It was released on their 1978 album Jazz and written by Queen's lead singer Freddie Mercury.

The song is notable for its video featuring a bicycle race with nude women at Wimbledon Stadium.

[4] The song was written by Freddie Mercury and was inspired by watching the 18th stage of the 1978 Tour de France passing Montreux, where the band were recording Jazz in the Mountain Studios.

The song has an unusual chord progression with numerous modulations, a change of metre (from 44 to 34) in the bridge, and multitracked vocal and guitar harmonies.

[9] The lyrics are topical for the time and contain social, political, and pop culture references, such as religion, the Vietnam War, Watergate, cocaine, fictional characters (Peter Pan, Frankenstein and Superman), and the films Jaws and Star Wars.

Filmed by Denis de Vallance, the promotional video featured 65 nude women, all professional models, bicycle racing at Wimbledon Greyhound Stadium, southwest London.

Both 7-inch and 12-inch records were issued in the US; there the song also appeared in 1979, on the B-side of the single "Crazy Little Thing Called Love".