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(Queen & Michael Jackson) Queen Forever: 2014 Mercury Mercury [27] "These Are the Days of Our Lives" ‡ Innuendo: 1991 Queen (Taylor) Mercury [4] "Tie Your Mother Down" ‡ A Day at the Races: 1976 May Mercury [13] "Too Much Love Will Kill You" ‡ Made in Heaven: 1995 May Frank Musker Elizabeth Lamers Mercury [21] "Track 13" Made in Heaven ...
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.
"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.
Written by guitarist Brian May, the song appears on the band's seventh studio album Jazz (1978) and later on their compilation album Greatest Hits. [4] When released as a single with "Bicycle Race", the song reached number 11 in the UK Singles Chart and number 24 in the Billboard Hot 100 in the US. It is one of the band's best known songs. [5] [6]
The song was included into the following albums and compilations: The Miracle, Greatest Hits II, The Platinum Collection, Box of Tricks, Greatest Video Hits 2 (disk 1), Greatest Flix II (VHS) and Queen: The eYe (electronic video game released in 1998 by Electronic Arts).
In 2009, it was named the 38th best hard rock song of all time by VH1. [16] DRUM! called it an "early blisteringly fast song", describing Taylor's performance as "straight-up punk-rock drumming. [...] In essence, Taylor's groove is a double-stroke roll split between his bass drum and snare drum with some cool accents played on his crash cymbals.
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".
"Calling All Girls" is a song by the British rock band Queen, from the album Hot Space. It was written by drummer Roger Taylor. It was the third US single from the album, released in the summer of 1982, where it peaked at number 60. It was also released in Canada (number 33), Australia and New Zealand.