News What Do The Lyrics Of Queen’s ‘Bicycle Race’ Mean?
Queen released their seventh studio album entitled ‘Jazz’ on November 10, 1978. The record achieved critical acclaim with its well-crafted sounds and lyrics thanks to the band members’ talents as songwriters and instrumentalists. Its tracks, ‘Don’t Stop Me Now,’ ‘Mustapha,’ ‘Fat Bottomed Girls,’ and ‘Bicycle Race’ hit the charts and became among the most famous Queen songs. However, there was something special about one of them.
In ‘Bicycle Race,’ Mercury touched upon several topics such as religion, the Vietnam War, Watergate, fictional characters such as Peter Pan, Frankenstein, and Superman, and the movies like ‘Jaws’ and ‘Star Wars.’ Its lyrics ‘And I don’t like Star Wars,’ and Mercury’s appearances on the stage on top of a man in Darth Vader costume made people think that the singer didn’t like the movies. His bandmate Brian May ultimately wanted to clarify whether Mercury loved the blockbuster movie series.
