Don't Stop Me Now

Yeah, right.

It was hard enough getting Don't Stop Me Now, which they really wanted for the pool cue scene, which, again, a brilliant sequence.

When they're filming that, everybody's got earpieces in listening to the song, so they can't have it on the playback while they're doing it because they wouldn't be able to record anything else.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And I like that.

Don't stop me now sequence because the choreography to that is great.

hitting the bartender in time with the pull cues.

It is, if your career had a soundtrack, what's the one song that has to be included?

The first song, yeah, I want to say, I think the song that comes into my head is Don't Stop Me Now by Queen

because

I feel like it's got real enthusiasm and real drive and, like, this is a tough nut to crack, but we don't, yeah, together we can do it and, yeah, don't stop making progress.

[laughs]

And then the other one was, uh, was, uh, Don't Stop Me Now, I think.

Yeah.

Yep.

Yeah, yeah, Don't Stop Me Now.

But, like-

The song blew up in popularity after, uh, Shaun of the Dead.

And we've been doing that recently with Ace and the Venturas, and that's good fun.

And for years we've also played, uh, Don't Stop Me Now, which-

Which, yeah

... funnily enough is in Shaun of the Dead.

And the world, I'll turn it inside out, yeah.

Floating around in ecstasy.

So, don't stop me now.

Don't stop me-

But also incredibly lovely and gracious is Brian May.

Edgar Wright loved Queen and had the idea of playing their 1979 track Don't Stop Me Now over a scene of the landlord being beaten by pool cues in the Winchester.

They choreographed the entire fight to that song even though it hadn't yet been cleared for use and could have ended up being way too expensive.

They wrote to Queen guitarist Brian May and he was lovely about it and granted them permission to use the song, which then led to a resurgence for the track and it's now considered one of Queen's greatest ever songs.

And I went up and I sat down.

And my favourite Queen song is Don't Stop Me Now.

And Michael, I found it really hard to sing, but Michael really taught me how to sing it, the mechanics of it.

I sat down and I opened my book and Don't Stop Me Now started playing at the pub.

And I just was like, you fucking arsehole.

He would though.

Also habe ich zwei Lieder mitgebracht.

Don't Stop Me Now von der Band Queen und Einfach Sein von den Fantastischen Vier.

Beide Lieder erinnern mich daran: Die Lösung findet man schnell.

Man muss nur einfach anfangen, was zu machen.

Out of my pen.

So my second track, as I'm flicking through those turning lists of badly tight notes, has got to be Don't Stop Me Now by Queen.

Now, why is that? So yet again, I found this very hard to think about these, but Don't Stop Me Now by Queen, because I saw Queen live in 1986 at Nebworth.

I was 15.

It was the Believe that, first concert I ever went to was Queen at Nedworth.

Freddie Mercury on stage, the energy was just astounding.

But I love the track and of course, Now, I listen to it, and because of the wonderful Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, all I can think about is the landlord of the Winchester, he's been bitten by a zombie, he's turned into a zombie, he's chasing them around the pool table, Don't Stop Me Now comes on the jukebox, and they're smacking him around with pool cues right to the music to the music to Don't Stop Me Now right okay and what a fabulous film that is okay because there they are stuck in a pub yeah right so when the

world's ending and I'm sure we