Trivia / Queen (Band)

Albums with their own page:

• Queen
• Queen II
• Sheer Heart Attack
• A Night at the Opera
• A Day at the Races
• News of the World
• Jazz
• The Game
• Hot Space
• The Works
• A Kind of Magic
• The Miracle
• Innuendo
• Made in Heaven

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Trivia Tropes:

• All-Star Cast:
  • The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert.
  • Freddie Mercury's debut solo album had been initially supposed to feature Jeff Beck on guitar and Michael Jackson (who'd just released Thriller) dueting on a song. Oh, if only... (Freddie and MJ did actually collaborate on a song. ^note They each recorded their vocals separately, but never got around to doing a duet. Someone came along later and mixed the tracks into what the final song would've sounded like. That's why it sounds like they're trying to sing over each other.)
  • Queen itself, arguably, since all members were considered to be one of the best (and apart from Freddie, one of the most underrated) at what they did.
• Bad Export for You:
  • The original South Korean release of News of the World dropped "Get Down, Make Love" due to the government there considering it inappropriate.
  • The original US CD release of The Works omitted the lyrics from the liner notes; they would eventually be restored in the 1991 Hollywood Records remaster.
• Based on a Dream: Brian May had a dream about a "great flood" which inspired "The Prophet's Song".
• Better Export for You: The 1991 remasters by Hollywood Records, done to commemorate Queen's 20th anniversary, marked the first time that most of the band's catalog was officially available on CD in the United States and Canada (and the first time that News of the World, The Game, and Greatest Hits were widely available on the format there, as Elektra Records' CDs went out of print within a year). To incentivize purchasing these releases over importing the preexisting EMI CDs, the remasters included various bonus tracks consisting of remixes, B-sides, and previously unreleased outtakes.
• Black Sheep Hit:
  • To some extent, "Another One Bites the Dust", a funk song that was pretty much written because it was the particular style John happened to enjoy and it actually wouldn't have been released as a single if Michael Jackson hadn't convinced Freddie that it would be huge. In Britain it was a hit during a period when everything they released shot up the charts, so it generally passed without any particular comment. In America, it's their most successful song and ended up dictating the sound their next album would follow.
  • "Under Pressure" was the band's only big name single to be recorded alongside an outside artist, in this case David Bowie. It's gone on to be one of their most recognizable hits.
• Breakthrough Hit: "Seven Seas of Rhye" (UK), "Killer Queen" (US).
• Bury Your Art:
  • David Bowie recorded backing vocals for "Cool Cat", but ended up dissatisfied with the results and asked the band to remove them. As this happened just days before Hot Space's planned release date, Queen had to undergo a bit of Schedule Slip to comply with Bowie's request. This early version of "Cool Cat" would become a popular bootleg among Queen fans and Bowie fans alike after it was discovered on an Elektra Records test pressing of Hot Space.
  • Robert Plant's performance of "Innuendo" was one of several segments from the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert that were omitted from the VHS and LaserDisc releases due to time constraints. When the band sought to restore these songs for the DVD release, Plant himself asked them to leave "Innuendo" out thanks to his dissatisfaction with his performance.
• Career Resurrection: They hadn't exactly fallen into obscurity by that point, but people were starting to regard Queen as old hat and past their prime... until Live Aid, that is.
• Channel Hop:
  • In the UK, Queen were originally signed to EMI until 1989, when they moved to the Parlophone Records sublabel. Parlophone would inherit the band's catalog outside of North America until 2011, when the band and their catalog moved over to Island Records under a more lucrative contract. After EMI dissolved in 2012, its assets were divided between Warner Music Group and Universal Music Group, Island's parent company; Universal would subsequently put out "new" releases through Virgin EMI Records. In 2020, Virgin EMI was rebranded as a revival of EMI, thus putting Queen's music back where it first started.
  • In the US and Canada, Queen signed to Elektra Records and WEA and released their music under those labels until 1984's The Works, when they moved to Capitol Records (an EMI subsidiary), taking the rights to their backlog with them, as a result of the Warner Home Video Rental Drive and Elektra's wariness towards Hot Space. That deal would go on until 1990, when the band signed a new deal with Disney's Hollywood Records (which just so happened to be distributed by Elektra until 1995, when Polygram, and later Universal, took over), taking their back catalog with them. Now, Universal distributes Queen's music worldwide.
