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'39
This article is about the song. For years of this name and other uses, see 39.
1976 song by Queen
"'39" is a song by British rock band Queen.
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Composed by lead guitarist Brian May, it is the fifth track on their fourth studio album A Night at the Opera. The song was also the B-side to "You're My Best Friend".
The song relates the tale of a group of space explorers who embark on what is, from their perspective, a year-long voyage.
Upon their return, however, they realise that, due to the effects of time dilation from traveling at relativistic speeds, a hundred years have passed on Earth, and the loved ones they left behind are now all dead or aged.[5]
Recording
May sings lead vocal on the studio recording of the song, one of his few lead vocals on Queen recordings.
May had asked bassist John Deacon to play double bass as a joke but a couple of days later he found Deacon in the studio with the instrument, and he had already learned to play it.[6&