{"product_id":"pre-order-queen-a-day-at-the-races-blue-marble-vinyl","title":"Pre-order: Queen - A Day At The Races (blue marble vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Day At The Races , the fifth studio album by Queen, celebrates its 50th anniversary with the release of a special edition on blue marbled vinyl.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInitially released on the 10th December 1976, A Day At The Races was Queen’s first self-produced album, engineered by Mike Stone. It remains one of their most acclaimed records, reaching #1 in the UK and #5 in America, where it was issued a week later and became Queen's first American album to reach Gold status before moving on to Platinum.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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. 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 favourites, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Day At The Races regularly features in lists of the best albums of all time. As it reaches its half-century, its reputation for expertly crafted songs such as Somebody To Love and incredible creativity on tracks such as The Millionaire Waltz grows with every passing year.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AEC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47086775894212,"sku":"199584780719","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0640\/5586\/9636\/files\/418467328070_500.jpg?v=1792609374","url":"https:\/\/shop.strictlydiscs.com\/products\/pre-order-queen-a-day-at-the-races-blue-marble-vinyl","provider":"Strictly","version":"1.0","type":"link"}