1975 ORIG SHRINK + STICKER QUEEN DAY AT THE RACES HARD PROG A+

$ 37

$ 37 Sold For

Aug 11, 2012 Sold Date

Aug 6, 2012 Start Date

$ 10 Start price

10 Number Of Bids

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1975 FIRST PRINTING IN FACTORY SHRINK WRAPPER

+ RARE "SOMEBODY TO LOVE" STICKER ON CELLOPHANE!

QUEEN

Day At The Races

USA - (Butterfly) ELEKTRA RECORDS - 7E 1053

MINT!

Thee Original 1975 first pressing...in original factory shrink wrapper with the rare QUEEN sticker on outside of the cellophane ...

Queen had at this point reached stardom. So, how the hell can they cope with releasing a better album than A Night At The Opera?

Same great and wild opening song as "A Night At The Opera's" Death On Two Legs with "Tie Your Mother Down." And then, a beautiful and melodic sweet song like Love Of My Live with You Take My Breath Away. So far, so great. And they don't stop there...

The Millionaire Waltz (Mercury, of course) is brilliant. Varied, fresh, unpredictable, gorgeous, melodic, rocking, theatrical. Ever heard of this before? Yes, it has more Bohemian flavour as some other song featured on this album. Big fave here. By several miles...

And amazingly, You And I is another powerful track. A usual combination of great keys and sumptuous vocals; but who would doubt about this genuine Queen quality? Somebody To Love is of course another highlight of this album. Reminiscent of the fabulous Bohemian Rhapsody. Fabulous vocals and great choir work.

The band is distilling some great hard-rock in the song White Man. May is again rather convincing as a guitar player but even more as a song writer. It will appeal to any hard-rocking fan.

"A Day At The Races" is arguably more consistent than "A Night At the Opera". No such masquerade as Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon or Seaside Rendez-Vous.

Tie Your Mother Down (4:46)
You Take My Breath Away (4:40)
Long Away (3:55)
Millionaire Waltz (4:52)
You and I (3:23)
Somebody to Love (4:57)
White Man (4:56)
Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy (2:54)
Drowse (3:41)
Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together) (5:51)

CONDITION: The cover: The gatefold is hard to find this clean ...and here it's MINT = still in original cellophane (only the cellophane bit scuffed from beig around near 30 years, but the cover underneath is stone mint) ...The black cover is almost always found with shelf wear...here, the best copy we've had and includes the rare hit sticker "Somebody To Love" on the outside of the cellophane along with the original store price sticker... No bends, no writing and no split seams...TOP display worthy collectible

The vinyl: glossy clean on both sides = all clear M- looks and plays beautiful and the Elektra labels are both clean too....TOP collectible!

keeper!

A GREAT ADDITION TO ANYONE'S COLLECTION !

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All imperfections are noted both cover & record

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