Queen ‎– Greatest Hits

Pop, Rock

Rock & Roll, Hard Rock, Arena Rock

1980

This grouping gathers the widely divergent array of variations and formats of Queen's phenomenally-successful first "Greatest Hits" album, originally released in November 1981. It is available on LP, cassette, 8-track, Reel-to-Reel, and of course, it was later re-issued on CD (1986 onwards) and MiniDisc (1998), some in typical remastered fashion.

Taking a strict "all killer, no filler" approach to song selection from the 1973 to 1980 period, the original UK version included 17 hits -- as do many other international editions (although some of these feature a bewilderingly different gallery of sleeve art).

Later editions, however, begun to include the 1981 hit "Under Pressure" as an 18th track while some international flavours also modified the song selection and sequence in favour of differing hits in those territories.

Simultaneous to the album release were the "Greatest Flix" video assemblage (grouped seperately) as well as the "Greatest Pix" book.

Needless to say, there are countless re-issues and bootleg/pirate/copycat versions of each.

Some could be grouped here but BEWARE of non-related items bearing no more than a similar title -- the North American versions from 1992, for instance, share nothing but the title, cover a different career period and belong in their own grouping.