Though now rightly regarded as one of the greatest rock bands of all time, Queen were experiencing something of a midlife crisis in the summer of 1977, when Freddie Mercury, Brian May, John Deacon and Roger Taylor reconvened to begin work on their sixth studio album.
Their previous record, 1976's A Day
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Queen’s ‘News of the World’: 10 Things You Didn’t Know