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Jazz

Jazz
Reunited with original producer Roy Thomas Baker after a two album break, Jazz contains the double ‘A’ side Fat Bottomed Girls and Bicycle Race, and another top ten hit ‘Don’t Stop Me Now’. ‘Let Me Entertain You’ and ‘If You Can’t Beat Them’ both shone in live situations. Despite going Platinum in the U.S. the album was overshadowed by controversy over the Bicycle Race video and poster, which accompanied it.

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Tracks
1. Mustapha (Mercury)
2. Fat Bottomed Girls (May)
3. Jealousy (Mercury)
4. Bicycle Race (Mercury)
5. If You Can’t Beat Them (Deacon)
6. Let Me Entertain You (Mercury)
7. Dead On Time (May)
8. In Only Seven Days (Deacon)
9. Dreamer’s Ball (May)
10. Fun It (Taylor)
11. Leaving Home Ain’t Easy (May)
12. Don’t Stop Me Now (Mercury)
12. More Of That Jazz (Taylor)

Did you know?
1. First album the band had recorded outside the UK
2. The press party was held in New Orleans and is now recognised as one of the greatest album press launch parties ever held by the music industry.
3. Tour de France inspired Freddie to write “Bicycle Race”
4. Brian actually recorded a thunderstorm for use on one of the tracks (Dead On Time)
5. Queen hired Wimbledon Stadium and had 50 naked girls ride bicycles – and Halfords refused to take back used saddles and wanted paying for replacements!

Album Details
Release Date – UK 10 November 1978 / US 14 November 1978
Highest Chart Position – UK No.2 / US No.6
Number Of Weeks On Chart – UK 27 / US 17
Producers – Queen and Roy Thomas Baker
Engineer – Geoff Workman
Recording Studios – Mountain and Superbear
Date Recorded – July-October 1978
Artwork Concept – Queen
Award Status – Platinum (UK) Platinum (US)

Hollywood Records 1991 re-release included the tracks;
Fat Bottomed Girls (1991 Remix)
Bicycle Race (1991 Remix)

Singles
Fat Bottomed Girls/ Bicycle Race (Double A-side)
Release Date – UK 13 October 1978 / US 24 October 1978
Highest Chart Position – UK No.11 / US No. 24

Don’t Stop Me Now / b-side In Only Seven Days (UK) / More Of That Jazz (US)
Release Date – UK 26 January 1978 / US 20 February 1978
Highest Chart Position – UK No.9 / US No.86

Jealousy / b-side Fun It
Release Date – US 27 April 1979
Highest Chart Position – US –

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