Google Animates Logo in Honour of Freddie Mercury’s 65th Birthday

Google Doodle Freddie Mercury 65th BirthdayToday would have been Freddie Mercury’s 65th birthday, and you can bet your white tank top and mustache that the party would have been a spectacular one. In the 70s and 80s Freddie and Queen sold millions of album and scored hits with such classics as Killer Queen, We Are the Champions, Another One Bites the Dust and Bohemian Rhapsody among others.

In honour of Freddie’s big day the Google team has replaced their logo with an animated version of the lyrics from one of Queen’s long list of hits, ‘Don’t Stop Me Now’. Why ‘Don’t Stop Me Now’? The lyrics (“Don’t stop me now, I’m having such a good time, I’m having a ball”) were chosen from a HMV poll of 3,000 Queen fans to celebrate the band’s 40th anniversary.

At the time of it’s release in 1979, ‘Don’t Stop Me Now’ was not one of Queen’s best known songs. The song managed to get to Number 9 on the UK singles charts but only managed to peak at Number 86 on the Billboard Hot 100. It’s use in movies (Shaun of the Dead), TV shows (Top Gear), commercials (Panasonic, Gatorade, Cadbury) and cover versions (McFly hit Number One in 2004 as a single from the benefit album Sport Relief) has made it one of Queen’s most popular songs.

You’d have to think that Freddie would have loved the animation showing him floating up from the stage to ride a tiger through rings of fire in outer space. Next thing you know he’s defeating aliens with a rainbow ray before relaxing on a thrown surrounded by singing tigers, lions and mustached bears on bicycles.

This effort by Google ranks right up there with the best of their doodles including ones for Martha Graham, Les Paul 96th birthday, and Lucille O’Ball’s 100th birthday.

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