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Queen – Bicycle Race (3:03)

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“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.”
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  • Panecea

    Look out for those beauties.

    last month

  • rowarren

    I want to ride my bicycle!

    March 2012

  • rushfan1

    Fat-bottom girls...

    February 2012

  • mechanicallover

    I want it to be summer so I can ride my bike!!

    February 2012

  • power2themusic

    the music video is epic

    January 2012

  • kemp678

    GRIN

    December 2011

  • Pedrorockeiro

    And I don't like Star Wars

    November 2011

  • kal8el

    AHHH HAAAAA!!!

    November 2011

  • REAPERSNOG

    just watched video. who slipped me the LSD?

    November 2011

  • jameschilcott32

    TOTALY BITCHIN SONG&VIDEO!!!!!!

    September 2011

  • rockandrolljoe

    Get on your bikes and ride

    September 2011

  • gendervariant

    i love the song. great track. i loved the video.![2]

    September 2011

  • ElfriedaRains

    You�ve scrobbled this track 1,101 times. You first scrobbled it on 13 Nov 2009. You love this track.

    August 2011

  • ElfriedaRains

    i love the song. great track. i loved the video.!

    August 2011

  • QueenFTW_x

    love this!!

    August 2011

  • watchintv

    BI sexual BI sexual BI sexual [2]

    August 2011

  • ninnieboo

    <3

    July 2011

  • Worldpop

    I need a bike!

    July 2011

  • DreamCatcher189

    lol

    July 2011

  • DavCnuk

    not my favourite song form Jazz

    July 2011
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