Queen sold hundreds of millions of records the American public did not discover the Ramones until half of them were dead. It is a great irony that at sporting events held in Madison Square Garden, We Will Rock You appears on the same playlist as I Wanna Be Sedated. Queen was enjoying breathtaking success with its camp, baroque, neo-Vaudevillian music at the same time that the Sex Pistols and the Ramones were labouring valiantly - though with mixed results - to return rock'n'roll to its primeval roots. The Renaissance was concurrent with the Inquisition. ![]() Paul Klee was painting his zippy little cats at the very same time that Adolf Hitler was attempting to exterminate European Jewry. The success of We Will Rock You, written by Queen founder and lead guitarist Brian May, and indeed the staggering success of Queen itself exemplify how events can occur simultaneously, yet be remembered as having taken place in different historical eras. The Soviet Union has fallen, entire ethnic groups have been put to the sword, iconic historical figures have passed into the annals of history, and the once-adamantine polar ice caps have now become disconcertingly flaccid. This is not true of Bohemian Rhapsody or Killer Queen there was clearly a time when these songs had not been written, and a subsequent time - the present - when they existed only as congenial artifacts of a bygone era.īut because We Will Rock You has been a staple at sporting events almost from the moment it was released in 1977, there has never been an eighth of a nanosecond in the past three decades when it has slipped from the public's consciousness. ![]() Like The Song of the Volga Boatmen, Queen's We Will Rock You has been around so long that no one can remember a time when it did not exist.
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