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ORIGINAL OWNER, OPENED OUTER PACKAGING ONLY TO ENSURE COLLECTION WAS INTACT.
NEVER PLAYED - BRAND NEW CONDITION AS ORIGINALLY SHIPPED IN 2015, ONLY INDIVIDUAL LP's AND BOOK WERE SEALED WITHIN THE HEAVY DUTY GOLD BOX, THEN OUTER BLACK COVER SLIPS OVER IT. WILL BE SHIPPED IN ORIGINAL PACKAGING AS WELL.
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***FIRST PRESSING RELEASED SEPTEMBER 25, 2015***

ALL 15 HIT STUDIO ALBUMS SOURCED FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES (18 LP's TOTAL)

CAT# D002232801 (UK/US Version)

Barcode (Scanned): 0050087328832
Barcode (Text): 0 50087 32883 2

MASTERED BY BOB LUDWIG

HALF-SPEED LACQUERS CUT AT ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS

PRESSED ON HEAVYWEIGHT 180 GRAM COLORED VINYL WITH A LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED 108 PAGE HARDBACK BOOK

'Queen II' originally never had a designated 'A side' or 'B side' - but 'Side White' and 'Side Black'. For this new edition, the album has been cut on two separate discs, black and white, each with a custom etching on the reverse side, a nice bonus for collectors.

The collection has been five years in the making. Throughout this time Queen's production team has worked extensively on all stages of this painstaking mastering process. The first step was the tape research; locating and confirming the correct versions and best sources for all tracks. Most notably, Under Pressure, plus five tracks on the 'Innuendo' album, were improved hugely after the discovery of better sources during this period. Particular attention was paid to the original releases to ensure that nothing was lost or changed for the worse by reverting to earlier sources.

Originally, the final two albums 'Innuendo' and 'Made In Heaven' were actually formatted primarily with the CD in mind, with a longer running time, so the contents had to be edited down to fit them on to the two sides of a vinyl album. Now, especially for this edition, for the first time, these two albums have been cut at full length as double vinyl LP's - four sides each making up a vinyl set that is complete in every way.

The 18 vinyl LP box set comes with a lavishly illustrated 12 x 12 inch 108-page hardback book which features introductions to each album, quotes from Queen themselves, hand-written lyrics, rare photographs, memorabilia, and information on singles and videos - all made possible with unlimited access to Queen's own archive plus the personal archives of Brian May, Roger Taylor and some generous fans.

Queen
Queen II *
Sheer Heart Attack
A Night at the Opera
A Day at the Races
News of the World
Jazz
The Game
Flash Gordon
Hot Space
The Works
A Kind of Magic
The Miracle
Innuendo
Made in Heaven

* 2 discs special edition exclusive to the box set

Notes on the individual albums:

Queen - Lyrics on inner sleeve, Purple vinyl.
Queen II - Gatefold sleeve with separate White and Black lyric inner sleeves, double vinyl - White and Black single sided vinyls to match the "sides" (they weren't originally labelled A and B sides, just White and Black sides), with etched reverses.
Sheer Heart Attack - Lyrics on inner sleeve, Red vinyl.
A Night At The Opera - Gatefold sleeve with embossed front crest and picture inner sleeve, White vinyl.
A Day At The Races - Gatefold sleeve with die cut picture inner sleeve, Black vinyl.
News Of The World - Gatefold sleeve with lyric/picture inner sleeve, Green vinyl.
Jazz - Gatefold sleeve with embossed JAZZ on front and rear, picture inner sleeve and nude bicycle race poster with lyrics on reverse, Pink vinyl.
The Game - Lyric/picture inner sleeve, Silver vinyl.
Flash Gordon - Die cut lyric/picture inner sleeve, Yellow vinyl.
Hot Space - Lyric/picture inner sleeve, Blue vinyl.
The Works - Lyric inner sleeve, Red vinyl.
A Kind Of Magic - Gatefold sleeve with lyric/picture inner sleeve, Orange vinyl.
The Miracle - Lyric/picture inner sleeve, Blue-Green vinyl.
Innuendo - Gatefold sleeve with lyric/picture inner sleeves, double vinyl with full track lengths as released on CD version, Blue and Purple vinyls.
Made In Heaven - Gatefold sleeve with lyric inner sleeves and three posters, double vinyl with full track lengths as released on CD version, Blue and Clear vinyls.

Description of set:
The set is housed in a gold colored box with a flip-open lid. The box has the Queen name in logo form on the front and STUDIO COLLECTION just beneath, along with the Queen crest near the bottom.
This box comes in an outer slip case, this time black with the same design in gold on the front with a gold border. The rear shows the package contents, the sides list the LP names (and a bar code on one side).
All the LP's come with printed inner sleeves as well as poly lined protective inner sleeves. The LP's themselves are also in individual cellophane covers.
The hardback book is the same size as an LP, although thicker of course, with black cover and gold logo / text / crest.