QUEEN Deep Cuts: Volume One 1973-1976 (2011 issue Japanese 14-track digitally remastered SHM-CD album [Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players] - Comprising a bespoke collection of hidden gems from their first five albums ['Queen','Queen II', 'Sheer Heart Attack', 'A Night At The Opera' & 'A Day At The Races'], specially chosen by Roger Taylor and Brian May in consultation with life-long fan, Taylor Hawkins [Foo Fighters], 'Volume One 1973-1976' showcases a less well-known side of the early Queen story and reveals some brilliant tracks to listeners looking to delve into the band's founding years' work for the first time. Challenging the traditional practises of the studios of the time, pioneering new methods of recording and refusing to use synthesisers, the band's unique sound was born out of their incredible individual talents and ingenuity. Breaking the mould with multiple vocal harmonies, multi-layered guitar harmonies, cross rhythms and multiple repeats, Queen would layer so many tracks onto recording tape as to render it literally translucent, their 15 hour studio sessions now the stuff of legend within the studio community. Complete with a booklet containing sleevenotes especially commissioned by Roger Taylor and Brian May from comedy actor and writer Rhys Thomas, an unlikely but unquestionable Queen fan and expert, who achieved the distinction of scoring the highest number of correct answers, on his chosen subject of Queen, in the history of Celebrity Mastermind. With a lyric booklet picture sleeve, Japanese booklet and 'Queen 40th Anniversary' obi-strip UICY-15014)