A Day at the Races (album)

A Day at the Races is the fifth studio album by Queen and was released on 10 December 1976 by EMI Records in the United Kingdom and by Elektra Records in the United States. It topped the album charts in Japan, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, number 3 in Norway, number 4 in Canada and Finland, number 5 in the United States, number 8 in Australia, Austria and Sweden, number 10 in Germany and number 11 in New Zealand.

A Day at the Races
Studio album by Queen
Released	10 December 1976 (1976-12-10)
Recorded	12 July – 24 August 1976 Initial sessions 5 September – 19 November 1976 Final sessions
Studio	The Manor (Oxfordshire) Sarm (East London) Wessex Sound (Highbury New Park) Advision (London)
Genre	Hard rock[1] symphonic rock[2] glam rock[3] pop[4]
Length	44:24
Label	EMI Elektra
Producer	Queen
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
"Somebody to Love" Released: 12 November 1976[5] "Tie Your Mother Down" Released: 4 March 1977 "Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together)" Released: 25 March 1977 (Japan) "Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy" Released: 20 May 1977[nb 1] "Long Away" Released: 7 June 1977

Track listing

Original release

All lead vocals by Freddie Mercury unless noted.

Side one
No.	Title	Lead vocals	Length
1.	"Tie Your Mother Down"		4:48
2.	"You Take My Breath Away"		5:09
3.	"Long Away"	Brian May	3:34
4.	"The Millionaire Waltz"		4:54
5.	"You and I"		3:25

Side two
No.	Title	Lead vocals	Length
1.	"Somebody to Love"		4:56
2.	"White Man"		4:59
3.	"Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy"	Mercury with Mike Stone	2:54
4.	"Drowse"	Roger Taylor	3:45
5.	"Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together)"		5:54
Total length:			44:24

Bonus tracks (1991 Hollywood Records reissue)
No.	Title	Length
11.	"Tie Your Mother Down" (1991 bonus remix by Matt Wallace)	3:44
12.	"Somebody to Love" (1991 bonus remix by Randy Badazz)	5:00
Total length:		53:08

Universal Music reissue (2011)

Bonus EP
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Tie Your Mother Down" (backing track mix 2011)	3:49
2.	"Somebody to Love" (live at Milton Keynes Bowl, June 1982)	7:57
3.	"You Take My Breath Away" (Live at Hyde Park, September 1976)	3:07
4.	"Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy" (Top of the Pops, July 1977 (mono))	2:53
5.	"Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together)" (HD mix)	4:47
Total length:		22:33

iTunes deluxe edition (2011)

Bonus videos
No.	Title	Length
1.	"You Take My Breath Away" (live at Earls Court '77)
2.	"Tie Your Mother Down" (live at Milton Keynes '82)
3.	"Somebody to Love"

Notes

1. Released as A-side of Queen's First EP, along with "Death on Two Legs (Dedicated to...)", "Tenement Funster" and "White Queen (As It Began)".^[6]