Brian May, the guitarist of Queen, on the roof of Buckingham Palace, playing the opening fanfare -- a rock version of "God Save the Queen" -- for the public concert 'Party at the Palace' to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II on 3 June 2002. May has stated the song is an homage to Jimi Hendrix's version of "The Star-Spangled Banner." (Photo © Press Association)
Vleeptron likes Queen and has encountered its guitarist before. He was pursuing a doctorate in astrophysics when Freddy Mercury diverted him into his odd new band, but it all worked out in the end. Last year Brian May completed his doctorate in astrophysics, including field work at an optical observatory in the Canary Islands, studying the Zodiacal Clouds. Please address him as Dr. May from now on.
Oh, and now he's the Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University. There exists at least one senior academic administrator who is not boring.
There is a very old tradition of intimacy between popular musical success and great achievement in astronomy in Europe.
Sir Frederick William Herschel, FRS KH (15 November 1738 – 25 August 1822) was a German-born British astronomer and composer who became famous for discovering Uranus. He also discovered infrared radiation and made many other discoveries in astronomy ...
He was born Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel in Hanover, Germany, as one of ten children (of whom four died very young), of Isaac Herschel (1707-1768) a member of the Hanover Military Band. Although Isaac was of Jewish birth [1], his wife was a Christian and the children were raised as Christians. His wife especially was instrumental in his own conversion to Christianity. In 1755 the Hanoverian Guards regiment, in whose band William and his brother Jacob were engaged, was ordered to England. At the time, the crowns of England and Hannover were united under George II. He learned English quickly and, at age nineteen, he changed his name to Frederick William Herschel.
He became a successful music teacher and bandleader, played the violin, the oboe and, later, the organ. He composed numerous musical works, including 24 symphonies and many concertos, as well as some church music. His music is largely forgotten today. After a career leading orchestras in Newcastle, Leeds and Halifax (he was organist at the Parish Church of St John the Baptist, Halifax, West Yorkshire), he became organist of the Octagon Chapel, Bath, in which town he was also Director of Public Concerts. His sister Caroline came to England and lived with him there in New King Street. His brothers Dietrich, Alexander and Jacob (1734-1792) also appeared as musicians of Bath.
If this were a fair world, a man should be entitled to two or three anorexic skinny non-eating supermodel women, which would be equal to one human woman who had some mass and volume and curves, and is fond of good food.Anyway, we have recently covered Sir Mix-A-Lot's paean to the large feminine derriere, and here is the other song about healthy male interest in and appreciation of a substantial female dupa. If I've missed any other tunes in this oeuvre, please Leave A Comment. There could very possibly be a couple of Wagner arias on this subject, but I just never knew what the guy was singing his heart out about.
In any case, the US Federal Communications Commission has just ruled that American citizens (or illegal aliens) may not see adult female buttocks on broadcasted television ever again. Because it's wicked. And sinful. And contrary to Jesus' teachings. I think that's what the FCC ruling said. I'm not a communications lawyer.
My future living in America is looking bleaker every year.
First they try to pry my beloved Geiger Counter from my cold, dead hands, and now the government forbids me from seeing female adult consensual buttocks.
Fortunately every year I get to see the Miss Colombia beauty pageant via the cable, which is beyond the jurisdiction of the FCC. It's really amazing how little Spanish I need to know to understand everything about the Miss Colombia Pageant.
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Fat Bottomed Girls
by Brian May
performed by Queen
are you gonna take me home tonight?
oooh, down beside that red firelight;
are you gonna let it all hang out?
Fat bottomed girls,
You make the rockin' world go round.
Hey
I was just a skinny lad
Never knew no good from bad,
But I knew love before I left my nursery,
Left alone with big fat Fanny,
She was such a naughty nanny!
Hey big woman you made a bad boy out of me!
Hey, hey!
I've been singing with my band
Across the water, across the land,
I seen ev'ry blue eyed floozy on the way, hey
But their beauty and their style
Wear kind of smooth after a while.
Take me to them lardy ladies every time!
(C'mon)
Oh won't you take me home tonight?
Oh down beside your red firelight,
Oh and you give it all you got
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin' world go round
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin' world go round
Hey listen here,
Now I got mortgages on homes
I got stiffness in my bones
Ain't no beauty queens in this locality. (I tell ya!)
Oh, but I still get my pleasure
Still got my greatest treasure.
Heap big woman you done made a big man out-of me!
Now get this!
Oh, (i know),you gonna take me home tonight (please)
oh, down beside that red firelight
Oh, you gonna let it all hang out
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin' world go round *(yeah)*
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin' world go round
GET ON YOUR BIKES AND RIDE!
Oooh yeah oh yeah them fat bottomed girls
Fat bottomed girls
Yeah yeah yeah
all right
ride 'em cowboy
Fat bottomed girls
Yes yes
If you find some error in Fat Bottomed Girls Lyrics,
would you please submit your corrections to me? Thank You.
