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  Cover QueenTeojpg
  Artist Queen
  From Album A Day At The Races
  Released March 25 , 1977 ( Japan only)
  Format 7"
  Recorded July to November 1976
  Genre Rock
  Length 4:55 (single), 5:57 (album)
  Label Elektra (Japan)
  Writer Brian May
  Producer Queen
  Chart Position <nowiki> </nowiki>
  Last Single " Tie Your Mother Down "<br>(1977)
  This Single "Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together)"<br>(1977)
  Next Single " Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy " (''Queen's First EP'')<br>(1977)


Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together) 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; Queen Picture Hall, Singles information it reached #49 on the Japanese charts. A Day at the Races album info The B-side was the song Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy . The closing Shepard tone was edited off the song.


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