The highest quality pressing, will serve you well for a long time and give you so much pleasure for the outlay. The album consisted of Queen's biggest hits since their first chart appearance in 1974 with " Seven Seas of Rhye", up to their 1980 hit " Flash" (though in some countries " Under Pressure", the band's 1981 chart-topper with David Bowie, was included). As one person said to me once when asked what music I liked and I replied 'Queen' they're response was, 'everyone likes Queen', I don't think they were wrong. Curiously, America didn't receive the album, though Hollywood Records were assembling its own collection, a variation of this album. Although Greatest Flix only listed 17 videos on its sleeve, it contained two videos for "We Will Rock You".

In 1991, Queen sought to issue a second Greatest Hits collection worldwide, this time with a standard track listing. In the US, the release of Greatest Flix was scheduled for 15 November 1981 on Warner Home Video, but distribution was switched to EMI Music after the band's management disagreed with Warner's recent decision to move to a rental-only programme instead of selling their videos. Commonly referred to as the Red Greatest Hits, it features most of the '70s tracks absent from Classic Queen (including " Another One Bites the Dust", "We Will Rock You", "We Are the Champions" and " Killer Queen"). This is the first time that one of the Top Ten biggest selling albums of all time in the UK’s cover has been re-worked.The album was not initially available in the United States and was later replaced with its counterpart Classic Queen in early 1992 to capitalize on the band's comeback in the country following the inclusion of Bohemian Rhapsody in Wayne's World.

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Though well received, this collection would eventually pose the problem of overlapping track lists in the future. This the first is a series of full length releases celebrating Queen's 40th Anniversary, is a must have for any Queen fan, chock-full of 17 hits. Greatest Hits II is a compilation album by the British rock band Queen, released on 28 October 1991. By 2006, Greatest Hits had become the best-selling album in the UK and the first album to sell more than five million copies there.

Later that year, Hollywood Records released a companion collection, Greatest Hits, with similar artwork (on a red background, where Classic Queen was on royal blue). It is the seventh best-selling album in Germany, [5] the thirteenth best-selling album in France, [6] and the best-selling album by a foreign artist in Finland. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners. Unlike its predecessor, the tracklist remained unanimous around the world – no variations were offered based on the territory. Hollywood Records decided not to release Greatest Hits II to the US market, but instead created their own collection, Classic Queen (1992), peaking at number four on the Billboard 200 chart.In the UK, Greatest Hits debuted at number two on the UK Albums Chart and climbed to number one the following week, spending four weeks at the top. The Show Must Go On was a perfect career summation for the band, though no one knew at the time it would be the last single released in Freddie's lifetime. In Argentina and Brazil, the LP edition included the same track listing as the UK Greatest Hits, minus " Seven Seas of Rhye" and including "Love of My Life" ( Live Killers version). Following the release of the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody in 2018, it re-entered the charts worldwide. In 1992, the US version of the album Classic Queen was released following the band's rekindled popularity in the nation.