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Sheer Heart Attack is a Rock act. Their sound grew out of Mott the Hoople, The Who, Jim Croce and Deep Purple. Those roots explain a lot about how Sheer Heart Attack arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Another One Bites the Dust and I Want It All, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Metallica, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 7 connections around Sheer Heart Attack, reaching back through Mott the Hoople and forward to Metallica. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Sheer Heart Attack is the third studio album by the British rock band Queen, released on 8 November 1974 by EMI Records in the United Kingdom and by Elektra Records in the United States. Departing from the progressive themes featured on their first two albums, the album featured more pop-centric and conventional rock tracks and marked a step towards the "classic" Queen sound. It was produced by the band and Roy Thomas Baker, and launched Queen to mainstream popularity in the UK and throughout the world.
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Sheer Heart Attack grew out of Mott the Hoople, The Who, Jim Croce and Deep Purple, shares an orbit with Another One Bites the Dust and I Want It All, went on to shape Metallica. 7 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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