{"id":31093,"date":"2024-12-20T21:02:31","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T21:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/brian-may-looks-back-at-the-cover-of-queens-self-titled-debut-in-latest-episode-of-queen-the-greatest\/"},"modified":"2024-12-20T21:02:31","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T21:02:31","slug":"brian-may-looks-back-at-the-cover-of-queens-self-titled-debut-in-latest-episode-of-queen-the-greatest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/brian-may-looks-back-at-the-cover-of-queens-self-titled-debut-in-latest-episode-of-queen-the-greatest\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian May looks back at the cover of Queen’s self-titled debut in latest episode of ‘Queen The Greatest’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Queen<\/strong> continues to celebrate the\u00a0release of a\u00a0box set dedicated to their 1973\u00a0self-titled debut album, and in the latest edition of <\/span>Queen The Greatest<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a>, <\/span><\/em>guitarist Brian May<\/strong> is taking\u00a0a deep dive into the album’s artwork.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the clip, May shares the DIY challenges they faced in coming up with the\u00a0art for the release, especially after\u00a0he thought their then-unknown frontman Freddie Mercury<\/strong> should be on the cover in a very specific way.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI had this premonition that Freddie was special and he was going to be our icon. So, I thought it would be nice just to have Freddie as a symbol, like the figurehead on a Viking ship,\u201d May shares.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Because this was before the time of Photoshop, to make that happen May had to physically slice a photo of Mercury in a spotlight onto a ship.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd that was basically the cover and everyone liked it,\u201d he says. \u201cFreddie had designed this lovely special font for Queen. So, we said, \u2018OK, we\u2019ll go with that.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The back of the album\u00a0was also difficult, as May\u00a0had to cut and paste together a collage of photos of the band. He noted, \u201cWe had this idea that we could kind of portray our lives on the back of the record.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

All these original and unique details are captured in the new <\/span>Queen 1<\/span><\/em> box set, although they\u2019ve been recreated, as May puts it, at \u201cslightly higher quality\u201d using modern technology.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI thought, we’ve recreated the whole album soundwise, so let’s recreate it visually as well,” he says.<\/span><\/p>\n

The\u00a0<\/span>Queen I\u00a0<\/span><\/em>box set, out now,\u00a0is comprised of\u00a063 tracks with 43 brand-new mixes, as well as alternative takes, demos and rare live tracks.<\/span><\/p>\n