History Music / NewsOfTheWorldQueen

''News of the World'' is the sixth studio album by Music/{{Queen|Band}}, released in 1977 through Creator/{{EMI}} in the UK and Creator/ElektraRecords in the US. Following the release of ''Music/{{A Day at the Races}}'' the previous year, the members of Queen decided to move away from the densely-layered ProgressiveRock sound of that album and ''Music/ANightAtTheOpera'' in favor of returning to the comparatively stripped-back HardRock style of their first three albums, with Music/FreddieMercury stating that what had become "the Queen style" had been "done to death."

* RecordProducer: Like ''Music/ADayAtTheRaces'' before it, Queen are credited as the sole producers on this album. This time around, though, they were "assisted by" Mike Stone, who Website/{{Wikipedia}} treats as a de-facto co-producer.

''News of the World'' is the sixth studio album by Music/{{Queen|Band}}, released in 1977 through Creator/{{EMI}} in the UK and Creator/ElektraRecords in the US. Following the release of ''Music/ADayAtTheRaces'' the previous year, the members of Queen decided to move away from the densely-layered ProgressiveRock sound of that album and ''Music/ANightAtTheOpera'' in favor of returning to the comparatively stripped-back HardRock style of their first three albums, with Music/FreddieMercury stating that what had become "the Queen style" had been "done to death."

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-->-- '''Stewie Griffin''', who's afraid of the cover, ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', [[Recap/FamilyGuyS10E16KillerQueen "Killer Queen"]]

[[caption-width-right:350:''"All dead, all dead, all the dreams we had"'']]

-> ''"Why does robot hold dead people? Is that future or past?"''

* ReCut: 8-track releases of the album slightly reorder the songs on side one to accommodate for the limitations of the tapes' four-program format. While "We Will Rock You", "We Are the Champions", and "Fight from the Inside" are unchanged, the songs in between them are moved, such that "Spread Your Wings" is song 3, "Sheer Heart Attack" is song 4, and "All Dead, All Dead" is song 5.

* BreakUpSong: "It's Late", "Who Needs You?", "My Melancholy Blues" are all about this topic.

** The "of the wooooooooooooooooooooooooooorld" at the end of the first chorus of "We Are The Champions", and at the end of its live renditions. If one listens to any of the available ''VideoGame/RockBand'' stems [[note]]basically, custom mixes made exclusively for the game that consist of the vocals, bass, drums, guitar, and keyboards separated[[/note]] of this particular song, Freddie holds the note for so long that it ''seeps into the recording studio's reverb and disappears''. Technically, in the final mix, ''the note never ends.''

* IronicEcho: "Sleeping on the Sidewalk" also has this: "I may get hungry but I sure don't wanna go home [...] I don't get hungry and I sure don't wanna go home [...] I may get hungry and I sure do wanna go home".

* LyricalDissonance: "Who Needs You?", a cosy, relaxing Spanish guitar track about Freddie claiming he doesn't need a former lover anymore. Even more dissonance stems from the fact that the song was written by John Deacon, who also penned such [[BreakUpSong break-up songs]] as "Another One Bites the Dust" and "I Want to Break Free", while being the only one in the group to have had a singular, long, happy marriage (1975 - present).

* NonIndicativeName: "My Melancholy Blues" is in fact, a ''jazzy'', piano-driven torch ballad. The one true blues song on the album is "Sleepin' On The Sidewalk".

''News of the World'' is the sixth studio album by Music/{{Queen|Band}}, released in 1977. It's best known for generating the hit songs "We Will Rock You," "We Are the Champions," and "Spread Your Wings."

* AlternateAlbumCover: The original South Korean release used the upper half of the gatefold interior illustration as its cover art due to the government considering the UK cover too violent. A 1992 LP reissue would restore the original artwork.

-->-- '''Charles Yamamoto''', just before his death of a sheer heart attack, 'WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', [[Recap/FamilyGuyS10E16KillerQueen "Killer Queen"]]

* GriefSong: "All Dead, All Dead", about Brian May's cat. "My Melancholy Blues", a sad about feeling blue.

** "Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer Heart Attack".
** The "of the wooooooooooooooooooooooooooorld" at the end of the first chorus of "We Are The Champions", and at the end of its live renditions.
*** If one listens to any of the available ''VideoGame/RockBand'' stems [[note]]basically, custom mixes made exclusively for the game that consist of the vocals, bass, drums, guitar, and keyboards separated[[/note]] of this particular song, Freddie holds the note for so long that it ''seeps into the recording studio's reverb and disappears''. Technically, in the final mix, ''the note never ends.''

