QUEEN A Day At The Races VIRGIN/EMI RECORDS 180g HALF-SPEED Audiophile (Import)
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QUEEN A Day At The Races Virgin EMI RECORDS 180 gram HALF-SPEED Mastered Audiophile pressing
Tracklist
A1 Tie Your Mother Down Written-By – May* 4:49 A2 You Take My Breath Away Written-By – Mercury* 5:07 A3 Long Away Vocals – Brian*Written-By – May* 3:33 A4 The Millionaire Waltz Orchestrated By [Guitar Orchestration] – Brian*Written-By – Mercury* 4:57 A5 You And I Acoustic Guitar – John*Written-By – Deacon3:30 B1 Somebody To Love Choir [Gospel] – Brian*, Freddie*, Roger*Written-By – Mercury* 4:59 B2 White Man Written-By – May* 5:00 B3 Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy Vocals [Additional] – Mike StoneWritten-By – Mercury* 2:53 B4 Drowse Slide Guitar – Brian*Vocals, Rhythm Guitar [Electric] – Roger*Written-By – Taylor* 3:46 B5 Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together) Harmonium, Piano [Plastic] – Brian*Written-By – May* 5:54
*(all photos are of the actual item)
- Remastered At – Gateway Mastering
- Lacquer Cut At – Abbey Road Studios
- Copyright (c) – Queen Productions Ltd.
- Bass [Fender] – John Deacon
- Drums, Vocals, Percussion, Performer [Pandemonium] – Roger Taylor
- Guitar, Vocals, Leader [Leader Of The Orchestra] – Brian May
- Lacquer Cut By [Half-Speed Vinyl Mastering] – Miles Showell
- Remastered By [Digital Mastering 2011] – Bob Ludwig
- Vocals, Piano, Chorus Master [Choir Meister], Performer [Tantrums] – Freddie Mercury
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Barcode: 602547202703
- Matrix / Runout (Side One Runout, Etched): BF83150-01 A3 4720270 MILES ABBEY ROAD 1/2 SPEED
- Matrix / Runout (Side Two Runout, Etched): BF83150-01 B2 4720270 MILES ABBEY ROAD 1/2 SPEED
Sourced from the Original Master Tapes, Mastered By Bob Ludwig, Cut at Half-Speed at Abbey Road Studios, and Pressed at Optimal in Germany
Queen’s fifth studio album was the first to be self-produced by the band as the preceding four LPs were co-produced with Roy Thomas Baker. The album followed its predecessor A Night At The Opera in taking its name from a film by the Marx Brothers. It was released on December 10th 1976 and peaked at No. 1 in the UK. In America, issued a week later, it reached No. 5 on the US Billboard album chart and became Queen's first American album to achieve Gold status – and subsequently Platinum.
Like A Night At The Opera – which many think of as its sister album - A Day At The Races is greatly diverse on all levels, exploring all kinds of musical styles and genres; from the heavy "Tie Your Mother Down" and "White Man," to Freddie’s delicate "You Take My Breath Away" and Deacon’s "You And I." It has been stated many times over the years, by Brian and Roger mostly, that the band saw this album more a less a continuation of the previous LP. Indeed, so much so, that the two might even have been released simultaneously. A Day At The Races finds Queen during a highly inventive and motivated period. All four members are writing and creating at a furious rate and within four months they produced several of their most acclaimed recordings, best loved singles, and, in the minds of many, one of their finest and most complete albums.
Mercury’s "Somebody to Love," among the best known Queen songs of all, was to become the biggest single of the album. It was also its author’s most favorite of his own compositions at the time. Like "Bohemian Rhapsody," this recording features complex layered vocal tracks, though this time based on a gospel choir arrangement; a combination of Freddie, Brian and Roger’s multi-tracked voices to achieve the impression of a 100-voice gospel choir. It is staggering to think that the colossal choirs on this recording could have been produced from just three voices, but that is certainly the case. The various band members have stated many times over the years that it is purely good fortunate and luck that the three voices merge so wonderfully together to provide such a distinctive part of the Queen sound.
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