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Songs / 1974

Misfire

1974 · Sheer Heart Attack

Documented writing accounts

An individual writing account is not substituted for a collective release credit. Full work and personnel credits remain unknown where the reviewed source does not establish them.

Identified recordings

Misfire - Remastered 2011

Albums
Sheer Heart Attack
Duration of this recording
1:49 · Sheer Heart Attack (Deluxe Edition 2011 Remaster)
Original UK album release
8 November 1974
Credits
Queen · credited recording artist; individual instrumental personnel not inferred
Track
10 / 13

Editorial perspective

Misfire occupies position 10 in the identified Sheer Heart Attack programme. It follows Dear Friends. The next work is Bring Back That Leroy Brown. Read that placement alongside the album perspective: Recorded across studios in England and Wales, the third album was produced by Queen and Roy Thomas Baker. It also contains Misfire, identified in John Deacon's official biography as his first composition for Queen. A useful editorial approach is to keep the distinction between the album Sheer Heart Attack and the later song with that title. Read the shorter tracks alongside their neighbours: their place in the sequence gives this page a different perspective from a compilation of singles.

The timing belongs to Misfire - Remastered 2011, not to every performance of this work.

No independently reviewed video reference for this entry. The recording links below remain available.

Sources and provenance

Inspect assertions and scopes (7)
  • title · canonical
    "Misfire"Open source
  • songId · canonical
    "e09311eeb291447b81dfd319"Open source
  • title · canonical
    "Misfire - Remastered 2011"Open source
  • durationMs · identified-recording
    109653Open source
  • artist · canonical
    "Queen"Open source
  • url · canonical
    "https://open.spotify.com/track/1tLJMLavxD9KmeLTYeqnM8"Open source
  • credit · official-profile-writing-account
    {"entityId":"e09311eeb291447b81dfd319","personId":"cbac8f93e6b88794e351db81","role":"writing-account"}Open source