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"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.
"Fat Bottomed Girls" and "Bicycle Race" were released together on a double A-sided single, and the songs refer to each other. Near the end of "Fat Bottomed Girls", Mercury shouts, "Get on your bikes and ride!" "Bicycle Race" reciprocates with the line "Fat bottomed girls, they'll be riding today".
Music video Artist(s) Director Nude person(s) Nudity description 1978 "Bicycle Race" (uncensored version) Queen: Dennis de Vallance: Various actresses: 65 naked actresses racing bicycles at Wimbledon. The video was edited for commercial release. 1979 "Funkytown" (Debbie Jenner version) Lipps Inc.? Background dancer
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A music video was shot for the track in October in Detroit and released on December 11, 2012 on Vevo and MTV.Skylar Grey stated that she's poking fun at widespread and excessive sexualization and she also told MTV, "The video is a combined effort between director Isaac Rentz, me and Eminem, and we just wanted to make sure it was very clear that it's a sarcastic song."
On the Queen for an Hour interview conducted in 1989, Mercury said that this was a great example of two separate bits coming together to make a final track. He commented on how the band had about 30 tracks to work with and only completed a handful, working on all of them at least somewhat.
The Bridge section in "Innuendo" is in 3/4, showing once again Mercury's affection for triple metres: "Bicycle Race" is another one with main sections in 4/4 and middle-eight in 3/4, and some of his best-known pieces (namely "We Are the Champions" and "Somebody to Love") were in 6/8, as would be his last composition, "A Winter's Tale".