Liar (sang af Queen)

"Liar"
"Liar"
Single af Queen
	fra albummet Queen
B-side(r)	"Doing All Right"
Udgivet	14. februar 1974
Format	7"
Indspillet	1971 – 1972 i Trident og De Lane Lea Studios
Genre	Rock
Længde	6:26 (album version); 3:01 (single version)
Pladeselskab	Elektra
Skrevet af	Freddie Mercury
Producer(e)	John Anthony, Roy Thomas Baker, Queen
Queen-kronologi

"Liar" er en sang af den britiske rock-gruppe Queen, skrevet af sanger Freddie Mercury i 1970 og originalt lavet under titlen "Lover". Sangen er med på bandets debutalbum fra 1973, "Queen". En voldsomt ændret udgave af "Liar" (som bandet hadede) blev udgivet som single med "Doing All Right" i USA af Elektra Records i februar 1974.

I de tidlige år af Queen, var denne sang anset som en af deres mest imponerende livesange, der ofte tog over otte minutter. Men med tiden faldt sangen ud sætlisten, med undtagelse af The Works-turneen (hvor sangen var skåret ned til tre minutter eller mindre). På Magic Tour-turneen, lige før "Tear It Up", bliver starten på "Liar"-guitarriffet spillet af Brian May.

Under liveoptrædener, var det en af de få sange, hvor bassist John Deacon sang kor. Dette skete under den del, hvor bandet synger "all day long". Han mimer reklamevideoen for sangen, hvor han står bag Freddie og synger ind i sin mikrofon. Men det vides ikke om Deacon faktisk sang under liveoptrædener, på grund af det faktum, at han aldrig var en del af koret i studiet og sjældent live. Sangen indeholder desuden en bassolo af Deacon.

Sangen bragte spørgsmålet om sangskriver-credit i bandet op. Brian May var nysgerrig efter hvilke bandmedlemmer der ville blive krediteret for at have lavet musikken til hver sange, til hvilket Freddie Mercury lukkede diskussionen, ved at sige at tekstskriveren mere eller mindre havde skrevet sangen.

Sporliste

7" single (Royal Sound TKR 157)

"Liar" (single version) (Freddie Mercury) – 3:01
"Doing All Right" (Brian May, Tim Staffell) – 4:09

7" single (Elektra E-45884)^[1]

"Liar" (Freddie Mercury)
"Liar"

Referencer

^ "QUEEN - LIAR (SONG)". australian-charts.com. Hentet 2010-03-13.

Eksterne henvisninger

"Liar" på Queenpedia
"Liar" song review på Allmusic

[1] "QUEEN - LIAR (SONG)". australian-charts.com. Hentet 2010-03-13.

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v d r Queen singler diskografi
Queen	"Keep Yourself Alive" "Liar"
Queen II	"Seven Seas of Rhye"
Sheer Heart Attack	"Killer Queen"/"Flick of the Wrist" "Now I'm Here" "Lily of the Valley"
A Night at the Opera	"Bohemian Rhapsody" "You're My Best Friend" "Love of My Life"
A Day at the Races	"Somebody to Love" * "Tie Your Mother Down" "Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together)" "Long Away" "Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy"
News of the World	"We Are the Champions"/"We Will Rock You" "Spread Your Wings" "It's Late"
Jazz	"Bicycle Race"/"Fat Bottomed Girls" "Don't Stop Me Now" "Jealousy" "Mustapha"
The Game	"Crazy Little Thing Called Love" "Save Me" "Play the Game" "Another One Bites the Dust" "Need Your Loving Tonight"
Flash Gordon	"Flash"
Hot Space	"Under Pressure" (med David Bowie) "Back Chat" "Las Palabras de Amor" "Calling All Girls" "Staying Power" "Body Language"
The Works	"Radio Ga Ga" "I Want to Break Free" "It's a Hard Life" "Hammer to Fall"
A Kind of Magic	"One Vision" "A Kind of Magic" "Princes of the Universe" "Friends Will Be Friends" "Pain Is So Close to Pleasure" "Who Wants to Live Forever" "One Year of Love"
The Miracle	"I Want It All" "Breakthru" "The Invisible Man" "Scandal" "The Miracle"
Innuendo	"Innuendo" "I'm Going Slightly Mad" "Headlong" "I Can't Live With You" "The Show Must Go On" "These Are the Days of Our Lives"
Made in Heaven	"Heaven for Everyone" "A Winter's Tale" "I Was Born to Love You" "Too Much Love Will Kill You" "Let Me Live" "You Don't Fool Me"
Queen Rocks	"No-One but You (Only the Good Die Young)"
Greatest Hits III	"Under Pressure (Rah Mix)"
Singler uden for albummer	"Thank God It's Christmas" "Another One Bites the Dust (Small Soldiers Remix)" "We Will Rock You" (med Five) "We Are the Champions" (med Robbie Williams) "Flash (Vanguard Mix)" "Another One Bites the Dust (The Miami Project Remixes)" "Bohemian Rhapsody" (med Muppets)
Queen + Paul Rodgers	"Reaching Out/Tie Your Mother Down (Live at Sheffield)" "We Will Rock You (Live at Hyde Park)" "Say It's Not True" "C-lebrity" "We Believe"