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Title: The Platinum Collection: Greatest Hits I, II & III
Artist: Queen
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RRP: £19.99
Price: £14.58
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Seller: Amazon.co.uk
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Artist: Queen
Average Customer Review:
RRP: £19.99
Price: £14.58
You Save: £5.41 (27%)
Seller: Amazon.co.uk
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
Product Details:
Binding: Audio CD
Publisher: Parlophone/EMI
Publication Date:
Manufacturer: Parlophone/EMI
Package Dimensions: 1.1 x 5.4 x 5 inches
ReleaseDate: 2000-11-13
EditorialReview: What once seemed Queen's greatest liabilities--a preening flamboyance and pompous, overwrought theatricality--have ironically become their most enduring charms in a grey, postmodern pop-music landscape. While it eschews the glammy, pre-punk hard rock of live faves such as "Stone Cold Crazy" and "Tie Your Mother Down" for the band's more quirky club-beat string of latter-day hits , this 51-track triple-CD anthology goes a long way toward documenting the true dimensions of the band's music and fame. It even includes some solo work by Brian May and Freddie Mercury, whose duet on "Barcelona" with diva Montserrat Caballé transcends boundaries of both time and genre. A previously unreleased live performance of "The Show Must Go On" featuring Elton John on vocals is also included. --Jerry McCulley
Disc: 1
Track 1: Bohemian Rhapsody
Track 2: Another One Bites The Dust
Track 3: Killer Queen
Track 4: Fat Bottomed Girls
Track 5: Bicycle Race
Track 6: You're My Best Friend
Track 7: Don't Stop Me Now
Track 8: Save Me
Track 9: Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Track 10: Somebody To Love
Track 11: Now I'm Here
Track 12: Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy
Track 13: Play The Game
Track 14: Flash
Track 15: Seven Seas Of Rhye
Track 16: We Will Rock You
Track 17: We Are The Champions
Disc: 2
Track 18: Kind of magic
Track 19: Under pressure
Track 20: Radio ga ga
Track 21: I want it all
Track 22: I want to break free
Track 23: Innuendo
Track 24: It's a hard life
Track 25: Breakthru
Track 26: Who wants to live forever
Track 27: Headlong
Track 28: Miracle
Track 29: I'm going slightly mad
Track 30: Invisible man
Track 31: Hammer to fall
Track 32: Friends will be friends
Track 33: Show must go on
Track 34: One vision
Disc: 3
Track 35: Show must go on
Track 36: Under pressure
Track 37: Barcelona
Track 38: Too much love will kill you
Track 39: Somebody to love
Track 40: You don't fool me
Track 41: Heaven for everyone
Track 42: Las palabras de amor
Track 43: Driven by you
Track 44: Living on my own
Track 45: Let me live
Track 46: Great pretender
Track 47: Princess of Universe
Track 48: Another ones bites the dust
Track 49: No one but you
Track 50: These are the days of our lives
Track 51: Thank God it's Christmas
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Customer Id: A2TPNXLFS7T3QN 2008-07-14
Review Summary: Ageless music
Review Content: I have just got the box set recently, and have been enjoying it greatly. Not just that, my three daughters aged 9, 6 and 2 are great fans, and want to listen to it all the time in the car. And the two-year-old even says 'Rock' once she hears the first few bars of 'We will rock you'. Just goes on to show that Queen truly made ageless music, which still scores far above most contemporary music.
End of product details for - 'The Platinum Collection: Greatest Hits I, II & III'
Publisher: Parlophone/EMI
Publication Date:
Manufacturer: Parlophone/EMI
Package Dimensions: 1.1 x 5.4 x 5 inches
ReleaseDate: 2000-11-13
EditorialReview: What once seemed Queen's greatest liabilities--a preening flamboyance and pompous, overwrought theatricality--have ironically become their most enduring charms in a grey, postmodern pop-music landscape. While it eschews the glammy, pre-punk hard rock of live faves such as "Stone Cold Crazy" and "Tie Your Mother Down" for the band's more quirky club-beat string of latter-day hits , this 51-track triple-CD anthology goes a long way toward documenting the true dimensions of the band's music and fame. It even includes some solo work by Brian May and Freddie Mercury, whose duet on "Barcelona" with diva Montserrat Caballé transcends boundaries of both time and genre. A previously unreleased live performance of "The Show Must Go On" featuring Elton John on vocals is also included. --Jerry McCulley
Track List:
Disc: 1
Track 1: Bohemian Rhapsody
Track 2: Another One Bites The Dust
Track 3: Killer Queen
Track 4: Fat Bottomed Girls
Track 5: Bicycle Race
Track 6: You're My Best Friend
Track 7: Don't Stop Me Now
Track 8: Save Me
Track 9: Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Track 10: Somebody To Love
Track 11: Now I'm Here
Track 12: Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy
Track 13: Play The Game
Track 14: Flash
Track 15: Seven Seas Of Rhye
Track 16: We Will Rock You
Track 17: We Are The Champions
Disc: 2
Track 18: Kind of magic
Track 19: Under pressure
Track 20: Radio ga ga
Track 21: I want it all
Track 22: I want to break free
Track 23: Innuendo
Track 24: It's a hard life
Track 25: Breakthru
Track 26: Who wants to live forever
Track 27: Headlong
Track 28: Miracle
Track 29: I'm going slightly mad
Track 30: Invisible man
Track 31: Hammer to fall
Track 32: Friends will be friends
Track 33: Show must go on
Track 34: One vision
Disc: 3
Track 35: Show must go on
Track 36: Under pressure
Track 37: Barcelona
Track 38: Too much love will kill you
Track 39: Somebody to love
Track 40: You don't fool me
Track 41: Heaven for everyone
Track 42: Las palabras de amor
Track 43: Driven by you
Track 44: Living on my own
Track 45: Let me live
Track 46: Great pretender
Track 47: Princess of Universe
Track 48: Another ones bites the dust
Track 49: No one but you
Track 50: These are the days of our lives
Track 51: Thank God it's Christmas
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Customer Reviews:
0 out of 0 people found the following review helpfulCustomer Id: A2TPNXLFS7T3QN 2008-07-14 Review Summary: Ageless music
Review Content: I have just got the box set recently, and have been enjoying it greatly. Not just that, my three daughters aged 9, 6 and 2 are great fans, and want to listen to it all the time in the car. And the two-year-old even says 'Rock' once she hears the first few bars of 'We will rock you'. Just goes on to show that Queen truly made ageless music, which still scores far above most contemporary music.
