Freddie Mercury, Brian May, John Deacon and Roger Taylor are among the most creative, innovative and influential artists in music history. They developed a typical, distinctive sound and surprised again with an up to now unmatched variety of styles. Bombastic and perfectionist, they played hard hitting rock, built a classical elements with outrageous choral passages, written large stadium anthems as well as soulful ballads, rock and roll, pop and even surprised with funk and dance influences. Since 1973 published Queen officially 16 studio albums, 4 Greatest Hits / compilation album and 4 live albums. In the UK charts they cracked the Top 5 with 20 albums and 9 of them they managed the No. 1 Queen have sold over 120 million albums worldwide and covered with over 40 hit singles, the top places in the international charts. Queen were also a fantastic live band and at every tour they thrilled the audience with the most spectacular and most successful show of its time. "The Platinum Collection" from 2000 is a box set consisting of the already published 3 greatest hits albums. CD 1: 1981 "Greatest Hits" contains 17 songs and has a playing time of 58:27 minutes. This album was UK no. 1 has already been awarded in England with 11x platinum and, with worldwide more than 25 million copies sold of the most successful albums ever! It gather here all their great hit singles from 1974-1980 ... every song is a gem! CD 2: 1991 "Greatest Hits II" contains 17 songs and has a playing time of 75:57 minutes (UK 1 / 8x platinum). These are all important singles beginning with 1981 produced "Under Pressure" to "The Show Must Go On" from 1991. Outstanding music and all these songs Queen fantastic, very elaborate homemade video clips that have cult status today. CD 3: 1999 "Greatest Hits III" contains 17 songs and has a playing time of 73:49 minutes (UK 5 / Platinum). This CD is + appeared under the band name Queen, because not only interpreted by Queen songs are included on it but also Queen + befriended artists such as Elton John, David Bowie, George Michael and Wyclef Jean. These solo works of Freddie Mercury and Brian May and Freddie Mercury's grandiose duet "Barcelona" with Montserrat Caballé. From Queen are the singles "Las Palabras De Amor" (1982), "Princes Of The Universe" (1986), "These Are The Days Of Our Lives" (1991) plus 4 singles from the 1995 released album "Made In Heaven" represented , As encores then the beautiful Christmas single "Thank God It's Christmas" from 1984 and written by Brian May ballad "No-One But You (Only The Good Die Young)" from 1997, which is dedicated to all those who by tragic way be called too early from the earthly life as Diana, Princess of Wales, and of course Freddie Mercury ... This box set impressively documents the highlights of a glittering career. The music of Queen is of timeless good quality, will remain unmatched forever and discovered by the next generation, be appreciated and loved.
