QUEEN: We will rock you 7″ EMI 5001 [Original U.K 79 single] + Crazy Little Thing Called Love. Check video.

Description

“We Will Rock You” is a song written by Brian May and recorded and performed by Queen for their 1977 album News of the World.
Other than the last 30 seconds containing a guitar solo from May, the song is generally set in a cappella form, using only stamping and clapping as a rhythmic beat.

This song and its well known partner “We Are the Champions” were written in response to an event occurring in the 1977 British Tour. The band had played a gig at Staffords Bingley Hall, and, says Brian May
‘We did an encore and then went off, and instead of just keeping clapping, they sang “You’ll Never Walk Alone” to us, and we were just completely knocked out and taken aback – it was quite an emotional experience really, and I think these chant things are in someway connected with that’
One version was used as the opening track on their 1977 album News of the World. This version consists of a stomp-stomp-clap-pause beat, and a power chorus, being somewhat of an anthem. The stamping effects were created by the band overdubbing the sounds of themselves stomping and clapping many times and adding delay effects to create a sound like many people were participating. The durations of the delays were in the ratios of prime numbers, a technique now known as non-harmonic reverberation. A tape loop is used to repeat the last phrase of the guitar solo three times as opposed to Brian May playing it three separate times on the recording.
When performed live, this version is usually followed by “We Are the Champions”, another of the albums hits, as they were designed to run together. The songs are often paired on the radio and at sporting events, where they are frequently played.

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