Queen: Tie Your Mother Down (With Lyrics)

Tie Your Mother Down es una canción de Queen, escrita por el Guitarrista Brian May. Esta canción vio la luz en 1976 en el álbum A Day at the Races de la mencionada banda.

May comenzó a escribir esta canción en Tenerife. Compuso el riff en una guitarra española, una mañana temprano al levantarse comenzó a tocar y a esto le sumo las frases "Tie Your Mother Down", algo que a él le pareció muy gracioso.

Después, el vocalista de Queen, Freddie Mercury, alentó a May para que mantuviera esta lírica, similar a lo ocurrido entre John Lennon y Paul McCartney con la lírica de la canción Hey Jude de The Beatles.

Aunque Tie Your Mother Down estuvo largo tiempo entre los primeros puestos (#31 en el Reino Unido y #49 en Estados Unidos), no fue incluida en los Greatest Hits.

Su video fue filmado por Bruce Gowers en Miami, cuando el grupo realizaba una gira por Estados Unidos a principios de 1977

La canción aparece en el soundtrack de Super Mario Bros

En el Concierto en Tributo a Freddie Mercury en 1992, fue tocada por Queen, con la ayuda de Joe Elliott (vocalista de Def Leppard) y Slash de Guns N' Roses.

Brian May permanentemente la utiliza en sus recitales como solista. Tie Your Mother Down aparece en su álbum en vivo Live at the Brixton Academy

Es el tema que iniciaba los shows de Queen + Paul Rodgers tras la introducción de Reaching Out.

"Tie Your Mother Down" is a riff-driven rock song by Queen, written by guitarist Brian May and featuring one of rock music's most recognizable guitar riffs. It was released as a single from the band's 1976 album, A Day at the Races. On 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.

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.

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.

A promotional film was made for it directed by Bruce Gowers and was a performance clip shot at Nassau Coliseum in Long Island, New York in February, 1977 during the band's first US arena headlining tour.

Though it was a long-time live favorite and a US FM rock radio favorite, the song had limited chart success, making #31 in the UK and #49 in the US. Therefore it was included on the band's first Greatest Hits compilation in certain markets only; however, the song is featured on the Queen Rocks compilation album, together with some of the band's heaviest songs.

In a BBC Radio 4 tribute program to Rory Gallagher, May stated that a key inspiration for the riff of this song came from Taste's 'Morning Sun' from their On The Boards (1970) album. The riff is also quite close in sound to the verse riff from T. Rex's song Funky London Childhood, from their January 1976 album, Futuristic Dragon.

In a 1976 interview on Capital Radio, Mercury was asked why tie your mother down? He replied: "Well this one in fact is a track written by Brian (May) actually, I dunno why. Maybe he was in one of his vicious moods. I think he's trying to out do me after 'Death on Two Legs' actually."

The song was featured on the soundtrack for the 1993 film Super Mario Bros..

The song was featured on the Killer Queen: A Tribute to Queen, performed by hard rock band Shinedown.

The song was covered a few times by Extreme, even though never commercially released. In one of those times, Brian May joined the group (1992 in a gig in London, England).

The song was performed by Foo Fighters (with Brian May and Roger Taylor), at their Hyde Park concert in 2006 with the vocals sang by Foo Fighters' drummer, Taylor Hawkins.

A cover by W.A.S.P. can be found on the American version of their album Still Not Black Enough.

Lynch Mob covered it on their self-titled second album.

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[thecolaratlady]

Did he know he was sick then or was it later on he found out?

[Blackthorne13]

@thecolaratlady He already knew but he continued singing until the end.

[Blackthorne13]

@thecolaratlady you're welcome.

:)

[thecolaratlady]

@Blackthorne13 ok thanks blackhorne

[sombdy1]

what a great song

thanks ı enjoy

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[biel572]

Lol