“At last, we get our first album to sound as we imagined it should sound… Phew!”: 52 years later, Queen have finally got their debut album right, says Roger Taylor

Queen 1.

Last September Queen announced the release of a new enhanced edition of their debut album. “This is not just a remaster, this is a brand new 2024 rebuild of the entire Queen debut album,” said guitarist Brian May at the time. “Every instrument has been revisited to produce the ‘live’ ambient sound we would have liked to use originally.”

And now that reworking has just got… reworked. Yes, Queen have just announced another new edition of their self-titled debut album (retitled Queen 1 for the modern age) with their new take now appearing in an audiophile-friendly Dolby Atmos mix on Blu-ray disc.