Staying Power (Queen song)

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"Staying Power"
Japanese single picture sleeve
Single by Queen
from the album Hot Space
B-side	"Calling All Girls"
Released	July 1982
Recorded	1981–1982
Genre	Post-disco
Length	4:10 (7" album version) 5:52 (12" extended version)
Label	Elektra
Songwriter(s)	Freddie Mercury
Producer(s)	Queen Reinhold Mack
Queen singles chronology
"Calling All Girls" (1982) "Staying Power" (1982) "Back Chat" (1982)

"Staying Power" is the first track on Queen's 1982 album Hot Space. It was written by lead singer Freddie Mercury and is notable as being the only Queen song to have a horn section, which was arranged by Arif Mardin. The song is driven by a funk-styled bass riff (played by Mercury) beginning in D minor and modulating to E minor throughout the song. John Deacon does not play bass guitar on this song—instead playing rhythm guitar on a Fender Telecaster. Roger Taylor programmed a Linn LM-1 drum machine for the track. Brian May is on his Red Special. In a Stylus review of the album, critic Anthony Miccio described the song's style as "an electro-disco track with frenetic horns."^[1]

The song was released as a single in Japan.