The band Queen has announced an encompassing vinyl collection that will feature all of the band's studio albums, including classics A Night At The Opera, Sheer Heart Attack and News Of The World. If you're the kind of collector who prefers your vinyl in more colorful iterations, then you're in luck: Each of the 18 discs will come pressed in a different color.
"Queen always had a special fondness for vinyl, the medium in which they first began to create, around 1970," read a statement from the group. "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 CDs had taken over as the medium of choice for most of the public."
The latter comment, on offering vinyl versions for every album released, left fans out in the cold for the band's final two albums, Innuendo and Made In Heaven. Those albums were shortened at the time to fit on single vinyls, but have now been edited so the complete audio of each is presented as part of a double album...the way the rock gods intended.
The set will also include a 108-page book that features primers on each album in the collection, as well as comments from the band, handwritten lyrics and photos of various memorabilia. If that's not enough for you, or you don't actually own a record player to use your new box set on, the group is working with Rega to create a Queen-themed turntable. Unfortunately, we don't have details on that product but we hope it's glamorous.
The project has been in the works for more than five years, as noted engineer Bob Ludwig remastered each album from the original master tapes. The collection will be available beginning September 25, but no prices have been released yet. If the dollar-figure presented is a tad too high for you, the albums will be available individually as well (granted, on black vinyl only).
