Which Queen album includes the song 'Stone Cold Crazy'?

Queen’s song “Stone Cold Crazy” appears on the album Sheer Heart Attack. Released in 1974, the album was Queen’s third studio record and helped establish the band’s unusually broad musical identity.

“Stone Cold Crazy” is one of the album’s fastest and most aggressive tracks, with heavily distorted guitar, a rapid rhythm and lyrics about gangsters and Al Capone. Its sound has often been described as an early influence on speed metal or thrash metal, although those genre labels became common later.

The song had already existed in changing forms before the studio recording. Queen performed it live early in their career, and the band members shared the songwriting credit because none of them could agree who had written the lyrics. It became a regular part of Queen’s concerts during the mid-1970s.

A common mix-up is placing the track on A Night at the Opera, the 1975 album that followed Sheer Heart Attack and contained “Bohemian Rhapsody.” “Stone Cold Crazy” belongs to the earlier 1974 release. Metallica later covered it for the 1990 compilation Rubáiyát: Elektra’s 40th Anniversary, earning a Grammy for the performance in 1991.