Packaged together for the first time, both the truncated TV broadcast and the entire live recording (featuring ‘Seven Seas Of Rhye’, ‘See What A Fool I’ve Been’ and a closing ‘God Save The Queen’, none of which were captured on video) are being made available in the Super Deluxe Box Set edition of A Night At The Odeon. When they took the stage at London’s Hammersmith Odeon, on Christmas Eve 1975, ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ was in the middle of an unprecedented nine-week run in the charts, the six-minute anthem establishing the group’s credentials as bona fide envelope-pushers, while also proving that their sales could more than match their ambitions.īringing their 26-date Queen Invite You To A Night At The Opera Tour to a close on 24 December 1975, the group bowed out in typically grand style, broadcasting the bulk of their set live on both the BBC’s Old Grey Whistle Test and BBC 1 radio.

By the end of 1975, Queenwere riding high with their greatest album success to date (released in November, A Night At The Opera was well on its way to going platinum in the UK, topping the UK album charts and breaching the Top 5 in the US), bolstered by their first UK No.1 single.

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