Queen II

by Queen

Queen II cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 8 March 1974
  • Label: EMI
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 40:43
  • Community rating: 3.8/5 from 10 ratings

Artists on this release: Brian May, Roger Taylor, Freddie Mercury, John Deacon

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Splitting their wildly ambitious sophomore album into a 'White Side' and a 'Black Side', Queen significantly expanded their dense, choir-heavy metallic sound. 'Queen II' is an incredibly epic, fiercely energetic progressive hard rock triumph, overflowing with wonderfully melodic, deeply passionate fairy-tale fantasy and remarkably intricate, highly poetic vocal layering.

Genres

Descriptors: fantasy, melodic, progressive, operatic, bombastic

Tracklist

  1. Procession (1:13)
  2. Father To Son (6:13)
  3. White Queen (As It Began) (4:33)
  4. Some Day One Day (4:22)
  5. The Loser In The End (4:01)
  6. Ogre Battle (4:08)
  7. The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke (2:40)
  8. Nevermore (1:18)
  9. The March Of The Black Queen (6:32)
  10. Funny How Love Is (2:49)
  11. Seven Seas Of Rhye (2:48)

Credits

  • Queen - primary artist, design concept [sleeve concept], producer
  • John Deacon - bass guitar, acoustic guitar
  • Roy Thomas Baker - castanets [virtuoso], producer
  • Mick Rock - design concept [sleeve concept], photography by, art direction
  • Mike Stone - engineer
  • Brian May - guitar, piano, vocals, bells, written-by
  • Jack Nelson - management
  • Roger Taylor - percussion, vocals, written-by
  • Robin Geoffrey Cable - producer
  • Ridgeway Watt - typography
  • Freddie Mercury - vocals, piano, harpsichord, written-by

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