Queen - Complete Studio Album Vinyl LP Box Set 18-LP

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Queen - Complete Studio Album Vinyl LP Box Set

ALL 15 HIT STUDIO ALBUMS SOURCED FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES

MASTERED BY BOB LUDWIG

HALF-SPEED LACQUERS CUT AT ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS

PRESSED ON HEAVYWEIGHT 180 GRAM COLORED VINYL

WITH A LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED 108 PAGE HARDBACK BOOK

London - July 16th 2015 - Queen on Vinyl: This is how listeners first heard the now legendary Queen in the 1970’s when vinyl was the predominant format for recorded music. This September Queen will hit the crest of an already massive wave – a world-wide renaissance of vinyl and record players – with the ultimate set of vinyl LPs, the complete collection of Queen studio albums, re-mastered to the highest standards of quality in both audio and artwork. 

The band and their label Universal Music, today announced Queen: The Studio Collection, an 18 disc theme-colored vinyl LP collection to be released September 25. 

This unique package will be complimented with a fully customized limited edition Queen branded turntable made by Rega.

15 albums. 18 discs? What’s the story ?  

Queen always had a special fondness for vinyl, the medium in which they first began to create, around 1970. As a matter of principle, every Queen studio album was offered at the time of original release on vinyl, even well into the era when CD’s had taken over as the medium of choice for most of the public. However, the final two albums, ‘Innuendo’ and ‘Made In Heaven’ were actually formatted primarily with the CD in mind, with a longer running time, so the contents had to be edited down to fit them on to the two sides of a vinyl album. Now, specially for this edition, for the first time, these two albums have been cut at full length as double vinyl LP’s - four sides each – making up a vinyl set that is complete in every way. 

The box-set offers many other special features. Most noticeable is the colored vinyl: designed for collectors, each album has been given a different color, in keeping with its original artwork, giving a unique record-deck experience. The colour discs have been custom-produced especially for this set, using new material technology which ensures the sound quality is uncompromised.  

There are more surprises in the box set;  ‘Queen II’ originally never had a designated ‘A side’ or ‘B side’ - but ‘Side White’ and ‘Side Black’. For this new edition, the album has been cut on two separate discs, black and white, each with a custom etching on the reverse side, a nice bonus for collectors.  

The collection has been five years in the making. Throughout this time Queen’s production team has worked extensively on all stages of this painstaking mastering process. The first step was the tape research; locating and confirming the correct versions and best sources for all tracks. Most notably, Under Pressure, plus five tracks on the ‘Innuendo’ album, were improved hugely after the discovery of better sources during this period. Particular attention was paid to the original releases to ensure that nothing was lost or changed for the worse by reverting to earlier sources