Queen Celebrate 'Queen II' With Lavish Collector's Edition Box Set Featuring Remixes, Outtakes, and Unseen Memorabilia
by That Eric Alper
Queen - ‘Queen II’ (coverart)
Queen are streaming the newly released ‘Queen II’ Collector’s Edition, out now via Hollywood Records. The lavish 5CD+2LP box set features a brand new 2026 remix and remaster of the album, intimate fly-on-the-wall studio audio, previously unheard outtakes and demos, live tracks, radio sessions, and a 112-page book packed with unseen photographs, handwritten lyrics, diary entries, special memorabilia, and band memories from the recording sessions. Brian May speaks to the album’s significance directly: “Queen II was the single biggest leap we ever made. That’s when we really started making music the way we wanted to, rather than the way we were being pushed into recording it.”
Arguably Queen’s heaviest record, ‘Queen II’ reached number 5 on the UK album charts and delivered the band its first hit single when “Seven Seas Of Rhye” reached number 10 in the UK. The Collector’s Edition is also available in 2xCD Deluxe, Vinyl LP, Vinyl Picture Disc LP, 1xCD, and cassette formats, all featuring the new 2026 mix. For a record this important to the Queen catalogue, this kind of treatment is long overdue and entirely earned.
