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We Will Rock You

June 18, 2023

This article is about the Queen song. For other uses, see We Will Rock You (disambiguation).

"We Will Rock You" is a song written by Brian May and recorded by British rock band Queen for their 1977 album News of the World.[3] Rolling Stone ranked it number 330 of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" in 2004,[4] and it placed at number 146 on the Songs of the Century list in 2001. In 2009, "We Will Rock You" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.[5][6]

"We Will Rock You"
One of the French single picture sleeves
Single by Queen
from the album News of the World
A-side"We Are the Champions"
Released7 October 1977[1]
GenreArena rock[2]
Length2:02
Label
Songwriter(s)Brian May
Producer(s)
Queen singles chronology
"Long Away"
(1977) 		"We Are the Champions" / "We Will Rock You"
(1977) 		"Spread Your Wings"
(1978)
Music video
"We Will Rock You" on YouTube

Other than the last 30 seconds, which contains a guitar solo by May, the song is generally set in a cappella form, using only stomping and clapping as a rhythmic body percussion beat. In 1977, "We Will Rock You" and "We Are the Champions" were issued together as a worldwide top 10 single.[7] Soon after the album was released, many radio stations played the songs consecutively, without interruption.[8]

Since its release, "We Will Rock You" has been covered, remixed, sampled, parodied, referred to, and used by multiple recording artists, TV shows, films and other media worldwide.[9][10] It has also become a popular stadium anthem at sports events around the world, due mostly to its simple rhythm.[11][12] On 7 October 2017, Queen released a Raw Sessions version of the track to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the release of News of the World. It features a radically different approach to the guitar solo and includes May's count-in immediately prior to the recording.[13]

Music

"We Will Rock You" and "We Are the Champions" were written in response to an event that occurred during the A Day at the Races Tour.[14] The band played at Stafford's Bingley Hall, and, according to Brian May:

We did an encore and then went off, and instead of just keeping clapping, they sang "You'll Never Walk Alone" to us, and we were just completely knocked out and taken aback – it was quite an emotional experience really, and I think these chant things are in some way connected with that.[15]

 
"We Will Rock You"
The "stomp, stomp, clap" beat throughout "We Will Rock You" was created by the band overdubbing sounds of themselves stamping and clapping many times, and adding delay effects to create a sound that made it seem as if many people were participating.
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One version was used as the opening track on 1977's News of the World. This consists of a stomp-stomp-clap-pause beat, and a power chorus, being somewhat of an anthem. The stamping effects were created by the band overdubbing the sounds of themselves stomping and clapping many times and adding delay effects to make it sound like many people were participating. The durations of the delays were in the ratios of prime numbers, a technique now known as non-harmonic reverberation.[16] A tape loop is used to repeat the last phrase of the guitar solo three times as opposed to Brian May playing it three separate times on the recording.[17] The "stomp, stomp, clap" sounds were later used in the Queen + Paul Rodgers song "Still Burnin'".[18]

When performed live, the song is usually followed by "We Are the Champions", as they were designed to run together.[7] The songs are often paired on the radio and at sporting events, where they are frequently played.[7] They were the last two songs Queen performed at Live Aid in 1985.[19]

Queen also performed an alternative version of "We Will Rock You" known as the "fast version", featuring a faster-feeling tempo and a full band arrangement. The band would frequently use this version to open their live sets in the late 1970s and early 1980s, as heard on the albums Live Killers (1979), Queen on Fire - Live at the Bowl (2004), Queen Rock Montreal (2007), and the expanded edition of News of the World (2011). A studio recording of this version is also known to exist, recorded for John Peel's show on BBC Radio 1 in 1977. It is part of a longer cut that starts with the original version. In 2002, the fast version was officially released on a promo single distributed by the tabloid The Sun. The "fast" BBC studio version can also be found on The Best of King Biscuit Live Volume 4. Between the two versions, there is a brief cut of Roger Taylor quoting Hermann Hesse's novel Siddhartha, used in a BBC Radio documentary. The fast version is also used as the curtain call music for the musical of the same title, after the finale, which is a pairing of the original "We Will Rock You" and "We Are the Champions".

