Another film with an outstanding stand-alone song is Flash Gordon and the song Flash by Queen. I saw it years ago in the 80's on HBO, it came out in 1980 and nobody went to see it, the reviews were terrible. They were right, it's one of the most cheesy films ever made, but the title song is one of Queen's signature pieces. Flash is played by Sam Jones, a large blonde hair guy who was hired strictly for his looks and not his acting, if that is what you call what he did. Here's the theme, the song starts 50 seconds in.
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