{"id":885,"date":"2026-05-11T16:33:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T16:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/?p=885"},"modified":"2026-05-11T16:33:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T16:33:21","slug":"mm-1977-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/2026\/05\/11\/mm-1977-2\/","title":{"rendered":"MM &#8211; 1977"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7e4ac651328708ea719ac0894fa30934\">.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>These Mondays are going by way too fast!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7e4ac651328708ea719ac0894fa30934\">.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"655\" height=\"496\" src=\"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/05\/rock-monday.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-886\" srcset=\"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/05\/rock-monday.jpg 655w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/05\/rock-monday-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7e4ac651328708ea719ac0894fa30934\">.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Queen - We Will Rock You [Lyrics]\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TXGbhniTBrU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7e4ac651328708ea719ac0894fa30934\">.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>&#8220;We Will Rock You&#8221; is a song by the British rock band\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Queen_(band)\">Queen<\/a>\u00a0from their 1977 album\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/News_of_the_World_(album)\">News of the World<\/a><\/em>, written by guitarist\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brian_May\">Brian May<\/a>. \u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rolling_Stone\">Rolling Stone<\/a><\/em>\u00a0ranked it number 330 of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rolling_Stone%27s_500_Greatest_Songs_of_All_Time\">The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time<\/a>&#8221; in 2004, \u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/RIAA\">RIAA<\/a>\u00a0it placed at number 146 on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Songs_of_the_Century\">Songs of the Century<\/a>\u00a0list in 2001. In 2009, &#8220;We Will Rock You&#8221; was inducted into the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grammy_Hall_of_Fame_Award\">Grammy Hall of Fame<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Other than the last 30 seconds, which contains a guitar solo by May, the song is generally set in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A_cappella\">a cappella<\/a>\u00a0form, using only\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stomp_(strike)\">stomping<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clapping\">clapping<\/a>\u00a0as a rhythmic\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Body_percussion\">body percussion<\/a>\u00a0beat. In 1977, &#8220;We Will Rock You&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/We_Are_the_Champions\">We Are the Champions<\/a>&#8221; were issued together as a worldwide top 10 single.\u00a0 \u00a0Soon after the album was released, many radio stations played the songs consecutively, without interruption.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Since its release, &#8220;We Will Rock You&#8221; has been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cover_version\">covered<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Remix\">remixed<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sampling_(music)\">sampled<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Parody_music\">parodied<\/a>, referred to, and used by multiple recording artists, TV shows, films and other media worldwide. \u00a0It has also become a popular\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stadium_anthem\">stadium anthem<\/a> at sports events around the world, mostly due to its simple rhythm.\u00a0 On 7 October 2017, Queen released a Raw Sessions version of the track to celebrate the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/News_of_the_World_(album)#40th_anniversary_edition\">40th anniversary<\/a>\u00a0of the release of\u00a0<em>News of the World<\/em>. It features a radically different approach to the guitar solo and includes May&#8217;s count-in immediately prior to the recording.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. These Mondays are going by way too fast! . . . &#8220;We Will Rock You&#8221; is a song by the British rock band\u00a0Queen\u00a0from their 1977 album\u00a0News of the World, written by guitarist\u00a0Brian May. \u00a0Rolling Stone\u00a0ranked it number 330 of &#8220;The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time&#8221; in 2004, \u00a0and the\u00a0RIAA\u00a0it placed at number 146 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}