WCSX Classic Cuts : We are the Champions
WCSX Classic Cuts Queen: “We Are the Champions” The Hook: Freddie Mercury “doing his thing.” Album: News of the World Year: 1977 Writer: Freddie Mercury Stats: Peaked at number-four on…
British rock group Queen in concert, from left to right; Freddie Mercury (Frederick Bulsara, 1946 – 1991), John Deacon, and Brian May. Original Publication: People Disc – HU0463
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Queen: "We Are the Champions"
The Hook: Freddie Mercury "doing his thing."
Album: News of the World
Year: 1977
Writer: Freddie Mercury
Stats: Peaked at number-four on the Billboard Hot 100.
Background: Queen guitarist Brian May says only one person could have written "We Are the Champions."
Queen guitarist Brian May on “We Are the Champions.” OC:…to go. :19
“This is Freddie doing his thing. I remember the first time I heard it with all the lyrics I said – I don’t know if I actually said it, but I thought, ‘Fred…, can you really get away with this?’ It seemed like very over the top to me. But it was very Freddie, you know. I mean, that’s why the guy was so great, ‘cause he went places where people wouldn’t normally dare to go.”
