Sheer Heart Attack

This article is about the album by Queen. For their song of the same name, see Sheer Heart Attack (song).

Sheer Heart Attack
Studio album by
Queen
Released8 November 1974 (1974-11-08)
Recorded7 July – 22 October 1974
Studio
Genre
Length38:41
Label
Producer
Queen chronology
Queen II
(1974) 		Sheer Heart Attack
(1974) 		A Night at the Opera
(1975)
Singles from Sheer Heart Attack
  1. "Killer Queen" / "Flick of the Wrist"
    Released: 11 October 1974[1]
  2. "Now I'm Here"
    Released: 17 January 1975

Sheer Heart Attack is the third studio album by the British rock band Queen, released on 8 November 1974 by EMI Records in the United Kingdom and by Elektra Records in the United States. Digressing from the progressive themes featured on their first two albums, the album featured more pop-centric and conventional rock tracks and marked a step towards the "classic" Queen sound.[2] It was produced by the band and Roy Thomas Baker, and launched Queen to mainstream popularity in the UK and throughout the world.

The album's first single "Killer Queen" reached number 2 on the UK Singles Chart and provided the band with their first top 20 hit in the US, peaking at number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100. Sheer Heart Attack was the first Queen album to hit the US top 20, peaking at number 12 on the Billboard Top LPs & Tapes Chart in 1975. It has been acknowledged for containing "a wealth of outstanding hard rock guitar tracks".[3] Retrospectively, it has been listed by multiple publications as one of the band's best works and has been deemed an essential glam rock album.[4]

  1. ^ Hung, Steffen. "Queen - Killer Queen". Hitparade.ch. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
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