Thanks to danielraiden@web.de for submitting the lyrics.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Fat Bottomed Girls" cover
Single by Queen
from the album Jazz
A-side "Bicycle Race"
Released 13 October 1978
Format 7"
Genre Hard rock
Length
* 4:16 (Album Version)
* 3:22 (Single Edit)
Label: EMI, Elektra
Writer: Brian May
Producer: Queen and Roy Thomas Baker
"Fat Bottomed Girls" is a hit single by the English rock band Queen. It was released in 1978 on the album Jazz. The song was written by Queen guitarist Brian May and was one of the few Queen songs played in an alternative guitar tuning commonly called "drop D tuning". The lyrics express the axiom "Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder", although the song has a humorous and overtly sexual tone for such a serious subject.
Vocal arrangements are quite different between the studio version and the live version. In live performances, the lead vocals during the chorus were sung by Freddie Mercury and harmonized with an upper voice (Roger Taylor) and a lower voice (Brian May). In the studio version, there is no higher harmony. The lead vocals are sung by Freddie Mercury, while May performs the lower harmony. In the chorus, May has lead vocals.
The studio version contains Brian May's most infamous recording mistake, when he hit a G/F dissonance during the break (before the third verse). This is the result of playing a regular G voicing with the dropped 6th string (D) of the alternate tuning.
The single version (which can be found on Greatest Hits) omits the extended guitar interludes between the verses.
"Fat Bottomed Girls" was released as a Double A-side with the song "Bicycle Race." This cut includes the line "Get on your bikes and ride". Bicycle Race also contains the line "Fat bottomed girls, they'll be riding today, so look out for those beauties, oh yeah", completing a double cross-reference between the two songs.
The original cover to the album was different, however, the record company made them change the cover.
Live recordings
* Queen on Fire - Live at the Bowl
* Return of the Champions
* Super Live in Japan
Cover versions
* The band Antigone Rising covered the song on the 2005 tribute album Killer Queen: A Tribute to Queen.
* Hayseed Dixie covered it in bluegrass style on their 2002 album A Hillbilly Tribute to Mountain Love, where it's back to back with Spinal Tap's parody Big Bottom.
* The Feeling are performing this song on their current 2007 UK tour.
* Kevin Fowler covered the song on his 2002 album High On The Hog.
* On the Ozzfest 2006 tour Atreyu used the intro to open their set. As well as using it during their European tour in November 2007.
* Eric Church uses this song now as his intro to "I Pledge Allegiance To The Hag" in his live performances.
* Kid Rock has done a country style version of the song on some of his previous live tours
Featured appearances
* The Spinal Tap song Big Bottom is likely a parody of this song. MIKA's song "Big Girl (You Are Beautiful)" is also thematically similar.
* The song was used as the opening theme for Morgan Spurlock's 2004 documentary "Super Size Me."
* The song was also played during a surgery on episode 40 of Nip/Tuck (2005) and was also featured during an episode of "My Name is Earl" (2007)
* This song was mentioned in the song 'Mix Tape' from the Broadway musical Avenue Q.
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Wikipedia:
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Brian May studied astrophysics at Imperial College London, graduating with a B.Sc. (Hons) degree, and then proceeded to study for a Ph.D.. He studied at the Imperial College London departments of Physics and Mathematics, and was part way through a Ph.D programme, studying reflected light from interstellar dust and the velocity of dust in the plane of the Solar System, when Queen became successful. He abandoned his physics doctorate - temporarily, as it later turned out - but did co-author two scientific research papers: MgI Emission in the Night-Sky Spectrum (1972) and An Investigation of the Motion of Zodiacal Dust Particles (Part I) (1973), which were based on May's observations in Tenerife. More than 30 years after he started his research, in October 2007 he completed his Ph.D. thesis, entitled A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud, passed his viva voce, performed corrections and is awaiting the formal conferment of the degree.
Most recently, he was the co-author of “Bang! – The Complete History of the Universe” with Patrick Moore and Chris Lintott, which was published in October, 2006.
On July 19th 2007, Brian May was appointed as Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University.
2 comments:
Queen definitely is one of my favourite rock bands of all time.
My earliest memories of television growing up in Pakistan are rather bleak since it was state run. To compensate whenever my dad would have to make a business trip abroad, he would tape any TV he would abroad and bring back the VHS tapes for us. It was fascinating watching foreign advertisements and shows regardless of whether it was of any relevance to us. One of these tapes that I still have today is a recording of the "Top of the Pops", a British music chart from 1984 when "Radio Ga Ga" was released and I used to keep watching the video for it.
More useless facts, Freddie Mercury was one of the most famous Parsi's that lived.
Yeah, I just stumbled across Freddy being Parsi. I had previously just assumed he was from Neptune.
Sincerely not wishing to get all patriotic and everything, but it never ceases to astonish me how popular rock music is all over the world. Queen of course is a Brit band, but Beatles, Stones, The Who -- they were all tuning in to black American music and then the earliest white rock and R&B. I really wish we exported more of our astonishingly thrilling music, and less of our Shock & Awe.
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