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  • Bad Export for You: The original US CD release by Capitol Records omitted the lyrics from the liner notes. They would eventually be restored for the 1991 Hollywood Records remaster.
  • Channel Hop: This album saw Queen move away from Elektra Records in the US in favor of Capitol Records, a subsidiary of their UK label, EMI. The decision to do this was thanks to the one-two punch of the Warner Home Video Drive of 1981 and Elektra's hesitance towards releasing the disco-tinged Hot Space in the midst of America's colossal backlash towards the genre, which led to Freddie Mercury buying out the rights to the band's Elektra-era material (which would consequently go out of print in the US until Queen signed with Hollywood Records in 1990).
  • Creator Backlash: The "It's a Hard Life" video. Brian May isn't a big fan of it and Roger Taylor outright hates it, calling it "the worst music video ever" on the Greatest Hits 2 commentary. They've both admitted loving the song, though. Taylor had also admitted in a recent documentary that it was the most fun he had on a video shoot, he just doesn't like the finished product.
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