Queen - Tie Your Mother Down (Official Music video) 1976

Queen - Tie Your Mother Down (Official Music video) © 1976 Artist; Queen Song: Tie Your Mother Down Album: A Day at the Races (1976) “Tie Your Mother Down“ was written in Tenerife by Brian May in early 1968, two years before the formation of Queen. At the time, May was working on his PhD in Astronomy. He wrote it on Spanish guitar and thought he’d change the title and chorus later on, but when he brought it to the band for inclusion on this album, Freddie Mercury liked the original and it was kept the way it was written The song is preceded, first, by a multi-tracked guitar part reminiscent of the song “White Man,“ then by a one-minute instrumental intro using a Shepard tone harmonium figure, which is reprised in the ending of “Teo Torriatte“: this was intended to create a “circle“ in the album. The ascending scale was created by recording a descending scale on a harmonium and playing it backwards for the album.