“That Queen record Jazz had some weird shit on it," Mike Patton told us in 2006. Which, of course, is probably exactly what Queen wanted in the first place. The inspiration for the video, featuring dozens of naked women riding cycles around Wimbledon Stadium was equally clear, and predictably resulted in its being banned in a number of countries. Having decamped to Switzerland to work on Jazz, this song's inspiration was found from the Tour de France 1978 passing through Montreux, the location of Queen's favoured Mountain Studios. Musically, it's a pretty good representation of the album that housed it: bonkers, scattershot, but above all, genius. The song itself is a thrilling ride, with references to cocaine, Star Wars, Watergate and John Wayne, and a solo played on bicycle bells. Freddie Mercury’s nimble whip though this hard rock tongue-twister presents Queen at their most ludicrously camp.
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