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Queen II - Brian May Unboxing 🎸 Watch the full video at: YouTube.com/Queen 📽️ Ahead of the release of the Remixed, Remastered and Expanded Queen II Boxset, @brianmayforreal gives an exclusive Unboxing to reveal what treasures lie within. Queen’s majestic second album, Queen II (1974), remixed, remastered and expanded in a lavish 5CD+2LP box Queen II Collector’s Edition! Also released as 2xCD Deluxe Edition, Vinyl LP, Vinyl Picture Disc LP, 1xCD and cassette formats, all featuring brand new 2026 mix. For release on March 27th. Pre-Order Queen II now at Link in Bio ⬆🔗 #QueenII

YEEEEOW !!! The beautiful new BOX SET of the perfectly rebuilt Queen II album has arrived !! Watch out for unboxing !!! Released 27th March - watch out for presale announcement ! Proud !! Bri

‎͙͘͡★𝘍𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘚𝘰𝘯 ☁︎𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘣𝘰𝘸 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘳𝘦, 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘯, 1974 ⚜️One of the most emotionally charged moments from Queen II, performed at a time when Queen were still defining who they were and how far they could go. ⚜️ Just yesterday, Queen announced the upcoming Queen II Collector’s Edition, a newly remixed, remastered, and expanded release of their 1974 second album. Due out March 27, the box set will include a new 2026 mix, session outtakes, backing tracks, BBC recordings from 1973–74, and powerful live performances from the Rainbow Theatre and Hammersmith Odeon. ⚜️ “Queen II was the single biggest leap we ever made,” Brian May reflected. It was the moment the band began recording on their own terms, pushing past limitations and leaning fully into ambition, complexity, and imagination. ⚜️ Roger Taylor described it as a turning point in their sound, pioneering layered vocals and massive choral textures created with just three voices. A palette that felt almost orchestral, yet deeply human. ⚜️ Written by May, Father to Son sits on the album’s “Side White,” and live, it carries an added gravity. Here, at the Rainbow, you can feel the strain, the devotion, the generational ache. Freddie Mercury doesn’t perform it lightly, he inhabits it. This isn’t spectacle. It’s confession. ⚜️ With this reissue, Queen II reopens not just as an album, but as a moment when four young musicians reached for something vast and somehow touched it. 🎤 Queen live at the Rainbow Theatre 📍 London, 1974 🎶 Song: Father to Son 🎬 Footage: @officialqueenmusic 🎥 Edited by me for creative/fan purposes © Queen Productions Ltd. ⚠️ Tribute only-no copyright infringement intended. #QueenII #QueenBand #FatherToSon #FreddieMercury #QueenLive

🎶 QUEEN II | BOX SET COMEMORATIVO – MARÇO DE 2026 🎶 Brian May anunciou oficialmente o lançamento de um novo e “perfeitamente refeito” box set do clássico Queen II, com chegada prevista para 27 de março de 2026. Considerado um dos álbuns mais ambiciosos e criativos da história da banda, Queen II ganhará agora uma edição definitiva, cuidadosamente reconstruída a partir das gravações originais de 1974. 🔊 O que esperar desta edição especial? ✨ Remasterização completa com novos mixes ✨ Faixas raras, demos e materiais de estúdio ✨ Conteúdos inéditos das sessões originais ✨ Embalagem especial para colecionadores 🌟 Faixa inédita: “Not For Sale (Polar Bear)” Um dos grandes destaques do box set é a inclusão da música “Not For Sale (Polar Bear)”, gravada durante as sessões de Queen II e mantida nos arquivos da banda por mais de 50 anos. A canção traz raras participações vocais, incluindo registros históricos de Freddie Mercury, além de vocais de Brian May, oferecendo aos fãs um verdadeiro tesouro sonoro do início da carreira do Queen. 🎸 Segundo Brian May, este lançamento representa a forma mais fiel e completa de apresentar Queen II, respeitando a visão artística original da banda, mas com tecnologia e cuidados modernos. 📀 Um presente imperdível para fãs, colecionadores e para todos que reconhecem Queen II como uma obra-prima do rock. 👑 Prepare-se para redescobrir o Queen em sua forma mais pura e ousada. #Queen #QueenII #BrianMay #FreddieMercury #QueenForever 🎥 @brianmayforreal

Queen’s majestic second album, Queen II (1974), remixed, remastered and expanded, out March 27th. The Queen II Collector’s Edition box set features the 2026 mix of the album, plus intimate fly-on-the-wall audio of Queen in the recording studio, previously unheard outtakes and demos, live tracks and radio sessions. The box set also comes with a 112-page book featuring previously unseen photographs, handwritten lyrics, diary entries, and special memorabilia. Pre-Order now at QueenOnline.com #QueenII

