We Will Rock You

@MoonlitKnight There's a bit more to it, the main character is obviously a rebel and seen as a disgrace by society. Seeming particularly worse off in old age. It seems fairly open-ended and could be about anyone who doesn't fit into society including someone who's gay or perhaps not. Most lyricists tend to allow some degree of interpretation by the listener. What the song isn't about is the average person getting through life.

@MoonlitKnight Especially since Freddie didn't write all or even most of the lyrics. Brian May wrote the song all by himself. Some people think Another One Bites The Dust is about AIDS. John Deacon wrote that one and it's quite possible he didn't even know what AIDS was at the time he wrote the song. I've even heard that Bohemian Rhapsody is about AIDS. Literally nobody knew what AIDS was when Freddie wrote that song. The only song that Freddie wrote about AIDS was I'm Going Slightly Mad which was a witty, humorous take on the cognitive decline he was suffering at the time. I've also heard people say The Great Pretender is about Freddie being gay or something like that. It was a freaking cover song from the 1950s, LOL.

@MoonlitKnight it's all about [and only about] Mercury getting knocked back one weekend while on tour

@MoonlitKnight This drives me crazy too. Brian and Freddie wrote equal amounts of songs with John and Roger usually putting in one song on an album in the 70s. This changed to usually 3 Brian/3 Freddie and the other 3 or 4 Roger or John in the 80s until The Miracle where they worked more collaboratively. I find the fact so many people seem to think Freddie wrote them all annoying. From what I understand, We Will Rock You was completely written by Brian. After their concert at Bingley Hall where the audience was particularly participatory and loud, he had the "stomp, stomp, clap" come into his head with the idea of a song they could participate in. The words were 100% written by him, in typical Brian May style in which there is a bit of a story to it with a beginning, middle and end (following a man from boyhood, to idealistic young adult, to unhappy old man). Even the stomp, stomp, claps are very Brian (and his overly scientific genius brain) in that he hand calculated a logarithm to figure out how to make the sound of about 10 people stomping on boards sound and have the reverberation of an entire concert hall stomping. Freddie just sang it (perfectly by the way). If people want to discuss gay referencing songs from Queen, you have your choice of several Freddie songs including Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy, Don't Stop Me Now, Get Down Make Love, and pretty much all Freddie songs on Hot Space. He did do several songs about yearning for love, without directly referencing being gay but he was singing about finding a man such as Somebody to Love, It's A Hard Life, Crazy Little Thing Called Love. However, as Freddie said several times, he found lyrics hard to write and thought of them as throw away in a lot of cases. I suspect there is a lot of songs everyone is trying to find deep meaning to that he didn't have deep meaning behind.

@MoonlitKnight That's really something there... considering most the record sales were from people you might consider to "average person" and is if any life is a picnic(??) everybody's got it rough especially the ones who don't complain because they understand that it's nobodies fault they are dealt the cards they're dealt. the song is is most certainly about the "average" just like the foo fighters song "My Hero" the narration about a rich & famous rock star who realizes the guy mowing his lawn on Saturday and really only expects life to be life and works hard anyway.