a b Blake, Mark (25 October 2010). Is This the Real Life?: The Untold Story of Queen. Aurum. ISBN 978-1-84513-659-8. It's Late" is the last single from the album; it was released in 1978, and only in the US, Canada, Japan and New Zealand. It only reached number 74 in the US, failing to chart everywhere else.

Guitarist Slash has cited the guitar riff to this song as one of his favourite riffs of all time. [22] Side two [ edit ] "Get Down, Make Love" [ edit ] "Get Down, Make Love" makes use of an Eventide Harmonizer for its "psychedelic" sound effects. British album certifications – Queen – News of the World". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 14 September 2022.News of the World". Queen Online. Archived from the original on 3 December 2007 . Retrieved 6 December 2007. a b c d e f Epstein, Daniel (28 October 2017). "Queen's 'News of the World: 10 Things You Didn't Know". Rolling Stone. Wyróżnienia – Platynowe płyty CD - Archiwum - Przyznane w 2009 roku" (in Polish). Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry. 8 July 2009. Press Release: News Of The World - 40th Anniversary Edition". Queen Online . Retrieved 27 October 2017.

The story culminates in a man trapped in a rapidly accelerating spaceship, unable to tell the robot that's keeping him under sedation to stop the craft. The moral of the story is: "Machines are the servants of humans, not their equals. There will always be a gulf between Flesh and Steel. Read those five words on the panel before you and you will understand." The album as a whole has been released on Super Audio CD. [43] In 2012, the TV show Family Guy dedicated an episode plot line to the album cover, in which Stewie Griffin is frightened of the cover. Show creator Seth MacFarlane stated that it was based on his own fear of the cover when he was a child. [44] [45] [46]

We Are the Champions" was released as the first single from the album on 7 October 1977 in the UK, where it reached number 2. In the US it reached number 4.