Queen – Fat Bottomed Girls

“Fat Bottomed Girls” – Single by Queen from the album Jazz. A-side “Bicycle Race” (double A-side)
Released: 13 October 1978 (UK) and 24 October 1978 (US)
Songwriter: Brian May

The song is formed around an open bluesy, metallic guitar tuning, and opens with its chorus. It was one of the few Queen songs played in an alternative (drop D) guitar tuning. The song’s music video was filmed at the Dallas Convention Center in Texas in October 1978.

The song celebrates the narrator’s attraction to curvier women. The two songs were released together on a double A-sided single, and both songs refer to each other. Near the end of “Fat Bottomed Girls”, the song references “Bicycle Race”, with Mercury shouting, “Get on your bikes and ride!” “Bicycle Race” reciprocates with the line “fat bottomed girls, they’ll be riding today”.

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Charted #11 in UK and #24 in US (Billboard HOT 100)

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