bass guitar John Deacon effects [thunderbolt] God engineer [additional engineering] John Etchells engineer [engineered by] Geoff Workman engineer [invaluable assistance] Aline Jaccottet engineer [invaluable assistance] André Jauchat engineer [invaluable assistance] David Palmer engineer [invaluable assistance] Martin Pearson engineer [invaluable assistance] Patrick Jauneaud guitar, vocals Brian May lacquer cut by André Leenders management Jim Beach mastered by George Marino percussion, vocals Roger Taylor photography by Chris Hopper photography by David Finch photography by Peter Hince producer Queen producer Roy Thomas Baker sleeve, design Cream sleeve, design concept Queen vocals, piano Freddie Mercury written-by, arranged by, performer Queen Phonographic Copyright (p) Raincloud Productions Ltd. Copyright (c) RTB Audio Visual Productions Made By EMI Records Holland B.V. Distributed By EMI Records Holland B.V. Manufactured By EMI Records Published By Queen Music Ltd. Published By EMI Music Publishing Ltd. Recorded At Mountain Studios Recorded At Super Bear Studios Mastered At Sterling Sound Lacquer Cut At Bovema / EMI Studios ℗ 1978 Raincloud Productions Ltd.
Album written and recorded July/October 1978, in Montreux, Switzerland and Nice, France.
Gatefold sleeve contains B/W picture
Came with tri-fold color 'Bicycle Race' poster. Bicycles supplied by Halfords. Thunderbolt courtesy of God. This album is dedicated to John Harris.
The runouts are stamped, except for the hand-etched André Leenders scribbled A (the CR in runouts); the B side B is inverted, the 6 on side A is double printed on a 5 and separate single digits sometimes in reverse. Rights Society: STEMRA Matrix / Runout: 6 5C-062-61820-A //2Y (Side A, runout variant 1) Matrix / Runout: 5C-062-61820-B // A1 (Side B, runout variant 1) Matrix / Runout: 5C-062-61820-A //2Y (Side A, runout variant 2) Matrix / Runout: 5C-062-61820-B //1Y (Side B, runout variant 2) Matrix / Runout: 6 5C-062-61820-A //2Y 1 1 A (Side A, runout variant 3) Matrix / Runout: 5C-062-61820-B //1Y 1 2 1 (Side B, runout variant 3) Matrix / Runout: 5C-062-61820-A //1Y -- CR 2 21 (Side A, runout variant 4) Matrix / Runout: 5C-062-61820-B //1Y -- 5 1 (Side B, runout variant 4) Matrix / Runout: 6 5C-062-61820-A //2Y (1 CR. - 1 (Side A, runout variant 5) Matrix / Runout: 5C-062-61820-B /2Y 1 1 CR. 1 (Side B, runout variant 5) Matrix / Runout: 3 -0 5C-062-61820-A //2Y IV CR. (Side A, runout variant 6) Matrix / Runout: 5C-062-61820-B //1Y (Side B, runout variant 6)