{"id":5017,"date":"2026-07-22T21:19:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T19:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/?p=5017"},"modified":"2026-07-23T13:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T11:16:07","slug":"a-night-at-the-opera-1975-signed-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/?p=5017","title":{"rendered":"A Night at the Opera (1975) \u2014 Signed in Boston, 1976"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"margin:1.5em 0;text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/SAM_3608-scaled-1380x920.jpg\" alt=\"Signed A Night at the Opera LP alongside coloured vinyl pressings on display\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>The centrepiece of this case is a US copy of <em>A Night at the Opera<\/em> (1975), signed on the front cover by all four members &#8212; Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon &#8212; during an in-store signing session in Boston, ahead of a date on their US tour at the start of 1976.<\/p><div class=\"2416a19e08873d0076105f82e7f970da\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6280590296994447\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- quadrato -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block;text-align:center;margin:0 auto;max-width:100%\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6280590296994447\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"6452889443\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<figure style=\"margin:1.5em 0;text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/opera-anniversay.jpg\" alt=\"Body-painted model in front of a wall of A Night at the Opera worldwide pressings at Discodays, Naples 2015\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>On either side of the signed sleeve stand two coloured vinyl pressings of the album &#8212; a mauve\/brown copy and a white copy &#8212; part of the small run of coloured test pressings that occasionally turned up alongside the standard black vinyl, flagged on the exhibition card as &#8220;A Night at the Opera &#8212; Vinili Colorati.&#8221; Laid flat in front of them are further pressings of the album from various countries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:2em;\"><em>This piece is part of &#8220;Keep On Rockin&#8217; &#8212; the 2019 Exhibition.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/?page_id=5013\">See the full exhibition here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Forty years on, the album was still drawing crowds: at Discodays in Naples in 2015, a body-painted model posed in front of a dedicated anniversary display, the wall behind her lined floor to ceiling with worldwide pressings of A Night at the Opera.<\/p>\n<div class=\"2416a19e08873d0076105f82e7f970da\" data-index=\"3\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6280590296994447\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- stretto -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block;text-align:center;margin:0 auto;max-width:100%\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6280590296994447\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"5886106757\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; 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