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Rob Laing

"It was the antithesis of Bohemian Rhapsody and on the same album" – Brian May on the Queen deep cut that doesn't get the love it deserves

Queen A Night At The Opera album cover

"Queen was very much more than what you hear on the Greatest Hits album," Brian May tells Vulture.com in a new interview. Indeed! We all love the anthems but some of Queen's most fascinating music lies deeper in the catalogue – we love a bit of Ogre Battle from Queen II ourselves, but May's pick for an overlooked gem comes from a later album. 

"All those billions of streams are from the Greatest Hits," adds the grand wielder of the Red Special. "That’s a separate thing. We have a whole career of creating music in the album format. There’s a lot of depth there, which you don’t generally hear unless you go into it as a devotee, if you like."

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