" 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 in collaboration with less known Irish composer Colm Rowan. It is said the song was written after a night socialising in Dublin where Rowan, by his own admission, seduced a rather big girl. He later admitted to doing this on a regular basis, much to May's amusement. It was one of the few Queen songs played in an alternative guitar tuning commonly called "drop D tuning". The lyrics express the narrator's preference for voluptuous women.
Versions
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 harmonised 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 Brian May sings the chorus.
The Mullingar remix uses a collaboration of Rowans talents and is recognised by the infamous video where Rowan sings outside a respected food establishment with his trousers around his ankles singing to his "fat bottomed girl".
The single version (which can be found on Greatest Hits ) omits the extended guitar interludes between the verses as well as fading out before the ending.
"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 single cover featured a nude woman riding a bicycle. When many stores refused to stock the single because of the cover, the label altered the image so that the woman was wearing panties.
Personnel
- Brian May: guitar, backing vocals.
- Freddie Mercury: lead and backing vocals.
- Roger Taylor: Drums and backing vocals.
- John Deacon: Bass guitar.
- Colm Rowan: "Fat bottomed girl" lover
Live recordings
- Queen on Fire - Live at the Bowl
- Return of the Champions
- Super Live in Japan
- Live in Ukraine
- Main St Mullingar
Cover versions
- Alternative Rock band, House of Heroes, used to cover the song during Live Shows.
- 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 performed this song on their 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.
- The song was covered by American Idol Season 5 contestant Bucky Covington during Queen week
- This song was also covered by The Rockers in their CD, "We are the Champions. A tribute to Queen"
- A song set to the same tune "Triple D's" was featured in an episode of Rick & Steve sung by lipstick lesbian Kirsten to her wife Dana who had been insecure about the weight she's put on since giving birth.
- Kid Rock did a southern rock version of the song on 2004's CMT Outlaws Concert Special.
- Amos Lee occasionaly covers the song as an encore while touring.
Featured appearances
- The song as used in the second season of the series My Name is Earl in episode seventeen.
- The song was used as the opening theme for Morgan Spurlock's 2004 documentary Super Size Me .
- The song was also played during surgery on episode 40 of Nip/Tuck (2005).
- The song was mentioned in the song "Mix Tape" from the Broadway musical Avenue Q .
- Part of the song is sung at the end of the Father Ted episode, "The Mainland", by Fr. Noel Furlong, when he is trapped in a cave under a large pile of rocks, with only his hand showing.
- A song set to the same tune "Triple D's" was featured in an episode of Rick & Steve .
- The song was released for Guitar Hero: World Tour as downloadable content on March 26, 2009.
- The song was released as downloadable content for Rock Band on October 20, 2009.
- The song was the opening salvo in a karaoka war that resulted in Sven and Faye finally going to bed in Questionable Content .
Chart performance
References
- ^ Jim DeRogatis (March 19, 2006), A wild ride with Queen , The Chicago Sun-Times, p. D6
- ^ http://community.guitarhero.com/news_posts/154
- ^ http://www.rockband.com/zine/queen-dlc
- ^ http:
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