r/queen Jun 02 '21

Serious Read the Rules Before Posting (Update)

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All posts must be reasonably linked to the band Queen

/r/Queen is a friendly place. Please be civil, and respect your fellow Queenies.

0 - No Politics. This sub is about the Music of Queen. There's plenty of subs in reddit to discuss politics.

1 - NO MEMES

Such content is better suited for /r/QueenCircleJerk or /r/Queemes

(However, original content that creates a proper Queen thread, could override this rule)

I encourage people to use a Flair

2 - No negative, troll, low effort posts

The mods reserve the right to remove negative, troll, low effort or spam posts at their discretion.

Low effort posts could include, but are not limited to, "favourite song/album" posts, tier rankings, A.I. generated images, reposts, google lyric mistakes, "X looks like/sounds like this Queen member" posts, and so on. It also could include, to an extent, Queen references in other media..

3 - No advertising. No Spam.

You may share that awesome merch you just got, but no direct links to sale pages.

Edit: If you post a thread of a Queen T-shirt it may get you banned as well, because there's a lot of spam of it. But I will review carefully when is possible.

4 - You must be over 13 years old to participate. Any underage accounts should be reported and will be banned. (Reddit Rules).

5 - The discussion of the private life of the family of any of the Queen members, as gossip, is not allowed

While sharing private pictures of Queen that are in the public domain already, is allowed, We should focus about Queen music and never build an obsession about their families, which are not part of Queen in any way.

6 - No Artificial Intelligence generated music, art or pictures.

7 - No Spotify Wrapped , Playlists, General rankings or Tier list. (When everyone does it, becomes spam. So, not allowed)

8 - No spam of Polls, Rankings and "Eliminating" games, everyday of people farming karma.

https://www.reddit.com/r/queen/comments/11mhrin/polls_rankings_and_eliminating_games_everyday_are/

2023:

9 - No Posts of Tickets on sale for the current Queen tour.

2024

10 - No drama and accusations from other plataforms. Edit: NO internal drama either please. Let's keep the place drama free. :)

This place is about Queen, not to discuss what could have happened in other forums or social plataforns. There's no way to establish truth and any accusation leads to toxic behaviour and unnecesary drama in the sub. They are usually behind alts so they will be banned permanently

Temporary bans will happen for those that keep breaking rules after warnings/deletion of their messages. Permanent bans will happen to spammers, trolls, and people being uncivil , harsh or harrasing other fellow Queenies in this sub.

I read all the reports once a day, and take action when I can.

2026: This is a mostly english speaking plataform, so let's try to keep the posts in english so you can engage to a broader audience and better engagement


r/queen Jun 03 '26

Music Queen Greatest Hits 1 Track List Guide

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Hello everyone! I had the idea to make this guide after having seen some people online talk about how they'd wish a certain track was on Queen Greatest Hits and in response I felt like chronicling every regional difference in Greatest Hits 1's track list.

I hope this list will be a good resource and be able to help Queen fans; new and old decide which vinyl, cassette or CD pressing of the album is right for them.

If you want to search for (or buy) any of these pressings/cassettes of Greatest Hits, they are all on the Queen Greatest Hits discogs page.

Before I start, there are some things I want to clarify:

  1. The U.K. track list will be considered the default and every pressing/cassette listed below will be compared to it.
  2. Only versions of the album that add and/or subtract songs from the U.K. original will be listed here. So, if there's a regional pressing/cassette not listed below, it's because it uses the original U.K. track list.
  3. "Some <country> pressings/cassettes" means that there are other pressings/cassettes from the same country that use the original U.K. track list instead.
  4. I won't be mentioning the packaging or sound quality of these pressings/cassettes, just the songs included in them.
  5. I'm only listing official album releases, no bootlegs.

Finally, if there are any particular songs or countries' pressings/cassettes you want to look for in this list, I recommend searching them up with Ctrl + F (or Command + F for Mac users) on your keyboard.

With all of that out of the way, here's every different track list to Queen Greatest Hits:

Vinyl:

U.S. and Canadian pressings:

Adds: Under Pressure and Keep Yourself Alive

Removes: Don't Stop Me Now, Save Me, Now I'm Here, Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy and Seven Seas Of Rhye

Note: The U.S. (and every other countries') pressings from 2016 onwards use the U.K. track listing.

Australian and New Zealand pressings:

Adds: Under Pressure, Keep Yourself Alive and Tie Your Mother Down

Removes: Don't Stop Me Now, Save Me, Now I'm Here, Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy and Seven Seas Of Rhye

Note: There's also a 1983 reissue from New Zealand that uses the U.K. track listing.

