview

The second volume of Queen's Greatest Hits appeared a decade after the first; a decade after the group started its slow shift from international superstars toward ruling the world that existed outside of the United States. Apart from "Under Pressure" and "Radio Ga Ga," all of the 17 singles here did not crack the American Top 40, but they're well-known throughout the world, particularly the operatic anthems "A Kind of Magic," "I Want It All," "I Want to Break Free," and "Who Wants to Live Forever." Generally, the songs here favor melodrama to untrammeled rock & roll, which means while there's nothing here that hits as hard as "Tie Your Mother Down"; there's also nothing as light on its feet as "Crazy Little Thing Called Love," either. This is not necessarily a bad thing: nobody scaled the dramatic heights like Queen, and this captures their pomp & circumstance at its most polished. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Product Details

Release Date:	02/10/2017
Label:	Hollywood
UPC:	0050087350673
Rank:	4276

Tracks

Disc 1

1. A Kind of Magic
2. Under Pressure
3. Radio Ga Ga
4. I Want It All
5. I Want to Break Free
6. Innuendo
7. It's a Hard Life
8. Breakthru
9. Who Wants to Live Forever

Disc 2

10. Headlong
11. The Miracle
12. I'm Going Slightly Mad
13. The Invisible Man
14. Hammer to Fall
15. Friends Will Be Friends
16. The Show Must Go On
17. One Vision

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Queen   Primary Artist
David Bowie   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
National Philharmonic Orchestra   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Brian May   Composer
Freddie Mercury   Composer
John Deacon   Composer
David Richards   Producer
Roger Taylor   Composer
Michael Kamen   Orchestral Arrangements
David Bowie   Composer,Producer
Queen   Composer,Producer
Reinhold Mack   Producer