Queen : Sheer Heart Attack

Sheer Heart Attack

 is the
 third studio album
 by the British
 rock band 
Queen
released on 
 November 8, 1974
 by EMI Records
 in the
 United Kingdom 
and by
 Elektra Records
 in the United States. 

Digressing from

 the progressive themes

 featured on their

 first two albums,

 this album featured

 more conventional 

rock tracks 

and marked a step

 towards the

 "classic" 

Queen sound.

 It was produced by

 the band 

and 

Roy Thomas Baker 

and launched 

Queen 

to mainstream

 popularity

 in both the UK

 and throughout 

the world.

The album's

 first single

 "Killer Queen"

 reached number 2

 in the British charts 

and provided them

 with their first

 top 20 hit

 in the US, 

peaking at number

 12 on the Billboard 

singles chart.

 Sheer Heart Attack 

was the first

 Queen 

album to hit

 the US top 20,

 peaking at

 number 12 

in 1975. 

The album has been

 acknowledged

 for containing

 a wealth of 

outstanding

 hard rock guitar tracks..

Retrospectively,

 it has been listed by

 multiple publications 

as one of the band's

 best works 

and has been

 deemed an

 essential

 glam rock album.

TRACK LIST 

Brighton Rock

Killer Queen

Tenement Funster

Flick of the Wrist

Lily of the Valley

Now I'm Here

In the Lap of the Gods

Stone Cold Crazy

Dear Friends

Misfire

Bring Back That Leroy Brown

She Makes Me (Storm trooper In Stilettos)

In the Lap of the Gods . . . Revisited

BONUS DISC 

Now I'm Here 

(Live At Hammersmith Odeon, December 1975)

Flick of the Wrist

 (BBC Session, October 1974)

Tenement Funster

 (BBC Session, October 1974)

Bring Back That Leroy Brown 

(A Cappella Mix 2011)

In the Lap of the Gods..Revisited

 (Live At Wembley Stadium, July 86)

Stone Cold Crazy 

(Live at The Rainbow ) 

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