It appears on the album The Works , and was released in three versions: album, single and extended. It came to be included in most live concerts by the group, in several videos and in The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert where it was sung by Lisa Stansfield. The song is largely known for its music video for which all the band members dressed in drag , a concept proposed by Roger Taylor , which parodied the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street. The second part of the video included a composition rehearsed and performed with the Royal Ballet and choreographed by Wayne Eagling. Whereas the parody was acclaimed in the United Kingdom where cross-dressing is a popular trope in British comedy, [2] it was considered controversial in the United States. After its release in , the song was well received in Europe and South America and is regarded as an anthem of the fight against oppression. The single reached only number 45 on the US Billboard Hot , but reached number three in the UK and was certified silver with over , copies sold. The song features on the band's compilation album, Greatest Hits II. The song was written in by John Deacon and released in April in
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The hit saw Freddie Mercury get into trouble in some countries But despite being a favourite among fans and the general public, the song - and its accompanying video - attracted controversy in different parts of the world. The song made the Top 10 in most charts around the world, even hitting the top spot in countries like Austria, Belgium and the Netherlands. But in the US, the song stalled at Number 45 in the Hot
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I want to break free I want to break free I want to break free from your lies You're so self satisfied I don't need you I've got to break free God knows, God knows I want to break free I've fallen in love I've fallen in love for the first time And this time I know it's for real I've fallen in love, yeah God knows, God knows I've fallen in love It's strange but it's true I can't get over the way you love me like you do But I have to be sure When I walk out that door Oh how I want to be free, baby Oh how I want to be free Oh how I want to break free But life still goes on I can't get used to, living without, living without Living without you by my side I don't want to live alone, hey God knows, got to make it on my own So baby can't you see I've got to break free I've got to break free I want to break free, yeah I want, I want, I want, I want to break Free. Submit Corrections. The single of this song is 30 seconds longer than the album version: it has a longer synthesizer intro and a longer solo. African National Congress in South Africa chose this song as their anthem in the late s: Nelson Mandela was still in jail and the apartheid was still in place. The music video for this song parodies a popular British television show "Coronation Street". When Lisa Stansfield sang this song at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, she came on stage wearing hair curlers and with a vacuum cleaner in tribute to the song's video. Brian May was asked in an interview with Q magazine in March about each band member's character in the video. He replied, "Everybody thinks that was Freddie's idea because it looks like something that he would love to do, but it actually came from Roger's girlfriend at the time, strangely enough.
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