Another One Bites The Dust (3:36)
Fat Bottomed Girls (3:22)
You're My Best Friend (2:53)
Crazy Little Thing Called Love (2:43)
Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy (2:57)
Seven Seas Of Rhye (2:44)
We Are The Champions (3:04)
Queen & David Bowie - "Under Pressure" (3:50)
I Want To Break Free (4:13)
Who Wants To Live Forever (4:55)
I'm Going Slightly Mad (4:09)
Friends Will Be Friends (4:02)
The Show Must Go On (4:12)
Queen & Elton John - "The Show Must Go On" (4:30)
Queen & David Bowie - "Under Pressure" (Rah mix) (4:09)
Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballe - "Barcelona" (4:25)
Too Much Love Will Kill You (4:20)
George Michael & Queen - "Somebody To Love" (5:07)
Heaven For Everyone (4:34)
Las Palabras De Amor (The Words Of Love) (4:29)
Brian May - "Driven By You" (4:10)
Freddie Mercury - "Living On My Own" (3:36)
Freddie Mercury - "The Great Pretender" (3:25)
Princes Of The Universe (3:36)
Queen & Wyclef Jean - "Another One Bites The Dust" (4:19)
No-One But You (Only The Good Die Young) (4:11)
These Are The Days Of Our Lives (4:07)
Thank God It's Christmas (4:16)
Review: Given anyone over the age of 35 grew up with copies of Queen: Greatest Hits Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 in the house, you could be forgiven for asking if we need another retrospective of the iconic English rock band. Not least as there's also a Greatest Hits Vol.3, which many don't realise due to the success of the preceding two and how long the third took to materialise after the tragic death of lead singer Freddie Mercury.
Perhaps riding on the shirttails of the Platinum Jubilee of another monarchical figure, The Platinum Collection arrives and, on the face of it, does little that's not been done before. Don't Stop Me Now, Bicycle Race, Bohemian Rhapsody, Under Pressure, Flash - all the usual suspects are here. Keep reading, though, and you realise just how much else is here. Pretty much every great Queen track, plus stacks of post-Mercury singles and cover versions with all ranging from George Michael to Wyclef Jean. What's not to like?
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