\u201cSpread Your Wings\u201d is the latest from their covers album<\/p>\n
Tesla shares a new cover of Queen\u2019s 1977 classic, \u201cSpread Your Wings<\/a>,\u201d taken from their upcoming album,\u00a0Homage<\/a>, set for release on July 17th, via Frontiers Music Srl. Marking a full-circle moment in their storied career, the album finds the band returning to their roots with a collection of covers honoring some of rock\u2019s most timeless hits.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2018Spread Your Wings\u2019 for me was the song I always wanted to record by Queen. I always felt it was the one song they had in their catalog that should\u2019ve been a massive hit, but wasn\u2019t because it was overshadowed by \u2018We Are the Champions\u2019 and \u2018We Will Rock You\u2019 on the \u2018News of the World\u2019 album. It was also a song written by John Deacon, who was the band\u2019s secret weapon and whom not many people talk about, the quiet one, shall we say,\u201d Brian Wheat shares.<\/p>\n It is remarkable to reflect on the more than 40 years since Tesla began as a cover band performing in California nightclubs before going on to write and record original material and sell millions of albums.<\/p>\n Much like their musical heroes \u2014 The Beatles and The Rolling Stones\u2014artists who honed their craft by performing songs from those who came before them, Tesla followed a similar path in their early years and continues to embrace the tradition of paying tribute through cover songs today.<\/p>\n Homage,\u00a0the band\u2019s upcoming album, not only honors legendary artists but also provides an opportunity to showcase lead singer Jeff Keith\u2019s vocal diversity. The album stands as a thank-you expressed through music, an offering to the iconic voices and songs that shaped the band\u2019s influences and, ultimately, their own songwriting.<\/p>\n The album is not about imitation, but acknowledgment, tracing the line from influence to identity, from listening to becoming. The project also arrives more than 20 years after the \u2018Real to Reel\u2019 series, a release that helped inspire the creation of a new original Tesla song, \u201cNever Alone.\u201d<\/p>\n The\u00a0songs on\u00a0Homage\u00a0were selected for a variety of reasons, primarily to represent\u00a0some of the greatest vocalists of all time, including Elvis Presley, Freddie Mercury, Sam Cooke, David Ruffin, Etta James, and James Brown. Additional selections reflect songs the band grew up hearing on the radio and on their turntables.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cSpread Your Wings\u201d is the latest from their covers album Tesla shares a new cover of Queen\u2019s 1977…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,666,122,124,123,27699],"class_list":["post-235648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queen","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-tesla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}