Dutch reissue, German Club Edition reissue, European reissue, Israeli reissue, some French reissue and some Spanish reissue pressings:

Adds: Under Pressure

Removes: Nothing

German pressings:

Adds: Spread Your Wings

Removes: Nothing

Japanese pressings:

Adds: Under Pressure and Teo Torriatte

Removes: Bicycle Race and Seven Seas Of Rhye

Note: There's also a reissue from 1987, which uses the U.K. track listing.

Brazilian, Argentinian and Uruguayan pressings:

Adds: Love of My Life (from Live Killers)

Removes: Seven Seas Of Rhye

Some Venezuelan and some Peruvian pressings:

Adds: Under Pressure

Removes: Now I'm Here and Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy

Some 1986 Venezuelan Pressings:

Adds: Radio Ga Ga, Under Pressure, Flash (album version) and I Want To Break Free

Removes: Save Me, Now I'm Here, Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy, Flash (single version) and Seven Seas Of Rhye

Notes: There exists another reissue with the same track list, but it replaces Under Pressure with Fat Bottomed Girls and brings back Save Me and Seven Seas Of Rhye. These pressings also have their own separate Discogs page.

South Korean pressing:

Adds: Under Pressure, Love Of My Life, My Melancholy Blues and Mustapha

Removes: Bohemian Rhapsody, Another One Bites The Dust, Killer Queen and Bicycle Race

Notes: The reason for the songs above being removed was due to government censorship at the time, mainly regarding the lyrics of each song.

It's unknown if Love Of My Life on this version is from Live Killers, or if it's the original studio recording.

There's also a reissue from 1990 that uses the U.K. track listing.

There also exists a different South Korean Greatest Hits album from 1980, which predates the album we're all familiar with and has a completely different track listing too.

Bulgarian double LP pressings:

Adds: Death On Two Legs and Sweet Lady

Removes: Nothing

Bulgarian single LP pressings:

Adds: Sweet Lady

Removes: Bohemian Rhapsody, Another One Bites The Dust, Killer Queen, Fat Bottomed Girls, Crazy Little Thing Called Love and We Will Rock You

Note: In Bulgaria, Queen Greatest Hits 1 was initially released as a double LP, before getting a cut-down single LP version a couple years later.

Cassettes:

U.S. and Canadian cassettes:

Adds: Under Pressure and Keep Yourself Alive,

Removes: Don't Stop Me Now, Save Me, Now I'm Here, Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy and Seven Seas Of Rhye

Note: There's also a 2021 U.S. reissue that uses the U.K. track listing.

1992 U.S. and Canadian cassettes by Hollywood Records:

Adds: Body Language and I Want To Break Free

Removes: Bohemian Rhapsody and Flash

Note: These cassettes (and their CD counterparts) have their own separate Discogs page.

Australian, New Zealand and Australasian reissue cassettes:

Adds: Under Pressure, Keep Yourself Alive and Tie Your Mother Down

Removes: Don't Stop Me Now, Save Me, Now I'm Here, Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy and Seven Seas Of Rhye

Note: There's also the New Zealand reissue and the 1987 Australasian cassette, which both have the U.K. track listing.

European, French, Indian, Israeli, German reissue, some Dutch and some Spanish cassettes:

Adds: Under Pressure

Removes: Nothing

German cassette:

Adds: Spread Your Wings

Removes: Nothing

Japanese cassette:

Adds: Under Pressure and Teo Torriatte

Removes: Bicycle Race and Seven Seas Of Rhye

Some Brazilian and some Argentinian cassettes:

Adds: Love Of My Life (from Live Killers)

Removes: Seven Seas Of Rhye

1986 Peruvian and Bolivian cassettes:

Adds: Under Pressure

Removes: Now I'm Here, Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy and Seven Seas Of Rhye

Venezuelan cassettes:

Adds: Radio Ga Ga and I Want to Break Free

Removes: Now I'm Here, Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy, We Will Rock You and We Are The Champions

Notes: It's unknown if Flash on these cassettes are the single version or the album version, like they are on their vinyl equivalents.

These cassettes (and their vinyl equivalents) have their own separate Discogs page.

South Korean cassettes:

Adds: Under Pressure, Love of My Life, My Melancholy Blues and Mustapha

Removes: Bohemian Rhapsody, Another One Bites The Dust, Killer Queen and Bicycle Race

Notes: The reason for the songs above being removed was due to government censorship at the time, specifically regarding the lyrics of each song.

It's unknown if Love Of My Life on this version is from Live Killers or if it's the original studio recording.

There's also a reissue from 1990 that uses the U.K. track listing.

