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17:33, Fri, Sep 3, 2021 | UPDATED: 10:38, Sat, Sep 4, 2021 Invalid email We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info This week’s episode of Queen the Greatest looked back at the band’s incredible rock music videos. But did you know that two of them were deemed so controversial that they were banned from airing on MTV? In 1982, the band’s Body Language video became the first ever to be censored from the cable channel.
Related articlesBody Language’s erotic bath house scenes were considered unsuitable for 1982 audiences, but the track still went on to be Queen’s fifth-biggest US hit single. In fact, the song outperformed Radio Ga Ga and Somebody to Love across the pond. Then, two years later, MTV banned Queen’s famous I Want To Break Free music video, with Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon dressed in drag as Coronation Street characters. But this time the ban saw the single stall just outside of the US Top 50 and Queen drummer Roger was far from happy. READ MORE: Elvis Presley's affectionate nicknames for Priscilla and Lisa Marie Roger Taylor slams MTV as ‘narrow-minded’ for banning two Queen music videos – WATCH (Image: GETTY/QUEEN) In this week’s Queen the Greatest, Roger said: “Well MTV were very narrow-minded. It was Whitesnake, and ****ing Whitesnake, and then another Whitesnake track. “And they decided they didn’t think that men in drag was ‘rock enough’ I guess, and so they didn’t play the video.” During the episode, archive footage of Freddie Mercury talking about making Queen music videos for the likes of MTV was featured. The singer said: “Well things have come a long way, of course, they’re becoming film budgets aren’t they?” Freddie continued: “And the technique and everything is, sort of, improved vastly, so, I mean, you can come up with all kinds of things. “I remember that in Bohemian Rhapsody we wanted these multiple images, and at that time the only way we could only get it was to use a prism. “And then we wanted a sort of jagged effect and we had to shake the cameras, somebody had to kick it.” The Queen singer said how technology had advanced so much that it all just worked automatically. DON'T
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TrendingFreddie added: “It’s beyond me as well, I don’t know what’s going to happen next.” It’s been 30 years since the Queen singer died and thanks to modern technology Brian May is about to duet with him. This takes place during Queen and Adam Lambert concerts when the guitarist sings Love of My Life and footage of Freddie appears on a screen behind him. Next week’s episode of Queen the Greatest will look back at Roger Taylor’s hit Radio Ga Ga.
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IPSO Regulated Copyright ©2022 Express Newspapers. "Daily Express" is a registered trademark. All rights reserved. Why was I Want to Break Free controversial?It was her idea to pastiche the Coronation Street women.” But in the US, it was a different story, the British humor didn't go over well with the Americans, and some got offended by the band dressing as women, seeing the video as an empowerment to transvestites.
What was the first banned music video on MTV?Notably, the risqué video for 1982's "Body Language" was the first video to be banned by MTV, but another clip, and the network's response to it, looms even larger in the band's history.
What is Queen's most successful song?“Bohemian Rhapsody” was first made for Queen's 1975 album, A Night at the Opera. Written by Freddie Mercury, the song is Queen's greatest hit to date. It officially became the most streamed song in December of 2018, having been downloaded or streamed almost 2 billion times.
What was the meaning behind Bohemian Rhapsody?In the explanation, Queen states that "Bohemian Rhapsody" is about a young man who has accidentally killed someone and, like Faust, sold his soul to the devil.
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