like the band.’ He added a few years later that, ‘It’s very difficult
to choose one album I prefer out of all of them. But I do like a lot
of the work on the second album, second side. It all runs into one,
very epic. Musically it’s quite daring because we did lots of counter
seven part harmonies and things.’
Later that same year, the third studio album ‘Sheer Heart
Attack’ was released. ‘Killer Queen’ – the album’s premier single
- would prove to be the album’s standout track, and a major
jumping-off point for the band. Shooting into the Top 10 of
the UK Single Charts, as well as peaking at No. 11 in the US
Billboard Single Charts, the track combined the Led Zeppelin-
esque sound of their first two albums, along with Mercury’s
grandiose music hall stylings. Brian May would quickly pick up on
the track’s importance: ‘“Killer Queen” in 1974 was the turning
point. It was the song that best summed up our kind of music,
and a big hit, and we desperately needed it as a mark of something
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Queen producer Jeff Griffin displays his album gifted by Freddie Mercury.