It's Late

It's Late

Infobox Single
Name = It's Late


Artist = Queen
from Album = News of the World
B-side = Sheer Heart Attack
Released = 1978 (Canada, the United States, New Zealand and Japan only)
Format = 7"
Recorded = 1977
Genre = Hard rock, Heavy metal
Length = 6:22 (album version) 4:28 (single version)
Label = EMI, Elektra
Writer = Brian May
Producer = Queen and Mike Stone
Chart position =


NoReviews = yes
Last single = "Spread Your Wings" (1978)
This single = "It's Late" (1978)
Next single = "Bicycle Race/Fat Bottomed Girls" (1978)

"It's Late" is a hard rock song written by Queen guitarist Brian May and performed by the band for their 1977 album "News of the World". The song was May's idea of treating a song as a three-act theatrical play, and the verses are called "acts" in the lyrics sheet. It makes use of the tapping technique one year before Eddie Van Halen supposedly "invented" it, although May told Guitarist Magazine in 1982 that he was inspired by an unnamed bar-band guitarist from Texas. The song is notable for its length and heavy, bluesy guitar riff, using the previously mentioned technique.

The song was released as a single in the US in 1978, albeit in heavily edited form, and peaked at #72 on the Billboard charts. The song was later included on the "Queen Rocks" compilation in 1997, and a new video was produced using footage of Las Vegas and prostitutes, intercut with live performances of the song. As the song is about a man who falls in love with a woman but is too shy to tell her, this video might imply that the man might have fallen in love with a stripper or a prostitute.Fact|date=August 2007


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