QUEEN WE WILL ROCK U+WE ARE CHAMPIONS ORIG'77 WHITE PROMO-ONLY MONO 12"

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·       QUEEN featuring FREDDIE MERCURY- WE WILL ROCK YOU / WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS  (TWO OF QUEEN'S GREATEST HITS ON THE SAME 12" SINGLE) - INCREDIBLY RARE ORIGINAL 1978 *** MONO & STEREO *** 12-INCH SINGLE 12-77DJ (MONO VERSIONS ON ONE SIDE; STEREO VERSIONS ON THE OTHER)

·       ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

·       *** WHITE LABEL PROMO ***

·       ORIGINAL ELEKTRA LABEL, LATE '70s 12" VERSION; WHITE PROOMOTIONAL VERSION.

·       INSANELY RARE MONO PRESSING

·       THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.S. PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

·       CLEAN, WEAR-FREE LABELS

·       FAIRLY THICK VINYL PRESSING On the scale from 1 to 10 (1 being the least, and  10 being the most severe), we assess the thickness of the vinyl as 7.

·       THE DISC COMES IN PLAIN WHITE, GENERIC 12" SLEEVE WITHOUT ANY GRAPHICS OR ARTWORK

·       MONO versions of these two songs have NEVER been available on legitimate Compact Disc or in any other digital format.

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For Queen's 1977 release News of the World, the band decided to scale down on the over-the-top approach that was featured on their previous two albums -- A Day at the Races and A Night at the Opera. The result was one of the quartet's most direct-sounding and hardest-rocking albums since their self-titled debut four years earlier, and spawned two of Queen's most recognizable hits -- "We Will Rock You" and "We Are the Champions" -- which open up the album back to back. There was little to compare guitarist Brian May's minimalist composition "We Will Rock You" to (perhaps only Gary Glitter's "Rock and Roll"), which featured only vocals and percussion for the majority of the song's duration, except for a guitar solo at the end. The band felt that they needed to pen a rallying cry for their fans that would take on a new life in concert, and they succeeded with one of rock's all-time great and enduring compositions. The song's continuous stomping beat was custom made for fans in an arena, which later led to the song being a favorite at sporting events around the world (especially at football, baseball, hockey, and basketball games in the U.S.). The song was also reworked as a fast-paced and more conventional rock number that served as a concert opener for several of Queen's late-'70s/early-'80s tours (featured on 1979's Live Killers), but the original version remains the better-known of the two by far.

Along with "We Will Rock You," Queen's "We Are the Champions" remains among rock's most recognizable anthems. It's nearly impossible to go to a sporting event and not hear either one of the tracks blaring through the sound system and excited fans clapping and singing along. The two songs have always been paired together -- they were the opening two tracks on 1977's News of the World, were issued together as a worldwide Top Ten single the same year, and were performed together in concert by the band as a triumphant show closer. The song was composed by Freddie Mercury, which alternates between gentle piano playing and bombastic rock, containing one of the grandest choruses the band ever came up with. The song has also appeared in motion pictures over the years, most notably at the conclusion of the hilarious 1984 comedy Revenge of the Nerds, and was sung by one of Mercury's heroes, Liza Minnelli, at the conclusion of a Freddie Mercury tribute concert at Wembley Stadium in 1992. Of all their hits, "We Are the Champions," remains one of Queen's most enduring tracks.

 (EXCERPT FROM AN ONLINE REVIEW BY GREG PRATO, ALL MUSIC GUIDE  /ALLMUSIC.COM/)

THE WHITE LABEL PROMO, RADIO STATION-, AUDITION OR DEMONSTRATION COPIES AND RELEASES (such as the one we have here) were often distributed to the radio stations before the record was released to the public, sometimes as much as four months ahead. These records are generally considered to be the "first among equals": the VERY FIRST generation and the VERY FIRST pressings of the particular title; a PROTOTYPE and the earliest known official pressing of the record.

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·                               CONDITION:

·                               RECORD

(IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted, ALL records are graded visually, and NOT play-graded!; we  grade records under the strong, diffuse room light or discrete sunlight)

(a)          WE GRADE THE VINYL  AS  NEAR MINT. Some VERY LIGHT AND SUPERFICIAL abrasions – mostly sleeve scuffs -  are (barely) visible, but are probably inaudible,  and do not affect visual integrity or beauty of the vinyl. The original luster is very much intact, and the vinyl shines and sparkles almost like new.

(b)            The record is pressed on a RELATIVELY  thick, inflexible vinyl. This is NOT a thin, flimsy ('dynaflex' type),  vinyl, but not the thickest, most rigid vinyl, either.

(c)           Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording!!!

·       COVER

THE RECORD COMES IN PLAIN, WHITE, GENERIC 12" SLEEVE, NOT SEPARATELY GRADED BUT IN A VERY NICE CONDITION OVERALL (TITLE WRITTEN IN BLACK AND RED MARKER ON ONE SIDE)

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