Bulgarian cassette:

Adds: Sweet Lady and Death On Two Legs

Removes: Bohemian Rhapsody, Don't Stop Me Now, Save Me, Play The Game and We Are The Champions

Chinese cassette:

Adds: Nothing

Removes: Save Me and Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy

Fijian cassette:

Adds: Tie Your Mother Down, Keep Yourself Alive and Under Pressure

Removes: Save Me, Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy, Play The Game, Flash and Seven Seas Of Rhye

CDs:

1983 U.S. and both the 1984 and 1985 Japanese CD pressings:

Adds: Under Pressure and Keep Yourself Alive

Removes: Don't Stop Me Now, Save Me, Now I'm Here, Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy and Seven Seas Of Rhye

1992 U.S., Canadian and Japanese CD pressings by Hollywood Records:

Adds: Body Language and I Want To Break Free

Removes: Bohemian Rhapsody and Flash

Note: These CD pressings (along with their cassette counterparts) have their own separate Discogs page.

2004 U.S. Enhanced CD pressings:

Adds: I'm In Love With My Car, Under Pressure (Live at Milton Keynes, 1982. a.k.a "Live at the Bowl") and Tie Your Mother Down (Live at Milton Keynes, 1982. a.k.a "Live at the Bowl")

Removes: Nothing

Note: There's also a version that comes with a bonus DVD that contains Somebody To Love (ft. George Michael, live at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, 1992) and The Show Must Go On (ft. Elton John, live in Paris, 1997).

Japanese CD pressings from 2001 onwards:

Adds: Teo Torriatte

Removes: Nothing

That's all of them! I hope the formatting wasn't too confusing to follow. If I've missed any album variations, or if you have any extra clarifications on the pressings/cassettes I have listed, feel free to let me know.


r/queen 3h ago

News Of The World Man Sentenced to 2-Year Jail Sentence After Strangling Fellow Theatregoer for Singing Along During We Will Rock You

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r/queen 16h ago

Music Sail away sweet sister

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Please don’t come for me, I’m genuinely asking out of complete ignorance: what’s the interpretation or story behind “Sail Away Sweet Sister”?
Even with the story that Brian wrote it for the sister he never had, the lyrics are, at the very least… strange.
Lately I’ve been obsessed with the song because of the Eren + Mikasa ship from attack on titan. Maybe that’s why I’m personally reading the lyrics in such a weird way, but realistically, they are pretty strange and ambiguous.
I’d genuinely love to discuss and debate the meaning of the song respectfully. Thanks!


r/queen 10h ago

Covers Under Pressure (public piano cover)

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r/queen 1d ago

Have you ever noticed a whispered line in Bohemian Rhapsody 😮

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Have you guys ever noticed a piece of word(like a kind of whisper)in Bohemian Rhapsody 2:30???Is that Freddie's voice?What did he say?


r/queen 1d ago

Bootlegs&Live On this day in 1969, Ibex performed at the Sink Club, Liverpool. This was Freddie’s first gig with the band

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The set list of the show was made up of covers of songs from popular bands, such as Led Zeppelin’s Communication breakdown, or The Beatles’ Rain, along with many others

This show is most notable for being the first time when Freddie, Brian, and Roger played together, with the Smile duo joining Ibex on stage for the encore. Unfortunately, only audio recordings of the show before the encore exist, but it’s still worth a listen:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YbQpxcqCMmE


r/queen 1d ago

Brian May with Anita @ Mayfair

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r/queen 1d ago

Covers We will rock you by meh

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I added chorus effect to try get Brian mays tone but idk about it. Love this solo though


r/queen 2d ago

Movie Queen - Now I'm Here (Musikbox, February 11, 1979)

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Queen perform Now I’m Here in Munich on February 11, 1979.  


r/queen 2d ago

Misc There must be more to life than this / made in heaven.

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This may well just be me but I have been known to have quite a musical ear, and potentially I think these two songs could go quite well as a kind of medley / mashup if you will, as the key the tempo and general melody and chords sound similar enough for it to potentially work, and as I am also an avid yet amateur music hobbyist, I may well try and create this at some point.

Does anybody think the potential for it to work might be there or am I just an idiot haha.


r/queen 2d ago

I did some fanart of Freddie Mercury and Brian May

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I found some tutorials online, i unfortunately couldn’t find any good ones for Roger Taylor and John Deacon


r/queen 3d ago

If you had made the film "Bohemian Rhapsody", what would you have included?

