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A Night at the Odeon
A Night at the Odeon is a live album and video from Queen, released in November 2015. It is the first official release of the band's Christmas Eve show at the Hammersmith Odeon in 1975, which the BBC filmed and broadcast on BBC2 and BBC Radio 1. For years the performance circulated among collectors as the band's most popular bootleg, so an authorised version was a long time coming.
The concert catches Queen at a pivotal moment, with "Bohemian Rhapsody" among the songs and one of its earliest live outings. It follows the studio album A Night at the Opera, which arrived earlier that year, and shows how the band took that record's ambition onto the stage. If you want to hear Queen in front of a home crowd at the point their story was changing, this is the place to start.
A Night at the Odeon: tracklist, credits and charts
19 tracks · 1:13:18Tracklist
- 1Now I’m Here (live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London / 1975)Brian May4:43
- 2Ogre Battle (live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London / 1975)Freddie Mercury5:19
- 3White Queen (As It Began) (live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London / 1975)Brian May5:31
- 4Bohemian Rhapsody (live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London / 1975)Freddie Mercury2:28
- 5Killer Queen (live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London / 1975)Freddie Mercury2:08
- 6The March of the Black Queen (live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London / 1975)Freddie Mercury1:30
- 7Bohemian Rhapsody (reprise) (live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London / 1975)Freddie Mercury1:02
- 8Bring Back That Leroy Brown (live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London / 1975)Freddie Mercury1:32
- 9Brighton Rock (live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London / 1975)Brian May2:24
- 10Guitar Solo (live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London / 1975)6:37
- 11Son and Daughter (live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London / 1975)Brian May1:44
- 12Keep Yourself Alive (live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London / 1975)Brian May4:33
- 13Liar (live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London / 1975)Freddie Mercury8:45
- 14In the Lap of the Gods… Revisited (live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London / 1975)Freddie Mercury5:24
- 15Big Spender (live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London / 1975)Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields1:24
- 16Jailhouse Rock Medley (live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London / 1975)Davis, Vincent, Stoller, Leiber, Sedaka, Greenfield9:21
- 17Seven Seas of Rhye (live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London / 1975)Freddie Mercury3:11
- 18See What a Fool I’ve Been (live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London / 1975)Brian May4:22
- 19God Save the Queen (live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London / 1975)[unknown]1:20
- Produced by
- Brian May, Roger Taylor, Justin Shirley-Smith, Kris Fredriksson, Josh Macrae
- Recorded
- 24 December 1975 2015 (pitch – corrections)
- Labels
- Virgin EMI Records, Virgin EMI, Hollywood
- Length
- 1:13:18
Line-up
- John Deacon · bass guitar
- Brian May · guitar
- Roger Taylor · drums (drum set)
- Freddie Mercury · vocals
Peak chart positions
| Chart | Peak |
|---|---|
| UK Albums Chart · 2015 | 40 |
| Dutch Albums · 2015 | 28 |
| Swiss Albums · 2015 | 31 |
| German Albums · 2015 | 34 |
| Scottish Albums · 2015 | 36 |
| Spanish Albums · 2015 | 41 |
| Belgian Albums (Wallonia) · 2015 | 42 |
| US Top Rock Albums · 2015 | 46 |
| Italian Albums · 2015 | 55 |
| Austrian Albums · 2015 | 57 |
All 13 charts
| Belgian Albums (Flanders) · 2015 | 60 |
| French Albums · 2015 | 118 |
| Australian Albums (ARIA) · 2015 | 175 |
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How we know the release date wikipedia 2015-11-20 vs 2015-11-13 (musicbrainz)
| Source | Date | Note |
|---|---|---|
| MusicBrainz | 13 November 2015 | |
| Wikipedia infobox | 20 November 2015 | |
| Wikidata | 2015 | |
| Deezer | 13 November 2015 | |
| US release | 20 November 2015 | earliest US date |
| UK / Europe release | 13 November 2015 | earliest UK or European date |
12 editions
| Date | Country | Label | Barcode | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2015 | FR | Virgin EMI Records | 602547500717 | other |
| 13 November 2015 | XE | EMI | 0602557203455 | original |
| 13 November 2015 | — | EMI | 00602547591555 | original |
| 15 November 2015 | AU | Virgin EMI Records | 602547500694 | other |
| 18 November 2015 | XE | Virgin EMI Records | 602547500748 | other |
| 18 November 2015 | XE | Virgin EMI Records | 602547578471 | other |
| 20 November 2015 | XE | Virgin EMI Records | 602547500694 | other |
| 20 November 2015 | US | Eagle Vision | 801213098095 | other |
| 20 November 2015 | JP | Virgin EMI Records | 4988031126486 | other |
| 20 November 2015 | US | Hollywood Records | 050087329174 | other |
| 20 November 2015 | CA | Hollywood Records | 00050087335434 | other |
| 27 November 2015 | FR | — | 602547500731 | other |
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| Source | Size | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| coverartarchive ✓ | 2000×2000 | native: native 2000x2000 |
| deezer | 1200×1200 | upscaled |
| fanarttv | 1000×1000 | upscaled |