Tear It Up

Tear It Up

Queen

The second track, “Tear It Up”, is guitarist Brian May’s song, and the demo features him doing the vocals instead of Mercury. It was written as an attempt to revive Queen’s old sound (specifically Queen II).
It features stomping percussion similar to “We Will Rock You” that drives the song. When performed live during The Magic Tour, May would play the intro from “Liar” then go into the beginning of the song. In 2018, more than 30 years after being last performed, Queen + Adam Lambert revived the song to be the opening track on their 2018 European Tour.