A Day at the Races (Album)

Occupation

• Freddie Mercury - vocals, piano
• Brian May - guitars, vocals
• Roger Taylor - drums, vocals
• John Deacon - Bass

A Day at the Races is the 1976 released, fifth studio album by British rock band Queen. It was named after the Marx Brothers film A Day at the Races.

The album

The two albums A Night at the Opera (the predecessor of the album described ) and published on December 10, 1976 A Day at the Races can be viewed as a sister plants. Both titles refer to movie title the Marx Brothers, the design of the two record covers is complementary: the first white ( stands for " day ", though it but the " night music " is ), the second black ( "night" - is the " days album " ), appears in both the title image the Queen logo. Even in the selection of music styles parallels can be observed.

The best-known pieces are Somebody to Love and Tie Your Mother Down. Somebody to Love is a rock ballad in which Freddie Mercury, Brian May and Roger Taylor multiplied their voices to a 100 -voice gospel choir. True to their "guitar -driven" style was influenced there by Brian May's virtuoso harmony and came in at number 11 in the U.S. charts and # 2 in the UK. Tie Your Mother Down is a typical Queen hard rock tracks. Freddie Mercury as " choir master " and " tantrums " ( " Koller ", " tantrums " ), Brian May as a conductor and Roger Taylor with ": As a sign of their humor is considered the " cast list " of the album (" No synths! ") pandemonium " (Uproar ). John Deacon played acoustic guitar in You and I and Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy added sound engineer Mike Stone backing vocals.

The recordings for the album took place from July to November 1976. A Day at the Races reached # 1 on the British charts.

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Chart positions

Album

• # 1 - Great Britain ( gold).
• # 5 - USA ( gold ( Elektra ), platinum ( Hollywood Records ) ).
• # 8 - Austria
• # 10 - Germany (Gold)

Singles

• Somebody to Love ( November 1976) - # 1: The Netherlands; # 2: Great Britain; # 6: Canada; # 10: Italy; # 13: # 19: Denmark; USA; # 21: Germany; # 22: Australia; # 51: Japan.

• Tie Your Mother Down ( March 1977 ) - # 14: The Netherlands; # 31: Great Britain; # 49: United States.

• First E. P. (May 1977) - # 17: Great Britain.

• Long Away ( 1977) - no placement, was released only in North America and Thailand.