“Bicycle Race” by Queen

"Bicycle Race" is Freddie Mercury's ride through Queen's 1978 album Jazz, and the band sent it out as a double A-side with "Fat Bottomed Girls", good for No. 11 in Britain and No. 24 in America. Mercury wrote it and plays the piano, Brian May's electric guitar and John Deacon's bass chase him round the track, Roger Taylor handles percussion, and May, Mercury and Taylor stack up the vocals. Best of all, the credits give each of the four a bicycle bell. Roy Thomas Baker produced it with the band, and Geoff Workman engineered.

The video is what people remember: a race of nude women on bikes at Wimbledon Stadium, which several countries cut or banned outright. It turned up again on the band's 1981 Greatest Hits.

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