Another One Bites the Dust

After its release, "Another One Bites the Dust" found an unexpected second life in hospitals. The song by Queen was used in a study to train medical professionals to deliver the correct number of chest compressions per minute while performing CPR, and research involving veterinarians and registered veterinary nurses found that the track helped improve the accuracy of compression rates. When used as an auditory aid, it outperformed alternatives such as the Bee Gees' "Stayin' Alive", though the lyrics were not considered quite as appropriate for the setting.

The single, written by bassist John Deacon for the 1980 album The Game, became Queen's best-selling seller with more than seven million copies sold. It topped the US Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks from 4 October 1980, spent fifteen weeks in the top ten, and sat on the chart for thirty-one weeks in total, more than any other song that year. At the 1981 American Music Awards on 30 January it won Favorite Pop/Rock Single, and it earned a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, losing to Bob Seger's "Against the Wind".

Deacon wrote the bass line after being inspired by Chic's "Good Times", and co-founder Bernard Edwards recalled that the Queen bassist had spent time hanging out at the group's studio. The recording, produced by Reinhold Mack at Musicland Studios in Munich, contained no synthesisers, with effects built from piano, guitars, drums and reversed tape playback.