Track Listing

1. Show Must Go On - Queen & Elton John
2. Under Pressure - Queen & David Bowie
3. Barcelona - Mercury, Freddie & Montserrat Caballe
4. Too Much Love Will Kill You - May, Brian (1)
5. Somebody To Love - Queen & George Michael
6. You Don't Fool Me - Queen
7. Heaven For Everyone - Queen
8. Las Palabras De Amor - Queen
9. Driven By You - May, Brian (1)
10. Living On My Own - Mercury, Freddie
11. Let Me Live - Queen
12. Great Pretender - Mercury, Freddie
13. Princes Of The Universe - Queen
14. Another One Bites The Dust - Queen & Wyclef Jean
15. No One But You (Only The Good Die Young) - Queen
16. These Are The Days Of Our Lives - Queen
17. Thank God It's Christmas - Queen

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #22062 in Music
• Released on: 1999-11-08
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Limited Edition, Import

Customer Reviews

Looks like a rip-off, but is actually is really high quality
When you first look at the tracks, you see four solo sings by Freddie or Brian, and four collaborations. Not exactly Queen...

That's why it's called Queen+. Every tracks is high quality Queen music.

- The Show Must Go On features Elton John on vocals and he really gives it a lot during this great live performance of what has been hailed one of Queen's best songs.

- Under Pressure (rah mix): At first, seems like a stupid remix, but the more I hear it on TV and radio, the better it seems. Worthy of its place on the album, and as a single (No 1?). The video's excellent.

- From mock opera to real opera, Freddie tried everything. Barcelona is a great sporting theme for the city, and Freddie's vocals at his best.

- A 'reject' from The Miracle, Too Much Love Will Kill You really was appropriate for the Made In Heaven album, and deserves its place here.

- George really gives this everything he has on Somebody To Love, and sounds eerily like Freddie sometimes. A really great live collaboration at the FM Tribute Concert.

- The 'fun' track of Made In Heaven, You Don't Fool Me went down well in clubs across Europe, peaking at 2 in Turkey. From a skeleton, Brian, Roger and John really did well.

- Heaven For Everyone was another appropriate archived song to release on Made In Heaven, and a number 2 hit in the UK. Great stuff.

- Somewhat neglected in 1982, Las Palabras De Amor is a really touching ballad which really should have been on GH II.

- There are three of Freddie's solo tracks, so why not one by Brian? Driven By You was a big hit in the early nineties.

- Possibly Freddie's most successul solo outing, Living On My Own was definately the most catchy.

- Another song from Made In Heaven. GH1 and 2 comprised of most of the singles, as is the case here.

- Freddie's cover of the famous song, The Great Pretender is performed really well, with very powerful vocals.

- Princes Of The Universe. Truly excellent. Why wasn't this released as a single in the UK? So complex and with so many changes of tempo, this showed how great Queen were at their peak.

- Another One Bites The Dust: Wyclef Jean on a Queen album?

- No-One But You is a touching tribute to Freddie. It had to be here.

- After being released on the flipside of Bohemian Rhapsody in 1991, These Are The Days Of Our Lives became a hit in its own right when people turned the vinyl over and the radio stations gave it some airtime.

- Thank God It's Christmas is more than likely just to cash-in on the festive season and to finally claim to have all the singles on one album or another. Still a good, if over-commercialised, song.

Overall, the highest quality of music on a Queen album with exception only to its two preceding Greatest Hits. Favorite tracks: Princes Of The Universe and Under Pressure remix.

For Queen fans and just keen music fans alike.

GH3
Greatest Hits3 - speaks for itself that a band can put out a bona fide third album of hits.No point in reviewing all of the songs individually but i would say that 'the show must go on' with Elton John on lead vocal is truly appalling !!! The music is spot on but Elton's vocals sounds like he is singing whilst swallowing stones - i sincerely hope this was not meant to be his tribute to Freddie Mercury. If you do need to listen to this track be prepared to cringe.

Wasted opportunity
What is a hit? It might be a hit single or it might just be a live hit. While not every Queen single made the Top 20 I am painfully aware of the album being credited to Queen Plus and cannot help feeling that the album would have benefitted from fewer remixes and side projects. Much as I love the 3 Freddie tracks, all of them are available on his posthumous compilation The Freddie Mercury album so don't really need double taking here. And while the Elton John-led version of The Show Must Go On is a touching moment, you can't help thinking that that and the Under Pressure and Another One Bites The Dust remixes would have been better kept for a limited edition bonus disc. The George Michael-led Somebody To Love will forever and ever be a tear-jerking classic, and Brian May's Driven By You had to be represented somewhere on account of its hit status, but apart from these two I would have left off the remixes and side projects and included the following: A Winter's Tale (come on it WAS Top 10); I Was Born To Love You (Freddie's version - not on The Freddie Mercury album); Scandal; Body Language; Tie Your Mother Down (how did this live classic ever avoid being on GH1 or GH2?)
then either
Spread Your Wings (poor John Deacon only has a remix on the released version of GHIII)
or In My Defence (remix).

Then we really would have had Greatest Hits III rather than the Greatest Hits II and a half we have here.