{"id":236036,"date":"2026-05-18T23:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T23:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/236036\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T23:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T23:00:11","slug":"tesla-covers-queens-spread-your-wings-for-new-album-homage-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/236036\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla covers Queen\u2019s \u2018Spread Your Wings\u2019 for new album \u2018Homage\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rockers Tesla are getting ready to release a new covers album, Homage, and they\u2019re previewing it with the release of their take on Queen\u2019s 1977 track \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Up-iugVdxpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Spread Your Wings<\/a>,\u201d which originally appeared on\u00a0Queen\u2019s sixth studio album, News of the World.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Spread Your Wings\u2019 for me was the song I always wanted to record by Queen,\u201d says Tesla\u2019s Brian Wheat. \u201cI 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 News of the World album.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt 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 he adds.<\/p>\n<p>Homage, dropping July 17, has the band covering songs by such artists as Bob Seger, Supertramp, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Creedence Clearwater Revival, James Brown, Elvis Presley and more. It also includes one original song, \u201cNever Alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The album is <a href=\"https:\/\/ffm.bio\/tesla-homage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">available for preorder<\/a> now.<\/p>\n<p>Next up, Tesla is set to join M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce on their The Return of the Carnival of Sins Tour, which begins July 17 in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania. A complete list of dates can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/teslatheband.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Teslatheband.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rockers Tesla are getting ready to release a new covers album, Homage, and they\u2019re previewing it with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-236036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236036","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=236036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}