NEWS OF THE WORLD
| Queen
NEWS OF THE WORLD
News of the World is the sixth studio album by the British rock band Queen, released on 28 October 1977 by EMI Records in the United Kingdom and by Elektra Records in the United States. News of the World was the band's second album to be recorded at Sarm West and Wessex Studios, London, and engineered by Mike Stone, and was co-produced by the band and Stone. -wikipedia
Critic Reviews
Show All-
All Music
when it works, it's massive, earth-shaking rock & roll, the sound of a band beginning to revel in its superstardom
-
Aphoristic Album Reviews
with its engaging mix of styles it shows that Queen could still deliver a solidly crafted album even when stripped of the pomp and flamboyance that characterised their earlier work
-
brianmay.com
Three top-notch songs in the form of We Are The Champions, Spread Your Wings and It's Late, and all three non-Freddie vocals are good, too. It's not a classic, but it's very respectable with some good solid material on it.
-
Louder Sounds
Yes, it’s fun, because many of the individual tracks are laser-guided belters, but it has no real cohesive identity.
-
Only Solitaire
At this point, Queen are leaning more and more and more towards the 'arena-rock champions' status, with an obligatory bunch of sing-along crowd-pleasers to confirm it.
-
Medium
They’re pretty far from their hard rock roots. That’s not a bad thing.
-
Eagle and Child
a more straightforward, mainstream record with less complex arrangements, but it remains a landmark album, an arena rock classic
-
Don Ignacio
My gut tells me this is the weakest of Queen's classic run of albums from 1975-1980. However, it surely earns its place in those ranks.
-
Glide Magazine
2017 QUEEN ‘NEWS OF THE WORLD’ BOX SET IS A STUNNER
-
Rolling Stone
Queen makes elaborate music from shards of nostalgia for the British Empire. They push boys’ public-school chorales and English martial music through the funnel of hard rock, aiming carefully at romantic crescendos embellished with heavy echo. Apparently, the intention is that the long-tarnished glories of “tradition” will be repolished on the band’s hard pumice.
-
Ghost Cult
2017 - it is still a deeply satisfying album and one that would be one of their most complete, in the rest of their careers
-
Off the Tracks
But for me it is the best Queen album – the one that introduced me to the band as players and to their composing personalities; the one that made me look past the show-pony that strutted and fretted his hours on the stage, a limelight hog that for both good and bad was overtly the Queen image/voice/icon.
-
Pure grain Audio
News of the World showcases a top band in peak form, and this new release from Hollywood Records ought to appeal to new fans and Queen die-hards alike.
-
U Discover Music
a decision was made to return to the “rootsier” sound of their first three recordings for what would become News of the World. Even so, the album would still be embellished with rich multi-tracked arrangements, and all the molasses and razor blade textures that guitarist Brian May could muster.
Rate This Album and Leave Your Comments