High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A Day at the Races is the fifth album by British rock group Queen, released in December 1976. It was the band`s first completely self-produced album, and the first not to feature producer Roy Thomas Baker. Recorded at Sarm East, The Manor and Wessex Studios in England, A Day at the Races was engineered by Mike Stone. The title of the album followed suit with its predecessor A Night at the Opera in taking its name from a film by the Marx Brothers.