Queen Queen II: 2026 Mix Collector's Edition
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Queen's 1974 Studio Album Queen II: 2026 Mix Collector's Edition on 180g 2LP + 5CD + Book Box Set: Features a New Mix of the Album Sourced from the Original Master Tapes.
Queen II is the second studio album from the iconic British rock band. Originally released in 1974, it reached #5 on the U.K. albums chart. The Collector’s Edition box set includes 5 CDs, featuring a 2026 mix of the album, session tracks, alternate takes, demos, B-sides, backing tracks, BBC sessions, Live at Golders Green Hippodrome in 1973, and Live at the Rainbow in 1974. The 2026 mix is also spread across 2 LPs on 180g vinyl with etchings on Sides B & D.
The Queen II Collector’s Edition box set also comes with a 112-page book featuring previously unseen photographs, handwritten lyrics, diary entries, and special memorabilia, as well as memories of writing and recording the album from the band members.
A month after releasing their debut Queen returned to Trident Studios to commence work on follow-up and many a fan favorite, Queen II. It's certainly the first time one hears their trademark multi-layered overdubs, those rich harmonies and the sheer joie de vivre of a group of young men refusing to be hindered by boundaries and conformity. Realizing that as songwriters Mercury and May had radically different lyrical agendas – Brian the guitarist preferring a personal or emotional slant, while Freddie the singer liked to operate in realms of the phantasmagorical. Home to the band's first Top 5 hit, "Seven Seas of Rhye," Queen II is tremendously influential among fellow musicians and has only grown in stature over time.
Features:
- Box Set
- 2 180g LP's
- LP's Feature the 2026 Mix with etchings on Sides B & D
- 5 CD's
- CD's Feature a 2026 Mix of the album, session tracks, alternate takes, demos, B-sides, backing tracks and BBC sessions
- CD's Include Two Live Concerts: Live at Golders Green Hippodrome in 1973 and Live at the Rainbow in 1974
- 112-page book featuring previously unseen photographs, handwritten lyrics, diary entries, and special memorabilia, as well as memories of writing and recording the album from the band members
Track Listing
LP1: Queen II - 2026 Mix
- Procession
- Father to Son
- White Queen (As It Began)
- Some Day One Day
- The Loser in the End
LP2: Queen II - 2026 Mix
- Ogre Battle
- The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke
- Nevermore
- The March of the Black Queen
- Funny How Love Is
- Seven Seas of Rhye
CD1: Queen II - 2026 Mix
- 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
CD2: Queen II – Sessions
- Procession (Stage Intro Tape - April 1973)
- Father to Son (Takes 4 & 9 - with Guide Vocal)
- As It Began (Brian's Studio Demo - October 1969)
- Some Day One Day (Take 1 - with Guide Vocals)
- The Loser in the End (Roger's First Demo)
- The Loser in the End (Roger's Second Demo)
- Ogre Battle (Takes 2 & 6 - with Guide Vocal)
- The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke (Takes 4 & 9)
- Nevermore (Take 6)
- The March of the Black Queen (First Section Takes 3 & 5)
- The March of the Black Queen (Second Section Take 1)
- Funny How Love Is (Take 4)
- Seven Seas of Rhye (Takes 4, 5 & 6)
- I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside (Take 4)
- See What a Fool I've Been (B-side Version 2026 Mix)
- Not For Sale (Polar Bear)
CD3: Queen II - Backing Tracks
- 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
CD4: Queen II - At the BBC / Live
- See What a Fool I've Been (BBC Session 2 - July 1973 - 2011 Mix)
- Ogre Battle (BBC Session 3 - December 1973)
- Nevermore (BBC Session 4 - April 1974)
- White Queen (As It Began) (BBC Session 4 - April 1974)
- Procession - Intro Tape (Live at Golders Green Hippodrome - 13th September 1973)
- Father to Son (Live at Golders Green Hippodrome - 13th September 1973)
- Son and Daughter (Live at Golders Green Hippodrome - 13th September 1973)
- Guitar Solo (Live at Golders Green Hippodrome - 13th September 1973)
- Son and Daughter - Reprise (Live at Golders Green Hippodrome - 13th September 1973)
- Ogre Battle (Live at Golders Green Hippodrome - 13th September 1973)
- Liar (Live at Golders Green Hippodrome - 13th September 1973)
- Jailhouse Rock (Live at Golders Green Hippodrome - 13th September 1973)
CD5: Queen II – Live
- Procession - Intro Tape (Live at the Rainbow - March 1974)
- Father to Son (Live at the Rainbow - March 1974)
- Ogre Battle (Live at the Rainbow - March 1974)
- White Queen (As It Began) (Live at the Hammersmith Odeon - December 1975)
- The March of the Black Queen (Live at the Rainbow - November 1974)
- The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke (Live at the Rainbow - March 1974)
- Seven Seas of Rhye (Live at the Rainbow - March 1974)
- See What a Fool I've Been (Live at the Rainbow - March 1974)





