Singer: Queen
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Song: Radio Ga Ga
Queen - Radio Ga Ga Subtitles (SRT) (04:32-272-0-en) (PARTIAL PREVIEW)
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This is Queen The Greatest
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in which we celebrate a song that was
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not only a hit single with
an iconic video,
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but also led to one of the band’s
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most memorable live moments.
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It’s Radio Ga Ga.
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Queen’s 1984 album, The Works, was
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a perfect example of how
the song writing
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responsibilities within the band,
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had evolved over the first 13 years…
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“In the early days,
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it was Brian and Freddie who really
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used to write most of the material,
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but over the last five
years, Roger and I
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have started to contribute more.”
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“I think the time has
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come where we actually,
in song writing,
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we’re actually completely even.
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Roger will come up with something like
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Radio Ga Ga, and it’s perfect.”
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“On a Sunday afternoon,
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my son Felix came in and
he’s very young,
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and he just sort of went
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‘ah, Radio Ka Ka’, ‘cos
he’s half French.
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And so I just thought,
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‘that’s quite nice’. You know.”
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“Sort of put the backing
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track together and then presented it
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to Freddie who really loved it.”
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The song raced up the British charts,
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and became a worldwide hit,
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unsurprisingly attracting
a huge amount
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of Radio play.
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However, ironically given the song's
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subject matter, it was the video,
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directed once again by the brilliant
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David Mallet, that caught
the imagination
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of the MTV generation.
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“We had a killer video,
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which we put a lot of work into.”
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“And the whole thing
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just felt good and it felt of its time
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and it felt a bit different.
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Felt modern, and it was very fresh.”
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Inevitably, some members
of the British
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press wanted a reason to dismiss it,
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and accused Queen of incorporating
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Fascist imagery – a notion that Roger
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found more amusing than annoying…
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“That was so absurd,
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I mean it was actually
meant to be about
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the film, you know it
was meant to sort of
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mirror the film, and the
oppressed workers
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and etcetera.
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And the Nazi thing’s laughable really.
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