Queen - Don't Stop Me Now

What this video is

Filmed on 26 January 1979 at Forest National in Brussels during the Jazz album touring cycle, this promo predates the MTV era by over two years and represents the standard promotional film format of its time: a single-venue performance shoot intended for broadcast on European television pop programmes. The song, written entirely by Freddie Mercury, was initially considered a minor entry in the Queen catalogue and…

Why it matters

A canonical document of late-1970s British arena rock promo aesthetics, the video captures Queen at peak touring form on the Jazz cycle. The song's piano-led, Mercury-centric arrangement diverged from the band's heavier earlier work, signaling a pop-accessible direction. As a cultural artifact, it…

The director

Jorgan Kliebenst is credited as the director of the 1979 promotional video for Queen's 'Don't Stop Me Now,' filmed at Forest National in Brussels, Belgium. The director appears under variant spellings across sources (J. Kliebenstein, Jorgan Kliebenst). No…