Don't Stop Me Now

by

Queen

Album: Jazz      Released: 1977

US Chart: 86     UK Chart: 9

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Freddie Mercury wrote this in Montreux, Switzerland. He did both the words and the music.

The B side of this was either "In Only Seven Days" or "More Of That Jazz" depending on where you bought it.

Jazz had a mix of many different styles of music, although none of them were actually Jazz. The album got to #6 on the US Billboard charts for 1978.

Brian May didn't really like this song, his guitar track was overdubbed after the main recording.

This song was used in the movies Blackball and Shaun Of The Dead. (thanks, Johnny - Los Angeles, CA, for all above)

This returned to the UK charts in 2008 after being featured in the Cadbury's Dairy Milk truck race advert.

At the beginning of 2007, the UK chart rules changed allowing all digital downloads, whether or not they had a physical equivalent, to chart. This song was one of the beneficiaries of the new rules, maintaining a Top 200 presence all the way through 2007. Despite the fact it never made the Top 75 in all that time, "Don't Stop Me Now" still sold 53,000 copies and was the 160th best selling single of 2007. Incredibly, this was 3,000 copies more than McFly's #1 hit "Baby's Coming Back."

In 2006 a cover by McFly for the Sport Relief telethon was a #1 hit in the UK. It was notionally the lead track on the single. However though it was indeed the lead track on the 2-track CD single, on the other formats, maxi CD and DVD, "'Please Please" was featured as Track 1. The latter song was rumored to be about actress Lindsay Lohan.

This is used as the theme song of the UK TV show Al Murray's Happy Hour. Murray has a band on each week who have to sing a Queen song at the end of the show. On the fourth show, McFly sang this.

In 2005, viewers of the BBC television program Top Gear named this "Greatest Driving Song Ever." (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France, for above 2)

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I have some great memories tied to this. One night my friends and I were trying to pull an all-nighter so we bought energy drinks. I was really hyper and I was listening to my ipod when this song came on. I was racing my friends and then I won surprisingly because I'm not that fast but then I started dancing. It was really fun except the next day when I was really tired :P
- Chris, Saugus, MA

I was turned on to queen a year ago and love them. they are the greastest group ever made. they have brought me joy and brought me to tears. i would have given anything to have been able to have seen them in concert just once. if i could spend one day with anyone dead or alive it would Freddie Mercury
- taylor, dayton, TN

Maybe you just have a messed up brain? (Me too, but I don't think it's about Sex. I thought it was like him having magic powers to fly or something.)
- Justing, Orlando , FL

good song but i think its about gay sex just read the lyrics then you will see
- Samuel, peoria, Belgium

I love thins song so much! It makes me feel happy=]
- Joan, Amsterdam, Netherlands

this song is awesome-just like we are the champions.
- alessandro, danbury, ON

This song is one of my favorites to listen to while driving around town or for long distances.
- Ryan, Farmer City, IL

I LOVE THIS SONG.... i have a queen videoke cd and i just love singing this song... all my nephews and nieces love watching me sing. there are also occasions that they borrow my cd and they enjoy singing this song.
- ched -, La Union, Philippines

Have you seen the EBA video of this on YouTube? This song isn't actually in Elite Beat Agents, but somebody made a funny video based on the EBA concept featuring this song.
- Matthew, Milford, MA

If any Queen song would be best in the credits of a movie, it's We are the Champions.
- Matthew, Milford, MA

In 2005, this song was voted as "The Greatest Driving Song Ever" by viewers of the BBC television program Top Gear, but the trophy given to Roger Taylor (as Freddy is dead and May doesn't like the song) was mis-engraved, reading Stop Me Now. James May explained it being a result of a clumsy engraver.
- Nerius, Vilnius, Europe

I like to trip to this song. It's awesome.
- Daniel, Springfield, MA

This is seriously a favorite song of mine. It's a very catchy song and it cheers me up every time I listen to it.
- Kaylee, Beattyville, KY

This may make me sound like someone who hasn't listened to very much Queen (in fact I only have their greatest hits CD) but Don't Stop Me Now is my favorite Queen song and quite possibly my favorite song ever. My best friend and I are the biggest fans of the song ever, me because it's completely awesome and she because it's in "Shaun of the Dead."
- Marissa, Is this optional?, OH

This a great high-energy number, and a proud display of Queen unquestionable musical ablitly(not to mention Freddie Mercury's unquestionable queerness), and the album Jazz is by and large my favorite Queen record. It's actually a great song to listen to when you're trippin'.
- Daniel, Springfield, MA

i think queen is a awesome band my dad loves all their songs and so do i!!! i think dont stop me now is the best one of all time i have got it on my mp3 player and i dont mean to sound nastey but Mcfly are not good enough to sing it!!!! it gets your heart pumping ecspiecily iff your my age... it is my favourite song and i love it and freddie murcury is the best singer i have ever heard in my life... Angharad Rudge, wales, trinant, gwent diolch-thankyou
- angharad, newport , Wales

awesome song. Queen is one of the best rock bands ever and I love this song!Its very fun and upbeat. you get fired up just listening to it!
- Caitlin, Upper Township, NJ

This is one of Queen's best songs. It's very funny how he talks about men AND women in the song, and I never hold it against Freddy that he was a bisexual, because it likely contributed to the way he carried himself on stage and expressed himself through music. I'm straight, but I LOVE Freddy.
- Jonathon, Clermont, FL

I love this song, though it sounds like it should be played during the credits at the end of a movie.
- Caitlyn, Jacksonville, FL

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