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Seven Seas of Rhye” is a song by English rock group Queen. Written by Queen front-man Freddie Mercury, it is the final track on both the group’s debut album Queen (1973) and its follow-up Queen II (1974) with a much less-developed instrumental version was featured on the former. The completed version served as the band’s second single, the earliest-released song to appear on their Greatest Hits album, with the exception of some versions where their first single, Keep Yourself Alive, is included.

The song was released as a single, and after the band performed it on Top of the Pops it became their first hit, peaking at number 10 on the UK Singles Chart.

The song is about Freddie Mercury’s childhood fantasy world named “Rhye”. The land of Rhye was originally made up by Mercury and his sister Kashmira when they were children. After joining Queen as an adult, Mercury wrote some songs about that country, including “Seven Seas of Rhye”, Lily Of The Valley, “My Fairy King, “Ogre Battle”, “The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke”,”The March of the Black Queen”, “Great King Rat”, and “Mad The Swine”.

The song became a live favourite throughout Queen’s existence. It features a distinctive arpeggiated piano introduction. The theme also appears at the end of “It’s a Beautiful Day”.

The version on Queen II ends with a cross fade, instruments blending into several people singing “I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside”. Its inclusion here on the final track of Queen II is briefly mirrored in the first few seconds of “Brighton Rock”, which opens their next album, Sheer Heart Attack. (A few whistled bars can be heard over the introductory noise).
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  • REAPERSNOG

    Rhye as in bread?

    last month

  • steve__

    Amazing song.

    February 2012

  • wilte01

    One of the early ones; and IMHO one of the best

    October 2011

  • HE1NZ

    Webley version TOTALLY KICKS ASS

    May 2011

  • Big_Dip

    The song's success enabled Mercury to quit his day job working at a stall in London's Kensington Market.

    May 2011

  • XenoLair

    I CHALLENGE THE MIGHTY TITAN AND HIS TROUBADOURS [2]

    May 2011

  • MrsBadGirl

    Amazing song!...i love the '70

    April 2011

  • CanadianNinja

    I CHALLENGE THE MIGHTY TITAN AND HIS TROUBADOURS

    March 2011

  • RafaelDivoz

    sounds mexican :D

    January 2011

  • Talentedlosers

    hmm, whole track not there...

    January 2011

  • davidbowiegirl

    Good song

    November 2010

  • _danton_

    "Oh we DO like to be beside the seaside... oh we DO like to be beside the sea..."

    October 2010

  • Queen-Lady

    I'll take you to the seven seas of rhye so great ♥

    October 2010

  • dons61

    This is queen at their best. Brilliant vocals this is timeless !

    October 2010

  • RonB

    the short instrumental version should be tagged as "Seven Seas Of Rhye...", that's how it is listed on the original LP & CD releases...

    August 2010

  • SpiderJeruslm

    uber weird... now it's showing the time as if this were the instrumental from Queen, but it's actually PLAYING the version with lyrics... strange....

    July 2010

  • ricz_dm

    '1 minute' version = Queen (1973), 'full' version = Queen II (1974)

    July 2010

  • tollcollect

    1 minute instrumental, wtf?

    July 2010

  • skank_pit

    OK, now I am just getting a 1 minute instrumental :|

    June 2010

  • skank_pit

    Almighty! I'm getting the full song

    June 2010
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