49 years ago TODAY, Freddie Mercury and Queen took another lap when their album “A Day at the Races” was released in the U.K. in 1976! Fresh off “A Night at the Opera,” Queen leaned even harder into the big, weird studio stuff here, stacking mock-gospel choirs on “Somebody to Love,” letting Brian May rip through “Tie Your Mother Down,” and sneaking in campy piano drama like “Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy” alongside softer deep cuts. It shot straight back to number one in the U.K. and number five