Music video

The music video for "We Will Rock You" was filmed in 1977 at the back garden of Roger Taylor's mansion.[20][21] It sees the band lip synching the song, hand clapping with gloves and foot stomping on a frozen ground.[20] In an interview with Billboard, Taylor spoke on filming the video:

We shot it on the grounds of a country house I'd just bought in Surrey and we hadn't completed the sale, so we weren't allowed in the house. We figured, 'we might as well shoot it here.' It was absolutely freezing cold and we did three takes.[22]

Personnel

Information is based on the album's Liner Notes[23]

  • Freddie Mercury – lead and backing vocals, hand claps, foot stamping
  • Brian May – electric guitar, backing vocals, hand claps, foot stamping
  • Roger Taylor – backing vocals, hand claps, foot stamping
  • John Deacon – hand claps, foot stamping

Chart performance

Certifications

Certifications for We Will Rock You
Region Certification Certified units/sales
Denmark (IFPI Danmark)[45] Platinum 90,000 
France (SNEP)[46]
We Will Rock You / We Are The Champions 		Gold 500,000*
Germany (BVMI)[47] Platinum 500,000 
Italy (FIMI)[48] 2× Platinum 100,000 
Japan (RIAJ)[49]
Digital single 		Gold 100,000*
Japan (RIAJ)[50]
Ringtone 		2× Platinum 500,000*
United Kingdom (BPI)[51]
sales since 2011 		2× Platinum 1,200,000 
United States (RIAA)[52] 6× Platinum 6,000,000 

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
  Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Notable cover versions

Five + Queen version

"We Will Rock You"
 
Single by Five + Queen
from the album Invincible
B-side
Released17 July 2000 (2000-07-17)[53]
Length3:08
LabelRCA, BMG
Songwriter(s)Brian May
Producer(s)
  • Richard Stannard
  • Julian Gallagher
Five singles chronology
"Don't Wanna Let You Go"
(2000) 		"We Will Rock You"
(2000) 		"Let's Dance"
(2001)
Queen singles chronology
"Under Pressure (Rah Mix)"
(1999) 		"We Will Rock You"
(2000) 		"Flash (Vanguard Mix)"
(2003)
Music video
"We Will Rock You" on YouTube

British boy band Five released a cover of "We Will Rock You" on 17 July 2000. It was the fourth single released from their second studio album, Invincible (1999). The song features two members of Queen: Brian May on guitar and Roger Taylor on drums; however, they do not sing any vocals on the track. Freddie Mercury had died in November 1991, nearly a decade before this version's release, and John Deacon had retired from public life three years before the release of the Five cover.

The song charted at number one on the UK Singles Chart, making it Five's second number-one single, and their ninth consecutive top-ten hit.[54]

Track listings

"Megamix" consists of four songs by Five: "Don't Wanna Let You Go", "If Ya Gettin' Down", "Keep On Movin'", and "We Will Rock You". The European and Australian versions of "Megamix" omit "We Will Rock You".

UK CD1[55]

  1. "We Will Rock You" (radio edit) – 3:08
  2. "Keep On Movin'" (The Five-A-Side Mix) – 3:32
  3. "We Will Rock You" (video—enhanced track)

UK CD2[56]

  1. "We Will Rock You" (radio edit) – 3:08
  2. "Megamix" – 4:19
  3. "Megamix" video (enhanced track)

UK cassette single[57]

  1. "We Will Rock You" (radio edit) – 3:08
  2. "Keep On Movin'" (The Five-A-Side Mix) – 3:32
  3. "Megamix" – 4:19

European CD single[58]

  1. "We Will Rock You" (radio edit) – 3:08
  2. "Megamix" – 4:19

Australian CD single[59]

