Talk:We Will Rock You
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[edit] HELP!!!!!
does any one no wat kind of tempo we will rock you has and things like that
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- 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?
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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.
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[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)
