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Queen II (Collector's Edition)
- Edition
- Import (US pressing)
- Release date
- 27 March 2026
- Label
- Hollywood Records
- JAN
- 0050087593612
- Format
- Five CDs and two LPs; 58 tracks on the CDs, with a 112-page book
- Bonus
- The two LPs are 180-gram white and black vinyl, each with music on one side and an etching on the other. Outside North America the same box is on EMI under another barcode, 0602478397424.
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Queen II (Collector's Edition) builds a box of five CDs and two LPs around the 2026 mix of QUEEN's second studio album, first released in Britain on 8 March 1974. It came out on 27 March 2026, this American pressing on Hollywood Records. The album is laid out as Side White, mostly Brian May's songs, and Side Black, mostly Freddie Mercury's. Justin Shirley-Smith, Joshua J Macrae and Kris Fredriksson, the team behind the Queen I reissue, made the 2026 mix, with May and Roger Taylor as executive producers.
The first CD is the album in the new mix, and the second, Sessions, is entirely unreleased: outtakes from the original Trident sessions, the unfinished "Not for Sale (Polar Bear)" among them. The third holds the backing tracks without lead vocals, the fourth the BBC Radio 1 sessions of 1973 and 1974 with the set at Golders Green Hippodrome on 13 September 1973, and the fifth live recordings, most of them from the Rainbow Theatre in 1974. The two LPs carry Side White and Side Black of the 2026 mix on a white and a black disc, one side each, and a 112-page book of unseen photographs, handwritten lyrics, diary entries and the band's own memories completes the set; the CDs carry 58 tracks.
TRACK LIST
- 1.[Disc 1] Procession
- 2.[Disc 1] Father To Son
- 3.[Disc 1] White Queen (As It Began)
- 4.[Disc 1] Some Day One Day
- 5.[Disc 1] The Loser in the End
- 6.[Disc 1] Ogre Battle
- 7.[Disc 1] The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke
- 8.[Disc 1] Nevermore
- 9.[Disc 1] The March of the Black Queen
- 10.[Disc 1] Funny How Love Is
- 11.[Disc 1] Seven Seas Of Rhye
- 12.[Disc 2] Procession (Stage Intro Tape - April 1973)
- 13.[Disc 2] Father To Son (Takes 4 & 9 - with Guide Vocal)
- 14.[Disc 2] As It Began (Brian's Studio Demo - October 1969)
- 15.[Disc 2] Some Day One Day (Take 1 - with Guide Vocals)
- 16.[Disc 2] The Loser In The End (Roger's First Demo)
- 17.[Disc 2] The Loser In The End (Roger's Second Demo)
- 18.[Disc 2] Ogre Battle (Takes 2 & 6 - with Guide Vocal)
- 19.[Disc 2] The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke (Takes 4 & 9)
- 20.[Disc 2] Nevermore (Take 6)
- 21.[Disc 2] The March Of The Black Queen (First Section Takes 3 & 5)
- 22.[Disc 2] The March Of The Black Queen (Second Section Take 1)
- 23.[Disc 2] Funny How Love Is (Take 4)
- 24.[Disc 2] Seven Seas Of Rhye (Takes 4, 5 & 6)
- 25.[Disc 2] I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside (Take 4)
- 26.[Disc 2] See What A Fool I've Been (B-side Version 2026 Mix)
- 27.[Disc 2] Not For Sale (Polar Bear)
- 28.[Disc 3] Procession
- 29.[Disc 3] Father To Son
- 30.[Disc 3] White Queen (As It Began)
- 31.[Disc 3] Some Day One Day
- 32.[Disc 3] The Loser in the End
- 33.[Disc 3] Ogre Battle
- 34.[Disc 3] The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke
- 35.[Disc 3] Nevermore
- 36.[Disc 3] The March of the Black Queen
- 37.[Disc 3] Funny How Love Is
- 38.[Disc 3] Seven Seas Of Rhye
- 39.[Disc 4] See What a Fool I've Been (BBC Session 2 - July 1973 - 2011 Mix)
- 40.[Disc 4] Ogre Battle (BBC Session 3 - December 1973)
- 41.[Disc 4] Nevermore (BBC Session 4 - April 1974)
- 42.[Disc 4] White Queen (As It Began) (BBC Session 4 - April 1974)
- 43.[Disc 4] Procession - Intro Tape (Live at Golders Green Hippodrome - 13th September 1973)
- 44.[Disc 4] Father To Son (Live at Golders Green Hippodrome - 13th September 1973)
- 45.[Disc 4] Son And Daughter (Live at Golders Green Hippodrome - 13th September 1973)
- 46.[Disc 4] Guitar Solo (Live at Golders Green Hippodrome - 13th September 1973)
- 47.[Disc 4] Son And Daughter - Reprise (Live at Golders Green Hippodrome - 13th September 1973)
- 48.[Disc 4] Ogre Battle (Live at Golders Green Hippodrome - 13th September 1973)
- 49.[Disc 4] Liar (Live at Golders Green Hippodrome - 13th September 1973)
- 50.[Disc 4] Jailhouse Rock (Live at Golders Green Hippodrome - 13th September 1973)
- 51.[Disc 5] Procession - Intro Tape (Live at the Rainbow - March 1974)
- 52.[Disc 5] Father To Son (Live at the Rainbow - March 1974)
- 53.[Disc 5] Ogre Battle (Live at the Rainbow - March 1974)
- 54.[Disc 5] White Queen (As It Began) (Live at the Hammersmith Odeon - December 1975)
- 55.[Disc 5] The March Of The Black Queen (Live at the Rainbow - November 1974)
- 56.[Disc 5] The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke (Live at the Rainbow - March 1974)
- 57.[Disc 5] Seven Seas Of Rhye (Live at the Rainbow - March 1974)
- 58.[Disc 5] See What A Fool I've Been (Live at the Rainbow - March 1974)