Queen
	Produced by John Anthony, Roy Baker and Queen
	Released on July 1973
	UK CHART POSITION #24 . . . US CHART POSITION #83 . . . GOLD RECORD (3/29/77)
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" Please, to the see the Queen," I said, and was quickly ushered into the great hall. There she stood, a fountain of wild compositions, struggling to keep her own composure. Mad perhaps, but there was a method to her madness, an arching toward some higher purpose where glimpses of a greater hall could be seen that transcended our own mortal world. Like all true lunatics, her mood was mercurial: at first sweating in a nightmare where she imagined herself the hunted (“Keep Yourself Alive”), then leaning back into a docile state of acceptance (“Doing All Right”). Her ravings were often of imagined acquaintances, the doomed figures of fiction and history in whom her own paranoia found favor: “Great King Rat,” “Jesus.” What lies at the heart of “Liar,” “Son And Daughter” and “My Fairy King” could be an unsettling stream of the subconscious or merely human foibles played to high camp. She might have been winking at me when I left, still rambling on (as she would for years to come). I’ll allow the royals their eccentricities, especially when my patience is rewarded with “The Night Comes Down,” the likes of which I haven’t heard since The Beatles’ white album. As for this first meeting, there are bits of it that remain stuck in my head, though the Queen had more to say on these subjects later on, settling into the pomp and elegance befitting her rank with time. But it was clear from the beginning that she had something important to impart, that seriocomic excess had its place in the regal ranks of progdom. She had ambitions, this one, much as a group of Northern renegades made plain during a Fly By Night campaign. And so it was that one’s first audience with the Queen led to a lasting audience.

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TRACK LISTING

1. KEEP YOURSELF ALIVE    3:42
2. DOING ALL RIGHT    4:11
3. GREAT KING RAT    5:42
4. MY FAIRY KING    4:06
5. LIAR    6:25
6. THE NIGHT COMES DOWN    4:24
7. MODERN TIMES ROCK 'N' ROLL    1:49
8. SON AND DAUGHTER    3:22
9. JESUS    3:45
10. SEVEN SEAS OF RHYE...    1:15
    
    CD expanded reissue tracks
    
11. MAD THE SWINE
12. KEEP YOURSELF ALIVE (ALTERNATE VERSION)
13. LIAR (ALTERNATE VERSION)

CREDITS

DEACON JOHN -- bass guitar
BRIAN MAY -- guitars, piano, vocals, cover design
ROGER MEDDOWS-TAYLOR -- percussion, vocals
FREDDIE MERCURY -- vocals, piano, cover design
Roy Baker -- engineer
Mike Stone -- engineer
Ted Sharpe -- engineer
Dave Hentschel -- engineer
Louie Austin -- engineer (6)
Douglas Puddifoot -- photographer, cover design
Jac Holzman -- American production supervision
Robert L. Heimall -- American art direction

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