Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together)
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| "Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together)" | ||
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| Single by Queen | ||
| from the album A Day At The Races | ||
| Released | March 25, 1977 (Japan only) | |
| Format | 7" | |
| Recorded | July to November 1976 | |
| Genre | Rock ballad | |
| Length | 5:57 (album), 4:55 (single edit) | |
| Label | Elektra (Japan) | |
| Writer(s) | Brian May | |
| Producer(s) | Queen | |
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| Queen singles chronology | ||
| "Tie Your Mother Down" (1977) |
"Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together)" (1977) |
"Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy" (Queen's First EP) (1977) |
"Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together)" (30 second sample ) is a song from the 1976 Queen album A Day at the Races and is written by guitarist Brian May. It is the tenth and final track on the album.
The song is notable for having two verses sung in Japanese; it is one of only two Queen songs (the other "Mustapha", from the album Jazz) in which an entire verse is sung in a language other than English. The song features a piano, a plastic piano, and a harmonium, all of which are played by Brian May. It is the only point in the album in which Freddie Mercury does not play piano.
The album’s closing guitar melody is also its opening melody; the sequence was attached to the beginning of "Tie Your Mother Down", the first track on the album. May described it as "a never-ending staircase", otherwise commonly known, musically, as a Shepard tone.
The song was released as a single exclusively in Japan, and only as a 7” single;[1] it reached #49 on the Japanese charts.[2] The B-side was the song "Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy". The closing Shepard tone was edited off the song.
[edit] Trivia
- The song's title in English uses an outdated form of romanization by applying the particle 'o' to the word behind it. When romanized correctly, "
" reads "Te (w)o Toriatte." - Yasumi Matsuno is a fan of Queen, and named Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together as a tribute to this song[citation needed].
- "Teo Torriatte" was later referenced by Queen in a line ("we'll sing to you in Japanese") from the song "Let Me Entertain You", featured on their 1978 album Jazz.
[edit] Live recordings
- Queen on Fire - Live at the Bowl (1982)
- Super Live in Japan (2005)
