Greatest Hits II

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Some tracks were not even singles in the US (" One Year of Love") or anywhere (" Stone Cold Crazy"). Freddie Mercury designed the album cover, using the astrological signs of the band members: a crest made of two Leos, one Cancer and one Virgo. Note: New videos were created for Now I'm Here, Seven Seas Of Rhye and Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy for this collection, as they did not previously have music videos.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies.Throughout, the flamboyance and verve of the bands performances shines, highlighting exactly why they remain one of the most popular acts in the world. The album contains many of their most memorable hits, including ‘Under Pressure’, ‘I Want it All’, ‘I Want to Break Free’, ‘Hammer to Fall’ ,and ‘The Show Must Go On’. Note: On the sleeve notes of the video, "We Are the Champions" is incorrectly listed after the two versions of "We Will Rock You". To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Commercial performance [ edit ] Gold and silver discs issued by EMI in 1982 for Greatest Hits (1981).

For the 1981 release, the photo was skewed, but was later presented as it was originally taken for the 2011 re-release.A companion video release entitled Greatest Flix II was released at the same time, but is currently out of print. In the UK, the album was limited to the Queen singles that had reached the top 20 in the UK singles chart up to that point, plus " We Will Rock You", which had been the B-side of " We Are the Champions".

Back at home, the band were as high profile as ever, though moreso in the tabloids than in the music papers. This was due to an aggressive marketing campaign by Hollywood Records, with whom Queen had signed the year before. The compilation contains most of their chart hits between 1981-1991, and was the final album released by Queen before Freddie Mercury passed away later that year. For items that are dispatched using our standard service, we ask that you wait 14 days from the date of dispatch before reporting any items as undelivered. Las Palabras de Amor", "Thank God It's Christmas", " These Are the Days of Our Lives" and "Princes of the Universe" were later included on Greatest Hits III.

Not only did it see them back on the top of the charts – both album and singles – with Innuendo and the title track, but America was finally starting to take notice of them again. Curiously, only Under Pressure was released from Hot Space, while Scandal was also nowhere to be found. In NME Barney Hoskyns said, "All of [their songs], besides 'Another One Bites the Dust', are quite repulsive, unbelievably crass insults to their respective genres and uniformly vulgar music. This is a slight edit of the single version of the track which appears on the 1984 album ' The Works'. Roger Taylor had not written any songs that had been released as singles for the band at that point.

This compilation was made up of tracks such as "Bohemian Rhapsody", "Keep Yourself Alive" and "Under Pressure" (which had already appeared on the Elektra 1981 Hits collection), as well as newer tracks (" A Kind of Magic" and " Radio Ga Ga").Certain items can take longer to source than the estimated week, particularly during busy trading periods and may take longer to arrive at our warehouse. In the edit page, go to the 'Metadata' tab and add your Juno artist, label or release page for listeners to purchase your release / releases. Greatest Hits is the band's best-selling album to date, with total sales of over 25 million copies, making it one of the best-selling albums of all time. Front hype sticker on bottom right corner reads "ONE OF THE WORLD'S BEST-SELLING ALBUMS OF ALL TIME! Unlike its predecessor, the tracklist remained unanimous around the world – no variations were offered based on the territory.