A Night at the Opera is the fourth studio album by the British rock band Queen, released on 28 November 1975, by EMI Records in the United Kingdom and Elektra Records in the United States. Produced by
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Queen performing live during their 1975 "A Night at the Opera" tour
The Prophet's Song
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"The Prophet's Song" is a song by the British rock band Queen, written by their guitarist Brian May, originally released on their fourth studio album A Night at the Opera in 1975. It is the longest so
A Night at the Opera (Queen album)
…are particularly notable on the song "Bohemian Rhapsody", which features an elaborate opera sequence dominated by multitracked vocals. Similarly, "The Prophet's Song" has an a capella middle section that utilises delay on Mercury's vocals. For their self-titled "guitar orchestrations", May overdubbed his homemade…
"The Deluge", frontispiece to Gustave Doré's illustrated edition of the Bible; after having a dream about a flood, Brian May was inspired to write a song about it.