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Queen A Day At The Races

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Key Information: Reissue Remastered Stereo Gatefold 180 Gram Vinyl LP
Cat No: 4720270
Barcode: 602547202703
Released: 25 September 2015
Description
If “Bohemian Rhapsody” defined A Night at the Opera, then “Somebody to Love” defined A Day at the Races. One song captured Queen’s excess and Scaramouche-sized ambition; the other captured the band’s ability to streamline that excess into something simple and direct. By the time A Day at the Races was released in 1976, the group was ready for a change: A recent five-month tour celebrating the successes of Opera had exhausted Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon. But it had emboldened them, too. In certain ways, Races sounded like a return to familiar ground, but with a newfound confidence and a renewed sense of effortlessness: “White Man” and “Tie Your Mother Down” were heavy and nasty, “The Millionaire Waltz” let Mercury indulge in vaudeville and cabaret, and “Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together”) sounded nostalgic in an almost late-1960s kind of way. These guys knew what they were doing by now—so much so, they insisted on producing themselves this time around (May later reflected that the secret ingredient in A Day at the Races was freedom). As for the album’s hit lead-off single, “Somebody To Love”: Mercury had always loved the earthiness of soul and gospel music—qualities that might’ve seemed at odds with the extreme ornamentation of “Bohemian Rhapsody”, but that also predicted the power and simplicity of stuff like “We Are the Champions” and “Another One Bites the Dust”. And while “Somebody to Love” would become one of the band’s biggest hits, it also played a crucial—if unintended—role in late-1970s hard-rock history. Not long after the song’s release as a single, the band was forced to pull out of an appearance on the television show Today with Bill Grundy so that Mercury could go to the dentist. In a pivot that captured the shifting cultural winds of the time, Grundy instead hosted the Sex Pistols, who’d just released “Anarchy in the U.K.” The Pistols got drunk, cursed, and in general gave one of the more entertaining television performances in pop history (though the show itself was soon cancelled). Soon enough, Queen and the Sex Pistols would be competing on the charts, as punk began its assault on big-name, big-ego rock—though, for what it’s worth: An ever-respectful May would later recall the two bands meeting at the halls of Wessex Sound Studios in London, and getting along just fine.
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track list

Side A

  • 1. Keep Yourself Alive
  • 2. Doing All Right
  • 3. Great King Rat
  • 4. My Fairy King

Side AA

  • 1. Innuendo
  • 2. I'm Going Slightly Mad
  • 3. Headlong

Side B

  • 1. Liar
  • 2. The Night Comes Down
  • 3. Modern Times Rock'n'Roll
  • 4. Son And Daughter
  • 5. Jesus
  • 6. Seven Seas Of Rhye...

Side BB

  • 1. These Are The Days Of Our Lives
  • 2. Don't Try So Hard
  • 3. Ride The Wild Wind

Side C

  • 1. Procession
  • 2. Father To Son
  • 3. White Queen (As It Began)
  • 4. Some Day One Day
  • 5. The Loser In The End

Side CC

  • 1. All God's People
  • 2. I Can't Live With You
  • 3. Delilah

Side D

  • 1. Ogre Battle
  • 2. The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke
  • 3. Nevermore
  • 4. The March Of The Black Queen
  • 5. Funny How Love Is
  • 6. Seven Seas Of Rhye

Side DD

  • 1. The Hitman
  • 2. Bijou
  • 3. The Show Must Go On

Side E

  • 1. Brighton Rock
  • 2. Killer Queen
  • 3. Tenement Funster
  • 4. Flick Of The Wrist
  • 5. Lily Of The Valley
  • 6. Now I'm Here

Side EE

  • 1. It's A Beautiful Day
  • 2. Made In Heaven
  • 3. Let Me Live
  • 4. Mother Love

Side F

  • 1. In The Lap Of The Gods
  • 2. Stone Cold Crazy
  • 3. Dear Friends
  • 4. Misfire
  • 5. Bring Back That Leroy Brown
  • 6. She Makes Me (Stormtrooper In Stilettos)
  • 7. In The Lap Of The Gods...Revisited

Side FF

  • 1. My Life Has Been Saved
  • 2. I Was Born To Love You
  • 3. Heaven For Everyone

Side G

  • 1. Death On Two Legs (Dedicated To...
  • 2. Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon
  • 3. I'm In Love With My Car
  • 4. You're My Best Friend
  • 5. '39
  • 6. Sweet Lady
  • 7. Seaside Rendezvous

