Initially released on December 10th, 1976, the classic album, which features the transatlantic smash "Somebody To Love" and perennial live favorite, "Tie Your Mother Down," will be issued on blue marbled vinyl and a Queen Store exclusive picture disc almost 50 years to the day on December 11th, 2026.
Queen recorded their fifth studio album between summer and autumn 1976, and it was their first self-produced record, engineered by Mike Stone. Like the previous album, “A Night At The Opera”, it took its title from a film by the Marx Brothers.
Brian May and Roger Taylor have often cited “A Day At The Races” as a continuation of the previous LP. It remains one of their most acclaimed records, reaching No. 5 in America (No 1 in the UK), where it was issued a week after the UK release and became Queen's first American album to reach Gold status before moving on to Platinum.
The first single from the record, "Somebody To Love," released three weeks before the album, has become one of Queen's best-known songs, featuring beautifully complex layered vocal tracks inspired by a gospel choir arrangement. In 1993, "Somebody To Love" took on a whole new lease on life and reached 5x Platinum status in the US when the remaining members of Queen recorded it with George Michael for the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert.
Other singles from the album included Brian May's "Tie Your Mother Down," which became one of the band's best-loved live tracks. The Vaudeville-inspired "Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy" and two firm fan favorites, the beautiful 12-string-driven "Long Away," a single in the US and New Zealand, and "Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together)," a single in Japan, partly sung in Japanese and specifically dedicated to Queen's fans there.
The 50th anniversary releases are now available for pre-order at the Queen store.
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