The DVD and SD Blu-Ray versions also contain two special bonus features – Looking Back At The Odeon, a brand new 22-minute documentary featuring a previously unseen interview with Brian May and Roger Taylor by Old Grey Whistle Test presenter Bob Harris about the 1975 Hammersmith Odeon show, plus the rarely seen Live At The Budokan – Japan 1975 footage, featuring three songs (“Now I'm Here”, “Killer Queen” and “In The Lap Of The Gods… Revisited”) recorded during their legendary tour of the Far East. The CD, DVD & Blu-Ray package features the band’s full live show, complete with a never heard before ‘second encore’ of “Seven Seas Of Rhye” and “See What A Fool I've Been”. This show was a culmination of the 26-date Queen Invite You To A Night At The Opera UK tour and the first tour that they had ever performed “Bohemian Rhapsody” on.Īn unboxing video for the Super Deluxe Box Set edition can be seen below:

Queen’s A Night At The Odeon, Live At Hammersmith ’75, is set for release on CD (Hollywood Records), and DVD & Blu-Ray (Eagle Rock Entertainment) on November 20th. Well that’s what we’re putting out and we’re not changing it.” And “Bohemian Rhapsody”, in particular, everyone said, ‘you can’t put that out as a single’. We took a lot of risks and that was always the name of the game, I suppose. If that album (A Night At The Opera) hadn’t done what it did, that would have been the end of the band. Brian May, one of the finest guitarists in rock history, is joined InTheStudio by Queen drummer Roger Taylor in this classic rock interview for the 40th anniversary of this eclectic hard rock album which included: “Death On Two Legs”, “I’m In Love with My Car”, the progressive rock “The Prophet Song”, skiffle pub sing along “’39”, mainstream pop “You’re My Best Friend”, campy vaudeville “Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon”, Freddie Mercury’s drop dead gorgeous love song “Love Of My Life”, and the mock operetta song for the ages, “Bohemian Rhapsody”.īroke after three albums, Queen’s Brian May reveals to InTheStudio host Redbeard how desperate the band’s situation was, but also how determined they were to do it. Says host Redbeard: “It would be next to impossible to understate the importance of Queen’s November 1975 A Night At The Opera, both to the band’s career and to the album’s influence on rock thereafter. North American syndicated rock radio show and website, InTheStudio: The Stories Behind History’s Greatest Rock Bands, speaks to Queen songwriters, guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor, about the make or break fourth album from Queen, A Night At The Opera.

A night at the opera studio