In addition to Mercury, May, and Taylor's trademark, multi-tracked vocal harmonies, Queen broadened their scope with such instruments as tack and grand pianos, Wurlitzer organ, timpani, gong, acoustic guitars, harp, and koto, a Japanese stringed instrument in the zither family. A Night at the Opera has been pressed on 180-gram multi-colored "galaxy" vinyl. It's now one of the titles recently brought back into the catalogue by Vinyl Me Please as reissued in 2018 as Essentials E071 from the original, first-generation stereo tapes and recut at Abbey Road Studios. Building on the aggressive rock sound of Sheer Heart Attack, it's since been claimed by fans of pop, hard rock, prog, and metal as belonging to those genres - and that's not to mention its nods to Dixieland jazz, folk, music hall, musical theatre, and yes, opera. Unabashedly grandiose, undeniably bombastic, and deliciously bold, A Night at the Opera remains Queen's masterwork. It was reportedly the most expensive album ever recorded as the foursome of Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor, and John Deacon teamed with producer Roy Thomas Baker to realize their wildest musical visions. While the title was derived from the Marx Brothers' film of forty years earlier, the LP was no laughing matter.
That attitude is perhaps best embodied by the band's fourth album, 1975's A Night at the Opera. (See the list of all ten titles here.) We've given a spin to the re-presses of Queen's A Night at the Opera and Al Green's Call Me. In April, record club Vinyl Me Please announced that it would be restoring some previously out-of-print titles to the catalogue to celebrate 100 releases in the club's Essentials series.
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