# Queen References **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 17, 2008, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-references/441654 "2008-03-17T14:13:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-references/441654/1 "2008-03-17T14:13:20Z")
Looking for songs,books,shows,movies or anything else that mentions the band Queen or its members. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-references/441654/2 "2008-03-17T14:54:19Z")
The movie _Wayne’s World_ brought “Bohemian Rhapsody” back to popularity, I believe. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-references/441654/3 "2008-03-17T14:55:54Z")
_Good Omens_ by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman features the Best of Queen album. ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-references/441654/4 "2008-03-17T14:57:28Z")
Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman’s “Good Omens” mentions the group more than once. “all tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into ‘Best of Queen’ albums.” “he was currently wondering vaguely who Moey and Chandon were” the above whilst a character is listening to one of the aforementioned tapes On edit - Damn you Maus Magill!! ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-references/441654/5 "2008-03-17T14:58:54Z")
There’s the wonderful movie [Flash Gordon](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080745/) that uses music by Queen very effectively. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-references/441654/6 "2008-03-17T15:30:47Z")
**Sandman** (Gaiman again). I forget the issue, but the exchange went something like this: Man 1: Freddy Mercury died. Man 2: Another one bites the dust. Man 1: Whan God gave you teeth, he ruined a perfectly good arsehole. A story in the British **Forbidden Planet** SF anthology–the one about chickens stranded on a highway median and experiencing accelerated evolutionary leaps in intellect and technology–also featured a discarded “Best of Queen” cassette. Pratchett may have been the author. This was around 1988. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-references/441654/7 "2008-03-17T15:36:38Z")
I thought this thread was about that great Helen Mirren movie. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-references/441654/8 "2008-03-17T17:36:54Z")
[Homer Simpson] _When I was seventeen I drank some very good beers I drank some very good beers I purchased with a fake ID My name was “Brian McGee” I stayed up listening to Queen When I was seventeen._ [/Homer Simpson] ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-references/441654/9 "2008-03-17T17:40:13Z")
_My Penis_ A short story from National Lampoon, companion work to _My Vagina_, about a girl who wakes up one day with a penis. I believe she describes it’s appearence as ‘king of ugly but in a cool way, like that guy who sings for Queen’. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-references/441654/10 "2008-03-17T17:41:59Z")
I had a post earlier that was eaten like eight times. Short version: _Highlander_ (film and TV) theme/score, _Princes of the Universe_ and a bunch of songs that eventually became _A Kind of Magic_. Brian May’s terrible _(Everything I do) is Driven by You_ became “Everything _We_ Do is Driven By You” for a crappy series of UK Ford ads in the early 90s. Lots of Queen songs appeared ad nauseam in the UK version of _American Gladiators_ (which was just called “Gladiators”.) ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2008, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-references/441654/11 "2008-03-17T21:55:57Z")
How about the (IIRC) Queen song that payed in the bar fight scene in _Shaun of the Dead_ ? Brian ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-references/441654/12 "2008-03-18T00:30:23Z")
[QUOTE=N9IWP] How about the (IIRC) Queen song that payed in the bar fight scene in _Shaun of the Dead_ ? Brian [/QUOTE] “Don’t Stop Me Now.” Great use of one of my favorite Queen songs. ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2008, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-references/441654/13 "2008-03-18T01:01:24Z")
[QUOTE=Big Bad Voodoo Lou] “Don’t Stop Me Now.” Great use of one of my favorite Queen songs. [/QUOTE] Along with “You’re My Best Friend” at the end of the movie. The first time I watched the movie, I had to pause the movie because I was laughing so hard during the barroom scene.