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"I Want to Break Free" is a song by the British rock band Queen, written by their bassist John Deacon. It appears on the album The Works (1984), and was released in three versions: album, single and extended. The track became a staple of the band's 1984–85 Works Tour and their 1986 Magic Tour.
Queen (Mercury) Mercury [4] "Dog With A Bone" The Miracle Collector's Edition: 2022 Queen Taylor and Mercury "Doing All Right" Queen: 1973 May, Tim Staffell: Mercury [11] "Don't Lose Your Head" A Kind of Magic: 1986 Taylor Taylor & Mercury [12] "Don't Stop Me Now" ‡ Jazz: 1978 Mercury Mercury [7] "Don't Try So Hard" Innuendo: 1991 Queen ...
"Breakthru" is a song by the British rock band Queen. Written by Freddie Mercury and Roger Taylor [citation needed] but credited to Queen, it was released in June 1989 from the album The Miracle. The single reached number seven in the UK, and peaked at number 6 in the Netherlands and Ireland, but failed to chart in the US.
According to Mercury's friend Chris Smith (a keyboard player in Smile), Mercury first started developing "Bohemian Rhapsody" in the late 1960s; Mercury used to play parts of songs he was writing at the time on the piano, and one of his pieces, known simply as "The Cowboy Song", contained lyrics that ended up in the completed version produced ...
We Will Rock You (often abbreviated as WWRY) is a jukebox musical based on the songs of British rock band Queen with a book by Ben Elton.The musical tells the story of a renegade group known as the Bohemians who struggle to restore the free exchange of thought and culture in a vaguely Orwellian society.
Queen played a shorter, up-tempo version of "Radio Ga Ga" during the Live Aid concert on 13 July 1985 at Wembley Stadium, where Queen's "show-stealing performance" had 72,000 people clapping in unison. [11] [29] It was the second song the band performed at Live Aid after opening with "Bohemian Rhapsody".
"Play the Game" is a song by British rock band Queen, written by Freddie Mercury. It is the first track on the first side of their 1980 album The Game. It also appears on their album Greatest Hits. The single was a hit in the UK, reaching No. 14 in the charts, and in the US, peaking at No. 42.
The song was released as a single in North America, Japan and New Zealand in 1978, albeit in heavily edited form, and peaked at #74 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 [12] and #66 on the Cash Box Top 100. [13] The song was later included on the Queen Rocks compilation in 1997.