Michael Jackson Talked Them into It
A roadie of Brian May’s suggested that “Another One Bites the Dust” be released as single. The band didn’t really want to but were finally talked into doing it when Michael Jackson, after a concert, suggested the same thing.
Source: NME
John Deacon claimed that Roger Taylor didn’t want the song’s drum beat. Taylor hated having tape put on his drums to deaden the sound. But he denied this, saying “I’d already had an ineffectual pop at that kind of music with ‘Fun It,’ on the Jazz album. I was never against ‘Another One Bites The Dust,’ but I was against releasing it as a single.”