Fifty years ago, British rockers Queen released their self titled debut album.  On October 25, Queen fans will have the opportunity to get a remixed, remastered, and expanded version of the album.  The Collector’s Edition will include six CD’s, a vinyl LP, and a 108 page book.

A single vinyl album and CD; a 2CD Deluxe edition, a single LP Picture disc, and a cassette of the album will also be available.  Download and streaming versions will also be available.

The Collector’s Edition will feature a new tracklisting that will include alternative takes, demos, and live tracks.  The set includes 63 tracks – 43 of them new.  The remastered album restores the original song order and some “intimate fly-on-the-wall audio” in the studio.  The song “Mad the Swine” was not included in the original album release; but has been restored on the remastered album.

The new collection is a first for Queen since the band has never released a remastered album.

Queen guitarist Sir Brian May wrote on the new collection in the liner notes saying, “this is not just a remaster, this is a brand new 2024 rebuild of the entire Queen debut album, which, with the benefit of hindsight, we have re-titled QUEEN I.  All the performances are exactly as they originally appeared in 1973, but every instrument has been revisited to produce the ‘live’ ambient sounds we would have liked to use originally. The result is ‘Queen’ as it would have sounded with today’s knowledge and technology – a first. ‘Queen I’ is the debut album we always dreamed of bringing to you.”

The album went on to be certified gold for selling 100,000 copies by the RIAA – Recording Industry Association of America – in the United States.

Queen formed in 1970 with Freddie Mercury, Brian May, and Roger Taylor.  John Deacon joined the band in 1971.  Reminiscing on those early days, Roger Tayor said, “the first three years were really faith and fumes.  We were penniless but we had a lot of belief in ourselves and a lot of energy.”

QUEEN I Collector’s Edition (6CD+LP)
CD1: Queen I – 2024 Mix
1 Keep Yourself Alive
2 Doing All Right
3 Great King Rat
4 Mad The Swine
5 My Fairy King
6 Liar
7 The Night Comes Down
8 Modern Times Rock ‘n’ Roll
9 Son And Daughter
10 Jesus
11 Seven Seas Of Rhye…

CD2: De Lane Lea Demos – 2024 Mix
1 Keep Yourself Alive
2 The Night Comes Down
3 Great King Rat
4 Jesus
5 Liar

CD3: Queen I Sessions
1 Keep Yourself Alive (Trident Take 13 – Unused Master)
2 Doing All Right (Trident Take 1 – with Guide Vocal)
3 Great King Rat (De Lane Lea Take 1 – with Guide Vocal)
4 Mad The Swine (Trident Take 3 – with Guide Vocal)
5 My Fairy King (Trident Backing Track In Development)
6 Liar (Trident Take 1 – Unused Master)
7 The Night Comes Down (De Lane Lea Takes 1 & 2 – with Guide Vocal)
8 Modern Times Rock ‘n’ Roll (Trident Takes 8 & 9)
9 Son And Daughter (Trident Takes 1 & 2 – with Guide Vocal)
10 Jesus (De Lane Lea Take 2 – with Guide Vocal)
11 Seven Seas Of Rhye… (Trident Take 3)
12 See What A Fool I’ve Been (De Lane Lea Test Session)

CD4: Queen I Backing Tracks
1 Keep Yourself Alive
2 Doing All Right
3 Great King Rat
4 Mad The Swine
5 My Fairy King
6 Liar
7 The Night Comes Down
8 Modern Times Rock ‘n’ Roll
9 Son And Daughter
10 Jesus
11 Seven Seas Of Rhye…

CD5: Queen I At The BBC
1 My Fairy King (BBC Session 1, February 1973)
2 Keep Yourself Alive (BBC Session 1, February 1973)
3 Doing All Right (BBC Session 1, February 1973)
4 Liar (BBC Session 1, February 1973)
5 Keep Yourself Alive (BBC Session 2, July 1973)
6 Liar (BBC Session 2, July 1973)
7 Son And Daughter (BBC Session 2, July 1973)
8 Modern Times Rock ‘n’ Roll (BBC Session 3, December 1973)
9 Great King Rat (BBC Session 3, December 1973
10 Son And Daughter (BBC Session 3, December 1973
11 Modern Times Rock ‘n’ Roll (BBC Session 4, April 1974)

CD6: Queen I Live
1 Son And Daughter (Live at the Rainbow – March 1974)
2 Guitar Solo (Live at the Rainbow – March 1974)
3 Son And Daughter (Reprise) (Live at the Rainbow – March 1974)
4 Great King Rat (Live at the Rainbow – March 1974)
5 Keep Yourself Alive (Live at the Rainbow – March 1974)
6 Drum Solo (Live at the Rainbow – March 1974)
7 Keep Yourself Alive (Reprise) (Live at the Rainbow – March 1974)
8 Modern Times Rock ‘n’ Roll (Live at the Rainbow – March 1974)
9 Liar (Live at the Rainbow – March 1974)
10 Hangman (Live in San Diego – March 1976)
11 Doing All Right (Live in San Diego – March 1976)
12 Jesus (Live at Imperial College – August 1970)
13 I’m A Man (Live at Imperial College – August 1970)

LP: Queen I – 2024 Mix
Keep Yourself Alive
Doing All Right
Great King Rat
Mad The Swine
My Fairy King
Liar
The Night Comes Down
Modern Times Rock ‘n’ Roll
Son And Daughter
Jesus
Seven Seas Of Rhye…