A Day At The Races

A Day at the Races is a rock album by English band Queen released in December 1976.

A Day at the Races was the band’s first self-produced album after co-producing their first four albums with Roy Thomas Baker (for Queen, Queen II, Sheer Heart Attack and A Night at the Opera) and John Anthony (Queen).

A Day at the Races was recorded at Sarm East, The Manor and Wessex Studios in England and engineered by Mike Stone. The title of the album followed suit with its predecessor A Night at the Opera in taking its name from a film by the Marx Brothers.

A Day at the Races peaked at number 1 in the UK, in Japan and in the Netherlands. It reached number 5 on the US Billboard album chart and was Queen’s fifth US album to ship Gold in the U.S… It subsequently reached Platinum status in sales in the U.S.


Track listing

Side one
“Tie Your Mother Down” (May) – 4:47
“You Take My Breath Away” (Mercury) – 5:09
“Long Away” (May) – 3:34
“The Millionaire Waltz” (Mercury) – 4:54
“You and I” (Deacon) – 3:25

Side two
“Somebody to Love” (Mercury) – 4:56
“White Man” (May) – 4:59
“Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy” (Mercury) – 2:54
“Drowse” (Taylor) – 3:45
“Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together)” (May) – 5:50

Bonus tracks (1991 Hollywood Records CD reissue)
“Tie Your Mother Down” (1991 Remix by Matt Wallace) – 3:44
“Somebody to Love” (1991 Remix by Randy Badazz) – 5:00

Song information

Tie Your Mother Down
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