Promotional Only Releases
This page includes brief details of all albums and singles which were only ever released as Promotional records. This excludes promos which were subsequently officially released.
Entries are arranged by Albums and Singles, then chronologically by artist, with Queen then Roger, Brian, Freddie and The Cross.
The year of release is included as a guide. However, this is generally for the UK release, so foreign release dates may have varied. See Andy's Queen Page for a complete discography.
Albums
Queen Disco Hits
Japan, 1982. LP only.
Back Chat, Dancer, Body Language, Staying Power, Cool Cat,
Another One Bites The Dust
Highlander
'Music from the Motion
Picture Soundtrack by Michael Kamen & Queen'
This CD was issued in 1986 to promote the film. The compact disc
says 'Immortal Records - Magic-CD 19851986'
The album has 21 tracks, as follows:
Sadly, most of the Queen tracks are the standard album versions as found on 'A Kind Of Magic'. 'The 'Demo Version' of 'Who Wants To Live Forever' is simply the piano instrumental 'Forever', whilst 'New York New York' is taken directly from the film. The CD also includes the extended version of 'Hammer To Fall'. The tracks of most interest are tracks 9, 10, 14, and 17, which all contain various orchestral versions of 'Who Wants To Live Forever'.
The Teaser Tape
UK, 1989. Cassette only. A
promotional cassette for 'The Miracle'
Breakthru (Teaser Edit), My Baby Does Me (Teaser Edit), The
Miracle (Teaser Edit), I Want It All (Teaser Edit), Was It All
Worth It (Teaser Edit), The Invisible Man (Teaser Edit), Scandal
(Teaser Edit), Rain Must Fall (Teaser Edit), Party (Teaser Edit),
Khashoggi's Ship (Teaser Edit)
Classic Queen
USA, 1989. CD only. Later
released with a different track listing.
I Want It All (Album version), Keep
Yourself Alive, Killer Queen, I'm In Love With My Car, You're My
Best Friend, Bohemian Rhapsody, Tie Your Mother Down, Somebody To
Love, We Will Rock You, We Are The Champions, Another One Bites
The Dust, Under Pressure, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, I Want
It All (Single version)
Hints Of Innuendo
UK, 1991. Cassette only. A
promotional cassette for 'Innuendo'
All God's People (Teaser Edit), The Show
Must Go On (Teaser Edit), Innuendo (Teaser Edit), Ride The Wild
Wind (Teaser Edit), Bijou (Teaser Edit), Headlong (Demo Version),
I'm Going Slightly Mad (Teaser Edit), I Can't Live With You
(Teaser Edit), These Are The Days Of Our Lives (Teaser Edit),
Don't Try So Hard (Teaser Edit), The Hitman (Demo Version),
Delilah (Demo Version)
Innuendo Teaser
Sweden, 1991. Cassette
only. A promotional cassette for 'Innuendo'
Innuendo (Teaser Edit), Headlong (Demo
Version), I'm Going Slightly Mad
(Teaser Edit), I Can't Live With You (Teaser Edit), The Show Must
Go On (Teaser Edit)
A Sample Of Magic
UK, 1991. CD only. A
promotional CD for 'Greatest Hits II'
Eight Good Reasons To Buy 'Greatest
Hits II'
UK, 1991. Cassette only. A
promotional cassette for 'Greatest Hits II'
Queen Rocks Volume One
USA, 1992. CD and Cassette
only.
Tie Your Mother Down, Stone Cold Crazy, Under Pressure, We Will
Rock You, Sheer Heart Attack, Get Down Make Love
Queen Rocks Volume Two
USA, 1992. CD and Cassette
only.
Keep Yourself Alive, Modern Times Rock 'n' Roll, Crazy Little
Thing Called Love, One Vision, Fat Bottomed Girls, Need Your
Loving Tonight, Liar
Queen Rocks Volume Three
USA, 1992. CD and Cassette
only.