  1. "We Will Rock You" (radio edit) – 3:08
  2. "Megamix" – 4:19
  3. "Keep On Movin'" (The Five-A-Side Mix) – 3:32
  4. "We Will Rock You" (video—enhanced track)

Charts


KCPK version

A remix by KCPK, sung by a chorus of children under the name Forever Young, was released in a series of animated Evian adverts which aired in France, Germany and Belgium. The remix was later released as a single and entered the local charts.[88]

Other versions

Sampling

  • 1992: American rapper Ice Cube sampled the beat in his song "When Will They Shoot?", from his album The Predator.[103]
  • 2002: American rapper Eminem interpolated the "stomp-stomp-clap" beat in his song "'Till I Collapse" from his album The Eminem Show and also used a similar pattern in the songs "Puke" from his album Encore and "Cinderella Man" from his album Recovery.[104]
  • 2003: The J-Kwon song "Tipsy" directly samples the "We Will Rock You" beat, but reworked into a different beat.[103][105]
  • 2011: American pop singer Katy Perry interpolated the "stomp-stomp-clap" beat in her song "E.T".[106]
  • 2011: Beyoncé interpolated the "stomp-stomp-clap" beat in her song "Dreaming", featured on the Japanese edition of her 4th album 4.[107]
  • 2011: Lady Gaga sampled the "stomp-stomp-clap" in her song "You and I", which also features the band's guitarist Brian May, from Gaga's album Born This Way.[103][108]
  • 2012: One Direction interpolated the "stomp-stomp-clap" and references "Rock" in their song "Rock Me" featured on their second album Take Me Home.[109]
  • 2012: Kesha interpolated the "stomp-stomp-clap" in her song "Gold Trans Am", featured on the deluxe edition of her second album, Warrior.[110]

Live cover performances

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

Remixes

Parodies and references to the song

  • 1987: Henry Rollins did a parody of "We Will Rock You" titled "I Have Come to Kill You".[134]
  • 1998: Friends "The One Where Ross Moves In" - [S05E07]: Ross moves into Joey and Chandler's apartment. As time goes by, Ross reveals he's quite annoying by imposing a lot of changes to the norm of the apartment. One being the changing of the answering machine message to the tune of "We Will Rock You" by Queen, to which Ross alters the lyrics to "We Will, We Will Call You Back!".
  • 2010: The cast of the Off-Broadway musical Avenue Q performed covers of "We Will Rock You" and "We Are the Champions" in a video spoof of the Muppets' "Bohemian Rhapsody".[135]
  • 2012: In the March 12 edition of WWE Raw, The Rock performed his version during the Rock Concert segment by adding references to Team Bring It and fans chanting "Cena Sucks" in the chorus while taking aim at John Cena before they square off at WrestleMania XXVIII.[136]
  • 2014: Indonesian singer Ahmad Dhani made a political campaign video with a parody of the song to support presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto. Dhani wore Heinrich Himmler's SS Uniform in the video.[137]
  • 2015: In The Big Bang Theory episode "The Bachelor Party Corrosion" Raj, Howard and Leonard sing a modified version of the song called, "We Will Percussive Shock You" and Sheldon burst out singing the first verse of the original song, which he then credited to his eidetic memory, mentioned that in this instance it was a 'curse.'[138]

