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Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together)” is a song from the 1976 Queen album A Day at the Races and is written by guitarist Brian May. It is the tenth and final track on the album.

The song is notable for having two verses sung in Japanese; it is one of four Queen songs in which an entire verse is sung in a language other than English. The song features a piano, a plastic piano, and a harmonium, all of which are played by Brian May. It is the only point in the album in which Freddie Mercury does not play piano.

The album’s closing guitar melody is also its opening melody; the sequence was attached to the beginning of “Tie Your Mother Down”, the first track on the album. May described it as “a never-ending staircase”, otherwise commonly known, musically, as a Shepard tone.

The song was released as a single exclusively in Japan, and only as a 7” single; it reached #49 on the Japanese charts.[1] The B-side was the song “Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy”. The closing Shepard tone was edited off the song.

During the Queen + Paul Rodgers tour in 2005, Brian May performed the song during a set in Japan.

A new, re-mixed edition of the song was released in 2011 as part of Queen’s 40th Anniversary remasters collection. The insert booklet that comes with the 2011 Remaster of “A Day At The Races” says the following of this particular version:

This High Definition digital mix of Teo Torriatte was first included on the Japanese-only compilation album Jewels II in 2005.
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  • xpldng_hlcptr

    Gorgeous track.

    March 2012

  • BabyShalom

    Beautiful

    December 2011

  • Julia_Pcholka

    Masterpiece!

    October 2011

  • honeypie1489

    I really love this song! :')

    August 2011

  • Mare1232

    wonderful song wonderful album!!!

    July 2011

  • backtothelight

    HD mix is beautiful.

    May 2011

  • Judester69

    Let us never lose the lessons we have learned(:

    November 2010

  • hoppipollaa

    such a beautiful song..

    November 2010

  • missjulia423

    Best ballad in rock history

    September 2010

  • DrainBamage22

    I think that Muse could make an awesome cover out of this one..

    April 2010

  • woobie210

    Maybe Queen's best ballad.

    January 2010

  • MetulHead

    holy shit

    December 2009

  • ArekkerA

    Hot Space can't be compared with ADATR because that are different types of music. But I prefer the second one. And Teo Torriatte is probably the most underrated song of Queen... Such a waste... :(

    September 2009

  • surrealm

    one of queen's underrated songs, imho. really don't get why ADATR as an album would be underrated though, except maybe in comparison to ANATO

    August 2009

  • backtothelight

    Why is this song not listened to more? It's one of Queen's best. And I wouldn't go comparing this album to Hot Space. A Day At The Races is far superior.

    July 2009

  • javelin_skelter

    I wonder why this album is so underrated. I mean, it's just like Hot Space, nobody has the attention span to listen to the entire album :/

    July 2009

  • ToxicMDA

    It's beautiful.

    June 2009

  • backtothelight

    One of my all time favorite songs, ever. Beautiful track.

    June 2009

  • skuzzmamma

    I love this track. My mum is having it played at her funeral, she loves it too!

    April 2009

  • goonerphil

    The bee's knees ! Love it !

    February 2009
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