Queen - Another One Bites the Dust

What this video is

Released in 1980 from Queen's eighth studio album The Game, 'Another One Bites the Dust' represented Queen's most successful crossover into funk, disco, and R&B-adjacent territory — a commercial gambit that proved spectacularly successful. The song spent 15 weeks in the Billboard Hot 100 top 10, the longest of any song in 1980, and became Queen's best-selling single with over 7 million copies sold. Its bass-driven…

Why it matters

A landmark document of Queen's commercial and artistic pivot from progressive arena rock to funk-inflected hard rock. The track's DNA — a Chic-inspired locked bass groove, minimal instrumentation, and no synthesizers — prefigures the stripped-back production philosophy of early 1980s rock and new…

The director

Daniella Green is credited as the director of the 1980 Queen promotional video for 'Another One Bites the Dust', one of the earliest known directorial credits associated with this Queen promo. Further biographical details about her broader career are not…