[appearance of Christopher Lambert on video taken from the movie] No, he came along and made the video with us. It was a lot of fun. He's great, A very nice guy.
We fight a lot and hard, we all are pigheaded, no one does give in, most of all Roger and Freddie roar at each other over and over again. The new single brought a lot of fights, so we released Roger's song in Europe and in the States Freddie's song Princes of the Universe. We will see who wins.
I love the film, I gotta say, I think it's a timeless film, I'm so glad we got involved with it. I love the video, I love the song. A lot of people thought this was my song. It's actually Freddie's song, although a lot of interaction went on into the creation of it. We had certain periods in the studio when things would just be burning and we would try something live, we'd have everything set up and then there would be another idea, and we tried it, and another idea, and then Freddie get very excited, “Now try this, try this, try this.” And that was all happening making this track, and I think comes across. I always enjoyed Freddie's expeditions into heaviness. He had the ability to be very powerful and these riffs are his, they're not mine. And this lovely kind of Disney-esque chorus in the background, like, epic, it's very Ten Commandments, isn't it? [The solo] is a piece of the studio track where we're just blowing and experimenting and having fun - very imperfect but I like it, it was a one-off, sometimes amidst all the sort of studio perfection that you can achieve it's nice to just use pieces of utterly live stuff with the excitement that you get. Very complex song from Freddie, you know, there's all kinds of stuff in there, you know, very filmic.
We sort of made it up in bits. I didn't think it was a single - I think as a sort of big, loud, bold impressive sort of statement, it's great, but I don't think it was ever gonna be a massive hit single ‘cause, you know, it's sort of so quirky and odd.
Freddie appreciated the fact that he never had to wait to do something creative. He did not mind my placeholders, like the backward piano in Another One Bites the Dust, the guitar slide down in Princes of the Universe, the intro to One Vision or Fred Mandel's keyboard solo in I Want to Break Free years later.