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"Another One Bites the Dust" is a 1980 rock song from the British rock band Queen. It was written by bassist John Deacon and was a worldwide crossover hit (hitting the Number One on the US Pop charts, and topping the R&B charts). Ironically, it topped the latter charts because some fans thought Queen was an R&B group. The track can be found on the album The Game (1980).

John originally wrote it as a cowboy theme but eventually changed the lyrics to fit a funkier arrangement. Recording sessions were produced by Reinhold Mack at Musicland Studios and consisted of Deacon playing almost all the instruments: bass, piano, rhythm & lead guitars and handclap percussion. Roger Taylor added a drum loop under protest and Brian May did some noises with his guitar and an Eventide harmoniser. The recording also features an Oberheim OB-X analogue synthesizer. Taylor hated the song but Freddie Mercury strongly believed in it and added some ideas. During the mix the road crew suggested it as a single but the band didn't like the idea until Michael Jackson recommended it after a concert(this was confirmed by Roger Taylor and Brian May on the US radio show In the Studio with Redbeard which spotlighted the album The game on one episode).

A common urban legend surrounding this song is that, when played backwards, it contains the message "It's fun to smoke marijuana". In actual fact, the recording does not contain any backwards vocals: it is simply a co-incidence that the phrase "Another one bites the dust" sounds vaguely like "It's fun to smoke marijuana" when played backwards.

The song garnered Queen its only Grammy nomination for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal and lost to Bob Seger's "Against the Wind".

Uses in popular culture

At San Diego Padres games, it can be heard after opponents strike out.
It can be heard playing in the background of the film "Biggles" which John Deacon also wrote the theme for in his only solo/non-Queen collaboration with a band called "The Immortals"
It was inspired by CHIC's (Bernard Edwards & Nile Rodgers) "Good Times", and in turn inspired the "Weird Al" Yankovic
self titled debut album
parody "Another One Rides The Bus
".
In the 1980s, it was used as a Detroit Lions football team fight song, which generated considerable attention from the sports media.
In an episode of Family Guy, the opening lyrics to the song were sung by Stewie Griffin as he swept a pile of leaves over a pit he dug in a sandbox.
Another One Bites the Dust was on the list of songs deemed inappropriate by Clear Channel following the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Commonly in Australian Domestic Cricket, the chourus of the song comes on when a batsman gets out and is a real crowd pleaser (Another One Bites The Dust topped the Australian Charts for 6 weeks in 1980).

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