Queen: "Save Me" Single (1980)

Queen’s "Save Me" backed with "Let Me Entertain You", was released as a 7-inch vinyl single in the UK by EMI Records (catalog number EMI 5031) on January 25, 1980.

Composed by guitarist Brian May, the song was recorded in 1979 and released in the UK on 25 January 1980, almost six months before the album came out. "Save Me" remained on the UK Singles Chart for six weeks, reaching number 11. It was the band's first single release of the 1980s.

This power ballad was performed live from 1979 to 1982 and was included in their live albums, Queen Rock Montreal at the Montreal Forum, Quebec, Canada in November 1981, and Queen on Fire – Live at the Bowl at the Milton Keynes Bowl, Buckinghamshire, England in June 1982. The song also appears on Queen's Greatest Hits and Queen Forever albums. The earliest known video of a live performance is from the Concerts for the People of Kampuchea at the Hammersmith Odeon in 1979.