0 out of 0 people found the following review helpful
Customer Id: A2BTSHGCSCAYKJ 2008-06-29
Review Summary: A triumph!
Review Content: Every song is great and "Don't Stop me now" and "Save me" are especially good.Even my 14 year old son loves this set. I recommend this to any Queen Fan!
Customer Id: A2BTSHGCSCAYKJ 2008-06-29 Review Summary: A triumph!
Review Content: Every song is great and "Don't Stop me now" and "Save me" are especially good.Even my 14 year old son loves this set. I recommend this to any Queen Fan!
0 out of 0 people found the following review helpful
Customer Id: A1BDK7XDWN2XGL 2008-05-08
Review Summary: fabulous
Review Content: i love every track in this box set! it's brilliant and a complete bargain. would definitely recommend it to people wanting to get some classics in their collection
Customer Id: A1BDK7XDWN2XGL 2008-05-08 Review Summary: fabulous
Review Content: i love every track in this box set! it's brilliant and a complete bargain. would definitely recommend it to people wanting to get some classics in their collection
3 out of 3 people found the following review helpful
Customer Id: A204A0NG84VI3M 2008-04-03
Review Summary: One of the best
Review Content: If this collection doesn't represent 5-star standard then nothing does, i understand that music is a personal experience but queen's music really does span all tastes and i've yet to meet anyone who's spoken a bad word against them. Freddie Mercury has been described by many and the best frontman of all time and there really is no arguement, his vocals are strong througout every song here and brian may's excellent guitar work is an added blessing. Not only is this collection full of great songs but it's also extremely good value. Music rarely gets better than this and maybe never will again.
Customer Id: A204A0NG84VI3M 2008-04-03 Review Summary: One of the best
Review Content: If this collection doesn't represent 5-star standard then nothing does, i understand that music is a personal experience but queen's music really does span all tastes and i've yet to meet anyone who's spoken a bad word against them. Freddie Mercury has been described by many and the best frontman of all time and there really is no arguement, his vocals are strong througout every song here and brian may's excellent guitar work is an added blessing. Not only is this collection full of great songs but it's also extremely good value. Music rarely gets better than this and maybe never will again.
2 out of 2 people found the following review helpful
Customer Id: A2BKE4MYBS3F5E 2008-03-27
Review Summary: Bow down to Rock Royalty!!
Review Content: The best, most flamboyant, most spectacular, most amazing rock group ever!! Queen are just brilliant. In Freddie Mercury, they had a frontman who had it all. He could command the stage like no one else, had a voice that was so incredible, a style that was so unique, and a talent that can never be dimmed. Brian May is a guitar genius, able to make the instrument speak, and being a good vocalist in his own right. John Deacon is brilliant on bass, and Roger Taylor a diva on the drums, each member stamping his own individuality on the band. Their music is so intense, so haunting, so fantastic, so QUEEN!! This band are THE Royalty of Rock, and as such, deserve all the homage that is offerred to them. They rock,their music rocks, they certainly rock my world, and I'm sure that everyone who listens to them will find their own world rocked too. God Save Queen!!
Customer Id: A2BKE4MYBS3F5E 2008-03-27 Review Summary: Bow down to Rock Royalty!!
Review Content: The best, most flamboyant, most spectacular, most amazing rock group ever!! Queen are just brilliant. In Freddie Mercury, they had a frontman who had it all. He could command the stage like no one else, had a voice that was so incredible, a style that was so unique, and a talent that can never be dimmed. Brian May is a guitar genius, able to make the instrument speak, and being a good vocalist in his own right. John Deacon is brilliant on bass, and Roger Taylor a diva on the drums, each member stamping his own individuality on the band. Their music is so intense, so haunting, so fantastic, so QUEEN!! This band are THE Royalty of Rock, and as such, deserve all the homage that is offerred to them. They rock,their music rocks, they certainly rock my world, and I'm sure that everyone who listens to them will find their own world rocked too. God Save Queen!!