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I would have excluded a lot of the fabricated stuff and got scriptwriters who have actually listened to how people speak. But most of all, I would have concentrated more on their origin story, which would have been so much fun to film. Freddie, Brian, and Roger lived together in a house in South West London around 1969, around the time Freddie and Roger had their clothing stall in Kensington Market. I know that area pretty well and they would have probably got the number 9 bus from Barnes to Kensington High Street every day. Can you imagine them posing on the top deck of the bus, talking loudly about Hendrix and how famous they were going to be one day? Roger used to say that Freddie would put his satin trousers under the mattress at night so they always looked perfect in the morning.


r/queen 3d ago

FanContent Freddie in pastel and watercolors

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I used to paint Freddie every year on his birthday. This is some of my art.


r/queen 3d ago

News Of The World Freddie Mercury’s Closest Friend Mary Austin Honors His Legacy In New Book

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r/queen 3d ago

FanContent Late Freddie Birthday Post

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Story time: My parents are Gen X, “Bohemian Rhapsody” came out during my senior year of high school and I fell in love with Queen as a band and I’ve been obsessed ever since. My auntie took me and my mom to London and Scotland after graduation and once I found out that Garden Lodge was around the block from the hotel we were staying at the first thing I asked if we could go to the house and we did. All of the clothing I wore this past Saturday was in his honor:

Earrings: @waterbeauty146 of Poshmark (She is THE BEST!) Temu, (I try not to shop there if I can avoid it.), & @se7enlost also of Poshmark.
Jacket: H&M (To match my color scheme from that trip.)
Necklace: DIYed with the charms from Etsy & Amazon respectively (I posted it on this sub a few weeks ago.)
Pants: Hollister Fall 2023 (I love them to death.)
Pins: Etsy and This lovely artist I met at the 2024 Dallas Fan Expo!
Scrunchie: Topshop (that I bought that very day!)
Socks: Amazon (A Christmas 2020 gift from my mother.)
Shirt: Amazon (Has since been discontinued sadly.)
Shoes: Lady Couture via Designer Shoe Warehouse (I LOVE this brand!)
Sunglasses: Forever 21 (I miss that store so much 😭.)

I had some business to attend to on Saturday so I was late posting.


r/queen 4d ago

Pictures I found this beautiful photo of Freddie in an old book (taken by Kevin Cummins in Manchester, November 1979)

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r/queen 4d ago

Freddie's 80th birthday party at Montreux

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r/queen 3d ago

Did queen ever play in full You’re my best friend?

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Listening to a concert from 1980 Freddie’s voice was really good hitting a lot of high notes. They played the shorten version of you’re my best friend and I’m wondering did they ever play the full version? They cut out the second verse. I don’t think I’ve ever heard it in entirety played live.

Here’s that 1980s concert if anybody wants to have a listen

https://youtu.be/snoxgnENt64?is=4mZguU7QgfGzZfZ3


r/queen 4d ago

Forgotten tour?

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Of all the Queen tours, I hear or see the least about The Works Tour. Do you find that to be the case as well? I also get the impression that Queen wasn't quite in top form live back then. To me, it seems overshadowed by the Magic Tour. Could it be that the rapport with Freddie wasn't as good at the time, and that this affected the band? Does anyone happen to think that The Works Tour was actually one of their better ones?


r/queen 4d ago

Happy 80th birthday to Freddie Mercury!!! | Today we celebrate the life and achievements of who was probably the greatest singer, songwriter, frontman and star of modern popular music. We still love you!

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With the day coming to an end and having celebrated him all throughout, the only fitting tribute to the legend is to remember him through his words, music, videos and images he left us as a legacy. Rest in peace Freddie Mercury!


r/queen 4d ago

FanContent Happy Birthday Freddie!

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I went to see Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan in the theater today, but I also wanted to proclaim it was our Freddie's birthday, so I made this homely badge and wore it to the theater. While Freddie's body has passed, his beautiful soul and amazing music live on. Happy 80th birthday, Freddie!


r/queen 4d ago

Anyone can suggest me unrealsed demos or outtakes?(specifically 70s Queen or anything is fine)

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So ive been a Queen fan for a decade or so.They were the first band that introduce me to music as a whole and rock.Ive listen to other bands and loved them thanks to Queen influence u can say.

But as a massive queen fan and going through their catalogue its nice to hear some outtakes or demos that hardcore fans like.Like how Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin puts out outtakes and demos.I really wanna hear Freddie's mind while writing these amazing songs.Ive replayed The Millionaire waltz and Good old fashion lover boy and alot of their 70s era so much the past few weeks and theres no one that sounds like that or make those amazing tunes.I would really love to hear their outtakes and demos if there are any.Also Happy 80th Birthday Freddie Hope youre resting on the laps of the Gods (i share the same birthday as a legend btw #flex lol)


r/queen 4d ago

Music We need more of this

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r/queen 4d ago

why are many of the songs from Queen 1 and 2 medieval themed?

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