“Don't Stop Me Now” by Queen

"Don't Stop Me Now" is Freddie Mercury at full gallop, the 12th track on Queen's 1978 album Jazz, recorded that August at Super Bear Studios in Berre-les-Alpes, France, and sent out as a single in January 1979. Mercury wrote it and drives it from the piano, with John Deacon's bass bounding along beside him, Roger Taylor on percussion and Brian May on guitar, and May and Taylor joining Mercury on the vocals. Roy Thomas Baker produced with the band.

It took its time becoming a favorite. It sat on Greatest Hits in 1981, but Billboard's Bobby Olivier traces its second life to Shaun of the Dead in 2004, and it has kept growing through films, ads and TV ever since. In 2011 an older take with extra guitar surfaced on the bonus EP of the Jazz reissue, and in 2014 Rolling Stone readers voted it their third-favorite Queen song.

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