Brian May said Queen faced being forced to break up if their 1975 album, A Night at the Opera, flopped. Their fourth LP proved to be their breakthrough, going on to sell more than 6 million copies ...

He owed it to us.” A year later, November 1975, I’m in the presence of greatness again as Queen are close to finishing what would be recognised as the album of their lives, A Night At The Opera.

Explore the story behind the conception and recording of "A Night at the Opera," the fourth Queen album, released in late 1975, and long regarded as a classic. The brilliant mix of hard rock, pop ...

On December 27, 1975, all their efforts paid off, and Queen finally earned their first No. 1 album on the UK Albums chart. A Night at the Opera also went to No. 4 on the Billboard 200.

It's not Queen's most successful album, nor we would argue their best. In both cases, those honors belong to The Game, released in 1980. But there's no doubt A Night at the Opera, released in 1975 ...