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Queen II is the second studio album by the British rock band Queen. The album combines a heavy rock sound with art rock and progressive rock elements, and has been called "a pillar of grandiose, assaultive hard rock" by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Coming so quickly after the band's A Night At the Opera opus, this 1976 album works hard at repeating the same hit-making elements, down to the matching cover art. If A Day At the Races lacks the same level of pop tunesmanship, there is still energy in these tracks, particularly in the rocking "Tie Your Mother Down" and the emotional "Somebody to Love," which set a blueprint for future ballads by the band.

Universal Music are proud to release A Kind Of Magic on vinyl, sourced from the original master tapes mastered by Bob Ludwig. While this is not a soundtrack album almost all the songs were used as soundtrack for the movie Highlander (the first one), the only exception being One Vision, which appears in another 80s classic, Iron Eagle. Queen had the songs revised after the movie's release so they could be performed on stage.

'Greatest Hits is a compilation album by Queen, originally released in the UK on 26 October 1981. The album consisted of Queen's best-selling singles since their first chart appearance in 1974 with "Seven Seas of Rhye", up to their 1980 hit "Flash". Queen's Greatest Hits was an instant success, peaking at number one on the UK Album Chart for four weeks.