Queen have unveiled a previously unseen live clip of “Son and Daughter” from the celebrated 1975 “Night at the Odeon” performance.
In the visual, the band runs through the massive 1973 hit with infectious passion and energy.
The teaser, which you can check out below, is part of a new release that allows fans to listen to Queen’s self-titled debut album in a whole new way.
The classic rock legends’ 1973 LP, now retitled Queen I, has been significantly revamped for a new box set coming Oct. 25, which also features extensive bonus material. The 6CD 1LP set contains 63 tracks, including 43 brand new mixes.
Guitarist Brian May describes Queen I as, “a brand new 2024 rebuild of the entire Queen debut album.” Audio engineers Justin Shirley-Smith, Joshua J Macrae, and Kris Fredriksson have remixed and restored the original recordings using modern techniques and equipment to revitalize the sound of the album. “All the performances are exactly as they originally appeared in 1973, but every instrument has been revisited to produce the ‘live’ ambient sounds we would have liked to use originally,” May explains. “The result is Queen as it would have sounded with today’s knowledge and technology – a first.”
Queen was originally recorded in mostly overnight sessions at London’s Trident Studios. “We’d arrive at three in the morning and then go on, for all the hours that we could grab,” explains drummer Roger Taylor. At Trident, band members clashed with studio staff on multiple fronts. For one, Queen were forced to use the studio’s in-house drum kit in a sound booth rather than their own drums out in the main room “They had this very dead drum sound, and it was never the sound we wanted,” Taylor says.
In addition to the new stereo mix and remaster, Queen I boasts a new tracklist, with “Mad The Swine” reinserted as the album’s fourth song. It was originally removed from the album due to another dispute between Queen and a producer.