'Rock It' is totally elemental. It's the most basic song ever that just says you can enjoy rock and roll. That's all.
Straight down to earth pure simple rock and roll; the kind of songs that Roger likes to write.
Roger Taylor was perhaps the most enthusiastic one when it came to looking for a new sound. I worked a lot with Roger, more than with the other band members, because Roger needed my help. Roger wasn't particularly satisfied with his previous songwriting work. I think he finally found a new style different from his songs on past albums, but he didn't know how to improve on it. I remember Roger wrote three great songs for The Game, all of which caused arguments within the group… Perhaps that's illustrated best with Roger's third song, Rock It. There were also some problems with it: Roger was clear that he wanted to sing it, but Brian and I suggested that maybe it would sound better with Freddie. Two demos were made, one with Roger and one with Freddie. John liked Roger's, Brian liked Freddie's, so a Judgement of Solomon took place: Roger's version was chosen, but the intro would be taken from Freddie's. The song was finally recorded, but there was a lot to work on for its production: Roger has a very particular voice, broken, which makes his phrasing briefer, as opposed to Freddie's, who was able to extend it. For Rock It's vocals not to be cut off, each time Roger finished a line I added some synthesiser effects so there was not so much empty space before the next line. That gave the song a very fresh and new sound with which we worked a lot on the next albums, and especially on Roger's songs.