Talk:Mustapha (song)

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Language?
What language is song this in? 68.175.83.141 (talk) 13:31, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
 * There is some debate, but it is presumably English, Arabic and Parsi (http://en.allexperts.com/q/Queen-566/2008/4/Lyrics-Mustapha.htm, http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/archive/index.php/t-145490.html) --81.62.244.66 (talk) 14:52, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
 * * Farsi--Boris Baran - ✉ 18:56, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

Speculations
I removed the wholly uncited original research Interpretations section after a brief google search. Google found one Circus magazine interview from 1978 December and Google Scholar found, inside a basic musicology course text, Helmut Rösing's chapter discussing the song: [http://www.stange-elbe.de/grundkurs-musikwissenschaft/artikel/roesing-musikaustausch.pdf Musikwissenschaft. Ein Grundkurs, 1998], see pages 8 and 9 under the section Exotische Zutat (translation: exotic ingredient). My inexpert cropped translation: ''The song begins with an imitated Muezzin's call to prayer before continuing in a familiar pop-rock style. The theme song suggests Arabic-Islamic singing. But the musical approach is one of exotic exaggeration...'' I used the interview as cite for "Hebrew rocker", although I've no idea what that means. Helmut Rösing's discussion looks reliable enough to source claims that the song lyrics imitate Islamic singing, but I leave that to other editors. -84user (talk) 11:34, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

Up-tempo Hebrew rocker
What exactly is an "up-tempo Hebrew rocker"? I don't find any connection to anything Jewish.

ICE77 (talk) 07:57, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

broken link
the external link to queen's official site is broken: http://www.queenonline.com/en/the-band/discography/jazz/#lyrics 80.99.38.199 (talk) 17:14, 12 February 2018 (UTC).