"Back Chat", written by bassist John Deacon, for the 1982 Queen album Hot Space, is the track with the closest ties to the "black/funk" music that many of the songs on the album emulate. Deacon (who differed from his band-mates, in that he was the only one raised on soul instead of rock and roll) had chosen a no-compromise method of eliminating any rock elements from his songs for Hot Space. This act of defiance caused friction amongst fellow band members

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