* LyricalDissonance: "Who Needs You?", a cosy, relaxing Spanish guitar track about Freddie claiming he doesn't need a former lover anymore. Even more dissonance stems from the fact that the song was written by John Deacon, who also penned such "break-up with you" songs as "Another One Bites The Dust" and "I Want to Break Free", while being the only one in the group to have had a singular, long, happy marriage (1975 - present).

* QuestioningTitle: "Who Needs You?"

* StepUpToTheMicrophone: Roger Taylor sings the choruses of "Sheer Heart Attack" and lead vocals on "Fight from the Inside".
* SuddenMusicalEnding: "Sheer Heart Attack" ends this way.

** "We Are the Champions" was described by Freddie as being a "take that" directed to the music press, which almost always gave the band horrendous reviews (ex: Magazine/RollingStone describing Queen as "the first fascist rock band" etc.) yet they continued to be one of the world's most popular and best selling bands. When the rest of the band heard Freddie do the first run-through of the song they "fell out laughing", knowing exactly whom he was slagging.

-->-- '''Charles Yamamoto''', just before his death of a heart attack, 'WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', [[Recap/FamilyGuyS10E16KillerQueen "Killer Queen"]]

* NoEnding: "Sheer Heart Attack" kind of just...stops. Not to the effect of the band just abruptly stopping, but...imagine if you were listening to the song and someone came over and turned off the device that was playing it immediately after the chorus.

* PepTalkSong: "We Will Rock You", "We Are The Champions", "Spread Your Wings", "Fight From The Inside" are all songs about beating people who bring you down and triumphing in the end.

* ThePowerOfLove: "Sheer Heart Attack" about love for somebody that is so powerful that it borders a heart attack.

* AndCallHimGeorge: The wide-eyed giant robot on the album cover doesn't seem to understand why its new playthings have stopped moving.

''News of the World'' is the sixth studio album by Music/{{Queen}}, released in 1977. It's best known for generating the hit songs "We Will Rock You," "We Are the Champions," and "Spread Your Wings."

* ACappella: "We Will Rock You". The song is generally set in a cappella form, using only stomping and clapping as a rhythmic beat, except at the very end, which has a guitar solo.

* SiameseTwinSongs: "We Will Rock You", "We Are The Champions" fade almost directly into each other. They were also released on single that way. During concert shows, sport manifestations and parties the songs are usually played directly after one another (except during the 1986 "Magic" tour, which had "Friends Will Be Friends" played between them).

--> ''I consider it a challenge to the whole human race''
--> ''And I ain't gonna lose!''

* DesignStudentsOrgasm: The album cover is based on a painting by Frank Kelly Freas, an artist best known for painting scenes of science fiction stories. The image, originally featured on [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/75/79/0c/75790c1e7015ea914166453bc50c475d.jpg the cover of the October 1953 issue]] of ''Astounding Science Fiction'' magazine, showed a giant intelligent robot holding a human corpse. The members of Queen asked Freas if he could paint the exact same image, only with them in place of the corpse.

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*** If one listens to any of the available ''VideoGame/RockBand'' stems [[note]]basically, custom mixes made exclusively for the game that consist of the vocals, bass, drums, guitar, and keyboards separated[[/note]] of this particular song, Freddie holds the note for so long that it ''[[UpToEleven seeps into the recording studio's reverb and disappears]]''. Technically, in the final mix, ''the note never ends.''

''News of the World'' is the sixth studio album by Music/{{Queen}}, released in 1977. It's best known for generating the hit songs "We Will Rock You," "We Are the Champions," and "Spread Your Wings." If you were looking for the muckraking British tabloid, information is at UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers.

* FaceOnTheCover: The band members are shown on the album cover, but as victims in the hand of an iron giant.
* GentleGiant: On the album cover.

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: The wide-eyed giant robot on the album cover doesn't seem to understand why its new playthings have stopped moving.

[[caption-width-right:350: [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy "God, why does he look sad?! He's already destroyed mankind; what else could he want?!"]]]]

* LyricalDissonance: "Who Needs You?", a cosy, relaxing Spanish guitar track about Freddie claiming he doesn't need a former lover any-more. Even more dissonance stems from the fact that the song was written by John Deacon, who also penned such "break-up with you" songs as "Another One Bites The Dust" and "I Want to Break Free", while being the only one in the group to have had a singular, long, happy marriage (1975 - present).

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