Queen -A Day At the Races ( HQ vinyl remaster )

Release date: 25-09-2015 (originally released in 1991)

2015 EU halfspeed remastered on 180g vinyl from Original Master Tapes, including Tie Your Mother Down," " Somebody To Love" & "Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy".

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

Tracks:
A1 Tie Your Mother Down
A2 You Take My Breath Away
A3 Long Away
A4 The Millionaire Waltz
A5 You And I

B1 Somebody To Love
B2 White Man
B3 Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy
B4 Drowse
B5 Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together)

Albums:
Queen (1973)
Queen II (1974)
Sheer Heart Attack (1974)
A Night at the Opera (1975)
A Day at the Races (1976)
News of the World (1977)
Jazz (1978)
The Game (1980)
Flash Gordon (1980)
Hot Space (1982)
The Works (1984)
A Kind of Magic (1986)
The Miracle (1989)
Innuendo (1991)
Made in Heaven (1995)