History Music / ADayAtTheRacesAlbum

''A Day at the Races'' is the fifth studio album by British GlamRock band Music/{{Queen|Band}}, released in 1976 through Creator/{{EMI}} in the UK and Creator/ElektraRecords in the US. It is the direct follow up to their hit album ''Music/ANightAtTheOpera''. Much like its predecessor, it's named after a [[Creator/TheMarxBrothers Marx Brothers]] film (in this case, ''Film/{{A Day at the Races|1937}}''). Riding off of the success of "Bohemian Rhapsody", the Freddie Mercury penned "Somebody To Love" (Not to be confused with the Music/JeffersonAirplane song of [[Music/SurrealisticPillow the same name]]) is the album's most famous song (with "Tie Your Mother Down" at a close second, and "Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy" is also a hit).

--> ''I get down on my knees''
--> ''And I start to pray''
--> ''[[CrisisOfFaith Till the tears run down from my eyes]]''
--> ''Lord -- somebody -- somebody''
--> ''Can anybody find me -- somebody to love?''

* ProductionThrowback: The album cover is a redrawn version of that for ''Music/ANightAtTheOpera'' the previous year. Among other things, the white background is changed to black and the figures are in different poses (some more noticeable than others).

->''Hey, I was just a skinny lad\\
Never knew no good from bad\\
But I knew life before I left my nursery (huh)\\
Left alone with big fat Fanny\\
She was such a naughty nanny\\
Heap big woman, you made a bad boy out of me''
-->--"'''Fat-Bottomed Girls'''"

* TeacherStudentRomance: ''Ever so slightly'' hinted at in the first verse of "Fat-Bottomed Girls", with regards to the singer's nanny growing up.
-->''Left alone with big fat Fanny\\
She was such a naughty nanny\\
Heap big woman, you made a bad boy out of me''

''A Day at the Races'' is the fifth studio album by British GlamRock band Music/{{Queen|Band}}, released in 1976 through Creator/{{EMI}} in the UK and Creator/ElektraRecords in the US. It is the direct follow up to their hit album ''Music/ANightAtTheOpera''. Much like its predecessor, it's named after a [[Creator/TheMarxBrothers Marx Brothers]] film (in this case, ''Film/ADayAtTheRaces''). Riding off of the success of "Bohemian Rhapsody", the Freddie Mercury penned "Somebody To Love" (Not to be confused with the Music/JeffersonAirplane song of [[Music/SurrealisticPillow the same name]]) is the album's most famous song (with "Tie Your Mother Down" at a close second, and "Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy" is also a hit).

''A Day at the Races'' is the fifth studio album by British GlamRock band Music/{{Queen|Band}}, released in 1976. It is the direct follow up to their hit album ''Music/ANightAtTheOpera''. Much like its predecessor, it's named after a [[Creator/TheMarxBrothers Marx Brothers]] film (in this case, ''Film/ADayAtTheRaces''). Riding off of the success of "Bohemian Rhapsody", the Freddie Mercury penned "Somebody To Love" (Not to be confused with the Music/JeffersonAirplane song of [[Music/SurrealisticPillow the same name]]) is the album's most famous song (with "Tie Your Mother Down" at a close second, and "Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy" is also a hit).

* ProductPlacement: Music/BrianMay prominently wears a jacket bearing the logo for the band's US label, Creator/ElektraRecords, in the music video for "Somebody to Love".

* ShoutOut: Like the album before it, it's named after a Creator/MarxBrothers film.

* EpicRocking: The 5:50 "Teo Torriatte".

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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Let us never lose the lessons we have learned"'']]

* {{Bookends}}: The album begins and ends with the same Shepard tone made up of a bunch of harmonized guitars looped backwards. Many consider this element of the album the last breath of "early Queen" before the commercialization of albums such as ''Music/{{News of the World|Queen}}'' and ''Music/{{The Game|Queen}}'' started to come into play.

* LyricalColdOpen: "Somebody to Love" has a hugely iconic one - "''Caaaaaannn...?''"

--> ''Lord - somebody - somebody''
--> ''Can anybody find me - somebody to love?''

* StepUpToTheMicrophone: Brian May sings lead vocals on "Long Away". Roger Taylor sings lead vocals on "Drowse".

* CreditsGag: The liner notes credit Roger Taylor with providing "tantrums."

* IJustWantToBeLoved: “Somebody To Love,” naturally. The narrator is implicitly having a crisis of faith because of how empty their life feels without companionship.

* OneManSong: "White Man" and "Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy".

''A Day at the Races'' is the fifth studio album by Music/{{Queen}}, released in 1976. It is the direct follow up to their hit album ''Music/ANightAtTheOpera''. Much like its predecessor, it's named after a [[Creator/TheMarxBrothers Marx Brothers]] film (in this case, ''Film/ADayAtTheRaces''). Riding off of the success of "Bohemian Rhapsody", the Freddie Mercury penned "Somebody To Love" (Not to be confused with the Music/JeffersonAirplane song of [[Music/SurrealisticPillow the same name]]) is the album's most famous song (with "Tie Your Mother Down" at a close second, and "Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy" is also a hit).

* {{Bookends}}: The album begins and ends with the same Shepard tone made up of a bunch of harmonized guitars looped backwards. Many consider this element of the album the last breath of "early Queen" before the commercialization of albums such as ''Music/NewsOfTheWorldQueen'' and ''The Game'' started to come into play.