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The UK 3-inch CD single features "I Want to Break Free" (album version), "Machines" and "It's a Hard Life". In Germany, the 5-inch CD single contains "I Want to Break Free" and "It's a Hard Life", as well as the video of "I Want to Break Free". [10] [11] Single covers feature pictures of the group from the cover of the album The Works. In ...
"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.
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".
Queen (May) May & Mercury [9] "I Want to Break Free" ‡ The Works: 1984 Deacon Mercury [18] "I Was Born to Love You" ‡ Made in Heaven: 1995 Mercury Mercury [21] "If You Can't Beat Them" Jazz: 1978 Deacon Mercury [7] "I'm a Man" Queen I Collector's Edition: 2024 Bo Diddley [25] "I'm Going Slightly Mad" ‡ Innuendo: 1991 Queen (Mercury ...
The video for the song was filmed at Alexandra Palace on 22 December 1979 and directed by Keith "Keef" MacMillan and features animation of a woman and a dove. The video would be the last to feature Freddie without a moustache until 1984, as he would sport it starting with the next video for "Play the Game" until he shaved it off for the music video for "I Want to Break Free".
Break Free is a European Queen tribute band formed in Italy in 2015. The band consists of conservatory-trained musicians recreating Queen's costumes and choreography on stage. The band takes their name from Queen’s single "I Want to Break Free".
"It's a Hard Life" is a song by the British rock band Queen, written by lead singer Freddie Mercury. It was featured on their 1984 album The Works , and it was the third single from that album. In 1991 it was included in the band’s second compilation album Greatest Hits II .
In the Queen + Paul Rodgers Tour, May would sing a few lines of the song, then let the audience take over for every verse, as Mercury did. When played at the Glasgow SECC in the 2008 Cosmos Rocks tour, May dedicated the song to his own mother, who had recently died.