Hollywood Records
2004
Greatest Hits (2004)
About This Album
Pay attention, because this gets tricky. Very tricky. The first Queen Greatest Hits released in America was a 14-track LP that hit the stores in 1981. Several years later, CDs overtook LPs as the leading format of recorded music, but due to various legal reasons, Queen's catalog didn't hit CD until 1991, and soon, CD compilations started to appear in bewildering configurations. In the U.K., where Queen remained on the charts throughout the '80s, a sequel to that 1981 Greatest Hits was released in 1991, chronicling such hits as "Under Pressure," "I Want to Break Free," and "Radio Ga Ga." In the U.S., Queen stopped having Top 40 hits after "Radio Ga Ga," so Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 was filled with music largely unfamiliar to the American listener. Hollywood, the American label with the rights to the reissues, thus decided to slightly reconfigure that U.K. Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 by dropping a few tracks and substituting such radio staples as "Tie Your Mother Down" and "Stone Cold Crazy," along with the hits "Under Pressure" and "Bohemian Rhapsody," which was a current hit in 1992 thanks to its exposure in the hit film Wayne's World.
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