The Platinum Collection (Queen album)

Infobox Album
Name = The Platinum Collection
Type = Box set
Artist = Queen


Released = November 13, 2000 (UK) September 24, 2002 (US)
Recorded = 1973 - 1999
Genre = Rock, progressive rock, hard rock, Heavy metal, pop rock
Length = 208:12
Label = Parlophone (UK) Hollywood Records (US)
Producer =
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4.0|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:acfrxqw0ldhe~T1 link]
Last album = "Greatest Hits III"
(1999)
This album = "The Platinum Collection
Next album = "Queen on Fire - Live at the Bowl"
(2004)

"The Platinum Collection" is a box set by Queen which comprises their three greatest hits albums, "Greatest Hits", "Greatest Hits II" and "Greatest Hits III". A booklet with song facts and images is also included with the three CD set. The album's US release was delayed until September 2002 and featured the 2001 Japanese release remastered versions of Greatest Hits Volumes 1 and 2 on the US and Canadian versions of The Platinum Collection.

It is the highest charting box set in U.S. history. [citation|date=2002-10-18|title=Queen honoured with Hollywood star|publisher=BBC|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2339131.stm]

Track listing

Disc one: "Greatest Hits" (1981)

#"Bohemian Rhapsody" (Freddie Mercury) – 5:55
#"Another One Bites the Dust" (Deacon) – 3:36
#"Killer Queen" (Mercury) – 2:57
#"Fat Bottomed Girls" (Brian May) – 4:16
#"Bicycle Race" (Mercury) – 3:01
#"You're My Best Friend" (Deacon) – 2:52
#"Don't Stop Me Now" (Mercury) – 3:29
#"Save Me" (May) – 3:48
#"Crazy Little Thing Called Love" (Mercury) – 2:42
#"Somebody to Love" (Mercury) – 4:56
#"Now I'm Here" (May) – 4:10
#"Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy" (Mercury) – 2:54
#"Play the Game" – 3:33
#"Flash" (May) – 2:48
#"Seven Seas of Rhye" (Mercury) – 2:47
#"We Will Rock You" (May) – 2:01
#"We Are the Champions" (Mercury) – 2:59

Disc two: "Greatest Hits II" (1991)

#"A Kind of Magic" (Roger Taylor) – 4:22
#"Under Pressure" (Mercury, May, Deacon, Meddows-Taylor, David Bowie) – 3:56
#"Radio Ga Ga" (Taylor) – 5:43
#"I Want It All" (Mercury, May, Deacon, Taylor) – 4:01
#"I Want to Break Free" (Deacon) – 4:18
#"Innuendo" (Mercury, May, Deacon, Taylor) – 6:27
#"It's a Hard Life" (Mercury) – 4:09
#"Breakthru" (Mercury, May, Deacon, Taylor) – 4:09
#"Who Wants to Live Forever" (May) – 4:57
#"Headlong" (Mercury, May, Deacon, Taylor) – 4:33
#"The Miracle" (Mercury, May, Deacon, Taylor) – 4:54
#"I'm Going Slightly Mad" (Mercury, May, Deacon, Taylor) – 4:07
#"The Invisible Man" (Mercury, May, Deacon, Taylor) – 3:58
#"Hammer to Fall" (May) – 3:40
#"Friends Will Be Friends" (Mercury, Deacon) – 4:07
#"The Show Must Go On" (Mercury, May, Deacon, Taylor) – 4:23
#"One Vision" (Mercury, May, Deacon, Taylor) – 4:02

Disc three: "Greatest Hits III" (1999)

#"The Show Must Go On" (Mercury, May, Deacon, Taylor) – 4:35
#*Performed by Queen and Elton John, live at Théatre National de Chaillot, Paris
#"Under Pressure" (Mercury, May, Deacon, Taylor, Bowie) – 4:08
#*Rah mix
#"Barcelona" (Mercury, Mike Moran) – 4:25
#*Performed by Queen and Montserrat Caballé
#"Too Much Love Will Kill You" (May, Frank Musker, Elizabeth Lamers) – 4:18
#"Somebody to Love" (Mercury) – 5:07
#*Performed by Queen and George Michael, live at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, Wembley Stadium
#"You Don't Fool Me" (Mercury, May, Deacon, Taylor) – 5:22
#"Heaven for Everyone" (Taylor) – 4:37
#"Las Palabras de Amor" (May) – 4:29
#"Driven by You" (May) – 4:09
#*Performed by Brian May
#"Living on My Own" (Mercury) – 3:37
#*Performed by Freddie Mercury
#"Let Me Live" (Mercury, May, Deacon, Taylor) – 4:45
#"The Great Pretender" (Buck Ram) – 3:26
#*Performed by Freddie Mercury
#"Princes of the Universe" (Mercury) – 3:31
#"Another One Bites the Dust" (Deacon) – 4:20
#*Performed by Queen with additional vocals from Wyclef Jean
#"No-One but You (Only the Good Die Young)" (May) – 4:11
#"These Are the Days of Our Lives" (Mercury, May, Deacon, Taylor) – 4:22
#"Thank God It's Christmas" (Taylor, May) – 4:19

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