  • Greatest Flix underwent this before release due to the controversial Warner Home Video Rental Drive of '81, being released by Picture Music International through Thorn EMI Video (whose parent company, EMI, distributed their records in the UK), instead of by WEA (who distributed them in the USA) as was originally planned.
• Chart Displacement: Their UK #1s were "Bohemian Rhapsody", "Under Pressure"... and "Innuendo", which is not as remembered as their two chart-toppers across The Pond ("Another One Bites the Dust", "Crazy Little Thing Called Love") or all their songs that peaked at #2 ("We Will Rock You"/"We Are the Champions", "Killer Queen", "Somebody to Love", "Radio Ga Ga"). Also, in the U.S., "Under Pressure" did not perform as well as next single "Body Language", which fans also deride for being quite representative of the sound present in the divisive Hot Space.^note "We Will Rock You" also topped the British chart, but as guest artists on a cover version by boy band Five.
• Colbert Bump: "Let Me Entertain You" got a bump in 2020 because fans mistakenly thought figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu would be skating to it for his short program at the Japanese Nationals. It was later announced he'd be skating to the Robbie Williams song of the same name, but the video for the Queen song got a boost from Hanyu fans checking it out.
• Creator Backlash:
  • The "It's a Hard Life" video. Brian May isn't a big fan of it and Taylor outright hates it, calling it "the worst music video ever" on the Greatest Hits 2 commentary. They've both admitted loving the song, though. Taylor had also admitted in a recent documentary that it was the most fun he had on a video shoot, he just doesn't like the finished product.
  • Both Deacon and Taylor publicly panned Jazz and Hot Space. The latter was defended by May (who claims that without it there'd have been no Thriller—Michael Jackson agreed that their album was an influence on him) and Mercury (whose debut solo album is basically a Hot Space II). May is also proud of the song "Put Out The Fire" (from Hot Space).
  • Whatever his current sentiments, Brian wanted nothing to do with the hedonistically spirited "Don't Stop Me Now" when it was initially being recorded, and it took a bit of convincing on Freddie's part to get him to throw in guitar bits throughout.
  • Freddie was not pleased with the sound of the Wurlitzer electric piano, which John insisted on playing on "You're My Best Friend". Freddie preferred the sound of the acoustic piano. He still loved the song itself, though.
  • It took lots of fighting and arguing before finally deciding to add a guitar solo to the song "Back Chat", mostly because John Deacon, the composer, wanted to eliminate every possible rock element from this song.
  • Roger Taylor hated "Another One Bites the Dust" so much he refused to play through the song, recording merely a short loop and telling the rest of the band to play to that. It's surprising he didn't just tell the band to use a drum machine so he wouldn't need to be on the song at all.
  • Freddie Mercury and John Deacon both disliked "Gimme the Prize". The movie's director didn't seem to like it either.
• Creator Breakdown:
  • Innuendo was written while Freddie Mercury's health was rapidly deteriorating due to AIDS (at a time when the disease was a functional death sentence), and the album is widely thought to be him saying his goodbyes. In particular, "I'm Going Slightly Mad" is based on his increasing cognitive issues, "Delilah" is a farewell to his favorite cat, and "Bijou" is him bidding goodbye to his partner. Even the other band members' contributions feature reflections on Mercury's impending death, such as the musing on the past in Roger Taylor's "These Are the Days of Our Lives" and the Go Out with a Smile lyrics of Brian May's "The Show Must Go On".
  • For another Brian May Creator Breakdown, there's always "Too Much Love Will Kill You", which is a song about being in love with two people and being unable to choose, and also the pain of losing a loved one. It was performed for the first time at a tribute concert for Freddie Mercury shortly after his death. And contrary to popular belief, it was written about the breakup of May's marriage, not about Freddie.
• Creator-Driven Successor:
  • Freddie Mercury wrote "It's a Hard Life" as a direct sequel to "Play the Game". "Somebody to Love" is a sweeping rock opera to follow "Bohemian Rhapsody".
  • The album Hot Space was meant to be a spiritual successor to the massive success of the Funk-influenced "Another One Bites the Dust", although its success was limited.
  • The opening lines of "It's a Hard Life" share a significant snippet of melody with "Vesti la Giubba" from Leoncavallo's Pagliacci.
