"You" | ||||
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Single by Queensrÿche | ||||
from the album Hear in the Now Frontier | ||||
Released | 1997 | |||
Format | CD | |||
Recorded | 1996 | |||
Studio | Sixteenth Avenue Sound, Nashville, TN Studio Litho, Seattle, WA | |||
Genre | Hard rock | |||
Length | 3:54 | |||
Label | EMI | |||
Songwriter(s) | Chris DeGarmo, Geoff Tate | |||
Producer(s) | Peter Collins | |||
Queensrÿche singles chronology | ||||
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Hear in the Now Frontier track listing | ||||
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"You" is a song by the American heavy metal band Queensrÿche. It was released as a single in support of their 1997 album Hear in the Now Frontier .
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom. With roots in blues rock, psychedelic rock, and acid rock, the bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified distortion, extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall loudness. The genre's lyrics and performance styles are sometimes associated with aggression and machismo.
Queensrÿche is an American heavy metal band. It formed in 1980 in Bellevue, Washington out of the local band The Mob. The band has released 15 studio albums, one EP, several DVDs, and continues to tour and record. The original lineup consisted of guitarists Michael Wilton and Chris DeGarmo, drummer Scott Rockenfield, bassist Eddie Jackson, and lead vocalist Geoff Tate.
In the music industry, a single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record or an album. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, a single is a song that is released separately from an album, although it usually also appears on an album. Typically, these are the songs from albums that are released separately for promotional uses such as digital download or commercial radio airplay and are expected to be the most popular. In other cases a recording released as a single may not appear on an album.
Chart (1997) | Peak position |
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U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock [1] | 11 |
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Geoff Tate is a German-born American singer and musician. He rose to fame with the progressive metal band Queensrÿche, who had commercial success with their 1988 album Operation: Mindcrime and 1990 album Empire. Tate is ranked fourteenth on Hit Parader's list of the 100 Greatest Metal Vocalists of All Time. He was voted No. 2 on That Metal Show's top 5 hard rock vocalists of the 1980s. In 2012, he won the Vegas Rocks! Magazine Music Award for "Voice in Progressive Heavy Metal". In 2015, he placed ninth on OC Weekly's list of the 10 Best High-Pitched Metal Singers. After his farewell tour as Queensrÿche, he renamed his band Operation: Mindcrime, after the Queensrÿche album of the same name.
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