{"product_id":"pre-order-queen-a-day-at-the-races-blue-marbled-vinyl-release-date-12-11-2026","title":"[PRE-ORDER] Queen - A Day At The Races [Blue Marbled Vinyl] [Release Date: 12\/11\/2026]","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\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 style=\"text-align: justify;\"\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 style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\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 style=\"text-align: justify;\"\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\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat \/ \u003cb\u003eLP\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eReleased \/ \u003cstrong\u003e12\/11\/2026\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCatalogue \/ \u003cb\u003eSNYL-847807\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBarcode \/ \u003cstrong\u003e199584780719\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eArtist \/ \u003cstrong\u003eQueen\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLabel \/ \u003cstrong\u003eSony Legacy\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGenre \/ \u003cstrong\u003ePop \/ Rock\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sony","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43865582993469,"sku":"POP-Q-199584780719","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1487\/4550\/files\/917193-Product-0-I-639280560006034297.webp?v=1792590997","url":"https:\/\/www.plaidroomrecords.com\/products\/pre-order-queen-a-day-at-the-races-blue-marbled-vinyl-release-date-12-11-2026","provider":"Plaid Room Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}