A Night At The Opera＜限定盤/Clear Colored Vinyl＞

1975年11月にリリースされた『A Night At The Opera』は、バンドを最高のロックバンドに一気に押し上げた作品です。
『A Night At The Opera』には「Bohemian Rhapsody」に加え,「Love Of My Life」や「You're My Best Friend」も収録され、Queenの多様性と作曲の幅をさらに示しました。
本作はQueenにとって初の全英アルバムチャート1位を獲得した作品で、4週間にわたり首位を維持。米国では初のプラチナ認定アルバムとなりました。
その『A Night At The Opera』発売50周年を記念し、特別仕様の180gクリア・カラー・ヴァイナル盤がリリースされます。

Queen were straining at the boundaries of hard rock and heavy metal on Sheer Heart Attack, but they broke down all the barricades on A Night at the Opera, a self-consciously ridiculous and overblown hard rock masterpiece. Using the multi-layered guitars of its predecessor as a foundation, A Night at the Opera encompasses metal ("Death on Two Legs," "Sweet Lady"), pop (the lovely, shimmering "You're My Best Friend"), campy British music hall ("Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon," "Seaside Rendezvous"), and mystical prog rock ("'39," "The Prophet's Song"), eventually bringing it all together on the pseudo-operatic "Bohemian Rhapsody." In short, it's a lot like Queen's own version of Led Zeppelin IV, but where Zep find dark menace in bombast, Queen celebrate their own pomposity. No one in the band takes anything too seriously, otherwise the arrangements wouldn't be as ludicrously exaggerated as they are. But the appeal -- and the influence -- of A Night at the Opera is in its detailed, meticulous productions. It's prog rock with a sense of humor as well as dynamics, and Queen never bettered their approach anywhere else. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine