# Queen song question
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-song-question/567207
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [January 11, 2011, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-song-question/567207 "2011-01-11T08:43:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 3
### Author:  [@Sir\_Prize](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Prize)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2011, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-song-question/567207/41 "2011-01-12T22:25:42Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#):
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> This seems like a good thread to find another Queen song.
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> The lyrics talk about how to keep yourself alive. I’m stumped.
Don’t worry about it. After all, who wants to live forever?
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### Author:  [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2011, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-song-question/567207/42 "2011-01-12T22:52:05Z")
Didn’t they do one about encroaching insanity? I’m going slightly mad trying to remember the title of that one.
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### Author:  [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2011, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-song-question/567207/43 "2011-01-12T23:09:27Z")
> [@Sir\_Prize](#):
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> Don’t worry about it. After all, who wants to live forever?
I’m gonna live forever!
Remember remember remember…
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### Author:  [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2011, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-song-question/567207/44 "2011-01-12T23:24:30Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#):
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> Yes. And hoopy, too.
You sass that hoopy frood? He really knows where his towel is.
Us be the winners …
of the earth.
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### Author:  [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2011, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-song-question/567207/45 "2011-01-12T23:25:59Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#):
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> This seems like a good thread to find another Queen song.
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> The lyrics talk about how to keep yourself alive. I’m stumped.
That’s the Bee Gees.
Oh, wait, you mean [this?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcG5HQnCBU4)
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### Author:  [@Candyman74](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Candyman74)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2011, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-song-question/567207/46 "2011-01-12T23:29:11Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#):
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> What Queen song includes the lines “we will, we will rock you”?
I do declare this to be the funniest question I have ever seen on SDMB!
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### Author:  [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2011, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-song-question/567207/47 "2011-01-12T23:37:01Z")
[QUOTE=dougie\_monty]
What Queen song includes the lines “we will, we will rock you”?
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> [@Candyman74](#):
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> I do declare this to be the funniest question I have ever seen on SDMB!
To answer this question even more clearly, [here it is](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNWvNEPsilI).
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### Author:  [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2011, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-song-question/567207/48 "2011-01-13T00:29:37Z")
Man, this is a great thread. I’ve learned so much about Queen I always wanted to know but was afraid to ask.
One I’ve always wondered about, but doesn’t look like it’s been answered yet… Some song he was singing about his best friend. Does anyone know what that one is called?
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### Author:  [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2011, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-song-question/567207/49 "2011-01-13T00:49:46Z")
Pretty sure that was the theme song from “The Courtship of Eddie’s Father”. You’re welcome.
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### Author:  [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2011, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-song-question/567207/50 "2011-01-13T01:03:02Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#):
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> What about that one where they go “Flash! Pew! Ahhhhhhhh!”
Oh, you just HAD to bring that up, didn’t you.
And don’t pretend you didn’t know that MY DAD wrote those words (“Talking Flashpewahh Blues”, 1958). Sure, he made some money when Joan Baez included the song on her “Pull the Triggers, Niggers” album. And Johnny Rivers performed it live at the Whiskey A-Go-Go twice… he mangled the lyrics (“Flay-ash Pwah-ah”, indeed!), but at least HE paid for his material.
But then Queen lifts dad’s coolest hook ever, and our family doesn’t see dime one.
More I can’t say, because there’s _supposedly_ “potential legal actions” pending… but I’m not holding my breath.
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### Author:  [@Lasciel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lasciel)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2011, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-song-question/567207/51 "2011-01-13T02:23:30Z")
I love this board. It’s a kind of magic.
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### Author:  [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2011, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-song-question/567207/52 "2011-01-13T04:21:20Z")
Why do I keep checking in on this thread? I want to break free, so I’m unsubscribing.
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2011, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-song-question/567207/53 "2011-01-13T05:05:32Z")
What was that song of theirs that Metallica also recorded? It’s driving me stone cold crazy trying to remember it.
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### Author:  [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2011, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-song-question/567207/54 "2011-01-13T14:54:22Z")
> [@Fugazi](#):
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> One I’ve always wondered about, but doesn’t look like it’s been answered yet… Some song he was singing about his best friend. Does anyone know what that one is called?
That would be ‘Flash,’ about Freddie Mercury’s best friend Gordon, nicknamed ‘Flash’ because he was the star of the high school track team.
Anyway, they also did this song with David Bowie about being under pressure. Anyone remember what it was called?
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### Author:  [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2011, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-song-question/567207/55 "2011-01-13T15:06:39Z")
> [@42fish](#):
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> Anyway, they also did this song with David Bowie about being under pressure. Anyone remember what it was called?
Ice Ice Baby.
Edit: There’s another song revolving in my head. It’s about playing something, and about love.
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### Author:  [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2011, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-song-question/567207/56 "2011-01-13T15:10:26Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#):
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> Ice Ice Baby.
Leave. Just leave right now. That was totally uncalled for.
😉
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### Author:  [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2011, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-song-question/567207/57 "2011-01-13T15:51:54Z")
OK I was just gonna post here to correct my boo-boo. Rio wasn’t by Queen at all, it was by a completely different band, anyone remember who?
But anyway, _now I’m here_…
How about the one where Freddy sings _I’m having a good time, having a ball_? It’s called something like ‘The Guy Who Couldn’t Slow Down’?
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2011, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-song-question/567207/58 "2011-01-13T15:53:17Z")
> [@Small\_Clanger](#):
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> OK I was just gonna post here to correct my boo-boo. Rio wasn’t by Queen at all, it was by a completely different band, anyone remember who?
They were named after the villian from the movie _Barbarella_. I think their name was _Arcadia_.
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### Author:  [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2011, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-song-question/567207/59 "2011-01-13T16:10:16Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#):
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> Ice Ice Baby.
Thanks. It always amazes me how much alike Bowie and Freddie Mercury sound on that song. It’s almost like there was just one dude singing it.
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### Author:  [@Sir\_Prize](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Prize)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2011, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queen-song-question/567207/60 "2011-01-14T01:37:03Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#):
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> Leave. Just leave right now. That was totally uncalled for.
> 😉
Don’t stop me now!
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