A Night at the Opera by Queen — album cover
Deep Dive · Beyond the Hundred

A Night at the Opera

Queen · 1975 · Rock

Queen made it across seven studios in four months in 1975, on a budget of roughly £40,000 — reportedly the most expensive album ever recorded at the time — while close to bankrupt and freshly escaped from a management deal that had taken almost everything they'd earned. At its centre was a six-minute mock-opera with no chorus that no label believed could be a single.

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