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This article is about the Queen song For other uses see We Will Rock You disambiguation We Will Rock You is a song written by Brian May and recorded by British rock band Queen for their 1977 album News of the World 3 Rolling Stone ranked it number 330 of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time in 2004 4 and it placed at number 146 on the Songs of the Century list in 2001 In 2009 We Will Rock You was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame 5 6 We Will Rock You One of the French single picture sleevesSingle by Queenfrom the album News of the WorldA side We Are the Champions Released7 October 1977 1 GenreArena rock 2 Length2 02LabelEMI UK Elektra US Songwriter s Brian MayProducer s Queen Mike StoneQueen singles chronology Long Away 1977 We Are the Champions We Will Rock You 1977 Spread Your Wings 1978 Music video We Will Rock You on YouTubeOther than the last 30 seconds which contains a guitar solo by May the song is generally set in a cappella form using only stomping and clapping as a rhythmic body percussion beat In 1977 We Will Rock You and We Are the Champions were issued together as a worldwide top 10 single 7 Soon after the album was released many radio stations played the songs consecutively without interruption 8 Since its release We Will Rock You has been covered remixed sampled parodied referred to and used by multiple recording artists TV shows films and other media worldwide 9 10 It has also become a popular stadium anthem at sports events around the world due mostly to its simple rhythm 11 12 On 7 October 2017 Queen released a Raw Sessions version of the track to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the release of News of the World It features a radically different approach to the guitar solo and includes May s count in immediately prior to the recording 13 Contents 1 Music 2 Music video 3 Personnel 4 Chart performance 4 1 Weekly charts 4 2 Year end charts 5 Certifications 6 Notable cover versions 6 1 Five Queen version 6 1 1 Track listings 6 1 2 Charts 6 1 2 1 Weekly charts 6 1 3 Year end charts 6 1 4 Certifications 7 KCPK version 7 1 Chart performance 7 2 Year end charts 7 3 Other versions 8 Sampling 9 Live cover performances 10 Remixes 11 Parodies and references to the song 12 See also 13 References 14 External linksMusic Edit We Will Rock You and We Are the Champions were written in response to an event that occurred during the A Day at the Races Tour 14 The band played at Stafford s Bingley Hall and according to Brian May We did an encore and then went off and instead of just keeping clapping they sang You ll Never Walk Alone to us and we were just completely knocked out and taken aback it was quite an emotional experience really and I think these chant things are in some way connected with that 15 We Will Rock You source source track The stomp stomp clap beat throughout We Will Rock You was created by the band overdubbing sounds of themselves stamping and clapping many times and adding delay effects to create a sound that made it seem as if many people were participating Problems playing this file See media help One version was used as the opening track on 1977 s News of the World This consists of a stomp stomp clap pause beat and a power chorus being somewhat of an anthem The stamping effects were created by the band overdubbing the sounds of themselves stomping and clapping many times and adding delay effects to make it sound like many people were participating The durations of the delays were in the ratios of prime numbers a technique now known as non harmonic reverberation 16 A tape loop is used to repeat the last phrase of the guitar solo three times as opposed to Brian May playing it three separate times on the recording 17 The stomp stomp clap sounds were later used in the Queen Paul Rodgers song Still Burnin 18 When performed live the song is usually followed by We Are the Champions as they were designed to run together 7 The songs are often paired on the radio and at sporting events where they are frequently played 7 They were the last two songs Queen performed at Live Aid in 1985 19 Queen also performed an alternative version of We Will Rock You known as the fast version featuring a faster feeling