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Lynise Walters (born September 24, 1972), known professionally as Queen Pen, is an American rapper. Born in Brooklyn , New York City , she was discovered by producer Teddy Riley at an IHOP restaurant in Virginia Beach, Virginia .
"Bicycle Race" is a song by the British rock band Queen. It was released on their 1978 album Jazz and written by Queen's lead singer Freddie Mercury.It was released as a double A-side single together with the song "Fat Bottomed Girls", reaching number 11 in the UK Singles Chart and number 24 in the Billboard Hot 100 in the US.
The origins of "The Queen Is Dead" date to a live performance of the band's 1985 song "Barbarism Begins at Home", where Smiths frontman and lyricist Morrissey ad-libbed the lyrics "the queen is dead", a phrase from the novel Last Exit to Brooklyn (1964). [1] [2] Morrissey later decided to revisit the phrase for the lyric of a new song.
"Brooklyn" (music by A. Baldwin Sloane; lyrics by E. Ray Goetz) "Brooklyn" by Bo Grumpus "Brooklyn" by Buckcherry "Brooklyn" by Carrie Rodriguez "Brooklyn" by Cashmere "Brooklyn" by Cody Jameson "Brooklyn" by Commander Tom "Brooklyn" by DJ Romain & Matt Keys "Brooklyn" by Fabolous, Jay-Z, Uncle Murda & Joell Ortiz "Brooklyn" by Ehud Banai
It was recorded by Queen and co-producer Roy Thomas Baker at five studios between August and September 1975. Due to recording logistics of the era, the band had to bounce the tracks across eight generations of 24-track tape, meaning that they required nearly 200 tracks for overdubs. The song parodies elements of opera with bombastic choruses ...
The composition's lyrics are mainly in English and Arabic, repeating the word Allah, the Arabic word for God used by Muslims. It also uses a sentence in Persian-emulating gibberish, reflecting Mercury's Parsi background. The lyrics repeat the names Mustapha and Ibrahim. The lyrics also repeat the phrase "Allah will pray for you."
Further, on the U.S. single only, the song's end abuts the start of a stand-alone mix of 'God Save The Queen' from A Night At The Opera (that is, the album's cross-fade from "Bohemian Rhapsody" to "God Save The Queen" is absent). The lyrics refer back to a song from a previous album, "Seven Seas of Rhye" from Queen II, with the line "messenger ...
"Need Your Loving Tonight" is a song by the rock band Queen and written by bass guitarist John Deacon. It is the fourth track on the first side of their 1980 album The Game and the second song on the album by Deacon (the other being "Another One Bites the Dust").