Stormtroopers In Stilettos Download Single Available Today

Today, Queen release their two track single ‘Stormtroopers in Stilettos’ as a download in the week their exhibition of the same name opens, through Island Records. There will also be a be a limited edition 7” release in April as part of Record Store Day

Queen's 'Stormtroopers In Stilettos' single, Keep Yourself Alive (Long Lost Retake/Stone Cold Crazy, is available through all major download outlets.

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Featuring two tracks recorded in the early 70’s, ‘Keep Yourself Alive (Long Lost Retake)’ (the original version taken from ‘Queen’) and ‘Stone Cold Crazy’ (from ‘Sheer Heart Attack’), the single is released to coincide with the exhibition ‘Stormtroopers in Stilettos’ which runs at Old Truman Brewery on Brick Lane in London for two weeks from Friday 25th February 2011. The single will be available as part of National Record Store Day taking place on 16th April and is limited to just 2000 numbered copies on heavyweight vinyl (more news soon). 

Reminding us that Queen could rock hard with the best of them, the two tracks on the single are lightning strikes of adrenalized rhythm, furious guitars and fearsome high wire vocals. Capable of breathtaking rock’n’roll, early Queen has inspired some of the best heavy rock of subsequent decades.

‘Keep Yourself Alive’ was the first single Queen ever released back in 1973 and is now poignantly released on their 40th Anniversary. This is the only Queen single that ever failed to chart in the UK mainly because Radio One rejected it claiming it took long to get going! This new 2011 remaster is a long-lost retake of the track recorded in 1975 for a USA single that never saw the light of day. The original version is taken from Queen’s debut album, Dave Grohl’s favourite album of all time.

Q recently described ‘Stone Cold Crazy’ as “thrash metal before the term was invented”, and the track has been covered by Josh Homme and Metallica amongst others. This was the one of the first tracks that Queen ever played live and the version on the single is a brand new 2011 remaster.