Talk:We Will Rock You

message: I think this article should mention some of the criticism this musical got on the press, in special the fact that the storyline sounds remarkably similar to the one Rush used for their '2112' concept album. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pinnecco (talk • contribs) 16:40, 3 February 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Initial message

message: does any one no wat kind of tempo we will rock you has and things like that — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.144.131.12 (talk) 10:42, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: 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)
thread_title: HELP!!!!!

message: 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? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.97.220.174 (talk) 09:46, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: 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)
replies: text: 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)
replies: text: 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. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.106.169.208 (talk) 14:11, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plagiarism 

message: 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)
thread_title: When played backwards, the song appears to say "It's Fun to Smoke Marijuana" repeatedly

message: 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)
replies: text: 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)
thread_title: Stomp Stomp Clap AHH

message: 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
print
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.38.129.94 (talk) 17:31, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: we will rock you song

message: 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...
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.20.229.98 (talk) 22:40, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: old comment

message: 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)
thread_title: Confusion regarding Double A-side

message: 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)
replies: text: Perhaps the version in their 1977 Peel session (it's on YouTube right now)? I've heard it before as well, so I'm pretty sure it's been issued on LP or single somewhere. Rp (talk) 19:09, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: An extended version of WWRY

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thread_title: Image copyright problem with Image:Wearethechampions.jpg

message: Ok, this is an announcement for all the Queen fans, let´s return the Trivias section that was in this article with references and very well verificated. 
I hope that you will join to this. :) --189.187.138.177 (talk) 05:32, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Let's read WP:AVTRIV first. It was removed six months ago and no one's complained, so it'll take a lot of work to come up with something worth retaining. ThuranX (talk) 11:43, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Return the Trivia!

message: Saying here goes that the characteristic stomp-stomp-clap was already used in Give Peace A Chance by John Lennon.  Has anybody information on this?  Are there even more other songs using this musical phrase in such a prominent way? Alfe (talk) 14:54, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Stomp-Stomp-Clap re-used from Give Peace A Chance?

message: What idiot in this world put it was  fucking rap rock?? That is just mentally retarded, im fixing it to it's genre that actually made sence!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.249.28.252 (talk) 00:44, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Who's the idiot??

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message: Can the band Emergency Broadcast Network get credit for their version of this song on this page?  It features vocals by George H.W. Bush. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.220.212.117 (talk) 04:19, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Emergency Broadcast Network 

message: I suppose the song is on the soundtrack of several movies, but I think it is odd not to mention A Knight's Tale in this article. In addition to the song itself (which according to imdb should be there, though I don't remember that), the audience at jousting tournaments perform the stomp-stomp-clap thing (which I remember very clearly). Thoughts? Nø (talk) 18:52, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  A Knight's Tale