Greatest Hits II

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The album continued to sell well throughout the 1980s, appearing on several UK year-end charts, and by the end of the decade it had become the fourth-biggest selling album in the UK during the 1980s, with sales of over 1. Products labelled '*item fulfilled by Exertis on behalf of hmv' will be supplied to you directly by Exertis via their approved couriers. Ideal complement to the Greatest Hits 1 for those who want to have in two CD's most of Queen's work, this volume continues today to maintain the myth. A companion video release entitled Greatest Flix II was released at the same time, but is currently out of print.

The Show Must Go On was a perfect career summation for the band, though no one knew at the time it would be the last single released in Freddie's lifetime. The second volume of Queen’s Greatest Hits appeared a decade after the first; a decade after the group started its slow shift from international superstars toward ruling the world. For the 1981 release, the photo was skewed, but was later presented as it was originally taken for the 2011 re-release. This is a slight edit of the single version of the track which appears on the 1984 album ' The Works'. By 2006, Greatest Hits had become the best-selling album in the UK and the first album to sell more than five million copies there.The compilation Greatest Hits II reached number one on the UK Albums Chart, and is the tenth best-selling album in the UK with sales of 3. Australia was identical to the US version, but had "Tie Your Mother Down" (live version, with organ intro) as an extra track. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Type Queen in the box under the ARTISTA column heading and Greatest Hits II in the box under the TÍTULO column heading. This is the first time that one of the Top Ten biggest selling albums of all time in the UK’s cover has been re-worked. It would later re-appear as part of the " Greatest Hits I + II" set (1994) as well as " The Platinum Collection" (2000).Later that year, Hollywood Records released a companion collection, Greatest Hits, with similar artwork (on a red background, where Classic Queen was on royal blue).

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies.However, the band had just changed record labels in the US, from Capitol to Hollywood Records, who were keen on a massive promotion of the band's back catalogue. Commonly referred to as the Red Greatest Hits, it features most of the '70s tracks absent from Classic Queen (including " Another One Bites the Dust", "We Will Rock You", "We Are the Champions" and " Killer Queen"). For other compilations, including the second and third Greatest Hits albums, see the relevant articles.