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| Released = 5 January 1979 | Format = 7" | Recorded = August 1978 at Super Bear Studios (Berre-les-Alpes, France) | Genre = | Length = | Label = | Writer = Freddie Mercury | Producer = | Last single = "Bicycle Race" / "Fat Bottomed Girls" (1978) | This single = "Don't Stop Me Now" (1979) | Next single = "Mustapha" (1979) | Misc = }} "Don't Stop Me Now" is a song by the British rock band Queen, featured on their 1978 album ''Jazz'' that was released as a single in 1979. Written by lead singer Freddie Mercury, it was recorded in August 1978 at Super Bear Studios in Berre-les-Alpes (Alpes-Maritimes), France, and is the twelfth track on the album.〔(Jazz - Don't Stop Me Now ) Ultimate Queen. Retrieved 2 July 2011〕 Musically the song builds on Mercury's piano playing, with Roger Taylor and John Deacon providing a bass guitar and drums backing track. The song also provides an example of Queen's trademark style of multitrack harmony vocals for the chorus lines.〔Donald A. Guarisco, "Don't Stop Me Now". Allmusic. Retrieved 12 July 2011〕 On the studio version, Brian May's only guitar playing is in his guitar solo, but on live versions performed on the band's 1979 Jazz and Crazy tours, May would also play rhythm guitar throughout the rest of the song to give more of a rock feeling to it. A live version of the song features in the band's 1979 album ''Live Killers''.〔(Live Killers ) Allmusic. Retrieved 12 July 2011〕 The song also appears in the band's 1981 compilation album ''Greatest Hits'', and in June 2011, as part of Queen's 40th anniversary celebrations, an old take of the song containing more guitar parts was included on the bonus EP of the re-released and remastered Jazz album.〔(Queen Greatest Hits, Vols. 1 & 2 ) Allmusic. Retrieved 12 July 2011〕〔(Jazz (Remastered) Queen ) iTunes. Retrieved 12 July 2011〕 ==Reception== The single reached number 9 in the UK charts but only number 86 in the US. Viewed at the time of release as one of the lesser songs in the Queen canon, it was only performed live during 1979, with the last performance in the Crazy Tour.〔(Queen live on tour: Crazy tour ) Queen Concerts. Retrieved 2 July 2011〕 Despite this the song has grown in stature with time and has been popularised not only by consistent airplay, but by its use in advertisements, television programmes and films, and through cover versions. It has subsequently become one of Queen's most popular songs.〔(Official: Top 25 karaoke songs ) ''The Telegraph''. Retrieved 28 May 2011〕〔(Queen interview: Brian May on Don't Stop Me Now ) Absolute Radio. Retrieved 21 December 2011〕〔(Don't Stop Me Now Tops HMV Lyric Poll ) Queen Online. Retrieved 21 December 2011〕 The single also has reached Gold status in the United Kingdom. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Don't Stop Me Now」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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