Queen fans say the same thing after Brian May announcement | Celebrity News | Showbiz & TV
Fans have been left thrilled after finding out that a Queen album has had a major revamp.
Queen guitarist Brian May took to social media to share the news, posting: “Listen to ‘The Night Comes Down,’ the first new Queen track from the upcoming 2024 remixed and remastered album; Queen I!”
His followers have since expressed their excitement and shared similar reactions. One person said: “So beautiful & sends chills throughout. Thank you, Brian/ Roger & Official queenmusic. for bringing these songs back. Oh, such wonderful memories.”
Another fan added: “Was so beautiful & hearing Freddie gave me chills. Thanks for all these memories & fixing them over for fans to purchase,” [sic]. A third chimed in: “One of beautiful underrated Queen’s songs.”
Queen’s 1973 debut album has been remixed and remastered with a new tracklist, alternative takes, demos, and live recordings. The 6-CD + 1-LP collector’s edition features 63 tracks, including 43 brand-new mixes.
However, the album also received negative reviews already. One person wrote: ” Honestly kinda meh, the drums sound very… Odd.. Not a fan of this mix.” A second person added: “sounds kinda artificial…I’ll stick to the original.”
Opening up about the huge news, Brian said: “This is not just a remaster. This is a brand new 2024 rebuild of the entire Queen debut album, which, with the benefit of hindsight, we have re-titled QUEEN I.
“All the performances are exactly as they originally appeared in 1973, but every instrument has been revisited to produce the ‘live’ ambient sounds we would have liked to use originally.
“The result is Queen as it would have sounded with today’s knowledge and technology – a first. Queen I is the debut album we always dreamed of bringing to you.”
Looking back on early Queen with Freddie Mercury and John Deacon, Roger Taylor shared: “The first three years were really faith and fumes. We were penniless but we had a lot of belief in ourselves and a lot of energy.”
Recording at Soho’s Trident Studios, Sir Brian recalled: “We’d work through the night and usually until 7am when the cleaners came in. It was us just grabbing little bits of time.”
The drummer added: “You know, we just came in there right after Bowie had done Hunky Dory and Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and he did both of those albums back to back, two great albums. So, we were very pleased to be there, but when we were there, we’d arrive at three in the morning and then go on, for all the hours that we could grab. It was just a grind. I wouldn’t say it was soul-destroying because we were quite confident. We had a sort of innate, gentle arrogance, you know, we thought we were good and quite different.”
