Первые пять альбомов великой группы – "Queen" (1973), "Queen II" (1974), "Sheer Heart Attack" (1974), "A Night at the Opera" (1975) и "A Day at the Races" (1976) – будут переизданы в марте этого года. В качестве "дополнительного контента" альбомы будут содержать бонусы: треки с би-сайдов сорокапяток и новые ремиксы.
It’s already been reported
that Queen are moving their back catalogue rights from longtime home
EMI to Universal Music Group – but a confirmation of those plans
revealed some more info about what the move entails.
A Reuters report
today confirmed that the move (which only applies outside America –
Disney’s Hollywood Records still controls the rights to the Queen
catalogue in the U.S.) has taken place, and also mentioned that
Universal, through the Island label, will remaster and reissue the Queen
discography for the band’s 40th anniversary.
The first five albums – Queen (1973), Queen II (1974), Sheer Heart Attack (1974), A Night at the Opera (1975) and A Day at the Races
(1976) – will comprise the first wave of reissues in March. According
to the report, "additional content” will be included on each set. (The
catalogue was reissued in the States by Hollywood in 1991 with B-sides
and new remixes as bonus tracks. A 30th anniversary CD/DVD edition of A Night at the Opera was released in 2005.)
