Hot Metal – MOJO’s 3* review of Queen’s News of the World

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MOJO December 2017 cover

In December 2017 issue of MOJO Magazine – now on sale

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Hot Metal
December 2017 page 100

The brilliance and strangeness of Queen captured in raw alternative versions of their 1977album. But is it punk?, asks Mark Blake.

QUEEN
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News Of The World
VIRGIN-EMI CD/DL/LP

On Boxing Day 1979, Queen, briefly possessed by the festive spirit…

Queen’s first encore was Sheer Heart Attack from News Of The World. A frantic celebration of adolescent turmoil, it climaxed with Freddie Mercury pushing over an amp and thrashing it with his mike stand before collapsing onto the stage, spread-eagled like starfish – albeit a starfish in red vinyl trousers and skateboarder’s kneepads.

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