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TEST PRESSINGS

Test pressings, often known as white label pressings, are copies produced from the masters by the pressing plants in tiny quantities of between ten and thirty copies. These test discs are then sent to the artists and record companies for approval before the main manufacturing is commenced.

These discs are very rare and much sought after by collectors as these are the working copies intended for the artists and label executives to check that the vinyl mastering process is true to the master tapes. The discs were not created for retail sale as part of a manufacturing run. They are genuine test pressings used at work in the industry by the artists and record labels.
QUEEN - TEAR IT UP IN TOKYO: ALL THE HITS FROM TOKYO

In 1985 Queen were at the top of their game as a live, stadium-filling act. This record features the live broadcast from the only night Queen played at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in 1985.

The show was at the end of The Works Tour, where the band were promoting the album of the same name. The set from this tour involved multiple levels based on a scene from Fritz Lang's Metropolis with huge rotating cogs backed by a brightly lit cityscape.

Track Listing:

Side 1

1. Tear It Up
2. Tie Your Mother Down
3. Keep Yourself Alive
4. Liar
5. Instrumental Inferno
Side 2

1. It's A Hard Life
2. Dragon Attack
3. Is This The World We Created
4. Love Of My Life
5. Bohemian Rhapsody

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