Album - Jazz

Jazz was the seventh studio album by Queen and was released in November 1978. The album's varying musical styles were alternately praised and criticised. A viciously scathing review in the Rolling Stone magazine by Dave Marsh suggested that "Queen may be the first truly fascist rock band". Despite the review, the album reached #6 on the US Billboard 200. Queen's producer from the early days, Roy Thomas Baker, temporarily reunited with the band after a three year absence since co-producing the 1975 album A Night at the Opera, but this album was his last work with the band.

Queen sold the album with a poster depicting the all-female nude bicycle race staged to promote "Fat Bottomed Girls". A smaller version of the poster was included with the Crown Jewels box set. This was the first Queen album recorded outside the UK with the motivation being for tax purposes. Included in the liner notes is the attribution "Thunderbolt courtesy of God", referring to the crash of thunder heard at the end of the song "Dead On Time" which May recorded with a portable audio recorder during a thunderstorm. The album artwork was suggested by Roger Taylor, who previously saw a similar design painted on the Berlin Wall.