Liar (Queen song)

"Liar"
A-side label for the US vinyl single
Single by Queen
from the album Queen
B-side"Doing All Right"
Released14 February 1974[1]
RecordedDecember 1971;
June–November 1972
StudioTrident Studios, London
Genre
Length
  • 6:24 (album version)
  • 3:01 (single version)
LabelElektra
Songwriter(s)Freddie Mercury
Producer(s)
Queen singles chronology
"Keep Yourself Alive"
(1973)
"Liar"
(1974)
"Seven Seas of Rhye"
(1974)

"Liar" is a song by the British rock band Queen, written by the lead singer Freddie Mercury in 1970. The song featured on the band's 1973 debut album Queen. A heavily truncated version of "Liar" was released as a single – backed with "Doing All Right" – in the United States and New Zealand by Elektra Records in February 1974.

The music video consisted of the band miming to the song on a sound stage. "Liar" was the band's second videoclip and it was filmed one year before it was released as a single.

As confirmed by the transcription on EMI Music Publishing's Off The Record sheet music for the song, this is one of three Queen tracks, the others being "Now I'm Here" and "Under Pressure" (their collaboration originally with David Bowie), to feature a Hammond organ.

This song briefly brought up the problem of songwriting credits within the band. May queried which band members would be credited for developing the music for each song, to which Mercury concluded the discussion, stating that the lyricist, or otherwise the individual who originates the song, should be credited as its writer, a practice that continued until The Miracle (1989).

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  2. ^ Georg Purvis (24 August 2012). Queen: Complete Works. Titan Books. p. 657. ISBN 978-1-78116-287-3.
  3. ^ Popoff, Martin (5 January 2024). "The Top 20 unlikely Progressive Rock hits, ranked". Goldmine. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
  4. ^ Queen- Uncensored on the Record. Coda Books. ISBN 9781908538840.