Queen - Spread Your Wings (BBC Session 6 - October, 1977)

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This version of Spread Your Wings is sourced from the deluxe edition of the 'On Air' boxset released in 2016, which was originally recorded on October 28th, 1977 and also the John Peel dialogue from the 2017 News Of The World boxset.

Queen's sixth and final BBC Radio session was recorded on October 28, 1977 at Maida Vale 4 Studio in London. The session was produced by Jeff Griffin and engineered by Mike Robinson. BBC Radio 1 broadcast the session on John Peel's Sounds Of the 70s program on November 14, 1977. This BBC version of Spread Your Wings is superior to the album version, featuring a faster tempo that later matched the live performances. This version has a great backing track with awesome, thundering drumming from Roger. The song builds to an instrumental climax that carries on to the end. This has been bootlegged for years, but finally saw a proper, remastered release in 2011 and later in 2016.

Written by: John Deacon
Produced by: Queen, assisted by Mike Stone
Musicians:
Freddie Mercury - lead vocals, piano
Brian May - guitars
John Deacon - bass guitar, acoustic guitar
Roger Taylor - drums
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Lyrics:

Sammy was low
Just watching the show
Over and over again
He knew it was time
He'd made up his mind
And leave his dead life behind

His boss said to him
'Boy you'd better begin
To get those crazy notions right out of your head
Sammy, who do you think that you are?
Why can't you be happy at the Emerald Bar'

Spread your wings and fly away
Fly away, far away
Spread your little wings and fly away
Fly away, far away
Pull yourself together
'Cos you know you should do better
That's because you're a free man, yeah

He spends his evenings alone in his hotel room
Keeping his thoughts to himself, he'd be leaving soon
Wishing he was miles and miles away
Nothing in this world, nothing, could make him stay

Since he was small
He had no luck at all
Nothing came easy to him
Now it was time
He'd made up his mind
'This could be my last chance'

His boss said to him
'Now listen boy
You're always dreaming
You've got no real ambition, you won't get very far
Sammy boy, don't you know who you are?
Why can't you be happy at the Emerald Bar'

So honey
Spread your wings, fly away
Fly away, far away
Spread your little wings and fly away
Fly away, far away
Pull yourself together
'Cos you know you should do better
That's because you're a free man, yeah

So come on honey
Fly, fly with me
Far away
Oooh, let me take you
Ooh yeah

Ooh
Oh spread, come on
Spread your wings
Come on and fly, fly, fly with me
Yeah

Ooooh
Ooh-ooh-ooh-oh
Yeah
M-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m fly, yeah
Oh, yeah
Alright, alright
Come on honey, fly with me, yeah
Oh spread
Oooh, yeah

John Peel: "These are Queen, and another from them, and you'll probably notice that all of the tunes they're doing tonight are from the LP 'News Of The World'".

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