10 Mind-Blowing Secrets Hidden In Famous Songs

9. Queen - Another One Bites The Dust

Freddie Mercury was a little tinker, wasn’t he? Everybody’s favourite moustachioed frontman wasn’t just an irrepressible ball of charisma with the pipes of an angel, he also loved a bit mischief - not to mention the odd illicit substance here and there too. So when you pool all of that together, this secret message hidden on Queen’s Another One Bites The Dust makes perfect sense.

In an era when any and everything committed to record was being slowed down, sped up, flipped around, and generally tampered with to see if it contained subliminal missives on Satanic worship and the like, Freddie and the boys seemingly decided to sack off all that devil nonsense by praising his lettuce instead.

If you play that iconic chorus backwards, all swaggering bass line and thumping beat, you can just about make out Mercury repeatedly proclaiming: “It’s fun to smoke marijuana”. Blaze it, Fred, blaze it.