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Complete UK Year-End Album Charts". Chartheaven. Archived from the original on 19 May 2012 . Retrieved 3 March 2012. Bell, Max (26 December 2019). "A Day At The Races: How Queen Scored Pole Position". uDiscover Music . Retrieved 18 January 2020. Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge.

Larkin, Colin (2011). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5thed.). Omnibus Press. p.2248. ISBN 978-0-85712-595-8. On 8 November 2010, record company Universal Music announced a remastered and expanded reissue of the album set for release in May 2011. This was part of a new record deal between Queen and Universal Music, which marked the end of Queen's almost 40-year association with EMI Records. All of the band's albums were remastered and reissued by Universal in 2011. Cavanagh, David (11 March 2011). "Queen – The First Five Albums". Uncut. Archived from the original on 11 July 2015. Offiziellecharts.de – Queen – A Day at the Races" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 22 April 2022.White Man" was written by May about the suffering of Native Americans at the hands of European immigrants during the colonial period, taking the viewpoint of native peoples. It is one of Queen's heaviest works, thematically and musically.

On 21 July, Crystal Taylor, one of the band's roadies, who would later become Roger's personal assistant, arrived at The Manor to provide assistance with equipment and observe the session. He originally planned to stay a week, but on 28 July, the band asked him to stay another week. [18] Around this date, work began to relax as the band had finished 6 songs. Those songs were "Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy", "The Millionaire Waltz", "You Take My Breath Away", "White Man" (then titled "Simple Man"), "Drowse", and a shorter version of "Somebody To Love". As August entered, the band worked on the remaining songs of the album, and finished a longer version of "Somebody To Love". [19] Work was still relaxed though, and the band would sometimes play billiards or card games during productive days. During a game of billiards on 8 August, between Roger and Crystal Taylor, Roger asked Crystal to be his personal roadie, to which Crystal accepted. [18]Pennanen, Timo (2006). Sisältää hitin – levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972 (in Finnish) (1sted.). Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava. p.166. ISBN 978-951-1-21053-5. Drowse" is the only song on the album written by Roger Taylor, who, in addition to playing the drums, did all of the vocals and played rhythm guitar; May played the slide guitar. Like " I'm In Love With My Car", Taylor's song on the previous album, "Drowse" is in 6/8. You and I" is the only song on the album written by Deacon. It is in the key of D major, is mainly piano-driven, and features Deacon on acoustic guitar. The song was featured as the B-side for "Tie Your Mother Down", but was never played live.

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... Wyróżnienia – Platynowe płyty CD - Archiwum - Przyznane w 2009 roku" (in Polish). Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry. 8 July 2009. Rohter, Larry (2 February 1977). "Queen's Deja Vu 'At the Races' ". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 14 March 2022 . Retrieved 14 March 2022– via Queen Archives.Kot, Greg (19 April 1992). "An 18-record, 80 Million-copy Odyssey". Chicago Tribune . Retrieved 19 April 2016. Queen entered The Manor in Oxfordshire on 12 July to commence work on A Day At The Races. [15] Absent was Roy Thomas Baker, who had helped the band produce their last four albums. [16] This was because of a four-album contract he had signed with the band in 1972. This contract had expired after the release of the band's fourth album, and the band had decided to record the album by themselves, with the assistance of engineers Mike Stone and Gary Langan. Baker would travel to America to produce more material after signing a contract with CBS Records. [17] On 19 July, May's 29th birthday, (according to a letter written for the fan club around this time) while the band were recording in The Manor, the band were mailed items related to penguins. A giant penguin ice maker was also shipped to the band. These items were mailed to the band because of May's interest in penguins. A music video was made for the song, directed by Bruce Gowers and based on a performance clip shot at Nassau Coliseum in Long Island, New York, in February 1977 during the band's US arena headlining tour. [25] After its release in 1976, the song was played by Queen on every subsequent tour. [26] "You Take My Breath Away" Japanese Year-End Albums Chart 1977] (in Japanese). Oricon. Archived from the original on 5 December 2012 . Retrieved 3 October 2011. Cohen, Scott (6 July 1976). "The Queen Interview". Circus . Retrieved 15 February 2022– via BrianMay.com.

Oricon Album Chart Book: Complete Edition 1970–2005. Roppongi, Tokyo: Oricon Entertainment. 2006. ISBN 4871310779. Queenlvr314 (20 July 2009). "Roger Taylor Interview 1976"– via YouTube. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ( link) Matrix / Runout (Side B etched, variant 4): 6E-101-B-1 7̸E̸-̸1̸0̸9̸1̸-̸A̸B1-SP SP X1-1 7E-1091-B-1 STERLING You Take My Breath Away" was written by Mercury and based on the harmonic minor scale. He performed it by himself at Hyde Park before recording it, and all of the vocals in the version of the song on the album were performed by him, as was the piano part.

Oricon Album Chart Book: Complete Edition 1970–2005 (in Japanese). Roppongi, Tokyo: Oricon Entertainment. 2006. ISBN 4-87131-077-9. a b 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). Oasis album is greatest ever". This is London. 1 June 2006. Archived from the original on 25 December 2010. a b c d Brooks, Greg & Taylor, Gary. "A Day At The Races". Queenonline.com. Archived from the original on 26 September 2016 . Retrieved 11 October 2016.

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