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We Will Rock You Queen

We Will Rock You Queen is a very straightforward: “stomp, stomp, clap” with a great guitar riff at the end. Basic it may be but it is a perfect song and can relate to everyone. That is why people love this song so much. Yes, it can bring people together with every race, sex, colour, etc.

This song is great for stomping and clapping !. In a way it may lack the classiness of much of Queen’s incredible work, but We Will Rock You is so catchy and real you cannot help but sing along.

We Will Rock You is undoubtedly one of the best songs of all time and almost certainly one of the most covered songs ever. But no person can sing it like Freddie.

Many believe this is the best song Queen ever made. Feel free to post what you think below !.

Why The Song Was Written

The song, and “We Are the Champions” were written due to an event that occurred on the 1977 British Tour. The band had played a gig at Stafford’s Bingley Hall and had performed the obligatory encore and gone off stage. The crowd stopped clapping and sang ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’. Brian May said

‘we were just completely knocked out and taken aback – it was quite an emotional experience really, and I think these chant things are in someway connected with that’.

The song is only 2 minutes in length and was written by Brian May and of course sung by Freddie Mercury. It was released on the B-side of WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS on 7th October, 1977.

One version was used as the beginning track on their 1977 album News of the World. This version features a stamp-stamp-clap-pause beat. The stamping effects were manufactured by the band overdubbing the sounds of themselves stomping and clapping many times then including delay effects to form a sound like many individuals were taking part. When conducted live, this version is generally followed by “We Are the Champions”, another of the album’s hits, because they were designed to run together.

The double A-side reached number 4 on the U.S. Billboard singles chart, turning into their second hit in the U.S. On the 45 of the song’s original vinyl record release, the song was actually the flip side of “We Are the Champions” in Britain, however the American record company requested to put the two songs together as a “double A-side” since American radio stations were playing them back to back. This is a reason why the songs tend to be paired on the radio and at sporting events, where they are often played.

Queen also performed the song with a different arrangement (called the “fast version”). This includes a faster tempo and a full guitar, bass and drums backing track throughout. The band frequently opened their live sets in the late 1970s and early 1980s with this version, as captured on their 1979 Live Killers double album, on Queen Rock Montreal (2007), and on the Queen on Fire – Live at the Bowl album released in 2004.

Queen And Five

In 2000, English boyband Five covered “We Will Rock You”. The song, featured on their second studio album Invincible, features Queen guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor. It reached number one on the UK Singles Chart during the summer of 2000.

We Will Rock You Queen Musical

We Will Rock You has its own London based musical based on the songs of Queen as well as the hit single WWRY. The musical was written by British comedian and author Ben Elton in collaboration with Queen members Brian May and Roger Taylor. More info here.