The second volume of Queen's massively impressive Singles Collection CD series is set for release by EMI on June 15.

Aimed to make available and replicate in faithful detail every one of Queen's singles to have made the upper reaches of the charts anywhere in the world, the collection was launched last December with a set covering the band's career from the early years 1973 – 1979.

This latest Volume 2 box set covers the subsequent period of mid 1979 – 1984 with 13 singles drawn from the albums Live Killers (79), The Game (80), Flash Gordon (80), Hot Space (82) and The Works (84).

The subsequent volumes will follow the band's singles through to the final Queen studio album, Made In Heaven from 1995.

While focusing primarily on the band's complete UK singles output, the importance of the series is amplified by the inclusion on many singles only released abroad as well as rare non-album B-sides, live tracks, and some seldom-heard alternative mixes. This is a collection made up of the singles in their true original form, delivering every top 40 Queen single heard on the radio anywhere across the world.

This collection highlights one of the most adventurous periods in Queen's history which saw the band constantly reaching out into new territory, both as studio musicians and live performers. Considering the band was seldom away from touring it is remarkable they were able to achieve such an output of new recorded work. In the five year period these singles cover the band toured Europe three times, Japan three times, the USA twice and even managed to break open the Latin America countries with a series of logic and – some would say – sense-defying stadium concerts which Queen would later return to for the 1985 historic Rock in Rio concerts.

Recording wise, Queen released their first totally live album, Live Killers, strayed from the rock path to create some classic pop singles – Another One Bites the Dust, Radio Ga Ga and I Want to Break Free, flirted with dance music with Hot Space, made an all-time classic track with David Bowie, and brilliantly crossed the boundary into films soundtracks with the Flash Gordon album, something they would do even more successfully several years on with the Highlander soundtrack, released as the A Kind of Magic album.

Packaged in lift off top box, the 13 CD singles feature a selection of authentically reproduced cover artwork from around the world.

CD1:
1. Love Of My Life (Live)
2. Now I'm Here (Live)

CD2:
1. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
2. We Will Rock You (Live)

CD3:
1. Save Me
2. Let Me Entertain You (Live)

CD4:
1. Play The Game
2. A Human Body

CD5:
1. Another One Bites The Dust
2. Dragon Attack

CD6:
1. Flash's Theme
2. Football Fight

CD7:
1. Under Pressure
2. Soul Brother

CD8:
1. Body Language
2. Life Is Real

CD9:
1. Las Palabras De Amor (The Words Of Love)
2. Cool Cat

CD10:
1. Calling All The Girls
2. Put Out The Fire

CD11:
1. Back Chat
2. Staying Power

CD12:
1. Radio Ga Ga
2. I Go Crazy

CD13:
1. I Want To Break Free
2. Machined (or Back To Humans)