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Queen / Studio Collection 18LP coloured vinyl box set

By Paul Sinclair

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Universal Music will issue Studio Collection, a new Queen 18LP vinyl box set this September. It will contain all 15 studio albums released by the band pressed on vibrant 180g coloured vinyl in hues sympathetic to the original artwork.

This set stretches to 18 records is because a few albums span two LPs. Queen II has been cut to two separate black and white vinyl records for this box, reflecting the ‘Side White’ and ‘Side Black’ on the original pressing. In addition, the reverse sides of each record come complete with a custom etching. Innuendo and Made In Heaven were primarily made for a CD market and were previously edited to fit on two sides of a vinyl record. Here for the first time they are cut at full length as double vinyl LPs.

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The new vinyl records are remastered by Bob Ludwig (after the Queen team did some ‘blind testing’ of the work of a few different engineers!). Analogue mastering was apparently considered, but ultimately ruled out due to issues with some of the original tapes (a few are over 40 years old, of course) such as speed errors, missing audio, newly developing clicks etc. What has happened is that high quality digital masters were created (24bit/96kHz), with necessary restoration then performed in the digital domain. The vinyl was then cut – at half speed – by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios from these files. Universal are assuring fans that the restoration was carried out with the lightest of touches, with “a profound respect for the originals”, and claims the resulting masters are “the finest ever” in terms of sound.

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Studio Collection: 18 coloured vinyl records (click to enlarge)

The records are being pressed for the world at Optimal in Germany, where an exhaustive QC program was put in place involving test-pressings of every disc, in black and coloured vinyl, were laboriously checked to minimise unwanted noise with finished results compared with original pressings of the LPs, on a top quality modern turntable.

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The Studio Collection also comes with a 108-page 12 x 12-inch hardback book that has mined Queen’s own archive along with the personal archives of Brian May, Roger Taylor and fans to display hand-written lyrics, rare photographs, memorabilia, and information on singles and videos.

SDE has been lucky enough to see one of these Studio Collection boxes in the flesh and the quality in terms of presentation is stunning – it’s up there with the Beatles Mono vinyl box set. It’s that good. In fact, the outer box was created by the same team. The album packaging is replicated exactly (including posters, where applicable), and all albums come with transparent outer sleeves, poly-lined inner sleeves AND additional inner sleeves as per the originals.

These vinyl records will be made available separately but only on black vinyl. The coloured vinyl is exclusive the Studio Collection box, as is the double Queen II (separately it’s one single black LP).

The Studio Collection 18LP vinyl box is released on 25 September 2015 and will be priced around the £300 mark.

Albums in the box:

Studio Collection

queen

  • Queen

queen2

  • Queen II *

sheer_heart_attack

  • Sheer Heart Attack

nightopera

  • A Night at the Opera

  • A Day at the Races

news

  • News of the World

jazz

  • Jazz

thegame

  • The Game

flash

  • Flash Gordon

hotspace

  • Hot Space

theworks

  • The Works

magic

  • A Kind of Magic

miracle

  • The Miracle

innuendo

  • Innuendo

heaven

  • Made in Heaven

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  1. I have been listening to my boxset for the last few days and indeed these sound really good. The only minor point is that “Jazz” has some weird stain on side 1 and it affects playing, so Amazon is kindly soon sending me replacement boxset so I can exchange the error item on my set. Luckily they will fully refund the return-postages (which will more likely be high due to weight and size of the package).

  2. Interesting info below direct from Bob Ludwig on the great vinyl website analogplanet.com (USA). Has anyone heard these? What do you think please? Thanks! :-)

    “The people from the Queen camp were the most fastidious listeners I’ve ever encountered. No one I’ve ever worked with has shined a light like this on a project.

    The Queen camp wanted to: fix all ticks, fix “bad” edits that couldn’t be re-spliced to correct them with a razor blade, have me change eq if necessary note by note.

    They hired an engineer JUST to listen to everything at half-speed, and BACKWARDS as well, to see if the slightest tick or anomaly could be perceived and fixed.

    Most importantly to my mind- in addition, there were first generation mixes of certain songs which were mixed at a different studio from the majority of the album and thus they had different alignment tones etc.

