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Originally Posted by Undertoad
May AND Freddie Mercury. It turns out that "Fat Bottomed Girls" was released as a co-single with "Bicycle Race", which Mercury wrote. Both drove the chart position and they reached #24 in the US, as high as #7 in some Euro countries. Both are still in use as semi-novelty songs. Which was part of Queen's problem, that too much of their stuff was semi-novelty. |
It's a fine line. I wonder whether ZZ Top was skating on the edge of semi-novelty, sometimes. But, as the official coolest guys in the world, they scoff at such concerns. They just don their cheap sunglasses and eat some TV dinners while they do the tube snake boogie.