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Comment: Fails WP:NSONG - details could be included in "Need Your Loving Tonight", as the single's B-side. Noting that "Need Your Loving Tonight" was not one of the band's bestselling hits, as it only reached #44 on the Billboard Hot 100. Dan arndt (talk) 06:20, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
- Comment: Fails WP:NSONG, requires significant coverage in multiple independent secondary sources. Dan arndt (talk) 01:18, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
“Rock It (Prime Jive)” is a song by the British rock band Queen and is the sixth track on their eighth studio The Game. Released as the B-side to the single “Need Your Loving Tonight” in some countries such as Japan and the U.S.
| "Rock It (Prime Jive)" | |
|---|---|
| Song by Queen | |
| from the album The Game | |
| A-side | "Need Your Loving Tonight" |
| Released | 18 November 1980 |
| Studio | Musicland Studios, Munich West Germany |
| Genre | Rock |
| Length | 4:34 |
| Songwriter(s) | Roger Taylor |
| Producer(s) | Queen Roy Thomas Baker |
Written by Roger Taylor, the song is a basic rock song. Far Out Magazine said it pre-dated “1980s synth rock”[1]
Queen comments on the song edit
Roger Taylor in a 1980 Sounds interview that it was the “most basic song ever that just says you can rock and roll. That’s all”[2] he also said in a in that very same interview that it was “completely elemental”[2]
Personnel edit
According to Benoît Clerc[3]
- Roger Taylor – drums, lead vocals, backing vocals, electric guitar, synthesizer,
- Brian May – electric guitar, backing vocals
- Freddie Mercury – lead vocals, backing vocals
- John Deacon – bass guitar
Additional personnel
- Reinhold Mack – synthesizer
References edit
- ^ "Ranking every Queen album from worst to best". faroutmagazine.co.uk. 2022-04-21. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
- ^ a b Purvis, Georg (2018-10-30). Queen: Complete Works (revised and updated). Titan Books (US, CA). ISBN 978-1-78909-049-9.
- ^ Clerc, Benoît (2020-10-20). Queen All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track. Running Press. ISBN 978-0-7624-7123-2.