tempo and a full band arrangement The band would frequently use this version to open their live sets in the late 1970s and early 1980s as heard on the albums Live Killers 1979 Queen on Fire Live at the Bowl 2004 Queen Rock Montreal 2007 and the expanded edition of News of the World 2011 A studio recording of this version is also known to exist recorded for John Peel s show on BBC Radio 1 in 1977 It is part of a longer cut that starts with the original version In 2002 the fast version was officially released on a promo single distributed by the tabloid The Sun The fast BBC studio version can also be found on The Best of King Biscuit Live Volume 4 Between the two versions there is a brief cut of Roger Taylor quoting Hermann Hesse s novel Siddhartha used in a BBC Radio documentary The fast version is also used as the curtain call music for the musical of the same title after the finale which is a pairing of the original We Will Rock You and We Are the Champions Music video EditThe music video for We Will Rock You was filmed in 1977 at the back garden of Roger Taylor s mansion 20 21 It sees the band lip synching the song hand clapping with gloves and foot stomping on a frozen ground 20 In an interview with Billboard Taylor spoke on filming the video We shot it on the grounds of a country house I d just bought in Surrey and we hadn t completed the sale so we weren t allowed in the house We figured we might as well shoot it here It was absolutely freezing cold and we did three takes 22 Personnel EditInformation is based on the album s Liner Notes 23 Freddie Mercury lead and backing vocals hand claps foot stamping Brian May electric guitar backing vocals hand claps foot stamping Roger Taylor backing vocals hand claps foot stamping John Deacon hand claps foot stampingChart performance EditWeekly charts Edit Year Chart Peakposition1977 Belgium Ultratop 50 Wallonia 24 81978 France IFOP 25 11992 Australia ARIA 26 with We Are the Champions 81Belgium Ultratop 50 Flanders 27 45Netherlands Dutch Top 40 28 12US Billboard Hot 100 29 522003 France SNEP 30 10Germany Official German Charts 31 69Netherlands Single Top 100 32 9Switzerland Schweizer Hitparade 33 492006 US Billboard Hot Digital Songs 29 362008 Canada Hot Canadian Digital Singles 29 562011 Spain PROMUSICAE 1 182012 Japan Hot 100 Singles 29 952017 Poland Polish Airplay Top 100 34 692018 Canada Hot Canadian Digital Songs 35 13Italy FIMI 36 75Portugal AFP 37 100Sweden Heatseeker Sverigetopplistan 38 15Japan Japan Hot 100 39 342019 US Hot Rock amp Alternative Songs Billboard 40 62020 Poland Polish Airplay Top 100 41 52 Year end charts Edit Chart 1978 PositionAustralia Kent Music Report 42 Double A sided single with We Are the Champions 57Chart 2018 PositionUS Hot Rock Songs Billboard 43 68Chart 2019 PositionUS Hot Rock Songs Billboard 44 22Certifications EditCertifications for We Will Rock You Region Certification Certified units salesDenmark IFPI Danmark 45 Platinum 90 000 France SNEP 46 We Will Rock You We Are The Champions Gold 500 000 Germany BVMI 47 Platinum 500 000 Italy FIMI 48 2 Platinum 100 000 Japan RIAJ 49 Digital single Gold 100 000 Japan RIAJ 50 Ringtone 2 Platinum 500 000 United Kingdom BPI 51 sales since 2011 2 Platinum 1 200 000 United States RIAA 52 6 Platinum 6 000 000 Sales figures based on certification alone Sales streaming figures based on certification alone Notable cover versions EditFive Queen version Edit We Will Rock You Single by Five Queenfrom the album InvincibleB side Megamix Keep On Movin The Five A Side Mix Released17 July 2000 2000 07 17 53 Length3 08LabelRCA BMGSongwriter s Brian MayProducer s Richard StannardJulian GallagherFive singles chronology Don t Wanna Let You Go 2000 We Will Rock You 2000 Let s Dance 2001 Queen singles chronology Under Pressure Rah Mix 1999 We Will Rock You 2000 Flash Vanguard Mix 2003 Music video We Will Rock You on YouTubeBritish boy band Five released a cover of We Will Rock You on 17 July 2000 It was the fourth single released from their second studio album Invincible 1999 The song features two members of Queen Brian May on guitar and Roger Taylor on drums however they do not sing any vocals on the track Freddie Mercury had died in November 1991 nearly a decade before this version s release and John Deacon had retired