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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".
"Bicycle Race" ‡ Jazz: 1978 Mercury Mercury [7] "Bijou" Innuendo: 1991 Queen (May/Mercury) Mercury [4] "Blurred Vision" B-side of "One Vision" 1985 Queen Mercury (with May & Taylor) [8] "Body Language" ‡ Hot Space: 1982 Mercury Mercury [2] "Bohemian Rhapsody" ‡ A Night at the Opera: 1975 Mercury Mercury Taylor & May (part of the operatic ...
”Bicycle” Masters of Reality: 2002: From the album Sunrise on the Sufferbus "Bicycle" Nico Touches the Walls: 2011: From the album Humania "Bicycle" (feat. klei) filous: 2018 [8] "Bicycle" Xdinary Heroes: 2023 From the album Deadlock (EP) "Bicycle, Bicycle, You Are My Bicycle" Be Your Own Pet: 2006 From the album Be Your Own Pet "Bicycle ...
The steam locomotive No. 3822 [8] (fired by Mark Needham) and an open platform were rented by Queen from the Didcot Railway Centre in Oxfordshire and repainted for the video. In particular, the group named the train "The Miracle Express", and this name was reflected in large red letters on the sides of the locomotive.
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".
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."
The US version of the video features animation produced by Walt Disney Studios, as Queen's North American record label, Hollywood Records, is a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. [11] Another video version was released in 1992 to promote the Classic Queen compilation album in the US, combining old footage of the band from 1973 to 1991 plus ...