"We will Rock You" Missing Words Quiz

Answer:

"We Will Rock You" is a song by the British rock band Queen, featured on their 1977 album "News of the World." It was written by guitarist Brian May. Did you know that "We Will Rock You" was the "B" side to the single "We Are the Champions"? Released on 7 October 1977. This is why at live concerts the two songs usually follow each other.

The idea behind the stadium chant came up after a concert in Stafford, England, when the audience sang the football anthem "You'll Never Walk Alone" back to the band. Normally, the crowd would shout, "We want more." This inspired Brain May and the rest of Queen to create a song that fans could stomp and clap along to.

The main rhythm of the song doesn't actually include drums or cymbals. The iconic "stomp-stomp-clap-pause" sound was produced by the band members, their roadies, and even their tea lady (Betty) stomping on old floorboards and clapping. They then added delay effects and layered the recordings to give the sense of a large crowd participating.

The delay intervals were set using prime number ratios, a technique now known as non-harmonic reverberation. The guitar solo ends with a phrase repeated three times, which is actually a tape loop rather than Brian May playing the same phrase over and over.