“A light went off and I thought, ‘We shouldn't fight this, we should embrace it!’ People didn't do that at the time at rock concerts,” May told Billboard last year. “I thought, ‘How interesting — if I wrote something, the audience could participate it to the point that they could lead the band?’ I went to sleep and woke up with ‘We Will Rock You’ in my head. When you're at a show you can hardly move, but you can stomp your feet and chant and clap and lead us.”