Cat. No: EMC 2400141/CDP7 46016 2 (UK) HR 61233 (USA). Release Date:
27 Feb 1984 (UK) 28 Feb 1984 (USA). Produced By: Queen and Mack. Engineered
By: Mack. Additional Engineering: Mike Beiriger. Recorded At: Record Plant,
Musicland. When: August 1983 - January 1984. Guest Musicians: Fred Mandel
- Piano on Man On The Prowl, Synths on Radio Ga Ga, I Want To Break Free
and Hammer To Fall; Mack - Fairlight programming on Machines. Cover Concept:
Queen. Highest Chart Pos: 2 (UK) 23 (USA). Weeks On Chart: 93 (UK) 20 (USA).
Award Status: Platinum (UK) Gold (USA).
Radio Ga Ga
(Roger Taylor)
- Radio I'd sit alone and watch your light
- My only friend through teenage nights
- And ev'rything I had to know
- I heard it on my radio
You gave them all those old time stars
- Through wars of worlds - invaded by Mars
- You made 'em laugh - you made 'em cry
- You made us feel like we could fly
- Radio
So don't become some background noise
- A backdrop for the girls and boys
- Who just don't know or just don't care
- And just complain when you're not there
- You had your time you had the power
- You've yet to have your finest hour
- Radio
All we hear is Radio ga ga
- Radio goo goo
- Radio ga ga
- All we hear is Radio ga ga
- Radio blah blah
- Radio what's new?
- Radio someone still loves you
We watch the shows - we watch the stars
- On videos for hours and hours
- We hardly need to use our ears
- How music changes through the years
Let's hope you never leave old friend
- Like all good things on you we depend
- So stick around cos we might miss you
- When we grow tired of all this visual
- You had your time you had the power
- You've yet to have your finest hour
- Radio
All we hear is Radio ga ga
- Radio goo goo
- Radio ga ga
- All we hear is Radio ga ga
- Radio goo goo
- Radio ga ga
- All we hear is Radio ga ga
- Radio blah blah
- Radio what's new?
- Someone still loves you
Radio ga ga
- Radio ga ga
- Radio ga ga
- Radio
You had your time you had the power
- You've yet to have your finest hour
- Radio
Tear It Up
(Brian May)
- Are you ready? - well are you ready?
- We're gonna tear it up
- Yeah yeah yeah yeah
(Hey)
- Give me your mind baby give me your body
- Give me some time baby let's have a party
- It ain't no time for sleepin' baby
- Soon it's round your street I'm creeping
- You'd better be ready
We gonna Tear it up
- Stir it up
- Break it up - baby
You gonna Tear it up
- Shake it up
- Make it up - as you go along
Tear it up
- Square it up
- Wake it up - baby
Tear it up
- Stir it up
- Stake it out - and you can't go wrong
(Hey listen)
- I love you 'cos you're sweet and I love you 'cos you're naughty
- I love you for your mind baby give me your body
- I wanna be a toy at your birthday party
- Wind me up - wind me up - wind me up - let me go
Tear it up
- Stir it up
- Break it up - let me go
Tear it up
- Shake it up
- Make it up - as you go along
Tear it up
- Turn it up
- Burn it up
Are you ready?(Oh yeah)
- Baby baby baby are you ready for me?(Oh yeah)
- Baby baby baby are you ready for love?(Oh yeah)
- Are you ready - are you ready - are you ready for me?(Oh yeah)
- I love you so near I love you so far
- I gotta tell you baby you're driving me Ga Ga
It's A Hard Life
(Freddie Mercury)
- I don't want my freedom
- There's no reason for living with a broken heart
This is a tricky situation
- I've only got myself to blame
- It's just a simple fact of life
- It can happen to anyone
You win - you lose
- It's a chance you have to take with love
- Oh yeah - I fell in love
- And now you say it's over and I'm falling apart
It's a hard life
- To be true lovers together
- To love and live forever in each others hearts
- It's a long hard fight
