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Queen: News of the World trailer reveals never-before-seen footage for 40th anniversary edition - premiere

Exclusive: Watch the first trailer for Queen's News of the World 40th Anniversary edition

Roisin O'Connor
Music Correspondent
Friday 08 September 2017 09:00 BST
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[Pictured: Freddie Mercury performs with Queen onstage] A special box set of Queen's landmark album News of the World is set for release this year
[Pictured: Freddie Mercury performs with Queen onstage] A special box set of Queen's landmark album News of the World is set for release this year

The 40th anniversary of Queen's landmark album News of the World will be celebrated with a special box set to be released later this year.

Originally launched in October 1977, News of the World is one of Queen's biggest selling albums of all time.

Opening with two of their biggest hits - "We Will Rock You" (written by Brian May) and the iconic, Freddie Mercury-penned "We Are The Champions" - the band's sixth album went x4 platinum in the US, selling over six million copies around the world.

Queen in 1977

The Independent is premiering the trailer for the new release, watch below:

The new package, set for release on 17 November, includes the original album on CD, newly cut from the Bob Ludwig 2011 master, plus two other CDs of recently-unearthed out-takes and rarities from the Queen archives.

It also contains a pure analogue re-cut of the original vinyl LP, straight from the unmastered analogue master mix tapes, and a brand new one-hour documentary, Queen: The American Draem, which has been compiled from backstage footage taken during the band's '77 News of the World tour around the US.

British radio and TV presenter Bob Harris and his crew were granted unlimited access to the band on and off stage, in the recording studio and during rehearsals.

The announcement comes right after what would have been Freddie Mercury's 71st birthday, along with the first picture of actor Rami Malek starring as the legendary Queen frontman in a forthcoming biopic.

After years of delays, production on the film has finally begun, with Malek in the starring role.

It will chronicle the story of Queen from 1970, when Mercury teamed up with May and Roger Taylor, and close at the band's performance at Live Aid in 1985 - six years before Mercury died of complications from Aids.

Malek told Entertainment Weekly: "When you're able to open your eyes and see a different person staring back at you in the mirror, it's a very affirming moment."

The Queen - News of the World deluxe package is set for release on 17 November, pre-order now

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