from public life three years before the release of the Five cover The song charted at number one on the UK Singles Chart making it Five s second number one single and their ninth consecutive top ten hit 54 Track listings Edit Megamix consists of four songs by Five Don t Wanna Let You Go If Ya Gettin Down Keep On Movin and We Will Rock You The European and Australian versions of Megamix omit We Will Rock You UK CD1 55 We Will Rock You radio edit 3 08 Keep On Movin The Five A Side Mix 3 32 We Will Rock You video enhanced track UK CD2 56 We Will Rock You radio edit 3 08 Megamix 4 19 Megamix video enhanced track UK cassette single 57 We Will Rock You radio edit 3 08 Keep On Movin The Five A Side Mix 3 32 Megamix 4 19European CD single 58 We Will Rock You radio edit 3 08 Megamix 4 19Australian CD single 59 We Will Rock You radio edit 3 08 Megamix 4 19 Keep On Movin The Five A Side Mix 3 32 We Will Rock You video enhanced track Charts Edit Weekly charts Edit Chart 2000 PeakpositionAustralia ARIA 60 3Austria O3 Austria Top 40 61 2Belgium Ultratop 50 Flanders 62 17Belgium Ultratip Bubbling Under Wallonia 63 4El Salvador El Siglo de Torreon 64 1Europe Eurochart Hot 100 65 11Germany Official German Charts 66 8Guatemala El Siglo de Torreon 64 10Iceland Tonlist 67 10Ireland IRMA 68 6Italy FIMI 69 35Netherlands Dutch Top 40 70 20Netherlands Single Top 100 71 15New Zealand Recorded Music NZ 72 29Poland Music amp Media 73 5Scotland OCC 74 2Sweden Sverigetopplistan 75 35Switzerland Schweizer Hitparade 76 18UK Singles OCC 77 1 Year end charts Edit Chart 2000 PositionAustralia ARIA 78 34Austria O3 Austria Top 40 79 20Belgium Ultratop 50 Flanders 80 81Europe Eurochart Hot 100 81 65Germany Official German Charts 82 58Ireland IRMA 83 54Switzerland Schweizer Hitparade 84 70UK Singles OCC 85 45Certifications Edit Region Certification Certified units salesAustralia ARIA 86 Platinum 70 000 United Kingdom BPI 87 Silver 200 000 Shipments figures based on certification alone KCPK version EditA remix by KCPK sung by a chorus of children under the name Forever Young was released in a series of animated Evian adverts which aired in France Germany and Belgium The remix was later released as a single and entered the local charts 88 Chart performance Edit Chart 2003 PeakpositionAustria O3 Austria Top 40 89 50Belgium Ultratip Bubbling Under Flanders 90 3Belgium Ultratop 50 Wallonia 91 10Europe Eurochart Hot 100 92 10France SNEP 93 2Germany Official German Charts 94 18Switzerland Schweizer Hitparade 95 16 Year end charts Edit Chart 2003 PositionBelgium Ultratop 50 Wallonia 96 36France SNEP 97 10Romania Romania Top 100 98 66Switzerland Schweizer Hitparade 99 57 Other versions Edit 1992 American glam metal band Warrant covered the song for the film Gladiator 100 The song charted at number 83 on the Billboard Hot 100 101 2004 American pop singers Britney Spears Beyonce and Pink used this song in an international commercial Pepsi campaign and the song was released on the Pepsi Music 2004 Dare for More CD 102 Sampling Edit1992 American rapper Ice Cube sampled the beat in his song When Will They Shoot from his album The Predator 103 2002 American rapper Eminem interpolated the stomp stomp clap beat in his song Till I Collapse from his album The Eminem Show and also used a similar pattern in the songs Puke from his album Encore and Cinderella Man from his album Recovery 104 2003 The J Kwon song Tipsy directly samples the We Will Rock You beat but reworked into a different beat 103 105 2011 American pop singer Katy Perry interpolated the stomp stomp clap beat in her song E T 106 2011 Beyonce interpolated the stomp stomp clap beat in her song Dreaming featured on the Japanese edition of her 4th album 4 107 2011 Lady Gaga sampled the stomp stomp clap in her song You and I which also features the band s guitarist Brian May from Gaga s album Born This Way 103 108 2012 One Direction interpolated the stomp stomp clap and references Rock in their song Rock Me featured on their second album Take Me Home 109 2012 Kesha interpolated the stomp stomp clap in her song Gold Trans Am featured on the deluxe edition of her second album Warrior 110 Live cover performances Edit1990s 1992 Guns N Roses lead singer Axl Rose performed the song with Queen at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert 