We Will Rock You

October 7, 1977

We Will Rock You is the title of a song written by guitarist Brian May, which was published in 1977 by the band Queen for the album News of the World.

Genesis

We Will Rock You and We Are the Champions were written during the UK tour the band in 1977. When the group had played a concert at the Stafford's Bingley Hall on 29 May 1977 was the unusual audience reaction the catalyst for the composition of both pieces.

"We played an encore and left the stage, and instead of simply weiterzuklatschen, the audience sang You'll Never Walk Alone for us, and we were just completely taken and overwhelmed - it was really quite an emotional experience, and I believe this Chantings hang together somehow with it. "

The drafted in June 1977 Song is the opening song of the Queen album News of the World, the group from July to September 1977 has added to the Basing Street Studios and Wessex Studios with music producer Mike Stone. Up to the last 30 seconds with the guitar solo by the composer Brian May the song is consistently a cappella singing. Crucial for the effectiveness of the song is its rhythmic support from syncopated, accompanied by drums foot stomping and clapping, which allows its use as a mood song also at sporting events. The rhythm forms a " mashed mashed Gossip Pause " episode, which has established itself as a distinctive mark of the song. This bear delay effects to an acoustic highlighting this effect at. The delay length is held within the framework of primes, a non-harmonic reverberation.

The hymn- like refrain " We will, we will rock you " sounds like sung by a choir of many voices. For the rhythm of the group took on their own stomping and clapping and multiplied the noise by multiple overdubbing. Due to added delay effects the impression that numerous people would have been involved in the recording originated. Instead Brian May to make the last phrase of the guitar solo three times in succession play, a loop was used.

Publication and success

The single was published on 7 October 1977, while the LP came only on 28 October 1977 the market. The single was the We Are the Champions A-side markets ( double A-side in the U.S. ) and sold 2 million copies worldwide. A gold disc was awarded on January 25, 1978, platinum on April 25, 1978.

The magazine Rolling Stone placed it at 330th place in 2004 to its list of the 500 best songs of all time, the RIAA, it ranked in the list of " Songs of the Century " at Rank 146. 2009 We Will Rock You was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

The distinctive rhythm was later ' used in the song Still Burnin', which was included on the album The Cosmos Rocks, Queen Paul Rodgers had published in September 2008.

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