on the Billboard album chart and ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ became the band’s first top ten single on the Hot 100 while Queen were touring America. Their North American tour kicked off in the fourth week of January and this too proved to be a triumph. The sold-out tour that had begun a week before the album’s release culminated with a Christmas Eve concert at Hammersmith Odeon that was videotaped and broadcast by the BBC on The Old Grey Whistle Test. And so the album was released on 21 November 1975 and as a result, Christmas belonged to Queen. Everything from its title (borrowed from The Marx Brothers 1935 movie) to the music, the album’s artwork and the whole pomp and circumstance of the entire package is majestic. A Night At The Opera, as we all now know, is a masterpiece. Money-wise, Bo-Rap and its home Opera LP hit the jackpot the rest is well-to-poorly scripted history.Ī Night At The Opera: Queen’s Regal Invite Could Not Be Ignored. Was it too exotic, and/or weird, and/or beautifully overwrought for the ears of the market. EMI execs nervously winced at the final (expensive) deliverable, an eclectic set of songs, many of which did not rock, or were too skewed to the artsier, experimental side of pomp-rock. The album's title is taken from the Marx Brothers film of the same name.Ĭommercially it was a huge risk. Produced by Roy Thomas Baker and Queen, it was reportedly the most expensive album ever recorded at the time of its release.
#QUEEN A NIGHT AT THE OPERA ALBUM TRACKLIST UPDATE#
Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.Ī Night at the Opera is the fourth studio album by the British rock band Queen, released on 21 November 1975 by EMI Records in the United Kingdom and by Elektra Records in the United States.
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