The Platinum Collection (Queen album)

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The Platinum Collection
Box set by Queen
Released November 13, 2000 (UK)
September 24, 2002 (US)
Recorded 1973 - 1999
Genre Rock, progressive rock, hard rock, Heavy metal
Length 208:12
Label Parlophone (UK)
Hollywood Records (US)
Professional reviews
Queen chronology
Greatest Hits III
(1999)		 The Platinum Collection Queen on Fire - Live at the Bowl
(2004)

The Platinum Collection is a box set by Queen which comprises their three greatest hits albums, Greatest Hits, Greatest Hits II and Greatest Hits III. A booklet with song facts and images is also included with the three CD set. The album's US release was delayed until September of 2002 and featured the 2001 Japanese release remastered versions of Greatest Hits Volumes 1 and 2 on the US and Canadian versions of The Platinum Collection.

It is the highest charting box set in U.S. history.[1]

Contents

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Disc one: Greatest Hits

  1. "Bohemian Rhapsody" (Mercury) – 5:55
  2. "Another One Bites the Dust" (Deacon) – 3:36
  3. "Killer Queen" (Mercury) – 2:57
  4. "Fat Bottomed Girls" (May) – 4:16
  5. "Bicycle Race" (Mercury) – 3:01
    • From Jazz (1978)
  6. "You're My Best Friend" (Deacon) – 2:52
    • From A Night at the Opera (1975)
  7. "Don't Stop Me Now" (Mercury) – 3:29
    • From Jazz (1978)
  8. "Save Me" (May) – 3:48
    • From The Game (1980)
  9. "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" (Mercury) – 2:42
    • From The Game (1980)
  10. "Somebody to Love" (Mercury) – 4:56
  11. "Now I'm Here" (May) – 4:10
    • From Sheer Heart Attack (1974)
  12. "Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy" (Mercury) – 2:54
    • From A Day at the Races (1976)
  13. "Play the Game" (Mercury) – 3:33
    • From The Game (1980)
  14. "Flash" (May) – 2:48
  15. "Seven Seas of Rhye" (Mercury) – 2:47
  16. "We Will Rock You" (May) – 2:01
  17. "We Are the Champions" (Mercury) – 2:59
    • From News of the World (1977)

[edit] Disc two: Greatest Hits II

  1. "A Kind of Magic" (Taylor) – 4:22
  2. "Under Pressure" (Queen, Bowie) – 3:56
  3. "Radio Ga Ga" (Taylor) – 5:43
  4. "I Want It All" (Queen) – 4:01
  5. "I Want to Break Free" (Deacon) – 4:18
    • From The Works (1984)
  6. "Innuendo" (Queen) – 6:27
  7. "It's a Hard Life" (Mercury) – 4:09
    • From The Works (1984)
  8. "Breakthru" (Queen) – 4:09
    • From The Miracle (1989)
  9. "Who Wants to Live Forever" (May) – 4:57
    • From A Kind of Magic (1986)
  10. "Headlong" (Queen) – 4:33
    • From Innuendo (1991)
  11. "The Miracle" (Queen) – 4:54
    • From The Miracle (1989)
  12. "I'm Going Slightly Mad" (Queen) – 4:07
    • From Innuendo (1991)
  13. "The Invisible Man" (Queen) – 3:58
    • From The Miracle (1989)
  14. "Hammer to Fall" (May) – 3:40
    • From The Works (1984)
  15. "Friends Will Be Friends" (Mercury/Deacon) – 4:07
    • From A Kind of Magic (1986)
  16. "The Show Must Go On" (Queen) – 4:23
    • From Innuendo (1991)
  17. "One Vision" (Queen) – 4:02
    • From A Kind of Magic (1986)

[edit] Disc three: Greatest Hits III

  1. "The Show Must Go On" (Queen & Elton John) – 4:35
  2. "Under Pressure" (Queen & David Bowie) – 4:08
    • A remix of the original from Hot Space (1982)
  3. "Barcelona" (Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballé) – 4:25
  4. "Too Much Love Will Kill You" – 4:18
  5. "Somebody to Love" (George Michael & Queen) – 5:07
  6. "You Don't Fool Me" – 5:22
    • From Made in Heaven (1995)
  7. "Heaven for Everyone" – 4:37
    • From Made in Heaven (1995)
  8. "Las Palabras de Amor" – 4:29
    • From Hot Space (1982)
  9. "Driven by You" (Brian May) – 4:09
  10. "Living on My Own" (Freddie Mercury) – 3:37
  11. "Let Me Live" – 4:45
    • From Made in Heaven (1995)
  12. "The Great Pretender" (Freddie Mercury) – 3:26
    • From The Freddie Mercury Album (1992)
  13. "Princes of the Universe" – 3:31
    • From A Kind of Magic (1986)
  14. "Another One Bites the Dust" (Queen & Wyclef Jean) – 4:20
    • A remix of the original from The Game (1980)
  15. "No-One but You (Only the Good Die Young)" – 4:11
  16. "These Are the Days of Our Lives" – 4:22
    • From Innuendo (1991)
  17. "Thank God It's Christmas" – 4:19


[edit] References

  1. ^ Queen honoured with Hollywood star, BBC, 2002-10-18, <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2339131.stm> 
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