  • More notably, the entirety of A Day at the Races can be thought of as a "sequel" to A Night at the Opera. They're both named after Marx Brothers films, the album art is almost exactly the same with a black background rather than white, and many of the songs parallel each other. "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "Somebody to Love" or "Teo Torriate", "'39" and "Long Away", "The Prophet's Song" and "White Man", "You're My Best Friend" and "You and I", and very specifically, both albums open with Epic Riff-driven Hard Rock tunes ("Death on Two Legs [Dedicated to...]" and "Tie Your Mother Down").
  • Additionally, "In the Lap of the Gods", "My Fairy King", "Liar", and "March of the Black Queen" could all be seen as predecessors to "Bohemian Rhapsody".
  • Though they're written by and partially sung by different members, "Fun It" and "Another One Bites the Dust" have similarities. The drum intros especially sound similar.
  • Although it may not seem like it at first, Queen II and Jazz actually have quite a bit in common. They both have album artwork that is primarily in black and white; they're both very heavy albums compared to the band's other work; and a lot of techniques used on Queen II were reused on Jazz (namely, the sitar-like sound created by sticking piano wire under the guitar frets and a multi-tracked guitar that emulates the sound of a string section). Finally, you can draw a number of parallels between the songs on both albums; "Mustapha" almost sounds like Freddie trying to recreate "The Fairy Feller's Masterstroke" with a more effective "punch" to the listener.
• Creator Killer: Averted, thankfully. Due to all the multi-tracking and studio effects, A Night at the Opera was the most expensive pop album ever recorded at the time, and Brian May said in later years that if it didn't succeed, the band probably would have broken up. It debuted at #1 on the British charts.
• Creator's Favorite Episode:
  • Brian May described Made in Heaven as his pick for Queen's best album, stating that "it has so much beauty in it. It was a long, long process, painstakingly put together. A real labor of love." In terms of his favorite Queen song, his pick was "The Miracle" from the album of the same name.
  • Freddie Mercury considered "Somebody To Love" to be his favorite Queen song, due to his admiration of Aretha Franklin.
  • John Deacon considered "Dragon Attack" to be his favorite Queen song.
  • Roger Taylor's pick for favorite Queen song is "Under Pressure".
• Cross-Dressing Voices: The vocals in "Brighton Rock" are supposed to be a duet between a man and a woman, but Freddie Mercury ended up doing both voices.
• Cut Song:
  • They have quite a few, some of which are merely unfinished demos. Several are arguably finished, but simply weren't used anywhere. In a more conventional use of the trope, they also have a few B-Sides that many fans argue to this day would've made excellent album tracks. Examples include "A Human Body" from The Game sessions, "Soul Brother" from the Hot Space sessions, and "Lost Opportunity" from the Innuendo sessions. Notably, by those points in time, the first and third of those songs were not sung by Freddie.
  • Three duets between Freddie Mercury and Michael Jackson were recorded during the sessions for Hot Space: "There Must Be More to Life Than This", "State of Shock", and "Victory". However, none of them were completed by the pair, and two of them would be redone for their solo projects: Mercury would re-record "There Must Be More to Life Than This" for his solo debut, Mr. Bad Guy, while Jackson would redo "State of Shock" with his brothers and Mick Jagger for The Jackson 5's Victory. The original Jackson/Mercury version of "There Must Be More to Life Than This" would eventually be completed for the 2014 compilation Queen Forever; the surviving members of Queen attempted to release all three duets, but the Jackson estate only allowed them to use one song, and that was the track they agreed on. The original version of "State of Shock" would eventually leak online, whereas "Victory" remains in the vaults.
  • Of the "finished songs that weren't used at all" variety, we have "Dog with a Bone", a track that was most likely recorded between A Kind of Magic and The Miracle. Likewise, "Face It Alone" (which was recorded in a rough but complete form some point afterwards) is also a notable unused track. Both songs exist around the Internet in varying quality, but always with unavoidable artefacts (such as static being very audible).
• Died During Production: Freddie died a tragic death from AIDS. He kept it a closely guarded secret and only went public with it less than 24 hours before his death. It has to be said though that there were quite a few hints in their songs and in the fact that Freddie hadn't appeared in any music video since "These Are the Days of Our Lives". In the final months of his life, Mercury recorded as much new material as he could in order for it be released after his death. Those songs ultimately appeared on the band's final album, 1995's Made in Heaven.
