Queen<\/b>‘s racy hit “Fat Bottomed Girls” has been removed from a new version of the band’s Greatest Hits<\/I> compilation.<\/p>\n
According to the Daily Mail<\/I>, the 1978 track was featured on Queen<\/b>‘s original 1981 greatest hits album but was left off a new version of the collection, which was released earlier this month, on Yoto<\/I>, an audio platform aimed at children.<\/p>\n
According to a statement, “The lyrics in some of these songs contain adult themes, including occasional references to violence and drugs.” <\/p>\n
The statement adds that the songs are the original and unedited recordings, and that “parental discretion is advised” when playing the songs around younger children.<\/p>\n
The song, which was written by the band’s guitarist Brian May<\/b>, doesn’t make the cut, most likely due its lyrical content. <\/p>\n
On it, the late Freddie Mercury<\/b> sings, “I was just a skinny lad\/ Never knew no good from bad\/ But I knew life before I left my nursery\/ Left alone with big fat Fanny\/ She was such a naughty nanny\/ Big woman, you made a bad boy out of me.”<\/p>\n
May told Mojo<\/I> magazine in 2008, “I wrote it with Fred in mind, as you do, especially if you’ve got a great singer who likes fat bottomed girls… or boys.”<\/p>\n
“Fat Bottomed Girls” is among Queen’s naughtier songs. The song was a double-a side with “Bicycle Race,” a relatively harmless song that includes a cheeky reference to those bike-riding “fat bottomed girls” and appears in the Yoto version of Queen’s Greatest Hits<\/i>. <\/p>\n