Great King Rat

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Editorial perspective

Great King Rat occupies position 3 in the identified Queen programme. It follows Doing Alright. The next work is My Fairy King. Read that placement alongside the album perspective: Queen's debut was recorded at Trident and De Lane Lea in London. Its different production arrangements are a reminder that a record has a working history as well as a release date. Editorially, the most useful way into this album is to follow its sequence rather than treat it as a prelude to later hits. The short closing Seven Seas of Rhye is worth comparing with the longer recording on Queen II: the work and its recordings are different levels of the archive.

The timing belongs to Great King Rat - Remastered 2011, not to every performance of this work.

Sources and provenance

• Queen (Deluxe Edition 2011 Remaster) · catalog track listChecked: 2026-10-08