<P> "It's Late", written by May, was his idea of treating a song as a three - act theatrical play . It makes use of the tapping technique . </P> <P> "My Melancholy Blues" was composed by Mercury . There are no backing vocals or guitars . Despite the title, the track is more related to jazz . Deacon played fretless bass on stage during this song but used a regular fretted bass on the record . </P> <P> The album's cover was a painting by American sci - fi artist Frank Kelly Freas . Taylor had an issue of Astounding Science Fiction (October 1953) whose cover art depicted a giant intelligent robot holding the dead body of a man . The caption read: "Please...fix it, Daddy?" to illustrate the story "The Gulf Between" by Tom Godwin . The painting inspired the band to contact Freas, who agreed to alter the painting for their album cover, by replacing the single dead man with the four "dead" band members (with Taylor and Deacon falling to the ground, and Taylor only visible on the back cover). The inner cover (gatefold) has the robot extending its hand to snatch up the petrified fleeing audience in the shattered auditorium where the corpses were removed . Freas said he was a classical music fan and did not know Queen, and only listened to the band after doing the cover "because I thought I might just hate them, and it would ruin my ideas", but eventually liked their music . </P> <Ul> <Li> "We Are the Champions" was released as the first single from the album on 7 October 1977 in the UK, where it reached number 2 . In the US it reached number 4 . </Li> <Li> "Spread Your Wings" followed as the second single . Released in the UK on 10 February 1978, it reached number 34 . </Li> <Li> "It's Late" is the last single from the album; it was released in 1978, and only in the US, Canada, Japan and New Zealand . It only reached number 74 in the US, failing to chart everywhere else . </Li> </Ul>

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