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"Hammer to Fall" is a 1984 song by the British rock band Queen. Written by guitarist Brian May, the song is the eighth track on their 1984 album The Works. [4] It was the fourth and final single to be released from that album, although the single version was edited down by thirty seconds from the version on the album.
Name of song, original release, year of release, writer(s) and lead vocalist Title Original release Year Writer(s) Lead vocal(s) Ref. " '39" A Night at the Opera: 1975 May May [1] "Action This Day" Hot Space: 1982 Taylor Taylor & Mercury [2] "All Dead, All Dead" News of the World: 1977 May May & Mercury [3] "All God's People" Innuendo: 1991 ...
"Breakthru" is a song by the British rock band Queen. Written by Freddie Mercury and Roger Taylor [citation needed] but credited to Queen, it was released in June 1989 from the album The Miracle. The single reached number seven in the UK, and peaked at number 6 in the Netherlands and Ireland, but failed to chart in the US.
[11] Ultimate Classic Rock critic Eduardo Rivadavia rated the song as the 8th best song Deacon wrote for Queen and described the song as "infectious power pop." [ 7 ] [ 2 ] Classic Rock History critic Millie Zeiler rated it John Deacon's 7th best Queen song, saying that the song "came from the viewpoint of a heartbroken man who saw the end of ...
It is one of the band's best known songs. [5] [6] The song is formed around an open bluesy, metallic guitar tuning, and opens with its chorus. [7] It was one of the few Queen songs played in an alternative guitar tuning. [8] The song's music video was filmed at the Dallas Convention Center in Texas in October 1978. [9]
This song also made it onto 1999 Queen's Greatest Hits III [2] and, more recently, on the Queen Forever compilation. It also appears on the Greatest Video Hits 2 DVD released in November 2003. [4] [5] Musical theatre actress Elaine Paige recorded the song on her album of Queen covers The Queen Album in 1988. [6]
"It's a Hard Life" is a song by the British rock band Queen, written by lead singer Freddie Mercury. It was featured on their 1984 album The Works, and it was the third single from that album. In 1991 it was included in the band’s second compilation album Greatest Hits II. [2]
"Headlong" is a song by British rock band Queen, released as the third single from their fourteenth studio album, Innuendo in May 1991. The song was written by Queen guitarist Brian May, who intended to record it for his then-upcoming solo album Back to the Light (1992), but when he heard Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury sing the track, he allowed it to become a Queen song.