Reaching Out (Queen + Paul Rodgers song)

"Reaching Out / Tie Your Mother Down" is the debut single by rock band Queen + Paul Rodgers released in 2005 from the album Return of the Champions.[1] It is medley of the 1996 Rock Therapy charity song "Reaching Out" with Queen's song "Tie Your Mother Down".

"Reaching Out"
Single by Rock Therapy
Released1996
GenreRock
LabelEMI
"Reaching Out / Tie Your Mother Down"
Single by Queen + Paul Rodgers
from the album Return of the Champions
Released29 August 2005
RecordedLive at Sheffield Hallam FM Arena on May 9, 2005
GenreRock
LabelParlophone 00946 3 38465 2 4
Songwriter(s)Don Black, Andy Hill
Queen + Paul Rodgers singles chronology
"Reaching Out / Tie Your Mother Down"
(2005)
"Say It's Not True"
(2007)

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Reaching Out / Tie Your Mother Down (Live)"5:39
2."Fat Bottomed Girls (Live)"5:48
Total length:11:27

Chart performance

In 2005, "Reaching Out" peaked at No. 33 on the Dutch Top 40 as a double A-side with "Tie Your Mother Down".[2]

Credits

Sampling

This song was sampled by American rapper Eminem in "Beautiful" from Eminem's sixth album Relapse (2009).[3]

References

  1. "Queen + Paul Rodgers — Reaching Out / Tie Your Mother Down". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2014-02-23.
  2. "Queen + Paul Rodgers - Reaching Out/Tie Your Mother Down". Dutch Top 40 (in Dutch). Retrieved 21 August 2020.
  3. "Eminem: Relapse". Pitchfork.com. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
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