111 112 1992 U2 used the song as a set list opener before they performed on stage during the Zoo TV Tour 113 1993 Nirvana performed it in Sao Paulo Brazil changing the lyrics to we will fuck you 114 1996 Alanis Morissette and her band ended the first encore of her Can t Not Tour following the song You Learn with a cover of the song with Alanis playing the stomp stomp clap rhythm on drums 115 2000s 2003 English singer and songwriter Robbie Williams performed the song live at Knebworth 116 2007 2010 Japanese pop singer Kumi Koda covered this in her a nation 07 performance and three years later in a medley at her 10th anniversary concert at the Tokyo Dome 117 2008 Canadian singer Celine Dion performed a Queen medley with We Will Rock You and The Show Must Go On in her Taking Chances World Tour 118 2009 American guitarist Joe Perry from Aerosmith and singer Katy Perry covered the song at the MTV s Video Music Awards 2009 119 2010s 2011 American rock band My Chemical Romance performed the song with Queen guitarist Brian May at the Reading Festival 120 2011 Christina Aguilera CeeLo Green Adam Levine and Blake Shelton covered the song on The Voice U S 121 2012 English pop singer Jessie J performed the song live with Brian May and Roger Taylor at the closing ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London on 12 August 122 2012 English rapper Dappy covered the song live alongside Brian May for BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge The song later appeared on UK chart topping album BBC Radio 1 s Live Lounge 2012 123 2020s In a pre recorded comedy segment at the opening of the Platinum Party at the Palace on 4 June 2022 Queen Elizabeth II and Paddington Bear tapped their tea cups to the beat of We Will Rock You before Queen Adam Lambert performed the song live outside Buckingham Palace 124 125 Remixes Edit1991 Rick Rubin produced remixes of We Will Rock You for an EP released by Hollywood Records The Ruined Remix also contains contributions by Flea and Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers 126 1991 Emergency Broadcast Network achieved an underground hit with their remix of the song with a speech by U S president George H W Bush 127 2004 Scum Of The Earth made a remix of We Will Rock You titled as Pornstar Champion for their debut album Blah Blah Blah Love Songs for the New Millennium 128 2011 Geddy a k a Armageddon former member from hip hop group Terror Squad mashed up I Want It All and We Will Rock You for the soundtrack to the 2011 film Sucker Punch 129 130 2012 Helmut VonLichten formerly of E S Posthumus mixed this song with an orchestral version of Posthumus Zone for CBS s Super Bowl 50 coverage 131 132 This mashup was later used for the 2015 film Pixels 2014 Canadian dubstep producer Excision and downlink remixed this song in the track Rock You 133 Parodies and references to the song Edit1987 Henry Rollins did a parody of We Will Rock You titled I Have Come to Kill You 134 1998 Friends The One Where Ross Moves In S05E07 Ross moves into Joey and Chandler s apartment As time goes by Ross reveals he s quite annoying by imposing a lot of changes to the norm of the apartment One being the changing of the answering machine message to the tune of We Will Rock You by Queen to which Ross alters the lyrics to We Will We Will Call You Back 2010 The cast of the Off Broadway musical Avenue Q performed covers of We Will Rock You and We Are the Champions in a video spoof of the Muppets Bohemian Rhapsody 135 2012 In the March 12 edition of WWE Raw The Rock performed his version during the Rock Concert segment by adding references to Team Bring It and fans chanting Cena Sucks in the chorus while taking aim at John Cena before they square off at WrestleMania XXVIII 136 2014 Indonesian singer Ahmad Dhani made a political campaign video with a parody of the song to support presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto Dhani wore Heinrich Himmler s SS Uniform in the video 137 2015 In The Big Bang Theory episode The Bachelor Party Corrosion Raj Howard and Leonard sing a modified version of the song called We Will Percussive Shock You and Sheldon burst out singing the first verse of the original song which he then 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