Queen I Box Set Announced - Pre-Release Discussion Only

Anyone in Europe ordered from the official store that received theirs already?
I got a DHL note in the post yesterday since I wasn't home, so, just wondering if that could be it.

In my case, they send it yesterday. But not arrive yet

I’ve just one question about the super deluxe boxset:
since it is considered a limited edition, how many copies of the boxset were printed/released?
many thanks 🙂

I just got a call from my record store (the last really good one left in town 😞) telling me that the box has arrived but….alas, I'm out of town.

Really loving the mix on Liar! Very punchy

Yes and also if I click on the album (on my recent searches query) it says "error. Something went wrong."

Same!
May be because Spotify didn’t add full box set on it.

It's the eve of the release, and clearly some people already have it, although we do ask that they respect those that are awaiting delivery by not giving too much away.

I really don't see comments like "Liar sounds awesome" as a problem, but if you don't want to see spoilers, it would probably be best to log out of here until you've got the box yourself.

In all the excitement of the box set coming, I have a newfound appreciation for the Queen I era now, I’ve been constantly playing my original LP of the US release of the first album and the de lane Lea demos. However one may think of the adjustments made to the rerelease, it goes to show really just how fierce they were in the early days. I don’t think I’ve ever appreciated more, it reminds me of when I was a teen listening to these albums over and over again.
Just a little post for positivity’s sake

The banter at the start of Mad the Swine (Trident Take 3) is absolutely hilarious. Brian actually referred to Freddie as Bulsara I guess this was recorded before Freddie had his name changed from Freddie Bulsara to Freddie Mercury. Such an interesting piece of history.

As stated on the liner notes of the 2011 remaster issue: "The only known original source of these recordings is a 12" acetate belonging to Brian"

Now, I would like to point out that there could be a caveat here. Given how notoriously secretive and well guarded Queen have been over the years about what's in their archive, what this could have very well meant the whole time was that they didn't have the master 1/4" stereo mixdown master tape, but they could have had the multitracks the whole time yet didn't feel like making a new mix from scratch at the time the 2011 bonus EP stuff was assembled.
And I say this, because it never made sense to me these claims that the master tapes were "lost," and yet it had been the De Lane Lea multitrack tape of "The Night Comes Down" that was used for the Queen album (snuck in the studio inside an EMI tape box, as we recently found out!), which had a clear difference in the way the mix sounded compared to the acetate version, especially noticeable on the drums. So, I find it unfathomable and illogical that they would have had somehow "lost" those master tapes taking that song into account. Just my two pence here...

Indeed! For instance, "God Save The Queen" was thought lost, and certainly wasn't "available" when they re-mixed ANATO for 5.1 DVD-Audio in 2001/02. But had been since found on the same tape reel as "Procession", and was properly re-mixed for the 30th anniversary DVD in 2005, and subsequent Blu-ray audio release.

It was also out a day early in Vietnam as well