- To learn to care for each other
- To trust in one another right from the start
- When you're in love
I try and mend the broken pieces
- I try to fight back the tears
- They say it's just a state of mind
- But it happens to everyone
How it hurts - deep inside
- When your love has cut you down to size
- Life is tough - on your own
- Now I'm waiting for something to fall from the skies
- And I'm waiting for love
Yes it's a hard life
- Two lovers together
- To love and live forever in each others hearts
- It's a long hard fight
- To learn to care for each other
- To trust in one another - right from the start
- When you're in love
Yes it's a hard life
- In a world that's filled with sorrow
- There are people searching for love in ev'ry way
- It's a long hard fight
- But I'll always live for tomorrow
- I'll look back on myself and say I did it for love
- Yes I did it for love - for love - oh I did it for love
Man On The Prowl
(Freddie Mercury)
- I'm gonna take a little walk on the wild side
- I'm gonna loosen up and get me some gas
- I'm gonna get me some action
- Go crazy driving is the fast lane
- My baby left me alone
- She done me dirty and I'm feeling so lonely
- So come home come home
- If you don't you're gonna break my heart
Man on the prowl
- You'd better watch out
- I'm on the loose and I'm looking for trouble
- So look out (yeah yeah) - look out (yeah yeah)
- I'm a man on the prowl
I don't wanna be a rock'n'roll steady
- I just wanna be low down trash
- I wanna go to the movies
- All I wanna do is sit on my ass
- So honey come home (come home come home)
- Don't leave me when I'm feeling so lonely
- Come home (yeah yeah) - come home (yeah yeah)
- If you don't you're gonna break my heart
Man on the prowl
- You'd better watch out
- I'm on the loose and I'm looking for trouble
- So look out (yeah yeah) - look out (yeah yeah)
- Cos I'm a man on the prowl
Well I keep dreaming about my baby
- But it ain't gonna get me nowhere
- I'm gonna teach my baby dancin'
- But I ain't no Fred Astaire
So baby look out - I'm a man on the prowl
- Look out - man on the prowl - yeah!
- Baby baby baby look out - man on the prowl
So baby come home
- I'm on the loose and I'm looking for trouble
- Baby come home - oh yeah!
- 'Cos I'm a man on the prowl
- So honey come home - come home
- 'Cos I'm a man on the prowl - yeah!
- Man on the prowl
Machines (or 'Back To Humans')
(Brian May and Roger Taylor)
- Machines...
It's a machines world
- Don't tell me I ain't got no soul
- When the machines take over
- It ain't no place for rock and roll
They tell me I don't care
- But deep inside I'm just a man
- They freeze me they burn me
- They squeeze me they stress me
- With smoke blackened pistons of steel they compress me
- But no one but no one but no one can wrest me away
- Back to humans
We have no disease no trouble of mind
- No thank you or please no regard for the time
- We never cry we never retreat
- We have no conception of love or defeat
What's that machine noise?
- It's bytes and megachips for tea
- It's that machine boys
- With random access memory
- Never worry never mind
- Not for money not for gold
Its software is hardware
- Its heartbeat is time-share
- Its midwife's a disc drive
- Its sex life is quantised
- It's self-perpetuating a parahumanoidarianised
Back to humans
- Back to humans
Back to machines
- Machines...
Living in a new world
- Thinking in the past
- Living in a new world
- How you gonna last?
- Machine world
Back to humans
It's a machines world
- Thinking in the past (back to humans)
- Living in a new world
- How you gonna last?
- Machine world
It's a machine's world
Back to humans
- Living in a new world
- How you gonna last?
