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Track Listing:

1. Tie Your Mother Down (May) - 4:46
   Introduction - Brian
2. You Take My Breath Away (Mercury) - 4:40
3. Long Away (May) - 3:55
   Vocal - Brian
4. The Millionaire Waltz (Mercury) - 4:52
   Guitar Orchestration - Brian
5. You And I (Deacon) - 3:23
   Acoustic Guitar - John
6. Somebody To Love (Mercury) - 4:57
   Gospel Choir - Roger, Brian & Freddie
7. White Man (May) - 4:56
8. Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy (Mercury) - 2:54
   Additional Vocal - Mike Stone
9. Drowse (Taylor) - 3:41
   Vocal & Electric Rhythm - Roger    Slide - Brian
10. Teo Torriate (Let Us Cling Together) (May) - 5:51
    ("With special thanks to our Japanese friend and interpreter Chika Kujiraoka.")
    Harmonium Piano & Plastic Piano - Brian

• For lyrics, I first encourage you to just look at your liner notes. ;) But to make sure you're singing along with the right lyrics, visit QueenWords.com's extremely thorough lyrics section for ADATR. :)
• For guitar tabs and chords, please visit Andy's Queen Tab Page.
• For detailed information on the album and it's singles, please visit Queen Picture Hall's A Day At The Races page. (Careful though; you'll end up spending the rest of the day browsing this fact-filled site!)  The Queen Trainspotter's Guide's A Day At The Races Background Page is also a good read!  Andy's Queen Page page about ADATR is also an indispensable source for chart positions and more.
• For the best info about the A Day At The Races tour, take a gander at Queen Concerts!  Click on 'Concertography', then click 'Queen', then select the concert you want to read more about on the menu! (It's all very self-explanatory, I know, but there you have it.)

Album Facts:

• This was the first record Queen produced without Roy Thomas Baker - the production credit went to Queen.
• The album was recorded in England from July to November 1976.  See photos from the 'Long Away' recording session at Bechstein Debauchery - click 'Recordings', then click 'Long Away Photographed Recording Sessions'. :)  Browse through the rest of Bechstein Debauchery to read tons of interesting trivia about who played what, who wrote what, etc.
• Brian May on 'Tie Your Mother Down', from the Queen: Greatest Video Hits commentary: "The story of it is very strange, because I remember I wrote the riff on top of a mountain in Teneriffe, one of  my places in the world still; it's where the observatory is, in East Anglia. And I had this little acoustic guitar, in an odd moment, as the sun set or rose, I would be out sitting on a rock playing a guitar, and this riff just came into my head there. Don't know what happened to the guitar, but the riff survived! And I brought it back and played it to the guys and they liked it, and I remember having this conversation with Freddie and saying, "It goes [imitates riff]", which he really liked. Um, and he said "Well, what's it called?" and I said "Well, the chorus kind of goes like this: and I sang 'tie your mother down' to it - [sings] 'tie your mother down...'" and I said, "But of course, we can't use that, cos it's nonsense", you know. And Freddie went, "No no no, no no, you could use that!". [laughs] And um, and once I got that into me head, I realized that you could, because "tie your mother down" is kind of an expression of youthful, um, of a youthful wish to abandon parental control, which is, which is a kind of universal thing I suppose, and it's one of the themes of rock and roll. So I wrote the song around that idea."

Singles released:
To find more single covers, check out Queenzone.com's Album and Single galleries

	1976: Somebody To Love Highest chart positions: US @ #13 / UK @ #2 More chart info / More info on the single Information found at Andy's Queen Page
	1977: Tie Your Mother Down Highest chart positions: US @ #49 / UK @ #31 More chart info / More info on the single Information found at Andy's Queen Page
	1977: Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy (released on Queen's First E.P. as an A-side) Highest chart position: UK @ #17 More chart info / More info on the single Information found at Andy's Queen Page
	1977: Long Away Highest chart position: Did not chart More chart info / More info on the single Information found at Andy's Queen Page
	1977: Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together) Highest chart position: Japan @ #49 More chart info / More info on the single Information found at Andy's Queen Page

For more information, please visit the excellent Queen: The Complete Words and the equally excellent Andy's Queen Page.  The official Queen website, Queenonline.com, is working on adding a full discography to their site, so I'd keep my eye out for that!  The information on this page was found at those two websites (but not completely plagiarised! :) ), as well as from the album itself.