Queen - On Air
Queen - On Air
NEW VINYL LP ON UNIVERSAL
3 X 180 GRAM VINYL.
Between February 1973 and October 1977, Queen recorded six sessions for the BBC – twenty four new and alternative recordings spanning four albums. They revisited nineteen different songs in all: My Fairy King (the first Queen song ever to be broadcast on radio), Liar, Son And Daughter, Doing All Right, Great King Rat, Modern Times Rock’n’Roll, Ogre Battle, Nevermore, White Queen, See What A Fool I’ve Been (a song that never appeared on any Queen studio album), Now I’m Here, Stone Cold Crazy, Flick Of The Wrist, Tenement Funster, Spread Your Wings, My Melancholy Blues, It’s Late, the only known studio recording of their dramatically different full-band ‘fast’ arrangement of We Will Rock You and the song that became their very first single Keep Yourself Alive.
Tracklist
Side 1
1 My Fairy King SESSION 1: 5th February 1973
2 Keep Yourself Alive SESSION 1: 5th February 1973
3 Doing All Right SESSION 1: 5th February 1973
4 Liar SESSION 1: 5th February 1973
Side 2
5 See What A Fool I’ve Been SESSION 2: 25th July 1973
6 Keep Yourself Alive SESSION 2: 25th July 1973
7 Liar SESSION 2: 25th July 1973
8 Son And Daughter SESSION 2: 25th July 1973
Side 3
9 Ogre Battle SESSION 3: 3rd December 1973
10 Modern Times Rock 'n' Roll SESSION 3: 3rd December 1973
11 Great King Rat SESSION 3: 3rd December 1973
12 Son And Daughter SESSION 3: 3rd December 1973
Side 4
13 Modern Times Rock’n’Roll SESSION 4: 3rd April 1974
14 Nevermore SESSION 4: 3rd April 1974
15 White Queen (As It Began) SESSION 4: 3rd April 1974
Side 5
16 Now I’m Here SESSION 5: 16th October 1974
17 Stone Cold Crazy SESSION 5: 16th October 1974
18 Flick Of The Wrist SESSION 5: 16th October 1974
19 Tenement Funster SESSION 5: 16th October 1974
Side 6
20 We Will Rock You SESSION 6: 28th October 1977
21 We Will Rock You [fast] SESSION 6: 28th October 1977
22 Spread Your Wings SESSION 6: 28th October 1977
23 It’s Late SESSION 6: 28th October 1977
24 My Melancholy Blues SESSION 6: 28th October 1977