    Sometimes they were recorded using the CCIR curve instead of the NAB curve, or they were using Dolby instead of non-Dolby and, for the remastering project, Queen used those first generation tapes instead of the former album masters of those certain songs which of course had to contain a COPY of those mixes in order to cut from them.

    They ended up having literally countless fixes to make for the most perfect sound they wanted.

    I mastered everything from the original master tapes, but the final product, in order to sound like they wanted it to sound, HAD to be cut from the high resolution EQ masters. The difference between some of the first generation mixes and the tape copies of them that had to be inserted into the original cutting album masters was sometimes staggeringly better, for SURE it made for a better final product.

    Believe me, they spared NO expense on doing it as perfectly as they thought they possibly could.

    Best regards,

    Bob Ludwig”

    Read more at http://www.analogplanet.com/content/bob-ludwig-issues-statement-re-queen-studio-collection-box-set#5V0rPXDARspTO64y.99

  3. I had a pre-order in with Amazon.ca but then realised that the import duty was going to negate the savings. I then ordered with Amazon UK only to see that, as posted above, What Records are selling the box for £249 + £8 shipping (+ another £1.35 for tracked shipping).

  4. Well I’m not really sure about Flash Gordon. The japanese paper sleeve CD edition from 2004 sure is embossed, and since this collection is modeled around the UK pressings, I’m thinking it should be. But I’m not 100% sure the original Lp sleeve was like that as I don’t own one yet.

    There’s a guy showing “unboxing” videos of the new Lps from the boxset on Youtube. He’s up to “News of the world”. Apparently Queen II is laminated, but Queen I and Sheer Heart Attack are not. Maybe it was the same in the UK in the early 70s. Another small difference is there is no cut-out center on the inner sleeve of News Of The World. (I guess crazy maniacs like me can always cut it out themselves if they want to make it look even more like an original ;) ).

  5. Thanks for the update.

    “The album packaging is replicated exactly”. Does that mean that A night at the opera, Jazz and Flash Gordon have embossed sleeve like the originals ? That’s what will me make me decide to buy this very expensive box set or not. :)
    For this price, I’m expecting the sleeves to be exactly like the UK originals.

  6. Hi, just saw it and ordered it 360 for Euro.
    I think it is a good price – 20 Euro for one
    LP is good.
    Can’t wait to have this box and the – really big book –
    Are May/Taylor and Deacon on the other hand so in trouble that deacon didn’t have photos for the book? Very sad!

    All the best, btw these are pressed at optimal. The Dire Straits were pressed at G.Z. vinyl in Poland. Which isn’t always that bad.

    Fred

  7. The Amazon UK price looks to have come in at £375.99 now which is way over the mark considering all the other European Amazon options, What Records or the Queen Official store itself (all considerably cheaper)

    It’s almost as though Amazon UK don’t want your business on this one.

    1. It’s actually listed twice on Amazon (at two different price points, both overcooked!). I agree about not wanting my business, and they won’t get it (which I’m sure won’t exactly keep them awake at nights….).

  8. ‘What Records’ have this set advertised for £249.99:
    http://www.whatrecords.co.uk/items/67331.htm
    There is also an option to pay a £25 deposit and the remainder on dispatch. I have emailed them to confirm how much shipping will be but their website states £8.00 maximum for other orders. I have no affiliation with them and have never ordered from them (although I have a very full ‘wish list’!)

      1. My first reply earlier today appears to have disappeared….just to say that this does a price on Amazon now of £438. This is, supposedly an import, but given that all the sets are from the same source I struggle to imagine what on earth this might mean. I’ve emailed Amazon but they have not responded, so have given up on that. Can anyone shed any light on whether this is down to some dispute with UMG and if so, when we might see a resolution so we can order some records from this seller of records?

      1. The links above don’t seem to work now. I wanted to see where the UK link to me to…..I can get to the page where it is listed for £403 when I Google it, but searching on Amazon’s site (and I think I’ve tried every possible combination of ‘Queen…studio….collection…box set….vinyl’ produces nothing at all. I’m trying this in the belief thata mistake in the listing has been made (not least of all the price). I’ve emailed them telling them of cheaper prices elsewhere but nothing has changed.

          1. The links in the post do work. Amazon UK is £403 as you say. Ridiculous. Amazon Italy is still the cheapest option – it’s about £257 plus shipping.

