Talk:We Will Rock You

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This I think should go in the article: During the 2004 Republican National Convention, women held in Pier 57 by the mass arrests stomped, clapped and chanted "We will, we will SUE YOU" to the NYPD.

Here's three sources:

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/09/296704.shtml (in all caps about 4 paragraphs down)

http://detritus.net/steev/mt/archives/2004_09.html (september 6 2004 entry)

http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:I0YKvkit9KwJ:nyc.indymedia.org/feature/display/126233/index.php+pier+rnc+2004+%22we+will+sue+you%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us (10th comment down)

There's more where that came from.

I also personally witnessed it for what that's worth...

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[edit] HELP!!!!!

does any one no wat kind of tempo we will rock you has and things like that

what are you, some kind of moron? It has a constant tempo,

I don't know what it is off the top of my head (probably about 100bpm) - all you need to work it out is: (i) a watch (ii) the ability to count --feline1 11:58, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

  • Luckily, the ability to write in actual English is not required. >:) Wahkeenah 12:30, 5 December 2005 (UTC)


I'm currently taking a college level music course where the instructor made the claim that We Will Rock You was based on either a Christmas Carol or a Christian Hymn. Can anyone discredit this?

Why should we have to? The writing credit in the song is owned by Brian Harold May, that is a legal fact. If your tutor wants to allege that he plagarised it off a hymn, then it's up to *him* to prove which one. Personally I think he's talking crap. Most hymns have very simple chord progressions, as do most rock songs. Any similarity is likely to be coincidence.--feline1 11:14, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
My History teacher last year (Frechman year) said that Brian May was interested in Roman history, and that he wrote the song about Hannibal in relation to the three Carthaginian Wars. I'm not sure if it's true... but we did have to write something about what each of the lines in the song mean compared to what happened in the Wars.--Reed9277 01:30, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
We Will Rock You does have the same beat as some Vietnamese traditional tune. But still it's not plagiarised imo. I mean, should the monologue of Hamlet be considered a rip-off because Shakespeare didn't invent the words "to" "be" "or" and "not"? Likewise, Brian didn't create any of the chords, words, beats or scales used in Rockyou (or Show Must Go On or any other song he wrote), the difference is the way he organised those. Or else nobody could have been considered to have composed anything.

I think that WWRY was also partly inspired by a nursery rhyme and not a carol. I seem to recall that Brain performs something akin to this rhyme on his Back To The Light albums.

[edit] When played backwards, the song appears to say "It's Fun to Smoke Marijuana" repeatedly

I've deleted this line, it's untrue, this is supposedly the case with another Queen song, Another One Bites The Dust loki@ 17:29, 6 January 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Stomp Stomp Clap AHH

In the original studio version, form News of The World, on the first set of stomp stomp clap, we can ear a strange "AHHHH". It's quite hard to ear it, but if you put the volume to the max, you can ear it. I though that it was there by accident, but when I eard the fast version, the ahh was there again. Any Ideas??

Yes. This sound is caused by members of Queen going "ahhh". They did this by opening their mouths and making an "aaah" noise, and recording it onto tape using microphones. Their express purpose in this regard was to include the sound of people going "aaah" on this recording.--feline1 16:34, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

I am not sure that it was actually recorded in a church. Perhaps ithis fact is a mis-translation of the song being recorded 'a cappella'?

I'm not sure, but yes, I do hear that ahh. I don't know if it was on purpose or not, however... Øřêōş 22:40, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] we will rock you song

can you give me the song that i can sing my self at home but only the paper that gives me the words to sing it and make it that you can

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—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.38.129.94 (talk) 17:31, 16 February 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Confusion regarding Double A-side

There's seems to be a lot of confusion on Wiki concerning the fact that WWRY was or wasn't released as a single. It wasn't released as a single in the UK, but was indeed released in the U.S. as a Double A-side with WATC and even as a single in France. As a proof one just has to look in the booklet of GVH1, Greatest Hits 1 and Greatest Hits (North American release). So this should be clearly stated in the box with charts positions, because right now, it's clearly inaccurate. VincentG 03:34, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

I have updated things concerning the Double A-side question.VincentG 22:08, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] An extended version of WWRY

I recall Pirate Radio (97.1 FM in Los Angeles many years ago) used to play an extended version of WWRY, which had a rocking guitar riff and interlude, extending the total time nearly 15 to 30 seconds. It was at the end of the existing music and the start of Freddy singing "WATC". It was NOT a live version, but a quality studio version. After the station left the airwaves, I have never heard it again. Is this the "FAST" version I have been reading about? Does anyone else recall hearing this extended version?

Earlsgately 09:54, 21 October 2007 (UTC)