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"Don't Stop Me Now" is a song by the British rock band Queen featured on their 1978 album Jazz that was released as a single in 1979. Written by lead singer Freddie Mercury, it was recorded in August 1978 at Super Bear Studios in Berre-les-Alpes (Alpes-Maritimes), France, and is the twelfth track on the album.[5]

This article is about the Queen song. For other uses, see Don't Stop Me Now (disambiguation).

"Don't Stop Me Now"
UK single picture sleeve
Single by Queen
from the album Jazz
B-side
Released26 January 1979[1]
RecordedAugust 1978
StudioSuper Bear Studios (Berre-les-Alpes, France)
Genre
Length
  • 3:29
  • 3:34 (with long-lost guitars version)
  • 3:38 (...revisited version)
Label
  • EMI (UK)
  • Elektra (US)
Songwriter(s)Freddie Mercury
Producer(s)
Queen singles chronology
"Bicycle Race" / "Fat Bottomed Girls"
(1978)		 "Don't Stop Me Now"
(1979)		 "Mustapha"
(1979)
Audio sample
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Music video
"Don't Stop Me Now" on YouTube

Musically, the song builds on Mercury's piano playing, with John Deacon and Roger Taylor providing a bass guitar and drums backing track. The song also provides an example of Queen's trademark style of multitrack harmony vocals for the chorus lines.[6]

The song also appears in the band's 1981 compilation album Greatest Hits, and in June 2011, as part of Queen's 40th anniversary celebrations, an old take of the song containing more guitar parts was included on the bonus EP of the re-released and remastered Jazz album.[7][8] Featuring in films, commercials, and television shows, the song has grown in popularity in the four decades since its release.[9] Bobby Olivier of Billboard attributes its initial rebirth to its appearance in the 2004 cult classic zombie apocalypse film Shaun of the Dead.[9] In 2014, Rolling Stone readers voted it their third-favourite song by Queen.[10]


Reception


The single reached number 9 in the UK charts but only number 86 in the US; as the album was a top-10 hit, the song got some airplay on U.S. album-oriented rock stations despite its low chart ranking as a single. Despite this, the song has grown in stature with time and has been popularised not only by consistent airplay, but by its use in advertisements, television programmes and films, and through cover versions. It has subsequently become one of Queen's most popular songs.[11][12][13] The song was voted as the third-best Queen song by readers of Rolling Stone, who noted that "time has also been very kind to it and it's widely seen now as one of the group's best works."[14] The single also has reached platinum status in the United Kingdom. In a March 2019 Billboard magazine article titled, "The Evolution of Queen's 'Don't Stop Me Now': How a Minor Hit Became One of the Band's Most Beloved (And Inescapable) Songs", Bobby Olivier wrote,

"You might have noticed a new commercial promoting the new season of American Idol. It was a 90-second music video featuring a dozen or so bright-eyed contestants, all of whom gleefully belted lines from a beloved song that has felt particularly ubiquitous as of late. No, it wasn't "Shallow," or "Thank U, Next"—it was Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now," a classic-rock energizer that has, in the last six months alone, also been featured in commercials for Toyota, Silk almond milk, Amazon and L'Oreal. In the latter spot, Camila Cabello lip-syncs to the 41-year-old song as she dances and applies her lipstick. "Don't Stop Me Now" is not only one of the band's most treasured cuts, but one of the most popular songs of its entire era. On Sunday, March 3, it eclipsed 500 million plays on Spotify—nearly double that of any Rolling Stones, U2 or Led Zeppelin song on the service."[9]

Alexis Petridis of The Guardian wrote that the "astonishing" song "may be Queen's greatest song of all". He felt it was "a direct product of [Mercury's] hedonism and promiscuity: an unrepentant, joyous, utterly irresistible paean to gay pleasure-seeking. You find yourself wondering if its title might not have been aimed at his censorious bandmates."[15] Mike Orme of Stylus Magazine ranked it the 7th-greatest penultimate track on an album, calling it Queen's "most flamboyant and energetic single" and commenting: "Essentially three and a half minutes of Freddie Mercury jacking the mike from the rest of the world, the song offers him a chance to let us know just how much fun he's having in the spotlight."[16] Billboard magazine praised Brian May's guitar solo and also stated that the song was "less gimmick laden" than Queen's previous single from Jazz, "Bicycle Race"/"Fat Bottomed Girls", "while still retaining the brazen braggadocio of Freddie Mercury's lead vocals."[17] Cash Box said it has "vocal dramatics and varied arrangements by Mercury" and "beautifully layered vocals and regal guitar work from May".[18]

Despite its popularity, Brian May was not a fan of the song as he felt it was celebrating the hedonistic and risky lifestyle of Mercury.[19] He added that he struggled with the lyrics at the time, because it was about a difficult period in Freddie's life when the singer was "taking lots of drugs and having sex with lots of men".[20][21]

An alternative version of the song, with a harder, guitar-driven arrangement, appeared on Bohemian Rhapsody: The Original Soundtrack issued in 2018, billed as "Don't Stop Me Now... Revisited".


