The Game
"This album includes the first appearance of a Synthesizer (an Oberheim OBX) on a Queen album."
"The Game" is sometimes mentioned as their greatest success, especially in the USA with 'Crazy Little Thing Called Love' released way ahead of the album, toping the charts in many countries including USA( for 4 weeks), and N0 2 in the UK, and latter 'Another One Bites The Dust' that was N01 in USA simultaneously in Rock, Soul and Disco. Only N07 in the UK. Their greatest world-wide selling single. The album went five times platinum in Canada alone, and was N01 in many countries.
| UK Release Date: 30 June 1980 US Release Date: 30 June 1980 UK Chart Info: 1 (18 weeks on chart) - Gold US Chart Info: 1 (43 weeks on chart) - Platinum Japanese Chart Info: 5 (17 weeks on chart) |
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1. Play The Game
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Recorded June/July 1979 and February to May 1980 at Musicland Studios Produced by Queen and Mack Engineered by Mack Cover Concept by Queen |
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This is the first Queen album from my collection( actually an LP from my father's collection) - after it I was hocked on....