• Follow the Leader: "Bohemian Rhapsody" is widely credited with popularizing the idea of the Concept Video, a music video that was anything other than just a performance of song. It wasn't actually the first, but it was the first one to really get attention for doing this and inspire imitators.
• He Also Did: Sidney Sax, orchestra leader on the Flash Gordon Soundtrack, had played violin on several Beatles' songs, including "Yesterday" and "A Day in the Life".
• I Am Not Spock: Roger formed a parallel band in the 1980s, where he was the lead singer and rhythm guitarist rather than the drummer. He was extremely annoyed by fans and journalists still thinking of him as the drummer. His solo career also suffered a bit from it; Roger sometimes showed annoyance about being considered only as "the drummer", even with Queen. There are some interviews where he introduces himself as "the drummer and one of the vocalists" of the band.
• In Memoriam: "Life is Real" was dedicated to John Lennon, who had been murdered between the releases of The Game and Hot Space.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes:
  • The band's Elektra Records backlog went out of print in North America in 1984 thanks to Queen taking the material with them when they made a Channel Hop to Capitol Records. The albums wouldn't be reissued in the region until Hollywood Records' expanded remasters in 1991. This had the knock-on effect of forcing Elektra to withdraw their CD releases of News of the World, The Game, and Greatest Hits just one year after they came out in 1983. Because of their rarity and their better regard among audiophiles compared to later CD releases, the Elektra discs are highly coveted among collectors.
  • Hollywood Records Classic Queen and their 1992 version of Queen's Greatest Hits compilation have gone out of print ever since they released standalone versions of the original UK 1981 Greatest Hits and Greatest Hits II, similar to post-1987 stateside reiusses of The Beatles' UK albums.
• Late Export for You: Most of the band's material prior to The Works was not released on CD in the US until the Hollywood Records remasters in 1991, by which point EMI had already put out CD releases in the UK and Europe. The sole exceptions were News of the World, The Game, and Greatest Hits, which briefly saw CD releases in the US by Elektra Records before going out of print a year later.
• Limited Special Collector's Ultimate Edition: The 2015 Queen - Studio Collection box set, which comes with all fifteen albums on 18 LPs (Innuendo and Made in Heaven are on two discs, and "Side White" and "Side Black" of Queen II are split into separate discs with an etched B-side) in a variety of colors, along with a special hardcover book. The first production run of the set sold out, but was reissued in 2016 and 2019.
• Magnum Opus Dissonance:
  • While they certainly agree that it's a very important album for them, the members themselves don't think A Night at the Opera was their best album ever; Brian May personally believes Queen II and Made in Heaven were their finest works.
  • Similarly, while "Bohemian Rhapsody" is frequently recognized by others as the band's Signature Song and Freddie's greatest, Freddie was actually more proud of "Somebody To Love" which he considered his favorite Queen song.
• Milestone Celebration:
  • In 1991, the band celebrated their 20th anniversary by reissuing their entire backlog in the United States and Canada, marking the first time that their Elektra Records material was widely available in the regions since 1984. These re-releases were remastered and featured various bonus tracks consisting of remixes, B-sides, and outtakes.
  • In 1998, the band marked the 25th anniversary of their first album with the Boxed Set The Crown Jewels, featuring their first eight albums in mini-LP sleeves.
  • In 2011, the band celebrated their 40th anniversary with a second series of remasters, this time including Innuendo and Made in Heaven (the former album was released just before the 1991 remasters and was used as a reference point for those, while the latter album was released in 1995). These releases also included bonus discs with B-sides, outtakes, demos, and live performances.
• Money, Dear Boy: While they did genuinely enjoy their work, Queen first and foremost was out to make money, and they would happily jump on any trending and popular genre of music of the day to make it. Not that this is a bad thing, as the band would always put their best foot forward in doing it.
  The Rageaholic, from his music mythos retrospective of the band in question: [...] I respect consistency, and I say this as a fan, but Queen...would have played fucking polka music if it had got them paid in the '80s, and don't pretend for one-septillionth of a second that isn't the god's-honest truth. Love 'em, but they were out to make some cold hard cash.
