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Tie Your Mother Down (30 second sample (help·
info)) is a Queen song, written by guitarist Brian May, which features one of rock music's most recognizable guitar riffs. It was released as a single from the band's 1976 album, A Day at the Races. Image File history File linksMetadata Tymdfran. ...
A collection of various CD singles In music, a single is a short recording of one or more separate tracks. ...
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A Day at the Races is a rock album by British band Queen originally released in 1976. ...
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A gramophone record, (also phonograph record - often simply record) is an analog sound recording medium: a flat disc rotating at a constant angular velocity, with inscribed spiral grooves in which a stylus or needle rides. ...
A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ...
Rock is a form of popular music from the late 20th century which typically features a vocal melody (often with vocal harmony) that is supported by accompaniment of electric guitars, a bass guitar, and drums, often with a strong back beat. ...
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The EMI Group is a major record label, based in Kensington in London, in the United Kingdom. ...
Elektra Records is an American record label owned by Warner Music Group, and today operates under Atlantic Records Group. ...
A songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics to songs, the musical composition or melody to songs, or both. ...
Brian Harold May CBE (Born July 19, 1947) is the guitarist for the English rock band Queen. ...
In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the performers, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ...
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A record chart, also known as a music chart, is a method of ranking music according to popularity during a given period of time. ...
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Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together) is a song from the 1976 Queen album A Day at the Races and is written by guitarist Brian May. ...
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A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. ...
Brian Harold May CBE (Born July 19, 1947) is the guitarist for the English rock band Queen. ...
Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ...
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A collection of various CD singles In music, a single is a short recording of one or more separate tracks. ...
See also: 1975 in music, other events of 1976, 1977 in music, 1970s in music and the list of years in music // Events January-February January 7 - Kenneth Moss, a former record company executive, is sentenced to 120 days in the Los Angeles County Jail and four years probation for...
A Day at the Races is a rock album by British band Queen originally released in 1976. ...
May started writing the song in Tenerife, while he was working for his Ph.D. as an astronomer. He composed the riff on a Spanish guitar, and woke up early one morning and played it while singing "tie your mother down," a line he considered a joke. Flag of Tenerife Tenerife (English also Teneriffe), a Spanish island, is the largest of the seven Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa. ...
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Later on, Queen vocalist Freddie Mercury encouraged him to keep the line, similar to what happened between John Lennon and Paul McCartney with the line "the movement you need is on your shoulder" from the Beatles song Hey Jude. Freddie Mercury (September 5, 1946 – November 24, 1991) was a rock musician. ...
John Ono Lennon, MBE (born John Winston Lennon October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980), was an iconic English 20th century composer and singer of popular music, best known as the founding member of The Beatles, in which he and Paul McCartney formed the massively successful Lennon-McCartney songwriting partnership throughout...
Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE (born June 18, 1942) is an English singer, instrumentalist and songwriter, who first came to prominence as a member of The Beatles. ...
The Beatles (1958-1970) were an English music group from Liverpool who were the most critically acclaimed, commercially successful artists of their time[1][2]. They continue to be held in the highest esteem for their artistic achievements, their huge commercial success, their groundbreaking role in the history of popular...
A song is a relatively short musical composition for the human voice (possibly accompanied by other musical instruments), which features words (lyrics). ...
Hey Jude is a song recorded by The Beatles, written by Paul McCartney but credited to Lennon-McCartney. ...
Though it was a long-time live favourite, the song had limited chart success, making #31 in the UK and #49 in the US. Therefore it was not included on the band's first Greatest Hits compilation. Greatest Hits [Elektra] is a 1981 Queen compilation. ...
At the 1992 Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, the song was co-performed by Queen and Joe Elliot with Slash. May sang the first verse and chorus before handing over to the Def Leppard singer. 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ...
An open air concert on Easter Monday, April 20th 1992 at Londons Wembley Stadium, televised live to over one billion people. ...
Joe Elliot (born August 1, 1959) is the lead singer of the heavy metal band Def Leppard. ...
Saul Hudson, better known to the world as Slash, was one of the guitarists of hard rock band Guns N Roses. ...
Def Leppard are a English hard rock band from Sheffield who formed in 1977 as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. ...
This song has also been played live a few times by Queen with the Foo Fighters. They played this together for instance at Queen's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in 2001, VH-1's Rock Honors 2006 and most recently in Foo Fighters London Hyde Park performance in which they encored the show with the song. Foo Fighters is a rock group formed by musician Dave Grohl in 1995. ...
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at sunset. ...
VH1 (which stands for Video Hits 1) is an American cable television channel that was created in 1985. ...
In a BBC Radio 4 tribute programme to Rory Gallagher, May stated that a key inspiration for the riff of this song came from Taste's 'Morning Sun' from their On The Boards (1970) album. Founded in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company Ltd (a privately owned company), subsequently Incorporated and nationalised in 1927 as The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC, also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world. ...
Rory Gallagher (March 2, 1948 - June 14, 1995) was an Irish blues/rock guitarist, born in Ballyshannon, County Donegal, and raised in County Cork. ...
Taste was an Irish rock band formed in the 1960s. ...
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