

The 1976 follow-up album, A Day at the Races, was also named after a Marx brothers film.Īt the time the most expensive album ever recorded, Brian May has asserted in subsequent years that the band would have disbanded had it not been successful.

The album takes its name from the Marx Brothers film of the same name, which the band watched one night at the studio complex when recording. It was originally released by EMI in the UK where it topped the charts for nine weeks, a record at the time, and Elektra Records in the United States where the album peaked at #4 and has been certified Triple Platinum (three million copies sold). It was produced by Roy Thomas Baker and Queen, and reportedly was, at the time of its release, the most expensive album ever made. A Night at the Opera is a 1975 album by English rock band Queen.