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    1. Repeating my comment above. I understand from an industry source that the pressing run is likely to be a minimum of 10,000 units of the box set.

  13. nope, same result. tried work address, friend’s address, even Parents in france. still says: This item can not be sent to the selected address . Learn more. You can either change the delivery address or delete the item from your order . Oh well…

  15. Question: You’re all saying it’s cheaper to order from the German or Italian Amazon sites but they won’t deliver to the UK when I try to order. It says there is a problem because of the destination address. Any way to bypass that? I was trying to order McCartney’s Venus & Mars Deluxe Box set is is much much cheaper on the German Amazon site than anywhere else but no way! :(

    1. Shouldn’t be an issue. I’d say avoid PO box addresses and the like. But they definitely DO deliver to the UK. Try adding an alternative UK address (relative or friend) and see if it works for that.

      1. Paul – any pointers on getting a vinyl Ogdens reissue? Ive never figured out how to ship to the UK from Amazon or the Immediate site? :(

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  20. Um, gonna be a tough one to decide on.Already own the 15 Album double 30 disc sets.But this really does look a lovely item to own too.
    I’m just a sucker for these Super Deluxe sets.
    Maybe will wait to see if it is a Limited edition run and see if the price drops to somewhere a bit more affordable…watch this space

  24. Whoa, horsey! The Beatles “Mono Collection” vinyl box set WAS from a digital source! As a matter of fact it was stated from whoever at the record company that the reason it was o.k. that it was from a digital source was because on order for someone to be able to distinguish as to whether or not it was sourced digitally or analogue one would have to be super human to tell the difference.

    1. From TheBeatles.Com — In an audiophile-minded undertaking, The Beatles’ acclaimed mono albums have been newly mastered for vinyl from quarter-inch master tapes at Abbey Road Studios by GRAMMY®-winning engineer Sean Magee and GRAMMY®-winning mastering supervisor Steve Berkowitz. While The Beatles In Mono CD boxed set released in 2009 was created from digital remasters, for this new vinyl project, Magee and Berkowitz cut the records without using any digital technology. Instead, they employed the same procedures used in the 1960s, guided by the original albums and by detailed transfer notes made by the original cutting engineers.

  25. David Anderson I was wondering the same regarding if these are numbered and how many are being pressed. Of course I would want everyone who wants and can afford a copy to have one however numbered limited edition is more appealing at least to this collector and music fan. I was talking to a friend last night and told him I wouldn’t be surprised if eventually a Zep set including all studio albums were released on colored vinyl including lavish packaging including additional tracks not released officially to date.

  26. @Darren – in regard to your reply to Edward’s comment, the vaults aren’t empty. The band themselves (well, Maylor, specifically) have alluded to anthology-type releases many times over the last 10-15 years. In fact, a Queen rarities set is referred to explicitly in the book which accompanies the 10-CD/2-DVD Freddie Mercury Collection. In reference to a Queen recording of a Freddie solo cut, the text states that the recording was not included as it will feature in a forthcoming Queen box set. Greg Brooks, the band’s archivist has confirmed such a collection exists but there has been no official line as to it’s continued non-appearance. So, Edward, and other fans, can be rightly ticked off at the endless repackaging when a carrot has previously been so cruelly dangled!

  27. Frustrating. I would love 24/96 downloads of the albums, but have no interest (or space) for that vinyl box.
    Fingers crossed that the files are released at some point

  28. This looks beautiful. Does anyone know if it’s a limited run? And if so, how many?
    So many amazing vinyl sets being released. Serious amounts of money. I’m finding it hard knowing where to draw the line!

  30. I personally only have a smattering of poor quality 2nd hand Queen records that I’ve found in bargain bins, or had donated to me over the years and nothing on CD either, so to say my collection has a shortfall of Queen items is a bit of an understatement.

    So this set has massive appeal to me, much in a similar way for the 2 Beatles Vinyl sets over the last few years as it’s a great way to get a complete album collection without having previously purchased several versions over the years so this is a bit of a win win for me.

    It looks fantastic, and I think the price isn’t too bad either when you break it down for what you get (around £18 an album) and that’s not taking into account any money for the box, book etc, who knows we might see more reductions before it gets released.

