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A Day at the Races (album)
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| Released | 10 December 1976 | |||
| Recorded | 12 July – 24 August 1976 Initial sessions 5 September – 19 November 1976 Final sessions | |||
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| Length | 44:24 | |||
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| Producer | Queen | |||
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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.
- ↑ "Queen – A Day At The Races". AllMusic. Retrieved 20 August 2013.
this is exquisitely detailed hard rock...
- ↑ "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...
- ↑ 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...
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ "Queen – Somebody To Love".
- ↑ Allen, Jim. "Queen's First EP – Queen". AllMusic. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
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