I n almost ‘sequel’ like fashion, Queen used another Marx brothers film for the title of their fifth album. A mix of pop songs, ballads and hard rock, A Day At The Races features perhaps the heaviest piece Queen have ever done in ‘White Man’. This album featured a couple of wonderful tunes - ‘You And I’ penned by John Deacon is the best Queen song never released as a single, ‘The Millionaires Waltz’ is another five minute Freddie epic encompassing various styles within the one basic framework, ‘Teo Torriate...’ is a lovely ballad with which they finish the album but the top three tracks are without a doubt ‘Somebody To Love’, ‘Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy’ and ‘You Take My Breath Away’. The latter track is a beautiful ballad with some lovely piano work from Freddie. It sounds like a dream.
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