Music video


The video for the song was directed by J. Kliebenstein and filmed at the Forest National, Brussels, Belgium on 26 January 1979.[22]


Live performances


Viewed at the time of release as one of the lesser songs in the Queen canon, it was only performed live during 1979, with the last performance in the Crazy Tour.[23] On the studio version, Brian May's only guitar playing is in his guitar solo, but on live versions performed on the band's 1979 Jazz and Crazy tours, May would also play rhythm guitar throughout the rest of the song to give more of a rock feel. A live version of the song features in the band's 1979 album Live Killers.[24]


Personnel


Queen:


Charts


Chart Peak
position		 Peak
year
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[25] 23 1979
Germany (Official German Charts)[26] 35
Ireland (IRMA)[27] 10
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[28] 14
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[29] 16
UK Singles (OCC)[30] 9
US Billboard Hot 100[31] 86
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[32] 37 2009
Portugal Digital Songs (Billboard)[33] 7 2014
France (SNEP)[34] 68 2015
Australia (ARIA)[35] 53 2018
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[36] 38
Czech Republic (Singles Digitál Top 100)[37] 13
Hungary (Single Top 40)[38] 15
Italy (FIMI)[39] 54
Japan (Japan Hot 100)[40] 37
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[29] 97
Portugal (AFP)[41] 65
Slovakia (Singles Digitál Top 100)[42] 27
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[43] 77
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[44] 52
UK Rock & Metal (OCC)[45] 1
US Hot Rock & Alternative Songs (Billboard)[46] 7
Japan (Japan Hot 100)[47] 32 2019

Year-end charts


Chart (2019) Position
France (SNEP)[48] 134
Hungary (Single Top 40)[49] 81
Portugal (AFP)[50] 166
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[51] 99
US Hot Rock Songs (Billboard)[52] 25

Revisited version


Chart (2019) Peak
position
US Hot Rock & Alternative Songs (Billboard)[53] 30

Sales and certifications


Region CertificationCertified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[54] 5× Platinum 350,000
Denmark (IFPI Danmark)[55] 2× Platinum 180,000
Germany (BVMI)[56] Gold 250,000
Italy (FIMI)[57] 3× Platinum 150,000
Japan (RIAJ)[58]
2011 release 		Gold 100,000*
United Kingdom (BPI)[59] 4× Platinum 2,400,000
United States (RIAA)[60] 4× Platinum 4,000,000

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


McFly version


"Don't Stop Me Now" / "Please, Please"
Single by McFly
from the album Motion in the Ocean
Released17 July 2006 (2006-07-17)[61]
Length
  • 3:20 ("Don't Stop Me Now")
  • 3:09 ("Please, Please")
Label
  • Island
  • Universal
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
McFly singles chronology
"Ultraviolet/The Ballad of Paul K"
(2005)		 "Don't Stop Me Now" / "Please, Please"
(2006)		 "Star Girl"
(2006)

In 2006, English band McFly covered "Don't Stop Me Now" and released it as a double A-side single with original track "Please, Please". The release, titled "Don't Stop Me Now" / "Please, Please", is the first single from their third album, Motion in the Ocean. It premiered on BBC Radio 1 on 7 June 2006. The double A-side entered the UK Singles Chart at number one on 23 July 2006, knocking "Smile" by Lily Allen off the top spot. It also reached number 15 in Ireland.


Song information


"Please, Please" was written by McFly and Jason Perry. The song is about actress Lindsay Lohan because the lyrics mention a girl named Lindsay with red hair and green eyes, like Lohan, and the nurse in the video is named Lindsay Allbright while, in the film Just My Luck, Lindsay's on-screen character is called Ashley Allbright. A recurring line in the song is "Please, please, Lindsay, please". While filming Just My Luck, tabloids published articles reporting that McFly drummer Judd had a romantic relationship with her. Jones was unsure, saying, "He had a dream about it but thought it actually happened!" Tom Fletcher revealed on the DVD single that it was the most fun video shoot other than "5 Colours in Her Hair".[62]


Music video


The video for "Please, Please" was the band's most "enjoyable video shoot". It was shot in an old hospital and featured each of the members McFly being admitted to hospital with various injuries and being taken care of by a red-headed nurse named Lindsay Albright. The video caused some controversy as the band appear naked in one scene, and BBC and Channel 4 both refused to show the video even though T4 on Channel 4 showed the exclusive of the video. Fletcher said, "I wasn't at all embarrassed about being naked – we're used to stripping off in front of each other. But there was one sticky moment where I didn't realize how low my guitar was and I almost flashed everything on camera!"[63]


Charity


Some of the money from any version of the single went to Sport Relief and as a result their version of "Don't Stop Me Now" was played across the BBC's sport programmes, including highlights from the 2006 FIFA World Cup. It also was the theme for the "Sport Relief Mile", which McFly also took part in. Judd also travelled to India for Sport Relief with a collection of other British celebrities including presenter and comedian Nick Hancock and radio DJ and presenter Chris Evans. Whilst out in India, Harry took part in a cricket tournament, travelling across India's poorest areas and playing with everyone from the kids to the professionals, all in aid of Sport Relief.


Track listings



Charts



Other versions


Cover versions include:


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На других языках

[de] Don’t Stop Me Now

Don’t Stop Me Now ist ein 1978 auf dem Album Jazz veröffentlichtes Lied der britischen Rockband Queen.
- [en] Don't Stop Me Now

[es] Don't Stop Me Now

«Don't Stop Me Now» (en español «no me detengas ahora») es una canción de la banda de rock británica Queen, lanzada como sencillo del álbum Jazz en 1978. Es la canción número doce del álbum.

[ru] Don’t Stop Me Now

«Don’t Stop Me Now» (с англ. — «Не останавливай меня сейчас») — песня английской рок-группы Queen из альбома Jazz. Написана Фредди Меркьюри. Песня вышла в качестве сингла с песней «In Only Seven Days» на стороне «Б».


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