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Queen - Silver Salmon (Unreleased Demo) [Take 4] Rare Track! HQ


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Silver Salmon is a song, like Doing All Right and Polar Bear, that dates back to the Smile days. The song was written by Tim Staffell and was originally more of a sci-fi themed folk song. The track was never properly recorded by Smile, but several Queen studio versions of the song were found in 1990. Silver Salmon (Take 4) was played at several Queen Fan Club Conventions by official archivist Greg Brooks. This version was traded amongst collectors and was later leaked in good quality onto the internet. Take 4 starts with studio banter from Freddie before it breaks out into heavy guitar and drums. There is also much speculation on when this particular version was recorded. Even though the song dates back to Smile, there is some evidence that this take was recorded much later, perhaps during the News Of The World sessions. Gary Taylor, who is a Queen expert and assisted writing the 2011 remaster liner notes, revealed this information on queenzone.com:
\"the band would very often play around in the studio to new songs and even old songs before they would get down to actually recording new tracks for an album. Tracks like Feelings and Silver Salmon were often played in a band jam and they would even play other artists songs as part of this warm up.\"


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