I Want To Break Free
In the late summer of 1983 Queen started to work on the new album. The project took place in Los Angeles studio “The Record Plant”. It was the first album recorded in America. In February, the ’84,the group’s 13th album – “THE WORKS” was released. The song “Radio Ga Ga”, which also got into the album became a worldwide hit, and reached the front line charts in 19 countries. In the music video clip for this song, which was directed by David Mallet members of the fan club were filmed .
But the most unexpected was the clip to the next single “I Want To Break Free”. It was also filmed with the participation of fans of the band and musicians dressed as female personages in the popular British soap opera “Coronation Street”. When asked why, Roger said that they were tired of the epic, serious video, it’s time to joke. American channel MTV refused to show the video clip. In August 1984, Queen went to Belgium to start a new round of “The Works”. And in October, the musicians played a series of concerts in South Africa Bofutatsvane at the famous stadium “Super Bowl” in Sun City. During these concerts Freddie had major problems with his voice, because of which they even had to cancel some concerts. However, these problems seem trivial compared to how they were met at home: the public was shocked by their trip, because of apartheid in South Africa . As an excuse the musicians said that their group was apolitical, and that they went in South Africa to play their music for the people. And there really was no other reason.
In September 1984, “We Will Rock You” appeared – the first full-length video by Queen. It was filmed in Montreal in 1981 during their concerts. In the autumn of ’84 in the list of two hundred best British albums were no less than 9 Queen’s albums. 1985 was marked by “Rock in Rio”, declared the biggest rock festival, held at any time in the world. Queen got the role of headliners at the event. “Rock in Rio” was broadcast throughout South America, but only Queen released their recital at the festival on a video, which came out in May 1985 titled “Live In Rio”.
