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About This Track
“Bicycle Race” is a single by the English rock band Queen. It was released on their 1978 album Jazz and was written by Queen’s front-man Freddie Mercury. The song is unusual for a Queen single in that it shows off the band’s humorous side. Among other comic moments it has a middle eight which features bicycle bells. Fans would often replicate this at Queen concerts with their own such bells.
Mercury was inspired to write ‘Bicycle Race’ while Queen were in France to work on their 1978 album release (Jazz) during the annual Tour de France.
To release this song Queen staged a bicycle race with 65 naked women. The video was originally banned and subsequently re-edited with added special effects to censor the offensive imagery.
A great backlash would follow after Queen released promotional posters featuring a woman’s nude backside atop a bicycle. Queen, as always, took it in stride in their typical tongue-in-cheek fashion.
“People think we take ourselves a lot more seriously than we actually do”, Roger Taylor said in a press conference at the time. Lead singer Mercury went further and said of the poster, “It’s cheeky - naughty, but not lewd. Certain stores, you know, won’t run our poster. I guess some people don’t like to look at nude ladies.”
Mercury was inspired to write ‘Bicycle Race’ while Queen were in France to work on their 1978 album release (Jazz) during the annual Tour de France.
To release this song Queen staged a bicycle race with 65 naked women. The video was originally banned and subsequently re-edited with added special effects to censor the offensive imagery.
A great backlash would follow after Queen released promotional posters featuring a woman’s nude backside atop a bicycle. Queen, as always, took it in stride in their typical tongue-in-cheek fashion.
“People think we take ourselves a lot more seriously than we actually do”, Roger Taylor said in a press conference at the time. Lead singer Mercury went further and said of the poster, “It’s cheeky - naughty, but not lewd. Certain stores, you know, won’t run our poster. I guess some people don’t like to look at nude ladies.”
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power2themusic wrote:
the music video is epic
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kemp678 wrote:
GRIN
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Pedrorockeiro wrote:
And I don't like Star Wars
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kal8el wrote:
AHHH HAAAAA!!!
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REAPERSNOG wrote:
just watched video. who slipped me the LSD?
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jameschilcott32 wrote:
TOTALY BITCHIN SONG&VIDEO!!!!!!
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rockandrolljoe wrote:
Get on your bikes and ride
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gendervariant wrote:
i love the song. great track. i loved the video.![2]
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ElfriedaRains wrote:
You�ve scrobbled this track 1,101 times. You first scrobbled it on 13 Nov 2009. You love this track.
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ElfriedaRains wrote:
i love the song. great track. i loved the video.!
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QueenFTW_x wrote:
love this!!
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watchintv wrote:
BI sexual BI sexual BI sexual [2]
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ninnieboo wrote:
<3
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Worldpop wrote:
I need a bike!
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DreamCatcher189 wrote:
lol
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DavCnuk wrote:
not my favourite song form Jazz
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xKornflakesx wrote:
fucking classic
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Endit wrote:
Knowing nothing about Queen, I thought this was Blumchen's original creation until now. Good fit for 90s german techno.
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alfonzoloya wrote:
Nice song.
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lukasz_pulawski wrote:
For the video Queen rented the stadium and several dozen bikes for one day for filming the scene; however, when the renting company became aware of the way their bikes were used, they requested the group to purchase all the bicycle seats. HAHA maybe they're on sale on Ebay now
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