![]() I suppose it could also be construed as my version of “I Did It My Way.” We have made it, and it certainly wasn’t easy. Of course, I’ve given it more theatrical subtlety than an ordinary football chant. “I wanted a participation song, something that the fans could latch on to. “I was thinking about football when I wrote it,” Mercury said. Not only did they survive these battles, they became one of the world’s biggest bands.Īll of Queen’s band members were songwriters, but this one could only have come from the pen of lead singer Freddie Mercury, who drew on both soccer crowds and the band’s history for inspiration. So why is it that no song in all this time has proved able to knock “We Are The Champions” off the top of the medal stand? Maybe it’s because Queen, in their own way, endured their own version of rugged competition in terms of their battles against skeptical critics and sneering musical contemporaries who looked askance at the band’s unique combination of florid theatricality and arena-rock thunder. Chances are you heard it in some capacity Sunday night at the conclusion of Super Bowl XLVIII. ![]() ![]() “We Are The Champions” was released in 1977 by Queen as part of their behemoth double-sided single that also included “We Will Rock You.” Here we are some 37 years later and there is still really nothing to compare to it when it comes to describing triumph over tribulation.
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