Bohemian Rhapsody, You're My Best Friend (1991 Remix), I'm In
Love With My Car (1991 Remix), Seven Seas Of Rhye, I Want It All
(Single), Flash, Let Me Entertain You (Live), The Hitman
Queen Rocks Volume Four
USA, 1992. CD and Cassette
only.
One Vision (Live), Killer Queen, Play The Game, We Will Rock You
(1991 Remix), We Are The Champions, Dragon Attack, Hammer To
Fall, Headlong
Basic Queen Bootlegs
USA, 1992. CD.
A CD containing ten tracks re-mixed by DJ's, as follows:
We Will Rock You (Rick Rubin Remix), Don't Try Suicide (Muggs),
Another One Bites The Dust (Ice Cube), Under Pressure (Mr Mixx),
We Are The Champions (Rick Rubin Remix), Fat Bottomed Girls (OK),
Dragon Attack (RAK), Another One Bites The Dust (Phase And Rave),
Stone Cold Crazy (Reznor) and Dragon Attack (Rave).
Judging by the descriptions, two of the tracks seem to be those
released as bonus tracks on the US remaster CD's (We
Will Rock You and Dragon
Attack), as well as
Rick Rubin's remix of 'We
Are The Champions' and
Trent Reznor's remix of 'Stone Cold
Crazy' (AKA Trash
Version). Nothing else is known about the other six mixes, but
they are probably all promo-only.
Digital Remaster Sampler
UK, 1994. CD only. Issued
to promote the Digital Remaster series on CD and cassette.
Liar, Funny How Love Is (New Edit), In The Lap Of The Gods
(Revisited), Lily Of The Valley, I'm In Love With My Car (Album),
'39, You Take My Breath Away (Edit), Spread Your Wings, Mustapha,
Get Down Make Love (Live Killers), Dragon Attack, The Hero,
Staying Power, Keep Passing The Open Windows
Queen Rocks Teaser
UK, 1997. Cassette only. A
promotional cassette for 'Queen Rocks'
The Crown Jewels Sampler
USA, 1998. CD only. Issued
to promote the 1998 boxed set. Actually the 1992 'Greatest Hits'
album.
We Will Rock You, We Are The Champions, Another One Bites The
Dust, Killer Queen, Somebody To Love, Fat Bottomed Girls, Bicycle
Race, You're My Best Friend, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Now
I'm Here, Play The Game, Seven Seas Of Rhye, Body Language, Save
Me, Don't Stop Me Now, Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy, I Want To
Break Free
Jewels: The Very Best Of Queen
Taiwan, 2004. A five track
promo for the 'Jewels' album.
I Was Born To Love You, We Will Rock You, We Are The Champions,
Don't Stop Me Now, Bohemian Rhapsody
Taste Of Another World
UK, 1998. CD only. A
promotional CD for 'Another World'
Singles
My Melancholy Blues, My Melancholy
Blues
UK, 1977. 12"
Double-sided Acetate only
We Will Rock You, Bohemian Rhapsody
Spain, 1981. 7" only.
Issued to promote 'Greatest Hits'.
Excerpts From The Works: 'Radio Ga Ga',
'I Want To Break Free', 'Hard Life', 'Hammer To Fall'
UK, 1984. 7"
Flexidisc only. The track 'Hard Life' was renamed 'It's A Hard
Life' for later release.
Hammer To Fall (Live)
UK, 1985. One sided
12" promo for 'Live In Rio'.
Under Pressure (Live), We Will Rock You
(Live), Friends Will Be Friends (Live), We Are The Champions
(Live)
UK and France, 1986.
7" only. Issued to promote 'Live Magic'
I Can't Live With You
USA, 1991. CD only. A two
track CD featuring the normal and edited versions of Brian
Malouf's remix. The sleeve only states one track on the disc.
We Are The Champions
USA, 1991. CD only. A one
track CD containing a special version featuring George Bush, to
mark the end of the Gulf War.
Bohemian Rhapsody
USA, 1991/2. CD only. A
one-track (?) CD to promote the 'Wayne's World' film.
