A Day at the Races (album)

A Day at the Races
Studio album by
Queen
Released10 December 1976 (1976-12-10)
Recorded
  • 12 July – 24 August 1976 (initial sessions)
  • 5 September – 19 November 1976 (final sessions)
Studio
Genre
Length44:24
Label
ProducerQueen
Queen chronology
A Night at the Opera
(1975) 		A Day at the Races
(1976) 		News of the World
(1977)
Singles from A Day at the Races
  1. "Somebody to Love"
    Released: 12 November 1976[5]
  2. "Tie Your Mother Down"
    Released: 4 March 1977
  3. "Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together)"
    Released: 25 March 1977 (Japan)[6]
  4. "Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy"
    Released: 20 May 1977[nb 1]
  5. "Long Away"
    Released: 7 June 1977

A Day at the Races is the fifth studio album by the British rock band Queen, released on 10 December 1976 by EMI Records in the United Kingdom and by Elektra Records in the United States. Recorded at The Manor, Sarm East, and Wessex Sound Studios in England, it was the band's first completely self-produced album, and the first completed without the involvement of producer Roy Thomas Baker; engineering duties were handled by Mike Stone. It serves as a companion to Queen's previous album, A Night at the Opera, with both taking their names from Marx Brothers films and having similar packaging and eclectic musical themes.[8]

The album reached the top of the charts in the UK, Japan, and the Netherlands. It reached number five on the US Billboard Top LPs & Tape chart and was Queen's third album to ship gold in the US, subsequently reaching platinum status in the country. In 2006, a listener poll conducted by BBC Radio 2 saw A Day at the Races voted the 67th greatest album of all time.[9]

  1. ^ "Queen – A Day At The Races". AllMusic. Retrieved 20 August 2013. this is exquisitely detailed hard rock...
  2. ^ "A wild ride with Queen". Jim DeRogatis. 19 March 2006. Retrieved 6 January 2019. The group began to show the breadth of its musical vision and perfect its style of symphonic rock with "A Night at the Opera"...and "A Day at the Races...
  3. ^ Purvis, George (2007). Queen: Complete Works. London, UK: Titan Group Publishing. p. 57. ISBN 978-0-85768-551-3. 'A Day at the Races' would be Queen's final excursion in the grandiose pomp and glam they had perfected from their formation...
  4. ^ Ramirez, AJ (8 June 2011). "In the Lap of the Gods: The First Five Queen Albums". PopMatters. Retrieved 16 October 2015. With the group now firmly in command of the mechanics of pop songcraft (fittingly, the album spun off the most singles from any Queen LP up until then).
  5. ^ "Queen – Somebody To Love".
  6. ^ クイーンのシングル売上TOP4作品 [Queen's 4 topmost selling singles]. Oricon (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 21 December 2022. Retrieved 7 October 2023.
  7. ^ Allen, Jim. "Queen's First EP – Queen". AllMusic. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
  8. ^ Queenlvr314 (20 July 2009). "Roger Taylor Interview 1976" – via YouTube.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  9. ^ "BBC Radio 2 Top 100 Albums". Rocklistmusic.co.uk. 28 August 2006.


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