Sheer Heart Attack

Album by Queen

Released 1 November 1974

Tracklist

Digital Media 1
1
Brighton Rock
5:10
3.4 ★
2
Killer Queen
3:00
4.1 ★
3
Tenement Funster
2:46
3.4 ★
4
Flick of the Wrist
3:17
3.8 ★
5
Lily of the Valley
1:44
3.4 ★
6
Now I’m Here
4:18
3.5 ★
7
In the Lap of the Gods
3:22
3.5 ★
8
Stone Cold Crazy
2:16
4.1 ★
9
Dear Friends
1:08
3.0 ★
10
Misfire
1:49
2.5 ★
11
Bring Back That Leroy Brown
2:15
3.0 ★
12
She Makes Me (Stormtrooper in Stilettos)
4:09
2.9 ★
13
In the Lap of the Gods… Revisited
3:44
3.7 ★
Digital Media 2
1
Now I’m Here (live at Hammersmith Odeon, December 1975)
4:26
4.0 ★
2
Flick of the Wrist (BBC session, October 1974)
3:26
4.0 ★
3
Tenement Funster (BBC session, October 1974)
2:59
3.0 ★
4
Bring Back That Leroy Brown (a cappella mix 2011)
2:18
3.0 ★
5
In the Lap of the Gods… Revisited (live at Wembley Stadium, July 1986)
2:33
4.0 ★
6
Killer Queen (Top of the Pops, version 2, 1974)
3:04
7
Stone Cold Crazy (live at the Rainbow Theatre, 1974)
2:16
8
Now I’m Here (live at the Forum, Montreal, 1981)
3:41

Recent reviews

JHSuth1843 13 Oct 2025

★★★★½

Possibly Queen’s greatest album in my opinion, Sheer Heart Attack still has snippets of the earlier Queen that I love on tracks such as “In the Lap of the Gods” and “Bring Back That Leroy Brown”, whilst also being the start of their huge collection of hits, with “Killer Queen” and “Now I’m Here”, I’d make a case for this being the quintessential Queen album

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Release credits

Adrian Revell
recording [1]
Brian Malouf
mix [5]
Brian May
acoustic guitar [12], background vocals [1-2, 4, 6, 9, 12-13], banjo-ukulele [11], electric guitar [1-8, 10-13], executive [1-5], guitar [1-5], lead vocals [12], orchestrator [1.1-13, 2.1-5], piano [6, 9], producer [2]
Chris Jenkins
recording [1]
Chris Lycett
engineer [2-3]
David Goatham
recording [1]
Freddie Mercury
background vocals [1-2, 4-11, 13], lead vocals [2.1-5, 1.1-2, 1.4-11, 1.13], organ [6], piano [2-5, 7, 11, 13], tack piano [2, 11]
Jeff Griffin
producer [2-3]
John Deacon
acoustic guitar [3, 7, 10, 12], bass guitar [1.1-8, 1.10-13, 2.1-5], double bass [11], electric guitar [10], keyboard [2]
John Shirley-Smith
producer [1]
Josh Macrae
mix [4], producer [1]
Justin Shirley‐Smith
engineer [1-13], mix [4]
Kris Fredriksson
engineer [1-13], producer [1]
Mack
recording [5]
Martin Tranter
recording [1]
Mike Stone
engineer [1-13], recording [4]
Patrick MacDougall
assistant [5]
Queen
phonographic copyright [2, 6], producer [1.1-13, 2.4]
Roger Taylor
background vocals [1-4, 6-7, 9, 13], drums (drum set) [2.1-5, 1.1-13], executive [1-5], lead vocals [3], percussion [2, 4], producer [2], tambourine [4], timpani [7], triangle [2], wind chime [2]
Roy Thomas Baker
producer [1.1-13, 2.4]