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Written by guitarist and vocalist Brian May (but credited to Queen) and produced by David Richards, it was released as the first single from the album on 2 May 1989. [3] " I Want It All" reached number three on the singles charts of the United Kingdom, Finland, Ireland and New Zealand, as well as on the US Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart.
[28] [29] The words "tell", "really" and "I wanna" are repeated, [27] so that the vocal tone and lyrics build up an image of female self-assertion. [28] The refrain ends with the word "zigazig-ah", which musicologist Sheila Whiteley compared to the neologisms created by Lewis Carroll ; [ 27 ] other writers have considered it a euphemism for ...
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".
"Who Wants to Live Forever" is a song by the British rock band Queen. A power ballad, [1] it is the sixth track on the album A Kind of Magic, which was released in June 1986, and was written by lead guitarist Brian May for the soundtrack to the film Highlander. [2]
The live version was included on the 1993 EP Five Live, credited to 'George Michael with Queen & Lisa Stansfield'. [14] The song was played on the 2005/2006 Queen + Paul Rodgers tours with vocals provided by Roger Taylor. On stage the song was accompanied by a video of the band in their early days in Japan, including many shots focusing on past ...
Tumult that surfaced during the recording of the album provided inspiration for the LP's title. Homme explained to Rolling Stone magazine: "We'd have these great victories and then something would go south for a bit, and we'd go, 'It's like clockwork!' I think a sick sense of humor is what's always been our preservation mechanism, so this time ...
– As Princess Elizabeth on her 21st birthday in South Africa. “My own name, Elizabeth, of course.” – Asked by her private secretary what she wanted to be called after she became Queen.
"Hammer to Fall" is a 1984 song by the British rock band Queen. Written by guitarist Brian May, the song is the eighth track on their 1984 album The Works. [4] It was the fourth and final single to be released from that album, although the single version was edited down by thirty seconds from the version on the album.