Queen - Radio Ga Ga (Extended Version)

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Queen
Radio Ga Ga (Extended Version)
EMI 12QUEEN1 (1984)

Taken from the 1984 12" single, this is the extended version of the UK #2 hit single Radio Ga Ga. The single, the band's 24th 7" release, topped the charts in several countries and reached #11 on the US Billboard charts.

Written by the band's drummer Roger Taylor, the track appeared on "The Works" album.  This was the first time that a song written by him had been chosen as an A side for a single.

The song which was a tribute to radio and how it was overtaken by TV name checks two important radio events, namely Orson Well's War Of The Worlds ("through wars of worlds/invaded by Mars") and a Winston Churchill speech ("You've yet to have your finest hour").

This was recorded at the Record Plant Studios in Los Angeles in August 1983 – the only time that they recorded in North America.  It also featured on the recording Fred Mandel who arranged, programmed and played the synthesizer.

Famously, the band had proudly wrote ‘No Synthesizers!’ on the sleeve notes of their second, third, fourth and fifth albums (Queen II, Sheer Heart Attack, A Night At The Opera, A Day At The Races) however by the time of this release they had embraced the technology on a vast amount of their recordings.  In fact, after setting their stall as ‘anti synth’, the group had actually broke their own rule as far back as 1973.

Technically, the closing "I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside" fade on "Seven Seas of Rhye" track which appears in unfinished form at the closer for their first album and in finished form as the closer for their second – features the first use of a synthesizer on a Queen record, a Dubreq Stylophone played by Roy Baker.








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