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Bicycle Race
"Bicycle Race" is a single by the British rock band Queen. It was released on their 1978 album ''Jazz'' and written by Queen's frontman Freddie Mercury. It was released as a double A-side single together with the song "Fat Bottomed Girls". The song is notable for its video featuring a bicycle race with nude women at Wimbledon Stadium, which was edited or even banned in several countries.
==Song and lyrical content==
The song was written by Mercury and was inspired by watching the 18th stage of the 1978 Tour de France passing Montreux where the band were recording 'Jazz' in the Mountain Studios.〔 It starts with a chorus unaccompanied by instruments. The chorus is followed by two verses connected with a bridge, both followed by a chorus. Around the middle of the song there is a solo played with numerous bicycle bells. The song has an unusual chord progression with numerous modulations, a change of meter (from 4/4 to 6/8) in the bridge, and multitracked vocal and guitar harmonies.〔(Queen Songs – The Book: Bicycle Race ). Queensongs.info. Retrieved on 2011-02-20.〕
The lyrics are topical for the time and contain social, political and pop-culture references, such as religion, Watergate, drugs, fictional heroes (Peter Pan, Frankenstein and Superman), and the films ''Jaws'' and ''Star Wars''. The song also mentions actor John Wayne. The lyrics make an implied reference to cocaine (known in slang as "coke"), but it may also refer Coca-Cola (also known as "Coke"). The lyrics also mention the exclamatory interjection, "Hot dog!" and the idiom "Cool it, man!"
The song references the band's song "Fat Bottomed Girls" with the lyric "fat bottomed girls, they'll be riding today". The two songs were released as a double A-sided single.
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