Music & Lyrics by: Brian May
Arranged by: Brian May
Written: 1977
Length: 2:00
Released on: 28th October 1977

Produced by: Queen
Mixed by: Queen & Mike Stone
Engineered by: Mike Stone

Recorded: July - September 1977
Recorded at: Wessex Studios, London

Keys: Em, A Dorian
Metre: 4/4
Form: Cyclic

Electric Guitar: Brian May

Percussion: Queen + Crew

Lead Vocals: Freddie Mercury
Backing Vocals: Queen + Crew

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Only the first and last sections are instrumental.

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Verse melody is pentatonic, which Brian self-plagiarised later on in Dragon Attack.

Solo has a nice III > I > VII before vamping between I and V functions.

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