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The singer-songwriter’s much-anticipated—and deeply satisfying—fourth studio album drops this Friday.

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After joining EMI in November 1972, Queen played their label launch gig at London’s iconic Marquee Club in April the following year.

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Image courtesy of Mick Rock. "When you shoot an album cover it’s different because you’re looking for that one shot that’s got to have broad resonance. It’s very focussed and the energy is somewhat different. When you do a photo session for a magazine, you have to shoot a load of pages. But you know with an album cover that once that image is out there it will be around for a while. Magazines are disposable, whereas an album cover is often forever." - Mick Rock

Queen, that most chameleon-like or even dare I say it 'mercurial' of bands (damn that pun and the horse it rode in on), was as tough to pin down visually as they were musically, following trends or even creating them as quited their whims. Yet they were markedly image-conscious, and that's an important part of their - or, to be more specific, of Freddie Mercury's - legacy. From groundbreaking early music videos to live performances... and the album covers themselves. Like the album contents…