Stone Cold Crazy (1991 Remix), We Will
Rock You, We Are The Champions, Stone Cold Crazy (Trent Reznor
Remix)
USA, 1991/2. CD only.
Hammer To Fall (Malouf Remix), Hammer
To Fall (Malouf Edit), Bohemian Rhapsody
USA, 1992 (?). CD only.
It's A Beautiful Day
Mother Love
UK, 1995. 12" only.
One of a series of special promo pressings which were given away
through competitions on Virgin radio. Some copies were signed and
some unsigned. Other releases were 'Heaven For Everyone', 'A
Winter's Tale', 'I Was Born To Love You', 'Let Me Live' and 'You
Don't Fool Me' (all of which have been given a proper release
elsewhere)
We Will Rock You (Ruined Remix), We
Will Rock You (Ruined Remix Edit)
France, 1997 (?). CD only.
Presumably issued to promote the 'Queen Rocks' album.
Keep Yourself Alive (Album Version),
Keep Yourself Alive (BBC Version), Keep Yourself Alive (Long Lost
Retake), Keep Yourself Alive (Live), Keep Yourself Alive
(Remastered)
USA, 1998. CD only. Issued
to promote the 'Crown Jewels' boxed set.
Audio: Heaven For Everyone
Enhanced: 'Heaven For Everyone' and CD-ROM footage of Switzerland
Switzerland, 1998. CD
only. Issued by the Swiss Tourist Board.
We Will Rock You, We Are The Champions,
Bohemian Rhapsody
UK, 2002. CD only. Issued
to promote the 'We Will Rock You' musical and the reissued
'Platinum Collection' boxed set.
We Will Rock You (with John Farnham)
Australia, 2003. CD only.
Issued to celebrate the Rugby World Cup.
A Kind Of Magic, Radio Ga Ga
UK, 2003. CD only. Issued
to promote the DVD 'Greatest Video Hits II'
We Will Rock You, A Kind Of Magic, No
One But You, One Vision
Australia, 2003/4. Issued
to coincide with the opening of the 'We Will Rock You' musical in
Australia.
I'm In Love With My Car
USA, 2004. CD only. Issued
to coincide with the track being used to promote Jaguar cars.
Pepsi Music
Austria, 2004. CD only.
Four promo CD's were issued to coincide with the Pepsi TV advert.
The first three CD's each focused on one of the three guest
female artists - Beyonce, Britney or Pink. The fourth CD was a
general CD featuring all of them. Each CD featured the same Queen
material but featured different tracks by the guest artists. The
audio track of interest is the 'We Will Rock You' Pepsi
Gladiators Soundtrack Remix, whilst they also included CD-Rom
footage which included TV Spot, Behind The Scenes, Interviews,
Screensaver, WWRY video, Pictures and Links.
We Will Rock You (Live)
Japan, 2004. CD only. A
one track CD containing the live fast version of the track taken
from 'Queen On Fire: Live At The Bowl'
Queen On Tour
UK, 2005. CD only. A
promotional CD to promote the Queen + Paul Rodgers European tour,
featuring interviews.
Queen On Fire : Live At The Bowl
Mexico, 2005. CD only. A
three track CD containing 'Somebody To Love', 'Back Chat' and
'Under Pressure'
Live In Italy
USA, 2006. CD only. A two
track CD to promote the Queen + Paul Rodgers US Tour, featuring
'Seagull' from Rome and 'Fat Bottomed Girls' from Florence, both
recorded on the 2005 European Tour.
We Will Rock You / We Are The Champions
UK, 2007. CD only. A two
track CD in card sleeve to mark the 30th anniversary of the
release of the tracks.
Laugh Or Cry
UK, 1981. 7" Test
Pressing only.
We Will Rock You (Live)
France, 1993. CD only.
Il Colosso
UK/USA, 1996. CD only.
Love Kills (Remix)
USA, 1992(?). CD only.
Time, Time (Radio Mix)
USA, 1992(?). CD only.
Love On A Tightrope
UK, 1988. 3" CD only,
with 3 other artists.