"Bicycle Race"
Single by Queen
from the album Jazz
A-side(s)	"Fat Bottomed Girls"
Released	October 13, 1978
Format	7"
Recorded	1978
Genre	Neo-progressive rock
Length	3:01
Label	EMI, Elektra
Writer(s)	Freddie Mercury
Producer(s)	Queen and Roy Thomas Baker
Peak chart positions
#7 (France; Netherlands; Norway) #10 (Ireland) #11 (UK) #21 (Austria) #24 (US) #27 (Germany)
Queen singles chronology
"It's Late" (1978) "Bicycle Race" / "Fat Bottomed Girls" (1978) "Don't Stop Me Now" (1979)

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To release this song, Queen staged a bicycle race with 65 naked girls. A clip from this race was used as the single cover. The video was originally banned, and the video had to be re-edited with colour added to censor out any offensive imagery. The song is famed for its 'bicycle bell solo', which fans would often replicate live at Queen concerts with their own such bells.

It was released as a Double-A side with the song "Fat Bottomed Girls". A still photograph from the naked bicycle race was used for the single cover, a pair of bikini bottoms crudely painted on the photo of the naked rider. Fat Bottomed Girls ( ) is a hit single by the English rock band Queen. ...

Trivia

• This song was released as a double-A side with "Fat Bottomed Girls" and contains the line "Fat Bottomed Girls, they'll be riding today/ so look out for those beauties, oh yeah". For its part, "Fat Bottomed Girls" contains the line "Get on your bikes and ride!"

• The video featured a collection of naked models riding around a race track on bikes hired from British cycle shop chain Halfords. When returned, Queen was ordered to pay for all the seats as Halfords wouldn't accept them knowing what they had been used for.

• During a show at Madison Square Garden the band had numerous topless women on stage riding bicycles.

• The song makes numerous references to pop culture from the 1970s, including Jaws, Star Wars, Watergate, Peter Pan, Frankenstein, Superman, and Vietnam, among others.

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Cover versions

• This song was covered by the German dance artist Blümchen (1996). Her version contains samples from Queen's original recording.
• This song was covered by Lemon Demon and was released on the bonus tracks to his Damn Skippy album in 2005.
• The song was covered again in 2005 by Be Your Own Pet on a Queen Tribute album.
• The song was covered again in 2006 by Between the Buried and Me on their album The Anatomy Of.

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Alternate artwork

Bicycle Race/Fat Bottomed Girls Image File history File links Queen_Bicycle_Race2. ...

Back cover Image File history File linksMetadata Bicycle_fat. ...

A bicycle race with nude women was held to promote the single.[1] Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...

References

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External links

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