Queen: Days of Our Lives Page #7

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I don't know what you would call it. But it's

more towards black music than white music.

# How do you think I'm going to get

along without you when you're gone?

# You took me for everything that

I had and kicked me out of my home

# Are you happy? Are you satisfied?

How long can you stand the heat?

# Out of the doorway, the bullets

whistle to the sound of the beat... #

Michael came to several shows,

I think, at the Forum in LA.

And he loved Freddie.

And he kept saying,

"You guys, you've got to put that song out.

" I wasn't particularly enamoured with it,

so I said, "No, you're kidding,

that's never a single. "

# Another one bites the dust... #

"Another One Bites The Dust"

was never seen as a single.

It barely made it onto the album!

It got on the radio and it got heard by

people that didn't even know who the band was.

# Ah, take it! #

Strangely enough, the record became

huge because of the black audience.

One particular station in New York

picked it up,

thinking that we were a black band,

and played the hell out of it,

and it became a huge hit.

It was like number 1 in nine

different charts.

I mean, even in the country chart!

It's ridiculous.

And this thing just kept selling,

to around three million.

It was in the Hot 100 for 31 weeks.

When an opponent would get

knocked out in a boxing match,

you'd hear

"Another One Bites The Dust" used.

It became an anthem of triumph.

# Yeah, ye-e-e-e-a-a-ah!

All right! #

I think it's still

the biggest record we ever had.

# Another one bites

the dust, yeah! #

People pointing at the cars -

"You guys are bad!"

"What does that mean?"

"It means you're good!"

# Another one bites the dust

# Hey, gonna get you too,

another one bites the dust... #

If you're successful in America,

basically, you've made it.

We kind of became the biggest group

in the world at that moment.

It's a fleeting moment,

because someone else will come

and take over. But for that moment,

we kind of owned the world.

"We Are The Champions"

The sales figures tell the story

that the people wanted Queen

even when the press didn't.

Looking back on it now,

I'd say Queen were never in fashion.

We were never a fashionable group,

I don't think.

Maybe that was to our benefit,

that we didn't become the thing

of the moment, a fashionable thing.

We were just popular, which got

right up some people's noses!

Fred, how do you feel,

playing and singing

before 200,000 people?

Haven't done it yet!

Every song, you felt, was,

"They're stealing the show".

I like Queen very much, but I don't

want to end up life living a quartet.

The band was pretty

much on the verge of falling apart.

I think he had an idea

that he might not be terribly well.

He said, "I'll come back and finish

it off," and he never came back.

That was the last moment

that I had with him.

# Flash, aaah

# Saviour of the universe... #

I wanted us to be massively

successful, I mean...

I think almost everybody

in this business does.

# Flash, aaah

# He'll save every one of us... #

Certainly by the beginning

of the '80s,

the world domination they'd

craved for was definitely there.

# Aaah

# He's a miracle... #

The hardest thing is to actually maintain

the level of success you've achieved

because I think when you go all the

way up, the only place is to come down.

# Flash, aaah

# King of the impossible... #

You've no idea where you can get to.

It's like the sky's the limit.

# He'll save with a mighty hand

# Every man, every woman, every child

with a mighty Flash... #

We didn't want just America,

we wanted the whole world, you know.

South America reared its head

and we heard rumours that we were...

the biggest thing ever in Argentina

and Brazil and they started to ask

us to go down there.

They were saying, "You can play

football stadiums down there. "

We went, "You're joking. "

In those days under

the dictatorship in Argentina,

we were negotiating with the army

general and he said to me,

"How can I possibly allow 50,000

young people into a stadium

"when I can't control them?

"What happens if somebody suddenly

shouts out 'Viva Peron'

"in the middle of a Queen concert

and I have a riot on my hands?"

And I tried to explain to him that,

rather like

gladiatorial matches in Rome,

this was panacea to the people,

they'd never, ever had this before,

this would be an

extraordinary experience.

So we got the whole thing together

and it was God knows how many

jumbo jets full of equipment.

And when we arrived in Buenos Aires,

as we're unloading it,

you could see spent bullet cases,

and thinking,

"Yeah, we really are in a very

different place here. "

We were looking for a bodyguard for

Freddie, this particular man came in

and his opening recommendation was

that he'd killed 212 people.

The travel arrangements

were very scary.

Driving the wrong way along

a raised motorway

with outriders, with guys in big

jeeps waving their big guns

and getting the cars, coming

straight towards them, to pull over.

We got caught in a traffic jam and

one of the policemen just stood up,

put his head through the roof

and started firing his gun in the

air in order to clear the traffic.

Very hair-raising.

Hello, amigos.

HE SPEAKS PORTUGUESE

Fred, how do you feel playing

and singing before 200,000 people?

I haven't done it yet!

I can remember being nervous

the first night.

The top tier alone took 80,000

and we were in this sort of dug-out

which I guess the football teams

would normally be in.

All the windows were broken

and I remember thinking

this is... You know, it's going to

take some balls to walk out there.

Hello, Sao Paulo!

# Get your party gown

# Get your pigtail down

# Get your heart beating, baby

# Get your timing right

# I got my act all tight

# It's gotta be tonight

My little school babe

# Your momma says you don't

# Your daddy says you won't

And I'm boiling up inside... #

They knew all the songs.

These people don't speak English

but they could sing along

all the Queen songs

so they're obviously very genuine

fans and they went nuts.

# Tie your mother down

Tie your mother down

# Lock your daddy out of doors

I don't need him nosing around

# Tie your mother down

Tie your mother down

# Give me all your love tonight

# Tonight... #

It also takes a certain ego

and a certain drive to want to be

in that spotlight and go on display.

And Freddie thrived

and got better in bigger arenas.

# Yeah

# Yeah

# Yeah

# Yeah

# Yeah ye-yeah yeah

# Yeah ye-yeah yeah

# Yeah yeah ye-ye-yeah

# Yeah yeah ye-ye-yeah

# All right

All right

# All right

All right

# Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah

# Yeah Yeah

# Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah

# Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah

# Yeah Yeah

# Yeah

# Yeah, yeah, yeah

# Aaaaaaaall right

# Aaaaaaaall right

Let's do it to tempo.

Once we'd finished Argentina

and Brazil,

the band decided to go

back into the studio

and they had of course bought

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