Action This Day
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"Action This Day" is a song written by Roger Taylor for the English rock group Queen. The song is sung by both Roger Taylor and Freddie Mercury. It was featured on the Queen album Hot Space in 1982.The song was clearly influenced by the New Wave movement/style current at the time; the track is driven by a pounding electronic drum machine and features a synthesizer solo, played by producer Mack on an Oberheim OBX-a. "Action This Day" takes its title from a Winston Churchill catchphrase that the statesman would attach to urgent documents, and recapitulates the "people on streets" theme of social awareness that Taylor espoused in many of his songs. The band performed "Action This Day" live on the Hot Space tour in a more conventional arrangement, replacing the drum machine and bass synth with a rock rhythm section.
