The band’s sixth studio album News of the World was released in 1977, which has gone four times platinum in the US, and twice in the UK.
Wind & Wuthering was released in December 1976 and reached No. 7 in the UK and No. 26 in the US.
On 1 December 1976, Queen were the intended guests on London’s early evening Today programme, but they pulled out at the last minute, which caused their late replacement on the show, EMI labelmate the Sex Pistols , to give their infamous expletive-strewn interview with Bill Grundy .
Additional recording and production work was done at Trident Studios that October.
Siouxsie Sioux and Steven Severin met at a Roxy Music concert in September 1975, at a time when glam rock had faded and there was nothing new coming through with which they could identify. From February 1976, Siouxsie, Severin and some friends began to follow an unsigned band, the Sex…
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Queen played a landmark gig on 18 September 1976, a free concert in Hyde Park , London, organised by the entrepreneur Richard Branson . It set an attendance record at the park, with 150,000 people confirmed in the audience. Queen were late arriving onstage and ran out of time to…
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In September 1976, Genesis relocated to Relight Studios at Hilvarenbeek in the Netherlands with Hentschel to record Wind & Wuthering .
In June, the album was certified Gold by the British Phonographic Institute for selling over 100,000 copies which helped the band clear the £400,000 of debt (equivalent to £2,700,000 in 2025) they owed when Gabriel left.
On 31 May 1976, they played a second concert at the Valley which was listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s loudest concert at over 120 dB.
A Trick of the Tail was released in February 1976 and was a commercial and critical success for the band.