Another One Bites The Dust - Definition and Overview

Written by bassist John Deacon, "Another One Bites The Dust" is a funk-oriented rock song from the British group Queen. This song was a worldwide crossover hit (hitting the Top Ten on the Pop charts, and topping the R & B charts). Ironically, it topped the latter charts on the merit that some fans thought Queen was an R & B group, and that it came pretty much at the tail end of the Disco era. The track can be found on the album The Game. Another major hit of this album was Freddie Mercury's "Crazy Little Thing Called Love".

It was inspired by Chic's (Bernard Edwards & Nile Rodgers) "Good Times", and in turn inspired the "Weird Al" Yankovic debut album parody "Another One Rides The Bus".

Strangely, when played backwards, the refrain sounds like "it's fun to smoke marijuana." [1] (http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/queen.php) It is unknown whether this is intentional, but Brian May has denied that it was deliberate. In the 90's, it was used as a Detroit Lions football team fight song, which got considerable attention from the sports media.