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The first Queen song written by Taylor to be released as a single (albeit in selected countries, including the US and Australia, but not the UK), "Calling All Girls" failed to create much of an impact on the charts where it peaked at number 60 in the US and number 33 in Canada, despite its music video based on the George Lucas film THX 1138.
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] The baby's face image of the single's cover would reappear on The Cross single for their song "New Dark Ages".
Queen Mercury [32] "Spread Your Wings" ‡ News of the World: 1977 Deacon Mercury [3] "Staying Power" ‡ Hot Space: 1982 Mercury Mercury [2] "Stealin'" B-side of "Breakthru" 1989 Queen Mercury [33] "Stone Cold Crazy" Sheer Heart Attack: 1974 Queen Mercury [10] "Sweet Lady" A Night at the Opera: 1975 May Mercury [1] "Tavaszi szél vizet áraszt"
"Staying Power" is the first track on Queen's 1982 album Hot Space. It was written by lead singer Freddie Mercury and is notable as being the only Queen song to have a horn section, which was arranged by Arif Mardin. The song is driven by a funk-styled bass riff (played by Mercury) beginning in D minor and modulating to E minor throughout the song.
The song's video was directed by David Mallet, previously involved in the making of the music video for "I Was Born to Love You", as well as five Queen clips.A Royal Opera House replica was built inside a warehouse in North London (as normal studios did not have high enough roofs), where Mercury wanted to recreate scenes from Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring and Dante's Inferno. [3]
The song was released as a single in North America, Japan and New Zealand in 1978, albeit in heavily edited form, and peaked at #74 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 [12] and #66 on the Cash Box Top 100. [13] The song was later included on the Queen Rocks compilation in 1997.
The song was debuted on the second show of The Magic Tour (Leiden). Queen played the complete version of the song for the first two Leiden shows then the arrangement was shortened on 14 June (Paris). The shorter version is featured on the Live At Wembley release. On all live versions, the song was performed in F major, modulated down a tone.
Rock Band series – The song was originally released as downloadable content on 20 October 2009, alongside a pack of other Queen songs. The song was later re-released as downloadable content for Rock Band 3 to support the new pro guitar and keyboard features. [46] T-Mobile – The song appears in a 2020 TV commercial for T-Mobile. [47]