Jazz

Queen

SKU: 4720274

Barcode: 602547202741

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EMI Music and Queen complete their campaign of re-releasing the entire Queen studio album catalogue on long playing heavy-weight vinyl albums with the fourth and final set out on November 1st 2010.

The album packaging will include every detail of the original releases in their original 12” format. Bonus posters, extra pictures, and all the unique content of the original albums will be faithfully reproduced. This, the final set, includes Jazz, The Miracle, and The Works.

In 1978, all eyes were on Queen as they released the follow-up to their monster global hit NEWS OF THE WORLD. Predictably, JAZZ didn’t achieve the massive commercial success of it’s predecessor, but in aesthetic terms, it’s a solid statement, and a marked progression of the band’s musical vision. Though the band was already well into their “eclectic” mode by this time, the stylistic ventures the band takes on this album bring them even further afield from the heavy rock they’re best known for. Freddie Mercury kicks things off with “Mustapha”, a nod to his Middle Eastern origins. Queen exhibits a ribald sense of humour on “Fat Bottomed Girls”. Mercury indulges his Broadway tendencies to the hilt on “If You Can’t Beat Them” and “Don’t Stop Me Now”, which sound like they could have come from some obscure ’50s musical. The jazzy “Dreamer’s Ball” and the mellow, romantic “In Only Seven Days” provide welcome contrast. Amid all this eclecticism, though, the standout tracks are the propulsive rockers “Let Me Entertain You” (whose promise they fulfil) and “Dead on Time”.

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Track Listings

Side 1
1. Mustapha
2. Fat Bottomed Girls
3. Jealousy
4. Bicycle Race
5. If You Can’t Beat Them
6. Let Me Entertain You

Side 2
1. Dead On Time
2. In Only Seven Days
3. Dreamer’s Ball
4. Fun It
5. Leaving Home Ain’t Easy
6. Don’t Stop Me Now
7. More Of That Jazz

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