Side GG

  • 1. Too Much Love Will Kill You
  • 2. You Don't Fool Me
  • 3. A Winter's Tale
  • 4. It's A Beautiful Day (Reprise)

Side H

  • 1. The Prophet's Song
  • 2. Love Of My Life
  • 3. Good Company
  • 4. Bohemian Rhapsody
  • 5. God Save The Queen

Side HH

  • 1. "13"

Side I

  • 1. Tie Your Mother Down
  • 2. You Take My Breath Away
  • 3. Long Away
  • 4. The Millionaire Waltz
  • 5. You And I

Side J

  • 1. Somebody To Love
  • 2. White Man
  • 3. Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy
  • 4. Drowse
  • 5. Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together)

Side K

  • 1. We Will Rock You
  • 2. We Are The Champions
  • 3. Sheer Heart Attack
  • 4. All Dead, All Dead
  • 5. Spread Your Wings
  • 6. Fight From The Inside

Side L

  • 1. Get Down Make Love
  • 2. Sleeping On The Sidewalk
  • 3. Who Needs You
  • 4. It's Late
  • 5. My Melancholy Blues

Side M

  • 1. Mustapha
  • 2. Fat Bottomed Girls
  • 3. Jealousy
  • 4. Bicycle Race
  • 5. If You Can't Beat Them
  • 6. Let Me Entertain You

Side N

  • 1. Dead On Time
  • 2. In Only Seven Days
  • 3. Dreamers Ball
  • 4. Fun It
  • 5. Leaving Home Ain't Easy
  • 6. Don't Stop Me Now
  • 7. More Of That Jazz

Side O

  • 1. Play The Game
  • 2. Dragon Attack
  • 3. Another One Bites The Dust
  • 4. Need Your Loving Tonight
  • 5. Crazy Little Thing Called Love

Side P

  • 1. Rock It (Prime Jive)
  • 2. Don't Try Suicide
  • 3. Sail Away Sweet Sister
  • 4. Coming Soon
  • 5. Save Me

Side Q

  • 1. Flash's Theme
  • 2. In The Space Capsule (The Love Theme)
  • 3. Ming's Theme (In The Court Of Ming The Merciless)
  • 4. The Ring (Hypnotic Seduction Of Dale)
  • 5. Football Fight
  • 6. In The Death Cell (Love Theme Reprise)
  • 7. Execution Of Flash
  • 8. The Kiss (Aura Resurrects Flash)

Side R

  • 1. Arboria (Planet Of The Tree Men)
  • 2. Escape From The Swamp
  • 3. Flash To The Rescue
  • 4. Vultan's Theme (Attack Of The Hawk Men)
  • 5. Battle Theme
  • 6. The Wedding March
  • 7. Marriage Of Dale And Ming (And Flash Approaching)
  • 8. Crash Dive On Mingo City
  • 9. Flash's Theme Reprise (Victory Celebrations)
  • 10. The Hero

Side S

  • 1. Staying Power
  • 2. Dancer
  • 3. Back Chat
  • 4. Body Language
  • 5. Action This Day

Side T

  • 1. Put Out The Fire
  • 2. Life Is Real (Song For Lennon)
  • 3. Calling All Girls
  • 4. Las Palabras De Amor (The Words Of Love)
  • 5. Cool Cat
  • 6. Under Pressure

Side U

  • 1. Radio Ga Ga
  • 2. Tear It Up
  • 3. It's A Hard Life
  • 4. Man On The Prowl

Side V

  • 1. Machines (Or 'Back To Humans')
  • 2. I Want To Break Free
  • 3. Keep Passing The Open Windows
  • 4. Hammer To Fall
  • 5. Is This The World We Created...?

Side W

  • 1. One Vision
  • 2. A Kind Of Magic
  • 3. One Year Of Love
  • 4. Pain Is So Close To Pleasure
  • 5. Friends Will Be Friends

Side X

  • 1. Who Wants To Live Forever
  • 2. Gimme The Prize (Kurgan's Theme)
  • 3. Don't Lose Your Head
  • 4. Princes Of The Universe

Side Y

  • 1. Party
  • 2. Khashoggi's Ship
  • 3. The Miracle
  • 4. I Want It All
  • 5. The Invisible Man

Side Z

  • 1. Breakthru
  • 2. Rain Must Fall
  • 3. Scandal
  • 4. My Baby Does Me
  • 5. Was It All Worth It
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