Queen II

Recorded August 1973 at Trident Studios

UK release: Friday 8th March 1974

Highest Chart Position: 5 (29 weeks on chart)

Award status: Gold

USA release: 9th April 1974

Highest Chart Position: 49 (13 weeks on chart)

Hollywood rerelease (November 1991) digitally remastered by Eddy Schreyer.

Award status: Gold

Produced by Roy Thomas Baker, Robin Geoffrey Cable and Queen

Engineered by Mike Stone

Cover Concept by Mick Rock and Queen

Freddie Mercury : Vocals,Piano,Harpsichord

Brian May : Guitars,Piano,Vocals,Bells

John Deacon : Bass Guitar,Acoustic Guitar

Roger Meddows-Taylor : Percussion,Vocals

Virtuoso castanets by Roy Thomas Baker

... and nobody played synthesizer ... again

White Queen (As It Began)

Some Day One Day

The Loser In The End

The Fairy Fellers Master Stroke

March Of The Black Queen

Funny How Love Is

Seven Seas Of Rhye

Hollywood bonus tracks:

See What A Fool I've Been

Ogre Battle (1991 remix, Nicholas Sansano)

Seven Seas Of Rhye (1991 remix, Freddy Bastone)

The song 'The Fairy Fellers Master Stroke' is based on a painting by Richard Dadd that is in the Tate Gallery in London (actually, it wasn't there last time I looked)