Queen - Sheer Heart Attack LP album, first UK pressing, excellent
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Queen - Sheer Heart Attack LP album, 1974, EMC 3061, stereo, first UK pressing. Garrod and Lofthouse cover and inner sleeve. Matrix codes, side 1: YAX 4881-4U TML-M (stamped). Side 2: YAX 4882-4U.
Cover in excellent condition, see photos. Spine in excellent condition, fully legible.
Record in printed lyric inner sleeve. There are small initials (BRS) hand written in blue ink, top right corner of one side. There is a 50 mm split to the centre bottom of the inner sleeve.
Record and both labels in excellent condition, just the faintest of spindle marks on side 2. Record plays perfectly flat and with some light surface noise between tracks.
The record will be packed and posted very well protected. I have been buying and treasuring LP records for about 40 years now so I do my best to make sure every LP arrives in the condition it left me.
I will be listing other Queen albums shortly. Any questions please ask. Note I will not post to the Russian Federation.
Queen’s third studio album, was recorded between July and September 1974, at four different studios in England and Wales (Trident, Wessex, Rockfield and Air). It was produced by Queen and Roy Thomas Baker, with the ever dependable Mike Stone as engineer.
Somewhat of a departure from the first two albums, Sheer Heart Attack had much more of a group feel about it, a coherence not possible to achieve previously because of the erratic way in which its predecessors were recorded. The first album, for example, was famously recorded in ‘downtime’ with the band permitted to use Trident studios only when no one else was using it. This album by contrast was recorded without those distractions in more calm and orthodox conditions, and ultimately gave rise to a strong and greatly diverse piece of work containing several of the band’s best loved classics. This was much more of an accomplishment than might be apparent, given that Brian May was absent from many sessions due to contracting Hepatitis while on tour in America in May and only being available to record his guitar and vocal parts relatively late in the proceedings. It was far from ideal, but none of this is evident on the final work, and more than three decades on the album remains a firm favourite among Queen devotees. It has consistently been voted in the top 5 favourite albums in fan poles.
Sheer Heart Attack is a more ‘pop’ orientated work than its two predecessors, and indeed Killer Queen was the song that provided the band with the international hit, and acclaim, that Seven Seas Of Rhye never quite achieved. Brian would later observe, 'For some strange reason we seemed to get a rather different feel on Sheer Heart Attack because of the way we were forced to record it (referring to his illness) and even allowing for all the problems we had, none of us were really displeased with the final result.' Roger Taylor, 'It's my favourite. It holds together very well. It's much more concise. It's very varied and dynamic. The different sounds were pleasing.'
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