Queen: A Night at the Opera (50th anniversary, half-speed master) [EMI / HOLLYWOOD]

Why you'll love it

Fifty years on, A Night at the Opera still sounds like nothing else, and "Bohemian Rhapsody" remains one of the most-played songs in history. This anniversary edition was half-speed mastered for the best possible sound.

This edition

• 50th anniversary edition
• Half-speed mastered
• EMI / Hollywood pressing

About the album

Queen's fourth album is a dazzling, genre-hopping tour de force: hard rock, music hall, folk, ballads, ukulele whimsy and, of course, a six-minute mock-opera that changed rock music forever. Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon threw everything they had at it, and it paid off spectacularly.

"Bohemian Rhapsody," "You're My Best Friend," "Love of My Life," "'39," "I'm in Love with My Car" and the epic "The Prophet's Song" are all here. Half-century celebrations don't get much better than this.

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Listen

On EMI / Hollywood, a 50th anniversary half-speed mastered edition of the 1975 album.