NEVERMORE (Take-6) Already added every single track from the new Queen II Collector’s Edition to my playlist… and I swear I’ve had it on repeat all day. Can’t stop, won’t stop 🎶✨ Queen II was the single biggest leap we ever made,” says Brian May. “That’s when we really started making music the way we wanted to, rather than the way we were being pushed into recording it.” “With Queen II, I couldn’t believe how much work we put into it,” adds Roger Taylor. “I think we felt we were evolving our own sound. We were pioneering this sort of multitracking thing. It gave you a tremendous pallet, massive choral effects with just three of us singing.” The task of remixing Queen II for this new edition was in the hands of the trusted team of Justin Shirley-Smith, Joshua J Macrae and Kris Fredriksson, who worked on the Queen I reissue as well as several other past releases from the band, with Brian May and Roger Taylor acting as executive producers. “The idea was to reveal more of the clarity of the songs,” says Justin Shirley-Smith of their approach. “Rather than add anything, we wanted to reveal more of what was there and get that desired sound.” “The lengths the band went to achieve what they achieved with the technology they had at the time was incredible,” says Joshua J Macrae. “Some of it is so ahead of its time. Working on this was like entering a room of fabulousness.” “I wanted to give it everything – to be self-indulgent,” said Freddie Mercury at the time. “But the whole band in particular, we don’t go in for half-measures and I’m pretty hard with myself. There are no compromises.” Originally released in the UK on March 8, 1974, and in the US on April 9, 1974, Queen II still sounds extraordinary today. Bold, brave and madly ambitious, it’s the work of a band whose self-belief, vision and ability were unmatched. Video credit to Queen Productions, LTD Video edited by me Reel created by me No copyright infringement intended Rights to respective owners #freddiemercuryedits #QueenII #nevermore #nevermorestudioouttakes

The Queen plays "Killer Queen" by Queen 👑 🎶 I received a lot of requests for this on Tiktok after people saw the Bohemian Rhapsody video ☺️ Queen Elizabeth II performs "Killer Queen" by the band Queen - Freddie Mercury, Brian May AI generated using Google Nano Banana Pro and Kling Motion Control in Higgsfield. Thank you to Marc Martel for the reference video and his amazing performance of the song 🎶🎵 . . . . #killerqueen #queen #queenelizabeth #freddiemercury #musiclover

OTD — 8 March 1974 (52 years ago) 👑✨ Happy anniversary to one of the greatest Queen albums, Queen II! This album is fascinating with its “White Side” and “Black Side”, two contrasting worlds of sound. The White Side is melodic and dramatic (“Procession,” “Father to Son,” “White Queen”), while the Black Side dives into darker, heavier territory (“Ogre Battle,” “The March of the Black Queen,” “Seven Seas of Rhye”). Here’s a clip of Ogre Battle — Live at the Rainbow Theatre, one of my favourite performances from this era 🔥 Credits: 🎬 Video footage: @officialqueenmusic © Queen Productions Ltd. Content belongs to the respective owner. No copyright infringement intended. Hashtags: #QueenII #QueenAnniversary #OgreBattle #QueenLive #FreddieMercury

Small correction on this post: this clip is actually from Queen live at the Rainbow in November 1974, not March 1974. By November, the band had already released Sheer Heart Attack, “Killer Queen” was becoming their breakthrough hit, and Queen were beginning to move away from the darker, fantasy-heavy sound of the Queen II era into something bigger and more theatrical. But “Father to Son” still carried all of that early heaviness with it. Written by Brian May for Queen II, the song opens with layers of harmonized guitars before exploding into one of the heaviest riffs the band ever recorded. Freddie Mercury moves between soft piano sections and full-force screams, Roger Taylor sounds almost proto-metal behind the kit, and John Deacon holds the entire thing together underneath. #queenii #queen #liveatrainbow #newrelease #rock

“Queen II was a vital step in the long journey to the explosion of marvellousness we eventually became” – Roger Taylor 🥁   “We had the desire to create something extraordinary. And we did” – Brian May 🎸   Queen’s majestic second album, Queen II (1974), remixed, remastered and expanded in a lavish 5CD+2LP box Queen II Collector’s Edition, for Release March 27th.   Also released as 2xCD Deluxe Edition, Vinyl LP, Vinyl Picture Disc LP, 1xCD and cassette formats, all featuring brand new 2026 mix.   Pre-Order Queen II at QueenOnlineStore.com #QueenII

#lamejorcancion QUEEN II - @officialqueenmusic - Procession - Father to son - White Queen (As it began) - Some day one day - The loser in the end - Ogre battle - The fairy feller's master-stroke - Nevermore - The march of the Black Queen - Funny how love is - Seven seas of Rhye #queen #queenii

• Freddie Mercury evolution through the years, from 1946 to 1991. (🎥 My edit). Credit @freddiemercury . . . . . . . . _____________ #freddiemercuryeternal #freddiemercuryforever #queenforever #brianmay #rogertaylor #johndeacon #freddiemercury70s #freddiemercury80s #rogermeddowstaylor #johnricharddeacon #queenalbuns #queenii #freddiemercurymaryaustin #bohemianrhapsody #anightattheopera #queenlives #queenliveaid #queenofficialmusic #freddiemelinamercury #queenthebestband