A Day at the Races

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Queen entered The Manor in Oxfordshire on 12 July to commence work on A Day At The Races. [15] Absent was Roy Thomas Baker, who had helped the band produce their last four albums. [16] This was because of a four-album contract he had signed with the band in 1972. This contract had expired after the release of the band's fourth album, and the band had decided to record the album by themselves, with the assistance of engineers Mike Stone and Gary Langan. Baker would travel to America to produce more material after signing a contract with CBS Records. [17] On 19 July, May's 29th birthday, (according to a letter written for the fan club around this time) while the band were recording in The Manor, the band were mailed items related to penguins. A giant penguin ice maker was also shipped to the band. These items were mailed to the band because of May's interest in penguins. You Take My Breath Away" was written by Mercury and based on the harmonic minor scale. He performed it by himself at Hyde Park before recording it, and all of the vocals in the version of the song on the album were performed by him, as was the piano part.

Matrix / Runout (Side B etched, variant 4): 6E-101-B-1 7̸E̸-̸1̸0̸9̸1̸-̸A̸B1-SP SP X1-1 7E-1091-B-1 STERLING a b c d Brooks, Greg & Taylor, Gary. "A Day At The Races". Queenonline.com. Archived from the original on 26 September 2016 . Retrieved 11 October 2016.

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Setsuo, Saitoh (April 1981). "Brian May - "I'm always aiming for something better" ". Queen The Miracle (in Japanese). Music Life. The song was the biggest hit single from the album. It went to number two on the UK charts (kept from the number one spot by " Under the Moon of Love" by Showaddywaddy) and number 13 on the US singles chart. [29] [30] [31] "White Man" Ramirez, AJ (8 June 2011). "In the Lap of the Gods: The First Five Queen Albums". PopMatters. Archived from the original on 26 November 2013 . Retrieved 19 April 2016.

Kot, Greg (19 April 1992). "An 18-record, 80 Million-copy Odyssey". Chicago Tribune . Retrieved 19 April 2016. Drowse" is the only song on the album written by Roger Taylor, who, in addition to playing the drums, did all of the vocals and played rhythm guitar; May played the slide guitar. Like " I'm In Love With My Car", Taylor's song on the previous album, "Drowse" is in 6/8. a b Ramirez, AJ (8 June 2011). "In the Lap of the Gods: The First Five Queen Albums". PopMatters . Retrieved 16 October 2015. With the group now firmly in command of the mechanics of pop songcraft (fittingly, the album spun off the most singles from any Queen LP up until then).Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrateded.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. Queen's 4 topmost selling singles]. Oricon (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 21 December 2022 . Retrieved 7 October 2023. Purvis, Georg (28 August 2012). Queen: The Complete Works. Titan Books (US, CA). ISBN 978-1-78116-287-3. Purvis, George (October 2018). Queen: Complete Works (Revised & Updateded.). Titan Books. ISBN 978-1-78909-049-9. Japanese Year-End Albums Chart 1977] (in Japanese). Oricon. Archived from the original on 5 December 2012 . Retrieved 3 October 2011.

Offiziellecharts.de – Queen – A Day at the Races" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 22 April 2022.Cohen, Scott (6 July 1976). "The Queen Interview". Circus . Retrieved 15 February 2022– via BrianMay.com. In the US, "Somebody to Love" was released on 10 December 1976 (Elektra E45362) and reached number 13. It was followed by "Tie Your Mother Down" (Elektra E45385) in March 1977, which reached number 49. Both of these were released in Japan, as was "Teo Torriatte", which was not released as a single in any other territory. Purvis, George (2007). Queen: Complete Works. London, UK: Titan Group Publishing. p.57. ISBN 978-0-85768-551-3. 'A Day at the Races' would be Queen's final excursion in the grandiose pomp and glam they had perfected from their formation...

Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (Illustrateded.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p.243. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.Pennanen, Timo (2006). Sisältää hitin – levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972 (in Finnish) (1sted.). Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava. p.166. ISBN 978-951-1-21053-5. Roberts, David, ed. (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19thed.). London, UK: Guinness World Records Ltd. ISBN 1-904994-10-5. Queenlvr314 (20 July 2009). "Roger Taylor Interview 1976"– via YouTube. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ( link) Tie Your Mother Down" was written by Brian May in Tenerife in early 1968, two years before the formation of Queen. At the time, he was working on his PhD in Astronomy. [24] He wrote the song on Spanish guitar and thought he'd change the title and chorus later on, but when he brought it to the band for inclusion on this album, Freddie Mercury liked the original and it was kept the way it was written. [24]