I want to break free
| I want to break free | |
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| publication | April 1984 |
| length | 3:20 (album) 4:21 (single) 7:16 (extended) |
| Genre (s) | skirt |
| Author (s) | John Deacon |
| Label | EMI , Capitol , Toshiba |
| album | The Works |
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I Want to Break Free is a 1984 Queen song written by the band's bassist John Deacon and appeared on the album The Works .
The piece was released in April 1984 as the second single on the album and reached number 1 in Belgium, Finland, the Netherlands and Austria, number 3 in Great Britain and number 4 in the charts. In Great Britain the single achieved silver status.
The song was best known for its music video, in which all band members appeared in women's clothes, a concept by Roger Taylor , which parodied the longstanding ITV soap Coronation Street . The second part of the video contains a performance rehearsed and performed with the Royal Ballet and choreographed by Wayne Eagling .
admission
I Want to Break Free, composed in E major , was produced by Queen and Mack . Guest musician Fred Mandel played synthesizers. As with numerous other compositions by Deacon, Freddie Mercury can be heard as the singer .
Publications
In 1984 Queen released three different studio versions of the song. The version on The Works (length approx. 3:20) is about a minute shorter than the single remix (approx. 4:20), which is also included on Queen's compilations Greatest Hits II (1991) and Absolute Greatest (2009) . The "Extended Mix" (approx. 7:15) published on the 12 ″ maxi single by I Want to Break Free contains short excerpts from all eight other songs from The Works in the final part . This version was also released as a bonus track on the CD version of the album released by Hollywood Records in North America in 1991.
Music video
As with Queen's previous single, Radio Ga Ga , David Mallet re-directed the video for I Want to Break Free . The video clip parodies the British television series Coronation Street . In some scenes the band members can be seen in women's clothes. The video also shows ballet scenes performed with the Royal Ballet by Freddie Mercury, who shaved off his mustache for these scenes . The American television broadcaster MTV originally boycotted the video, while its sister channel VH1 first broadcast it in 1991.
The princes reproduced the music video in parts in their video for Alles Nur Stolen .
Cover versions
- 1992: Lisa Stansfield & Queen (live at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert )
- 1992: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
- 1996: Masterboy (Compilation-Album Queen - Dance Traxx I )
- 1996: Ketama ("Como librarme de ti", Spanish version; compilation album Tributo a Queen - Los Grandes del Rock en Español )
- 2001: Out of Phase
- 2001: Emmerson Nogueira (Album Versão Acústica )
- 2002: San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus (Live album SFGMC Does Queen )
- 2006: Wolke ("I want to free myself"; appeared in 2006 on the album Möbelstück and in 2007 on the EP I want to free myself )
- 2006: Dewa 19 (Album Republik Cinta )
- 2008: Sunshiners (album Welkam Bak Long Vanuatu )
- 2009: The Cab (EP The Lady Luck )
Web links
- www.queensongs.info - song analysis (English)
- Queenpedia - images of the single covers
- Official music video on YouTube
Individual evidence
- ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH Charts UK Charts US
- ↑ Certified Awards Search. British Phonographic Industry , accessed September 15, 2014 .