• No Export for You:
  • The band stopped touring America after 1982, and with the exception of News of the World, The Game, The Works, A Kind of Magic, and The Miracle, none of their studio albums were available on CD in the US prior to signing on with Hollywood Records in 1991, meaning that if you wanted flat-transfer CDs of the affected studio albums, your only option was to import a copy from Europe.
  • While most flat-transfer CDs of the band's discography weren't available in the US, the opposite situation occurred with the bonus tracks included on Hollywood Records' 1991 remasters. While Parlophone Records eventually released the remasters outside the US in 1994 (albeit using the same packaging as the flat-transfer discs, just with the copyright information updated), the bonus tracks included on Hollywood's discs were left out, leaving them exclusive to American buyers.
• Nominal Coauthor: Following Freddie Mercury's HIV diagnosis in 1987, the band decided to credit all of their songs to the entire band regardless of who actually wrote it. For instance, "Scandal" was written solely by Brian May and "These Are the Days of Our Lives" was written solely by Roger Taylor, but the whole band is credited for them.
• One-Take Wonder: Freddie Mercury was very ill when the band were to record "The Show Must Go On". When Brian May expressed concern that he might not be up to it Mercury reportedly threw back a shot of vodka and did it in one go.
• The Pete Best: Original bassist and lead singer Tim Staffell, before Freddie and John joined. This isn't counting the various bassists who were in the band after changing their name to Queen but before finding John, since they only lasted roughly a gig or so.
• Promoted Fanboy: In 1968, Tim Staffell and a friend formed the band Smile. Another friend of his (and fellow Ealing Art College student), Farrokh ("Freddie") Bulsara, became one of the band's greatest fans, soon pestering the band with suggestions for their shows and repeatedly stating his wish to become a rock star himself. When Staffell left the band, Smile was about to disband. Bulsara stepped in and, changing his name to Mercury, persuaded the remaining Smile members to 1) continue, 2) allow him to join as lead singer, and 3) change the band's name to Queen.
• Reality Subtext: Many of the songs from Innuendo and Made in Heaven were clearly inspired by Freddie's struggle with AIDS.
• Reclusive Artist: Freddie was one to a certain extent. In contrast to his famously outgoing stage persona, he was quite introverted when he wasn't performing, giving few interviews in comparison to Brian and Roger and mostly keeping to himself (it wasn't publicly revealed that he had AIDS, much less that he was dying, until a day before his death). Since 1997, John has retreated from the music business and public view completely, with only the very occasional picture of him surfacing.
• The Red Stapler: Good Omens features a running gag about CDs turning into "The Best of Queen" if they're left in a car long enough, name dropping several songs along the way. At the time, there wasn't a Queen album that had every song listed, but fans of the book made such an uproar that one was created.
• Schedule Slip: Innuendo was supposed to be available for Christmas 1990, but was delayed because of Freddie Mercury's health. It was eventually released in February of 1991, nine months before Mercury's death.
• Screwed by the Network: The release of Queen's Greatest Hits, Pix and Flix, a multimedia project intended to celebrate the band's 10th anniversary, was badly botched in the United States by WEA (Warner, Elektra, Atlantic), with Warner Books passing on Greatest Pix and Warner Home Video attempting to make Greatest Flix a rental-only release against Queen's explicit wishes. Only Greatest Hits would see release under WEA through Elektra Records; Greatest Pix was ultimately published by Quartet Books the next spring, while Greatest Flix was released the same year as Greatest Hits, as part of Thorn EMI Video's North American launch slate. Amazingly, Queen didn't consider parting ways with WEA immediately; the last straw came with how Elektra handled their subsequent album, Hot Space, wary of the band's decision to release a disco album at the height of America's ugly backlash against the genre. Freddie Mercury was reportedly so incensed that he spent the next year buying out the band's contract—and the US rights to all of their albums—from Elektra, resulting in most of their material prior to The Works being out of print in America until the early 90's. Ironically, when the band inked a deal with Hollywood Records, the label was distributed by Elektra at the time.
  Jim Beach: It's a pity these three divisions of Warner Communications couldn't have joined forces for the common good of Warner Communications; now we're in a position where two ostensibly competing companies are going to have to get together to market this piece of product.
• Serendipity Writes the Plot: "Under Pressure" came into existence only due to an impromptu jam session after David Bowie decided to drop in on Queen while they were recording Hot Space.
