4 on the Billboard 200 and became the band's first platinum selling album in the US. The album was originally released by EMI in the United Kingdom, where it topped the UK Albums Chart for four non-consecutive weeks, and Elektra Records in the United States, where it peaked at No. The album takes it's name from the Marx Brothers film A Night at the Opera, which the band watched one night at the studio complex when recording. A commercial success, A Night at the Opera has been voted by the public and cited by music publications as one of Queen's finest works. Co-produced by Roy Thomas Baker and Queen, it was the most expensive album ever recorded at the time of it's release. Throughout the record, the group makes the most effective use of vocal rounds, choruses and harmonies in the heavy-rock genre since Argent’s Ring of Hands.QUEEN / NIGHT AT THE OPERA - VINYL LP - A Night at the Opera is the fourth studio album by the British rock band Queen, released in November 1975. On “The Prophet’s Song,” the best track, May’s powerful guitar perfectly complements the rich, multitracked harmonies of lead singer Freddie Mercury.

Guitarist Brian May’s “39” is his best attempt yet at Paul McCartney-style crooning, but it’s on side two that the vocals really take command. They have the ability to write first-rate pop/rock songs.

But ultimately, the group’s willingness to experiment, even when they fail, makes them interesting. In addition, the imagination that inspired the slick ragtime jazz (with vaudeville overtones) of Sheer Heart Attack’s “Bring Back That Leroy Brown” becomes obsessive on A Night at the Opera, where the same stylistic idea is reworked, into three songs. But the group has some annoying weaknesses, notably a tendency toward lyrical abstraction. In less than three years, with four albums, Queen has risen from the heavy-metal minor leagues to a position approaching that of Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple.

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