![]() The caption read: “Please… fix it, Daddy?” to illustrate the story “The Gulf Between” by Tom Godwin. Taylor had an issue of Astounding Science Fiction (October 1953) whose cover art depicted a giant intelligent robot holding the dead body of a man. The album’s cover was a painting by American sci-fi artist Frank Kelly Freas. The group completed recording and production of the album two months later in September and released the album on 28 October 1977. News of the World shows Queen’s songwriting less dominated by May and Freddie Mercury, with Roger Taylor and John Deacon composing two songs each. However the staple of the Queen sound, multi-tracked harmonies and guitar orchestrations, still exist on this album, albeit a bit more subtly. They scaled down their complex arrangements and focused on a “rootsier” sound (as Brian May put it). ![]() Having received some criticism that their first completely self-produced project, A Day at the Races, was a “boring” album, Queen decided to shift their musical focus towards the mainstream but remain as the producers of the next album.Īfter completing the A Day at the Races tour, the quartet re-entered the studio to begin work on their sixth studio offering in July 1977, enlisting Mike Stone as assistant producer at the Basing Street and Wessex Studios in London.
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