![]() And I suppose the quote that I’m steering clear of is that Freddie, at one point, said to me, you know, I suppose I’ll have to die before we ever get big in America again. But the fact that Wayne’s World put it in their film did make a difference. You know, it’s amazing that even the fact that Freddie died didn’t make that much of a difference. And Freddie, when I played him this thing, said – (laughter) well, he said, you know, it might do for us what nothing else would do, and he was dead right. You know, every place else in the world, we played football stadiums. And we never really came back and toured the way we should’ve done. And there’s a whole kind of gap in Queen history if you view it from America. And I know that it really damaged our sort of whole relationship with certainly radio in this country and probably the public as well…īut it was very difficult for us to sort of get back. I remember being on the promo tour in the Midwest of America and people’s faces turning ashen and they would say, no, we can’t play this. And all around the world people laughed and they got the joke and they sort of understood it. ![]() So we’re dressing up as girls – as women and we had a fantastic laugh doing it. I remember doing a promo tour for this song that we did, which was called “I Want to Break Free.” Now we made a video for that, which was a pastiche of an English soap called “Coronation Street,” and we dressed up as the characters in that soap, and they were female characters. Queen went from a classic rock act to something the British got and the Americans didn’t.īrian May agreed that the video was a turning point when he sat for a Terry Gross interview in 2010: It failed to be the blockbuster hit like “Radio Gaga,” for sure, and Queen never again really had a foothold on American pop culture until Live Aid, and even then their appearance meant more to the Brits than the Yanks. Now most accounts from here on out say that MTV banned the video, despite the song being in the charts for eight weeks. ![]() (There’s no mention whether they thought the middle section, featuring members of the Royal Ballet and a parody of Nijinsky’s Afternoon of a Faun, promoted ballet, leotards, or Claude Debussy). I think we proved that.”īut some Americans apparently did take it seriously and believed the video to be promoting cross-dressing. “We wanted people to know that we didn’t take ourselves too seriously, that we could still laugh at ourselves. “We had done some really serious, epic videos in the past, and we just thought we’d have some fun,” said Roger Taylor. ![]()
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