Queen - Flash Gordon (soundtrack) (35th anniversary)

Today (December 8th) marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of the release of the Flash Gordon soundtrack album, the ninth studio album from Queen. This one spent fifteen weeks on the US Billboard Album chart, peaking at number 23. It also charted at number 29 in Australia and Norway, number 25 in Sweden, number 12 in Japan, number 10 in the UK, number 7 in the Netherlands, number 2 in Germany, and number 1 in Austria.

For my full review of this album, click here.

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Queen - Flash Gordon (soundtrack)

Welcome to another edition of Soundtrack Sunday.

In researching yesterday’s blog post, I realized I had nearly forgotten about the soundtrack to the 1980 science fiction film Flash Gordon, which starred Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Timothy Dalton and Max von Sydow. With its campy style and bizarre costumes, this film adaptation of the classic comic-strip failed to win over large audiences.

The soundtrack, with music performed entirely by the rock band Queen, fared only slightly better. This, their ninth studio album, went to number 10 on the UK charts (where it was also certified Gold), number 2 in Germany and number 23 in the US.