Second in series of my five favourite Queen promos...
Radio GaGa (1984)
Written by Roger Taylor and directed by David Mallet, the song reached number 2 in the UK charts, number 16 in the US charts and number 1 in 19 other countries. The video features scenes from Fritz Lang's 1927 science fiction movie Metropolis.Freddie Mercury's solo song "Love Kills" was used in Giorgio Moroder's restored version of the film, and in exchange Queen were granted the rights to use footage from it in their "Radio Ga Ga" video. However, Queen had to buy performance rights to the film from the communist East German government, which was the copyright holder at the time.
The video spawned the now famous "hand claps" in the chorus, which of course became an integral part of the band's live show and audience interaction. Members of the Queen fan club were enlisted as extras for these sequences in the video
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