Mustapha
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| "Mustapha" | ||
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| Single by Queen | ||
| from the album Jazz | ||
| Released | 1979 (Germany etc.) | |
| Format | vinyl record (7") | |
| Recorded | 1978 | |
| Genre | Hard Rock | |
| Label | EMI | |
| Writer(s) | Freddie Mercury | |
| Producer(s) | Queen and Roy Thomas Baker | |
| Queen singles chronology | ||
| "Jealousy" (1979) |
"Mustapha" (1979) |
"Love of My Life" (live) (1979) |
"Mustapha" is a song written by Freddie Mercury and recorded by English rock band Queen. It is the first track of their 1978 album Jazz. "Mustapha" was released as a single in 1979.
The lyrics consist mostly of Arabic-sounding nonsense. The only actual words are "Mustapha", "Ibrahim" and the phrases "Allah, Allah, Allah will pray for you", "salaam aleikum" and "aleikum salaam".
In live performance, Mercury would often sing the opening vocals of Mustapha in place of the complex introduction to "Bohemian Rhapsody," going from "Allah will pray for you" to "Mama, just killed a man..." etc. However, sometimes they performed an almost full version of the song, with Freddie at the piano. They dropped the second verse and went from the first chorus to the third.
Although many fans tend to believe that Freddie could speak more languages because of this song lyrics (and other such as 'La Japonaise' and the "Bismilah" bit in Bohemian Rhapsody), he only knew English and perhaps Gujarati or Hindi, because of his Indian background and education in India.
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