    I’ve also just agreed in principal to have this as a Christmas present from my wife, however she’s set a very tough challenge and that is to find it for £200 or less. Challenge accepted!

  31. totally agree with the “collector” side of it, it won’t be worth a lot of money in a few years time. That said, I’m gonna have to buy it because I’m simply a coloured vinyl fanatic, I’m buying old Queen coloured singles and picture discs and this is a nice way to have all the albums in one go….

    1. I’m a sucker for coloured vinyl & picture discs too, queen have a fantastic back catalogue – the picture disc for ‘Im Going Slightly Mad’ is brilliant…

  32. I know that I am going to be called a curmudgeon for this but I must say it. The only value of vinyl today is if the music starts from an analog source and ends at the cutting lathe without digital intervention. Once the digital domain is introduced, vinyl no longer serves a purpose. Blu-ray or SACD should be the end product for music once it become a “high quality digital master.” Any sonic advantage of vinyl is a result of no digital processing. That said, the only reasons that this set is being released on vinyl are financial and trend. The Beatles Mono vinyl collection made musical sense because it was analog – start to finish. This Queen set is not. We all love great packaging, books, etc., but is it not the music that matters? Do the record companies think we are stupid and think we are getting the best sound because Bob Ludwig cut this from a digital source? Do they think we do not realize that this would sound BETTER on Blu-ray or SACD? Had this been a Blu-ray or SACD set, with or without fancy packaging, I would have bought it. Collectability, forget about it. Our estates are not going to get millions for our recent album purchases. The only collectables are those that were not meant to be collectable. An original Butcher cover, a script cover on Born to Run, or a release that not enough were made to meet market demand, is what makes a “collectable,” not a self proclaimed manufacture’s statement. Anything new sold as a collectable with or without a numbered edition is a marketing ploy. Spend you music money wisely. Let the record companies know that this is there last chance to get the best sound to you and you will not settle for trend or marketing hyperbole.

    1. @Greg

      You missed out some key words.

      You said:
      “The only value of vinyl today is….”

      It should say:
      “The only value of vinyl today FOR ME is…”

      You can’t speak for everyone, because different people have different ideas.

  33. Fans of music today (not proper fans of yesteryear) seem to be quite happy with low quality throw away mp3 files. Sad to think the now generation and future generations will probably kill collecting music because downloaded files can not be stored nicely on shelves and packaged in such a attractive ways to present the music as it should be, so as to be enjoyed when listening to it with its artwork, lyrics, books…etc. I am just so glad I grew up through the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s when music was treated as something special to be played on a hi-fi through speakers, rather than earphones out in a noisy street. So, to proper music fans this collection is gold, but to a lot of todays music listeners this is just too much to bother with or care about as it involves having to store vinyl and not simply downloading files on to a computer (files than can become corrupted and no good).

    1. “I am just so glad I grew up through the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s when music was treated as something special…”

      That’s because we paid for it and cherished it subsequently partly because of that. These days music is consumed by the young as if it is fresh air or tap-water – At no cost. As a result they just don’t value it in the same way and an excess of it leads to none of it being that “special” to them. They don’t have to struggle to find that rare 12″ by digging through dusty racks in a dingy back-street record shop on a wet Wednesday afternoon nor do they then have to decide if they want it enough to pay £10 for it.

    2. @Francis

      I feel the same as you. Music takes centre stage in my life, so I fully appreciate it. It is a shame that for so many people music is a background to something else happening. It becomes incidental.

      I guess years ago some people said the same about having a group sing-along around the piano.

      In some ways we are the dinosaurs now. But the march of “progress” isn’t really progress when the subtleties of life are overlooked. I’m just glad that I have appreciation for these things and that there are enough people around still to appreciate it also.

      I can understand why some people don’t appreciate music fully though. If all you have experienced of music is in the background on the TV or on your tinny laptop speakers then it isn’t going to be a great experience. Also, if your access to music is jumping through the advert-laden hoops of YouTube then it isn’t going to be the all-consuming experience of genuine satisfaction.

    3. Agree with a lot of what you say…but vinyl can become corrupted and no good too (warping, scratching, even with the best care accidents happen, or an unforgiving hot summer, or moving house etc..)…so can CDs (scratching, degrading of the readable surface over time). Nothing lasts forever! There’s a hunger for high digital quality, with the availability of high volume storage media…what’s really missing is the depth of information you get with more physical media, a lot of digital media has no context now, unless you go digging and researching yourself.

