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| Name = Tie Your Mother Down

This is a category of articles related to the [[Patriote ]]movement of 1830s [[Lower Canada]], present-day [[Quebec]].

| Cover = Queen Tie Your Mother Down.png

| Artist = [[Queen (band)|Queen]]

| Album = [[A Day At The Races (album)|A Day At The Races]]

| B-side = [[You and I (Queen song)|You and I]]

| Released = [[March 4]], [[1977]]

| Format = [[vinyl record|7"]]

| Recorded = 1976

| Genre = [[Heavy metal]]

| Length = 3:45

| Label = [[EMI]] (UK), [[Elektra Records|Elektra]] (US)

| Writer = [[Brian May]]

| Producer = [[Queen (band)|Queen]]

| Chart position = <nowiki> </nowiki>

* #14 <small> ([[Netherlands]]) </small>

* #31 <small> ([[United Kingdom|UK]]) </small>

* #49 <small> ([[United States|US]]) </small>

| NoReviews = yes

| Last single = "[[Somebody to Love (Queen song)|Somebody to Love]]"<br>(1976)

| This single = "Tie Your Mother Down"<br>(1977)

| Next single = "[[Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together)]]"<br>(1977)

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'''Tie Your Mother Down''' (<small>{{audio|Queen - A Day At The Races - Tie Your Mother Down.ogg|30 second sample}}</small>) is a [[heavy metal]] song by [[Queen (band)|Queen]], written by [[guitarist]] [[Brian May]], which features one of [[Rock and roll|rock]] music's most recognizable [[guitar]] [[riffs]]. It was released as a [[Single (music)|single]] from the band's [[1976 in music|1976]] album, ''[[A Day at the Races (album)|A Day at the Races]]''.

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In the album, the song is preceded by a one-minute instrumental intro, which is actually a reprise of the ending of "Teo Torriatte": this was intended to create a "circle" in the album, typical, for example, of [[Pink Floyd]]'s albums.

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May started writing the song in [[Tenerife]], while he was working for his [[Ph.D.]] as an [[astronomer]]. He composed the riff on a Spanish guitar, and woke up early one morning and played it while singing "tie your mother down," a line he considered a joke.

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Later on, Queen vocalist [[Freddie Mercury]] encouraged him to keep the line, similar to what happened between [[John Lennon]] and [[Paul McCartney]] with the line "the movement you need is on your shoulder" from [[the Beatles]] [[song]] [[Hey Jude]]. When performing the song during his solo shows, May has often omitted the line, "take your little brother swimming with a brick, that's all right," or at the very least mumbled through it.

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Though it was a long-time live favourite, the song had limited chart success, making #31 in the UK and #49 in the US. Therefore it was not included on the band's first ''[[Greatest Hits (Queen)|Greatest Hits]]'' compilation, although the song is featured on the [[Queen Rocks]] compilation album, together with some of the band's heaviest songs.

At the [[1992]] [[Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert]], the song was co-performed by Queen and [[Joe Elliot]] with [[Saul Hudson|Slash]]. May sang the first verse and chorus before handing over to the [[Def Leppard]] singer.

This song has also been played live a few times by Queen with the [[Foo Fighters]]. They played this together for instance at Queen's [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]] induction ceremony in 2001, [[VH-1]]'s Rock Honors 2006 and most recently in Foo Fighters London Hyde Park performance in which they encored the show with the song.

In a [[BBC Radio 4]] tribute programme to [[Rory Gallagher]], May stated that a key inspiration for the riff of this song came from [[Taste (band)|Taste's]] 'Morning Sun' from their ''On The Boards'' (1970) album.

==Live recordings==

*[[Live Killers]] (1979)

*[[We Will Rock You (video)]] (1981)

*[[Queen on Fire - Live at the Bowl]] (1982)

*[[Live at Wembley '86]] / [[Queen Live at Wembley Stadium|Live at Wembley Stadium]] (1986)

*[[Live Magic]] (1986)

*[[The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert]] (1992)

*[[Live at the Brixton Academy (Brian May album)]] (1993)

*[[Return of the Champions]] (2005)

*[[Super Live in Japan]] (2005)

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