Everything you need to know about the classic track

1. Queen We Will Rock You. Find Out About One
Of Their Finest Singles.
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Queen We Will Rock You is a very
straightforward: “stomp, stomp, clap” with a
fantastic guitar riff at the end. Simple it might be
nevertheless it is a perfect song and can relate to
everyone. That’s why everyone loves this song
so much. Yes, it can bring people together with
every race, sex, colour, etc.
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2. This song is wonderful 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.
Queen We Will Rock You is without question one
of the best songs of all time and in all probability
one of the most covered songs ever. But no one
can sing it like Freddie.
Many believe this is the best song Queen ever
made.
Why The Song Was Written
The song, and “We Are the Champions” were
written due to an event that happened on the
1977 British Tour. The band had played a show
at Stafford’s Bingley Hall and had done the
customary encore and gone off stage. The crowd
ceased 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’.
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3. The song is merely 2 minutes long and was
written by Brian May and obviously 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
variation consists of a stamp-stamp-clap-pause
beat. The stamping effects were produced by the
band overdubbing the sounds of themselves
stomping and clapping many times then
incorporating delay effects to construct a sound
like a lot of people were contributing. Whenever
performed live, this version is often followed by
“We Are the Champions”, another of the album’s
hits, as they were designed to run together.
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4. The double A-side got to 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,
though the American record company requested
to put the two songs together as a “double A-
side” because American radio stations were
playing them back to back. This is a reason why
the songs will be paired on the radio and at
sporting events, where they are regularly played.
Queen also conducted the song with a different
arrangement (referred to as the “fast version”).
This includes a faster tempo and a full guitar,
bass and drums backing track throughout. The
band often 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.
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5. Queen And Five
In 2000, English boy band 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.
Queen We Will Rock You 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.
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