This record was cut using a specialist technique known as half-speed mastering. This artisan process results in cuts that have a superior high-frequency response (treble) and very solid, stable stereo imaging. In short, a very high-quality master that helps to create a very high-quality record.
A1: Radio Ga Ga
A2: Tear It Up
A3: It's A Hard Life
A4: Man On The Prowl
B1: Machines (Or "Back To Humans")
B2: I Want To Break Free
B3: Keep Passing The Open Windows
B4: Hammer To Fall
B5: Is This The World We Created?
When their eleventh studio album The Works - produced by Queen and Mack - was released in the UK on February 27th 1984, fans and critics alike hailed it as Queen return to their rock roots and to the traditional Queen sound absent on the previous album. Record Mirror described it as ‘Another jewel in the crown’.
“We had done some really serious, epic videos in the past, and we just wanted people to know that we didn’t take ourselves too seriously, that we could still laugh at ourselves. I think we proved that.”
- Roger Taylor on I Want To Break Free
For the first time ever the band started the new recordings in Los Angeles in August 1983 and finished at Musicland studios in Germany early the following year. The album cover was conceived by Queen and features an image from a photographic session with legendary Hollywood photographer, the late George Hurrell, who had previously photographed Marilyn Monroe and many other Hollywood greats.
Roger's Radio Ga Ga was the first single to be released from the album, reaching No 2 in the UK and No 1 in nineteen other countries around the world. This was the first time a Queen single had featured its own personal catalogue number - QUEEN 1.
The Works album, the first from Queen in nearly two years, entered the UK chart at No 2. It reached No 1 in Portugal and Holland and the Top 10 everywhere else around the world, and achieved Platinum status in the UK and Gold in the USA.
Singles from this album: Radio Ga Ga / I Want To Break Free / It’s A Hard Life / Hammer To Fall.
Design [Sleeve Design] – Bill Smith
Engineer – Mack
Engineer [Additional Engineering In L.a.] – Mike Beiriger
Engineer [Assistant] – Ed Delena, Stefan Wissnet
Executive-Producer – Brian May, Roger Taylor
Lacquer Cut By [Half-Speed Vinyl Mastering] – Miles Showell
Mastered By [Digitally] – George Marino
Photography By – George Hurrell
Producer – Mack, Queen
Remastered By [Digital Mastering 2011] – Bob Ludwig
Restoration [Additional Audio Restoration] – Kris Fredriksson
Supervised By [Additional Audio Supervision] – Joshua J. Macrae
Supervised By [Audio] – Justin Shirley-Smith, Kris Fredriksson
Supervised By [Equipment Supervision] – Brian Zellis, Chris Taylor, Peter Freestone, Peter Hince
Label: Virgin EMI Records – 00602547202789
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, 180 Gram
Country: Europe
Released: 2015
Genre: Rock
Style: Hard Rock, Pop Rock, Arena Rock
Model Number | Q90727 |
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RRP | 79.00 |