And we sort of looked at each other and went, hmm, how interesting.Īnd he went away that night and, to the best of my knowledge, wrote "We Are The Champions" with that in mind. And really everything becomes a two-way process now. This has to become something which is part of our show, and we have to embrace it and the fact that people want to participate. You know, obviously we can no longer fight this. I remember talking to Freddie about it and saying, look. Having said that and then having experienced this wave of participation of the audience in - particularly in that gig in Birmingham - we almost to a man, sort of reassessed our situation. We were the kind of band who like to be listened to and taken seriously and all that stuff, you know? So people singing along wasn't part of our agenda. Now, in the beginning, we didn't relate to that. And they were singing along with everything we did. People just - the audience were just responding hugely. You know, Sabbath and a slate people come from there. Now, Birmingham is the sort of home of heavy metal, as you probably know. All I can tell you is we played a gig sort of middle of our career in a place called Bingley Hall near Birmingham. And I don't know how it got into my head. People think it was always there, but actually it wasn't. Because of that stomp, stomp, clap thing and because it's a chant. Were you thinking of it as a sports anthem? - because it almost sounds like an old-school cheerleader cheer, you know.īRIAN MAY: Yeah. So what inspired that song? I mean, it's been played at so many sports stadiums over the decades. GROSS: That's Queen's "We Will Rock You," which is written by my guest, Brian May, who was the lead guitarist for the band. You got blood on your face, you big disgrace, waving your banner all over the place. Buddy, you're a young man, hard man, shouting in the street, gonna take on the world someday. You got mud on your face, you big disgrace, kicking your can all over the place, singing, we will, we will rock you. Playing in the street - gonna (ph) be a big man someday. When I spoke with May in 2010, we talked about the band, its lead singer, Freddie Mercury, who died in 1991, and the music. In 2007, he was awarded an honorary fellowship at Liverpool John Moores University in England. A few years ago, he submitted his doctoral dissertation in astrophysics on the subject "A Survey Of Radial Velocities In The Zodiacal Dust Cloud." He's now Dr. His life has taken some surprising turns. GROSS: We're about to hear the story behind "We Will Rock You" from Brian May. When they played "We Will Rock You," the Royal Marine drummers kicked it off. Then the band Queen performed a concert outside Buckingham Palace to a huge crowd. As part of her recent Platinum Jubilee, she made a video of her tapping her spoon on a teacup to Queen's famous rhythm. He also wrote one of Queen's most famous songs, which has become a stadium anthem - "We Will Rock You."
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