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Jazz

Released

1978’s Jazz found the group continuing on its hot streak, recording for the first time in what became something close to a home base in Montreux and creating an album that didn’t sound so much like jazz as whatever they wanted to try, which might be jazz-like enough. The Brian May-written singalong lustiness of “Fat Bottomed Girls” and Freddie Mercury’s why-not-try-everything “Bicycle Race” got the most initial attention, but over time another Mercury number, his ode to living it up to the full “Don’t Stop Me Now,” also became a standard.

Ned Raggett

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