One of the biggest fan pages of Freddie Mercury, the iconic frontman of Queen, shared a video in which Mercury sings Bicycle Race on their Instagram page and once again revealed the fact that the video of the song was banned in several countries due to nudity.
On Queen‘s 1978 album called Jazz, a song named Bicycle Race was released as a double A-side single with Fat Bottomed Girls. The song was written by Freddie Mercury, however, Brian May stated that it was not an autobiographical portrait of Mercury since he did not particularly enjoy riding a bicycle and loved Star Wars movies despite the lyric ‘I don’t like Star Wars.’
The lyrics of the song were quite controversial at the time since the song involved topics like the Vietnam War, drugs, and religion besides having pop culture references such as fictional characters Superman and Peter Pan, actor John Wayne, movies like Jaws and Star Wars.
Alongside its twisted and unique lyrics, the video of the song also drew heavy attention with 65 naked professional female models racing at the Wimbledon Greyhound Stadium. Dozens of bicycles were used and the band rented the stadium only for one day for filming the scene.
Despite the fact that the original video used special effects to cover the nudity, the video of Bicycle Race is age-restricted on Youtube even today and banned in several countries.
Since the song Bicycle Race and the video are things that should not stay buried, one of the biggest fan pages of Freddie Mercury reminded the fans of those two with a video of Mercury singing the song and the story behind it in the caption section.