Album - A Day At The Races

A Day at the Races was the fifth album by Queen, being released in December 1976. A Day at the Races was the band's first completely self-produced album, and the first not to feature producer Roy Thomas Baker. It was recorded at Sarm East, The Manor, and Wessex Studios in England. The album was engineered by Mike Stone.

The title of the album followed suit with its predecessor A Night at the Opera by taking its name from a film by the Marx Brothers.

In recent years, a number of publications have cited A Day at the Races as one of the Queen's finest works. The album peaked at #1 in the UK, Japan, and the Netherlands. It reached #5 on the US Billboard 200 and was Queen's fifth album to reach gold (500,000 units shipped) in the US. It subsequently reached platinum status (one million shipped) in the US.