Album
Sheer Heart Attack
1974 · Rock
66 collectors on Gatefold own this
Sheer Heart Attack is a Rock album by Queen, originally released in 1974. On Gatefold: 343 pressings tracked, owned by 66 collectors.
About
<i>Sheer Heart Attack</i> isn’t just Queen’s breakthrough album; it’s an essential blueprint for a kind of high-drama pop-rock, one still followed by everyone from The Killers to Lady Gaga to Imagine Dragon. And while the band’s peers skewed earthy and rough—think Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath—Queen presented as polished, flamboyant, and fastidiously detailed. This was hard rock forged not from the blue, but from opera and musical theater. As far as a hard-rock acts go, Queen wasn’t a bulldozer—it was a ship in a bottle. Prior to <i>Sheer Heart Attack</i>’s release in 1974, Brian May worried that tracks like “Killer Queen” were too light. But the group’s obsessive layering of sounds—the bright bell that comes in around the first minute; May’s brief, feline guitar growl just after the second—became the band’s calling card. And even the heavier tracks on <i>Sheer Heart Attack</i> have a posh, gentlemanly feel (“Stone Cold Crazy,” “Brighton Rock”). .
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Tracklist
Side A
- A1Brighton Rock
- A2Killer Queen
- A3Tenement Funster
- A4Flick Of The Wrist
- A5Lily Of The Valley
- A6Now I'm Here
Side B
- B1In The Lap Of The Gods
- B2Stone Cold Crazy
- B3Dear Friends
- B4Misfire
- B5Bring Back That Leroy Brown
- B6She Makes Me (Stormtrooper In Stilettoes)
- B7In The Lap Of The Gods... Revisited
Sound DNA
- Rock
- Hard Rock
- layered
- triumphant
- theatrical
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Brian MayBAND, VOCALS, GUITAR, PIANO, UKULELE BANJO , ORCHESTRATED BY BANJO GUITAR
- Freddie MercuryBAND, VOCALS, PIANO, PIANO , VOCALS LEAD VOCALS, PIANO , VOCALS LEAD VOCALS, PIANO, PIANO, VOCALS
- John DeaconBAND, BASS, DOUBLE BASS, ACOUSTIC GUITAR BASS GUITAR BASS GUITAR, DOUBLE BASS, ACOUSTIC GUITAR
- QueenCOMPOSED BY , ARRANGED BY , PERFORMER COMPOSED BY, ARRANGED BY COMPOSED BY, ARRANGED BY, PERFORMER
- Roger TaylorBAND, VOCALS, DRUMS, PERCUSSION, VOICE DRUMS DRUMS, PERCUSSION, VOCALS
66 collectors on Gatefold own this · 343 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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