a b c David Chiu (16 October 2017). "How Queen Weathered The Sex Pistols & Punk With News Of The World". The Quietus . Retrieved 12 December 2018. Here's how Queen's giant live show robot was reborn after 40 years". Wired. 3 December 2017 . Retrieved 12 October 2018. American album certifications – Queen – News of the World". Recording Industry Association of America. Marvel paid tribute to News of the World on a variant cover of X-Men Gold #11. [47] The cover, by artist Mike del Mundo, depicts a Sentinel holding Old Man Logan and Kitty Pryde as Colossus plummets to the ground.

Top 100 Album-Jahrescharts" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. 1978. Archived from the original on 23 October 2021 . Retrieved 2 April 2022. The image illustrated the short story The Gulf Between by Tom Godwin, which tells of a future society in which robots can be doctors or pilots, but always obeying the rule: "A machine is constructed to obey commands; it does not question those commands." Astounding Science Fiction had been in print since 1930, but the 50s were its "golden age". Taylor had seen the October 1953 edition (reprinted in the UK in March 1954), which featured the very same tearful robot that would later appear on the cover of News Of The World. In its hand is the lifeless body of a man. It's Late" is the last single from the album; it was released in 1978, and only in the US, Canada, Japan and New Zealand. It only reached number 74 in the US, failing to chart everywhere else.

a b c d e Roberts, Chris (3 November 2017). "Queen – News of the World: 40th Anniversary Edition album review". Loudersound.com . Retrieved 4 June 2018. The News of the World Tour was a concert tour by Queen to promote the album. Queen played 26 shows in North America and 21 in Europe, beginning on 11 November 1977 in Portland, United States and concluding the tour on 13 May 1978 in London. Your computer may be infected with malware or spyware that makes automated requests to our server and causes problems. Dutch album certifications – Queen – News of the World" (in Dutch). Nederlandse Vereniging van Producenten en Importeurs van beeld- en geluidsdragers. Enter News of the World in the "Artiest of titel" box.

The Official Swiss Charts and Music Community: Awards (Queen; 'News of the World ')". IFPI Switzerland. Hung Medien. The album as a whole has been released on Super Audio CD. [43] In 2012, the TV show Family Guy dedicated an episode plot line to the album cover, in which Stewie Griffin is frightened of the cover. Show creator Seth MacFarlane stated that it was based on his own fear of the cover when he was a child. [44] [45] [46] Roger Taylor receives a copy of Astounding Science Fiction during a party thrown for Queen by Elektra Records, 1977. Guitarist Slash has cited the guitar riff to this song as one of his favourite riffs of all time. [22] Side two [ edit ] "Get Down, Make Love" [ edit ] "Get Down, Make Love" makes use of an Eventide Harmonizer for its "psychedelic" sound effects. Fight from the Inside" was written and sung by Taylor. In addition to the drums, he also plays rhythm guitar and bass guitar; for the latter he borrowed Deacon's instrument. It is also one of the few songs in the band's discography recorded almost entirely by one member.a b "All Dead, All Dead: Unheard Freddie Lead Vocal and New Animated Video". Queen Online . Retrieved 27 October 2017. Queen approached Freas some 24 years after the publication of his original painting and asked him to re-create the image, this time swapping the unfortunate pilot for the four members of Queen. Mercury and May lie prone and bloody in the robot's hand, while Deacon and Taylor drop lifeless to the ground. Freas also created the apocalypric gatefold image to complement the cover. Christgau, Robert (26 December 1977). "Christgau's Consumer Guide". The Village Voice. New York . Retrieved 24 May 2014. a b c d e f Epstein, Daniel (28 October 2017). "Queen's 'News of the World: 10 Things You Didn't Know". Rolling Stone. Being a classical music fan, Freas had never heard of Queen, but he was up for the commission. The image appeared when the album was released 28 October 1977, which later made Number 4 in the UK charts.

Main article: We Are the Champions The music video for "We Are the Champions" was shot at the New London Theatre.

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Larkin, Colin (2011). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5thed.). Omnibus Press. p.2248. ISBN 978-0-85712-595-8. Offiziellecharts.de – Queen – News of the World" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 22 April 2022. a b Tony Stewart (18 June 1977). "Freddie Mercury: Is This Man a Prat?". NME . Retrieved 12 December 2018.

John Deacon – bass guitar (2, 4, 5, 7-11), acoustic guitar (5, 9) hand claps (1), foot stamping (1) Wyróżnienia – Platynowe płyty CD - Archiwum - Przyznane w 2009 roku" (in Polish). Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry. 8 July 2009. It's Late", written by May, was his idea of treating a song as a three-act theatrical play. It makes use of the tapping technique. Jon Bennett (2 December 2016). "What happened when the Sex Pistols appeared on the Bill Grundy show". Loudersound . Retrieved 9 March 2019.The song was introduced into the band's live show immediately after its release, and remained a staple of their "medley" until the end of the Hot Space Tour of 1982. On the Hot Space tour, the song was reduced to the first verse/chorus only as a way to lead into May's guitar solo. In live versions of this song, Taylor used Latin-influenced percussion with timbales on the News of the World Tour, and tightly tuned Remo Roto-Toms on the Jazz Tour, Crazy Tour, The Game and Hot Space tours. a b "News of the World". Originally published by The Valley News. Currently mirrored by Queen Archives. 11 November 1977 . Retrieved 6 December 2007. a b "Queen: Less Flamboyance, More of the Beatles". Originally published by Washington Post. Currently mirrored by Queen Archives. 28 December 1978 . Retrieved 6 December 2007. a b Blake, Mark (25 October 2010). Is This the Real Life?: The Untold Story of Queen. Aurum. ISBN 978-1-84513-659-8.