      In response to your slightly barbed comment about music fans of today compared with the older generations, and to Straker below: plenty of ‘young’ people do treasure the music experience and buy into the analogue experience (vinyl sales are up, home hifi sales still healthy), or at least take care with a decent hifi and decent resolution digital music (though with CDs obviously no point in reoslution above 16/44.1), whilst conversely plenty of ‘old’ music fans ‘of yesteryear’ threw away their vinyls when they couldn’t be bothered to lug them around anymore and CDs were seen as the more convenient and long-lasting solution. In truth, most consumers of music are casual fans, always have been and always will be, so will go for the most convenient options available, with smaller proportions of people investing more in higher quality equipment and less convenient but more collectible media; I’m among that category. So it’s only effectively the same evolution path that saw CD replace vinyl which has brought about portable digital music and streaming to the fore of music consumption. But people still buy CDs, and vinyl is more popular than it has been for a long time, though realistically probably more as a collector’s item than for practical listening. High quality digital media is becoming more and more mainstream though, the kind of quality that even with the best will in the world, vinyl can’t duplicate, so the digital age has also done some good for those seeking the best in sound (though you’ll always get the analog vs. digital arguments). Just irritates me a little when whole generations blame each other for ‘killing music’, obfuscates any productive discussion. Of course I’d hate to see the quality & collectible media be consigned to history, but I believe there will always be enough of a calling for high quality that options will be available.

  34. How much I do like queen (mine very very very first 7” was Bohemian, I have all the 7”, 12” cd’s, remaster 2cd’s, the 90 usa releases and the occasional vinyl album from the 70’s), I think this box, how impressive it might be, is nothing more then a new cash cow. I am waiting and waiting and waiting for the faults to be opened, but every release the last 10/15 years are just the same songs, re-re-remastered. And when a gem (duet with michael jackson) is finally released it’s again filled with tracks I have now purchased over and over again.

    I have a few bootlegs called the the majesty’s secrets in mine collection, good audio and such, why can’t those tracks not get a properly release, there is appereantly enough in the fault…..

    1. @Edward

      You just have to face the fact that Freddie Mercury has been dead for over 23 years and if there was anything really worth having it would have been released by now. Largely, what is out there is all there is, so it will be more of the same repackaged. You can view it as a “cash cow” if you wish. But something like this is a beautiful collector’s item.

      Also, if you have all the music already then it will feel different to you than it will to people who haven’t got it all already and to the new generations of fans who weren’t around at the time.

  36. I prefer to listen to Queen in beautiful rock glory CD quality rather than vinyl which over the years will develop noise, although the LP box set does look nice.

  37. Bit of a curate’s egg, this release. On the one hand, it looks a very handsome box set. But…

    The mastering seems certain to be the same as that used (controversially) for the recent CD/SACD remasters.

    The pressing plant has had some criticism, too – IIRC, Optimal took some flak over dodgy pressings of the recent Dire Straits box set…

    And in terms of it being called a studio collection, it clearly isn’t complete – no B-sides or 12″ or other mixes/edits, and no Cosmos Rocks. Surely a more fitting title for the box would have been ‘Studio Albums 73 – 95’?

  38. Massive Queen fan but no interest in vinyl. Looks lovely, though. The PR is a bit flowery, though – “finest ever”? What, until Bob Ludwig mixes them again for the third time?

  40. Ironic and sad that “rigorous quality control” is a selling point for vinyl sets. It should be a standard practice! Seems almost like a tongue-in-cheek criticism of the current quantity over quality trend…

    1. It’s like marketing speaker placement in room corners as a special feature. Gutting about the downloads only being mp3 quality, but presumably ‘Innuendo’ will sound better by having more wax to play with.
      Lovely, despite the draw backs, and at £240, worth it if you want most of the collection in an updated form. Still, can’t beat Queen II on analogue vinyl and if the new one actually had one side white and one side black on specially sealed together 90g vinyls, I wouldn’t think twice. Also – they could’ve included a flute of Moet & Chandon…

  41. I don’t have anything on vinyl from Queen, but have purchased all the remasters and previous cd’s, and I will buy this for sure. What a lovely set.
    I think the price is quite fair, considering the packaging, a book, and exclusive coloured vinyl. Hopefully the mastering is top notch. But I’m getting this definitely. Too bad Live Killers isn’t in there.

