![]() ![]() The song features on the band's compilation album, Greatest Hits II. It also topped the charts of Austria, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Echoing the song’s lyrics, all of them want to ‘break free’ of their lives. The single reached only number 45 on the US Billboard Hot 100, but reached number three in the UK and was certified silver with over 200,000 copies sold. The idea of dressing up in the video was suggested by Roger Taylor,featuring the band dressed up in drag-with Freddie as a housewife, Roger Taylor as a young school girl, Brain May as a housewife, and John Deacon as a grandmother. After its release in 1984, the song was well received in Europe and South America and is regarded as an anthem of the fight against oppression. Click here to buy the DVD with this video at the Official Queen Store: The official 'I Want To Break Free'. Whereas the parody was acclaimed in the United Kingdom where cross-dressing is a popular trope in British comedy, it was considered controversial in the United States. Queen - I Want To Break Free (Official Video). The second part of the video included a composition rehearsed and performed with the Royal Ballet and choreographed by Wayne Eagling. It seems like the narrator is saying that the person who he is currently with keeps lying to him, and he doesnt want to. Note the third and fourth lines, which Ive bolded. God knows, God knows I want to break free. 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. You are so self satisfied I dont need you. 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. It appears on the album The Works (1984), and was released in three versions: album, single and extended. "I Want to Break Free" is a song by the British rock band Queen, written by their bass guitarist John Deacon.
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