To add more cultural texture to this
particular masterpiece, here’s what Songfacts tell us:
- Queen guitarist Brian May wrote this. It's about a
young man who comes to appreciate women of substantial girth.
- Queen staged a bicycle race around a stadium in England with naked women as contestants to
promote this in England.
- Images from the race were used for the video and
the cover of the single.
- The cover of the single, which featured a nude
woman riding a bicycle, was altered after many stored refused to stock it.
- The new version was the same image with panties
drawn over the woman.
- At a 1978 concert in Madison Square
Garden, Queen
re-created the video by having women with very little clothing ride
bicycles around the stage.
- The album contained a poster of the women in the
bicycle race.
- It was left out of some copies for stores that did
not want to carry it, but fans could mail order the poster if they
desired.
- Queen rented 65 bicycles for the race. When the
company found out what they were used for, they refused to take the bikes
back.
From:
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Subject: Re: [silk] Beer Belly? No
such thing.
I know someone who'd pay good money for that one.
--
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not
sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
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