A Day At the Races

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Queen came out with their fifth album in 1976 and it was the first album that the band self-produced. This was the second time that they titled their album from a Marx Brothers film. This album produced five singles “Somebody to Love,” “Tie Your Mother Down,” and “Good Old-fashioned Lover Boy.” Two singles “Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together)” was released in Japan only and “Long Away” only in the U.S., Canada, and New Zealand. “Somebody to Love” was the hit single of the album. It was written by Freddie Mercury and inspired by gospel music. The song rose to the top of the U.K. charts.