Dancer chords by Queen

Written by Brian May for Queen's 1982 album Hot Space. The bassline of "Dancer" was played on a synthesiser (a Oberheim OB-Xa) by May. The song itself — a fusion of rock and disco — is something of a follow-up to "Dragon Attack" from the band's 1980 album The Game in that it fuses heavy elements of music with danceable ones, as Led Zeppelin did. The phone message at the end of "Dancer" is in German, and was recorded in a hotel room in Munich; it roughly translates to "good morning, this is your wake-up call". The lyrics of "Dancer" are also notable for being the only ones on the album that make reference to the album title itself. In an interview with On The Record in 1982, when asked if he used a slide, Brian May had this to say about the guitar in "Dancer": "No, that's guitar in parallel harmonies. Those aren't my favourite harmonies, really. I much prefer guitar harmonies which aren't parallel. There are very few people who have done them. The real interest in guitar harmonies comes from when they're crossing over, diverging, and converging. Somehow on 'Dancer' it seemed right to do those parallels."" Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.