• Swan Song:
  • "The Show Must Go On", is about Freddie Mercury facing death with dignity. When Brian May presented the demo to Freddie, he had doubts that the latter would be able to sing due to his illness at the time. When the time came to record the vocals, Mercury drank a measure of vodka and said "I'll fucking do it, darling!", then recorded it in one take.
    The show must go on
    The show must go on, yeah
    Oooh inside my heart is breaking
    My make-up may be flaking
    But my smile still stays on
  • The last song Freddie wrote by himself, "A Winter's Tale", was coincidentally inspired by watching the swans at Lake Geneva, therefore being his swan song in more than one way. It was recorded after "The Show Must Go On" and "These Are the Days of Our Lives" but before "Mother Love", which he and Brian wrote together.
  • As far as music videos go, "These Are the Days of Our Lives" was the last time Freddie appeared. By this point, his illness had progressed to the point where he needed to wear make-up and have the video shot in monochrome in order to hide how gaunt and physically weak he had become, but he nonetheless delivered a stellar performance that belied his failing health.
• Throw It In!:
  • When he was writing "'39", Brian May asked John Deacon to play string bass on the recording. While he meant it as a joke, Deacon actually could play the string bass, and showed up with one at the recording session, so May decided to use it, resulting in a very interesting skiffle feel.
  • Freddie once broke a mic stand by mistake during a show. Not only did he decide to just keep using the mic instead of having it fixed or replaced, but he then went on to use a "broken" mic for subsequent performances.
  • "Fat Bottomed Girls" has an odd note in the break after the first chorus that could have been deliberate, but sounds very much as if Brian May forgot that his guitar was in drop-D tuning.
• What Could Have Been:
  • After Freddie died, it was given serious consideration as to having George Michael take over as full-time lead singer.^note His rendition of "Somebody to Love" was considered to be the best performance at the Tribute Concert.
  • Sylvester Stallone wanted "Another One Bites The Dust" to be in Rocky III but was denied the rights and so Stallone hired Survivor to produce "Eye of the Tiger".
  • Brian May has expressed regrets over not releasing a proper soundtrack for Highlander with Michael Kamen's score complementing the band's compositions.
    • The former was released on CD in 1995, together with scores for the 2 sequels.
  • In a 1986 interview, Freddie suggested that he would eventually stop performing if he felt he was getting too old for it and focus on songwriting and producing instead.
  • Before Freddie's death rumors were spreading of them touring with David Bowie.
  • A rare case of what almost wasn't: Live Aid. Queen was initially opposed to performing for one simple reason: no microphone checks due to the setup of the event (20 minutes total for each band, get in and be done). However, they caved in and well, history was made.
  • Had Queen not performed at Live Aid, they may well have broken up (which was exaggerated in Bohemian Rhapsody claiming that they actually had broken up), as their The Works tour had not gone well and there were tensions within the band. Thanks to Live Aid, we got three more albums and one more tour.
  • Brian and Roger sat in the stands at Live Aid watching the acts before them with David Bowie. But for no good reason, Bowie did not take the stage with them to perform "Under Pressure" live (for what would have been the only time). This happened again during the A Kind of Magic tour; when Queen's famous gig at Wembley was being filmed, there was word of Bowie making an appearance to perform "Under Pressure" live with them (which would have even been recorded for posterity!), but he was a no-show. (Mick Jagger was in attendance but never took the stage with Queen.)
  • Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi stated that not only was Flash Gordon (1980) was an major influence on the film, but if Freddie was still alive, he's like to have gotten Queen to do the film's score.
  • The band were tapped to score the film adaptation of The Hotel New Hampshire, but backed out partway through to focus more on The Works. One song written for the film, "Keep Passing the Open Windows", would be repurposed for the album.
• Word of God: A sticking issue Brian had with Freddie, philosophically, was Freddie's increasingly Camp Gay compositions, not so much against Freddie's lifestyle, but because Brian worried that Freddie would rope out and alienate the straight fans, and because Brian believed in Queen's songs being universally relatable. This was Brian's main issue with songs like "Don't Stop Me Now" and "Body Language".

Assorted Trivia

• The bands logo was designed by Freddie and is based on the band members zodiac signs: Freddie: The Maid, Virgo. Brian: Crab, Cancer. Roger and John: The two lions, Leo.

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