Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club, and that’s not accidental. The last time I felt this way about an album was Sgt. Queen turns everything it touches into gold on Opera, with the consequence that everything before and after seemed a bit cruder by comparison. The band’s last album, Sheer Heart Attack, tried unsuccessfully to blend rock, music hall, prog and four songwriters into a cohesive whole. I mention this because A Night at the Opera is Midas touched. The story of King Midas is beloved by children because it presupposes that anything is possible and everything has consequences. The royal flush of rock and roll albums, revealed card by card with unconfined joy.
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