The best Queen song to never have been a single...

agreed - You & I all the way...

Man! I hate when people dis Sweet Lady, I love that song.  I would have liked Dead On Time to have been a single.

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[b]Sebastian wrote: [/b] SASS does have Freddie.

Long Away was a single... not a successful one, but it was a single anyway.

My choice: '39. [/QUOTE]
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Yeah but he's not the main vocalist, he only has the middle 8, think mooghead saying lead vocals ie. the bulk of the song.

And Long Away was only a single in America was it not?

'39? Yes. :)

Good thread. I think Coming Soon would've been perfect for 1980.

A Day A The Races for me, while excellent, suffers from a curious track order. It starts rocking then stops immediately with YTMBA. As a result I rarely listen to it from star to finish. How about:

Intro
Tie Your Mother Down
Long Away
Millionaire Waltz
You & I
You Take My Breath Away

Somebody To Love
Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy
Drowse
White Man
Teo Torriatte

Too many people mistaking songs they like for good singles. For a single Freddie would have to have been the singer*. Need Your Loving Tonight is another good shout ;-)

*Queen's rule, not mine!

I suppose the really stand-out songs that would've worked as singles are:

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Flick of the Wrist
39
Love of My Life (album version 1975)
If You Can't Beat Them
Was It All Worth It

However, I suspect the one song that would've been a huge international hit is Dragon Attack, which is vaguely similar to (and superior than) Ram Jam's Black Betty -- an international hit. In fact, as odd as it sounds, if they had released Dragon Attack instead of AOBTD we might not have had a weak funk album like Hot Space, and instead they might've produced a rock-funk album based on the Dragon Attack template -- which would've been awesome in so many ways.

Flick of the Wrist was a single (double-A with KQ).

Need Your Loving Tonight was a single (America and possibly other places too) and sold about just as many copies as Who Wants to Live Forever did.

An edited and inferior version of Flick of the Wrist was released as a dbl A-side. If it has been released as an A side in its own right, and unedited, I think It could've been successful.

My Fairy King
The Fairy Fellers Master-Stroke
Cool Cat

Was it All Worth It for me

This would have been a great single, certainly better than The Invisible Man.......