  42. Don’t want a Queen boxset, but agree that it’s a thing of no small majesty.

    Would snap up a complete Cure set though. Given the rate these things are being produced these days, it shouldn’t be too far away.

  45. I’m planning on pre ordering this! Even though these are sourced from digital I hope Bob Ludwig creates the definitive versions for this set. The colored vinyl and packaging is gorgeous!

  48. I just love these PR write ups: “a profound respect for the originals”, and claims the resulting masters are “the finest ever” in terms of sound. They are hardly going to write that the sound is NOT the finest ever are they.

  50. that sounds great but for me this is really too late after the deluxes reissues on CD… also the point is about the 12″ and alternative versions ! some of them still didn’t get the release on CD, and a 12″ collection on LP would be great… finally, where are the “unreleased” track that were put on the various compilations?

    To me, this kind of “album only” box is not worth the price…

  51. $445 is Steep! But it’s a must have being that all the US Hollywood Reissues are out of print and Made In Heaven is going for $300 and up.
    Hoping for a discount somewhere like they did with the Beatles Mono Box.

  52. I don’t care the band but this does look rather lovely…especially that 2nd photo but only a lunatic would ever display them that way :) :)

  53. A) As Scott G says, the DL’s should be the hi-res. Let’s hope the individual HQ versions end up being sold on the hi-res sites.
    B) Don’t like that the vinyl is mastered from digital source. Defeats the whole purpose of analog playback
    C) Separate LP’s on black vinyl only? Dealbreaker for those of us who don’t want/can’t afford the whole box.
    Pass.

    1. I agree with you Mick, but consider to B) that the ravages of time affect master tapes. As described on queenonlinestore.com: “The original plan was to master everything straight from the analogue mix tapes, where available. But in fact most of those tapes, having suffered from the effects of time, were in need of some restoration. The problems encountered included speed errors, missing audio, newly developing clicks and other unwanted noise.”

    2. 24bit 96kHz masters of Queen have been around for a long time. I have had ‘A Night At The Opera’ and The ‘Game’ on 24bit 96kHz for a long time now – and they sound excellent.
      Queens Greatest Hits I & II at 24bit 96kHz were also available for download from a Japanese website (Onkyo) but are no longer available. :(. It was not possible to purchase them outside of Japan.

  55. I`ve always liked Queen but only ever owned one LP (A Day At The Races) which was abducted by unknown life forms. I would love to own this set, hmm…………..

  56. Am I reading this right??
    “The box set also contains download codes for high quality digital versions. 320 kbps MP3s”

    What is high quality about MP3??

    The 24bit 96kHz that the vinyl’s were cut from would have been sooooo much better. What a missed opportunity.

    Paul do you have the clout to try and change their minds….

    2. Would have pre-ordered these straight away if 24bit/96khz was included. Another label/artist missing an opportunity. A follow up set of archival material could then be released after

  59. There is a placeholder on Amazon UK, Amazon Spain and Amazon Japan (been there for a few months now).

    Both Amazon UK and Spain do not have any price against them, however the Japanese site carries a price of 54,926 Yen, which equates to around £283 and lists it as an import.

  62. Hmmm. The big question is whether this is tempting enough to part with my Compete Works box in order to get upgraded audio and coloured vinyl (and Made In Heaven on vinyl, which I don’t have).

    The big miss here once again is all the various 12″ mixes and b-sides that have been neglected. Had there been some sort of roundup of those, I wouldn’t have thought twice about shelling out for this.

  63. I ordered this last night as I am a massive Queen collector and especially as they are in coloured vinyl. Cannot wait for the set to arrive. Very similar to what was done with the T.REX set.

  65. Nice to see the original labels have been kept, particularly the ones with the classic EMI in giant red lettering down the left side. Queen had left EMI in recent years but now reunited with the name thanks to the Universal buy-out (their old EMI company is under Warner Music as Parlophone Records though – this set clearly shows the Virgin EMI logo on all the labels).

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