• Writer: Brian May
• Producer: Roy Thomas Baker
• Recorded: July-September 1978 at Mountain Studios in Montreux, Switzerland and SuperBear Studios in Nice, France
• Released: November 1978
• Players:
  Freddie Mercury — vocals
  Brian May — guitar, vocals
  Roger Deacon — bass
  Roger Taylor — drums, vocals
• Album: Jazz (Elektra, 1978)
• Also On:
  Greatest Hits (Elektra, 1981)
  Greatest Hits (Hollywood, 1992)
  Queen On Fire: Live At The Bowl (Hollywood, 2004)
  Return Of The Champions (Hollywood, 2005)
• “Fat Bottomed Girls” was released with “Bicycle Race” as a double A-sided single from Queen‘s Jazz album.
• The single was promoted with a video featuring nude women in a bicycle race. Sixty-five women, many with “fat bottoms,” were recruited for the video, which was filmed September 17th, 1978, at Wembley Stadium in London.
• The bicycles for the video were provided by the manufacturer Halfords, which made Queen pay for replacement seats following the shoot.
• The bicycle race also resulted in a poster that was included in the Jazz album. After initial pressings, it was discontinued in the U.S. and replaced by a form allowing buyers to mail-in for their copy of the poster.
• During their performance at Madison Square Garden in New York City in the fall of 1978, Queen reenacted the bicycle race onstage.
• The single hit Number 24 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and Number 11 on the U.K. chart.
• At the advice of their accountant, Queen recorded the Jazz album in two countries in order to avoid falling under taxation laws in any one nation.
• The Jazz sessions were marked by two band birthdays — drummer Roger Taylor‘s 29th and frontman Freddie Mercury‘s 32nd, both of which were celebrated with lavish parties, which involved swinging from a chandelier (at Taylor’s) and swimming nude (at Mercury’s).
• Queen was so taken with Mountain Studios in Switzerland that they decided to buy the facility from its Dutch owners.
• The Jazz album was launched at a Halloween party in New Orleans, which featured naked female mud wrestlers, dwarfs, fire-eaters, steel bands, Zulu dancers, jazz bands, voodoo dancers, strippers, drag artists, and unicyclists.
• Jazz peaked at Number Six on the Billboard 200 and Number Two in the U.K. It was Queen’s second consecutive million-seller, following 1977’s News Of The World.

FAST FORWARD:

• Mercury’s death from AIDS on November 24th, 1991, brought an end to the band, though not its success. “Bohemian Rhapsody” became a Number One hit in the U.K. shortly after Mercury’s death, and it was a hit again in the U.S. after it was used in the soundtrack for the 1992 Mike Myers film Wayne’s World.
• Taylor and guitarist Brian May continue to pursue solo careers. In addition, they’ve overseen a stage musical called We Will Rock You that features Queen’s music. It continues to play in London, and productions have been staged in Australia, Germany, Russia, Spain, the U.S., and Canada.
• Queen was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001.
• May and Taylor toured in 2005 and 2006 with Free and Bad Company singer Paul Rodgers, performing songs from all of their bands.
• Bassist John Deacon is no longer active in the music business.
• Queen’s Greatest Hits package from 1981 has sold over 5.4 million copies in Britain, making it the biggest-selling album in U.K. history.
• May, Taylor, and Rodgers have begun recording new material, and an album and world tour have been announced for the fall of 2008.