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guitarist Brian May wrote this, and claimed the idea for the
song came in a dream. He told Mojo magazine October 2008 that he
wanted to "create a song that the audience could participate
in."  In the Days of Our Lives documentary, he remembered a gig
where the crowd chanted the Liverpool Football Club anthem,
"You'll Never Walk Alone" at the band as they left the stage. "I
went to bed thinking, 'What could you ask them to do?' They're
all squeezed in there, but they can clap their hands, they can
stamp their feet, and they can sing," he noted. "In the morning
I woke up and had the idea in my head for 'We Will Rock You."
Freddie Mercury wrote the song that follows on the album, "We
Are The Champions." Although Queen did not intend it this way,
the two songs are usually played together. The songs segue
together on the album, so disc jockeys would let them play,
which is how listeners got used to hearing it.  "We Will Rock
You" was released as a double A-