![]() Special packaging is a deluxe lacquered wooden case realised in burgundy gloss with the Queen Crest in gold foil. Co-produced by Roy Thomas Baker and Queen, it was the most expensive album ever recorded at the time of its release. An additional 18k solid gold version is available in 15 FP and 4 RB. A Night at the Opera is the fourth studio album by Queen, released in November 1975. The edition size refers to the 5:55 length of Bohemian Rhapsody – among the longest tracks ever to achieve a #1 chart position. The pen’s core is made of resin to enable enamel detailing.Īvailable in sterling silver with gold plate and a crown studded with blue sapphires, rubies and diamonds, the edition comprises 555 fountain pens (piston-fed, 18k gold nib with Queen Crest engraving in F, M, B) and 555 rollerballs. ![]() Numerous other design features reference Freddie Mercury’s iconic stage presence – etched into legend by Queen’s 1985 performance at Wembley Stadium for Live Aid. With Queen back on the tip of people's tongues (thanks to a new biopic and upcoming tour), we decided to take a look back at the making of A. At the time, it was the most expensive record ever made with a production budget of 40,000, that’s akin to over 250,000 today. The album’s cover art features the legendary Queen Crest – a logo designed by Freddie Mercury that we have reproduced around the barrel using lost-wax casting. In 1975, the band released their seminal record, A Night At The Opera. The song, Bohemian Rhapsody, was released in 1975 on the album A Night at the Opera. Queen were a massive presence in the seventies and eighties, but have always remained strong, thanks to a catalogue of songs with deep foundations in popular culture – from sport ( We Are the Champions) to gender identity ( I Want to Break Free) and Wayne’s World. Queen were straining at the boundaries of hard rock and heavy metal on Sheer Heart Attack, but they broke down all the barricades on A Night at the Opera, a self-consciously ridiculous and overblown hard rock masterpiece. Now on streaming services, Bohemian Rhapsody has been a sensation with millennial and Generation Z audiences – while giving mature music fans plenty of reason to feel nostalgic and proud of their own cultural legacy. 1 Death on Two Legs (Dedicated To) 2 Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon. ![]() Queen has been riding a wave of renewed popularity since the release of the blockbuster biopic last October. Following the box-office and Oscars success of Bohemian Rhapsody, Montegrappa’s newest Icons Series edition is Queen: A Night at the Opera L.E.Ĭreated with Universal Music’s merchandising arm, Bravado, in collaboration with Queen founding members, Brian May and Roger Taylor, the new line will be ready to ship by end of June 2019. ![]()
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