- Machine world
- It's a machine's world
I Want To Break Free
(John Deacon)
- I want to break free
- I want to break free
- I want to break free from your lies
- You're so self satisfied I don't need you
- I've got to break free
- God knows God knows I want to break free
I've fallen in love
- I've fallen in love for the first time
- And this time I know it's for real
- I've fallen in love yeah
- God knows God knows I've fallen in love
It's strange but it's true
- I can't get over the way you love me like you do
- But I have to be sure
- When I walk out that door
- Oh how I want to be free baby
- Oh how I want to be free
- Oh how I want to break free
But life still goes on
- I can't get used to living without living without
- Living without you by my side
- I don't want to live alone hey
- God knows got to make it on my own
- So baby can't you see
- I've got to break free
I've got to break free
- I want to break free yeah
- I want I want I want I want to break free....
Keep Passing The Open Windows
(Freddie Mercury)
- This is the only life for me
- Surround myself around my own fantasy
- You just gotta be strong and believe in yourself
- Forget all the sadness 'cause love is all you need
- Love is all you need
Do you know what it's like to be alone in this world
- When you're down and out on your luck and you're a failure?
- Wake up screaming in the middle of the night
- You think it's all been a waste of time
- It's been a bad year
- You start believing ev'rything's gonna be alright
- Next minute you're down and you're flat on your back
- A brand new day is beginning
- Get that sunny feeling and you're on your way
Just believe - just keep passing the open windows
- Just believe - just keep passing the open windows
Do you know how it feels when you don't have a friend
- Without a job and no money to spend?
- You're a stranger
- All you think about is suicide
- One of these days you're gonna lose the fight
- You'd better keep out of danger - yeah!
- That same old feeling just keeps burning deep inside
- Keep telling yourself it's gonna be the end
- Oh get yourself together
- Things are looking better everyday
Just believe - just keep passing the open windows
- Just believe - just keep passing the open windows
This is the only life for me
- Surround myself around my own fantasy
- You just gotta be strong and believe in yourself
- Forget all the sadness 'cause love is all you need
- Love is all you need
Just believe - just keep passing the open windows
- Just believe - just keep passing the open windows
You just gotta be strong and believe in yourself
- Forget all the sadness 'cause love is all you need - yeah
- Love is all you need
- Baby - love is all you need
Just believe - just keep passing the open windows
- Just believe - just keep passing the open windows
- Just keep passing the open windows...
Hammer To Fall
(Brian May)
- Here we stand or here we fall
- History won't care at all
- Make the bed light the light
- Lady Mercy won't be home tonight yeah
You don't waste no time at all
- Don't hear the bell but you answer the call
- It comes to you as to us all
- We're just waiting
- For the hammer to fall
Oh ev'ry night and every day
- A little piece of you is falling away
- But lift your face the Western Way
- Build your muscles as your body decays yeah
Toe your line and play their game yeah
- Let the anaesthetic cover it all
- Till one day they call your name
- You know it's time for the hammer to fall
Rich or poor or famous
- For your truth it's all the same (oh no oh no)
- Lock your door the rain is pouring
- Through your window pane (oh no)
- Baby now your struggle's all in vain
For we who grew up tall and proud
- In the shadow of the mushroom cloud
- Convinced our voices can't be heard
- We just wanna scream it louder and louder louder
What the hell we fighting for?
- Just surrender and it won't hurt at all
- You just got time to say your prayers
- While your waiting for the hammer to hammer to fall
It's gonna fall
- Hammer..you know..hammer to fall
- Waiting for the hammer to fall now baby
- While you're waiting for the hammer to fall
Give it to me one more time
Is This The World We Created?
(Freddie Mercury and Brian May)
- Just look at all those hungry mouths we have to feed
- Take a look at all the suffering we breed
- So many lonely faces scattered all around
- Searching for what they need
Is this the world we created?
- What did we do it for?
- Is this the world we invaded
- Against the law?
- So it seems in the end
- Is this what we're all living for today?
- The world that we created
You know that every day a helpless child is born
- Who needs some loving care inside a happy home
- Somewhere a wealthy man is sitting on his throne
- Waiting for life to go by
Is this the world we created?
- We made it on our own
- Is this the world we devastated
- Right to the bone?
- If there's a God in the sky looking down
- What can he think of what we've done
- To the world that He created?
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