"I Want to Be Free" is the seventh UK single by the band Toyah, fronted by Toyah Willcox, and was released on 7 May Backed by an appearance on Top of.
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The 7-inch records were distributed in 16 countries. In most countries the other side of the disk contained the album version of the song "Machines or 'Back to Humans' ", in the US and Canada there was an instrumental version of this song, and in Brazil the other side featured the song " It's a Hard Life ". The label also depended on the country: There were special editions, such as a record with empty side B in UK.
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The song title Argentina song on was "Quiero Ser Libre". The single was also distributed on the 3-inch and 5-inch CDs. Single covers contained pictures of the group from the cover of the album The Works. In countries where the single went in four different versions, each version had a picture of one Queen member, otherwise four images were placed together.
I Want to Break Free" was red, white, gold or black and the frame was red or white.
The reverse side was the same — a photo of the group on a red background, except for CDs which had a white background and no pictures. The single was received very positively over most of the world except for North America. In April , it became number three in the United Kingdom, and was within the top 10 in many European and Latin American countries, but only peaked at number 45 on the US charts.
The single was certified gold in the UK. According to May in an interview about Queen's Greatest Hits , whereas the video was understood and taken as a joke in UK, the US audience failed to see the soap-opera connection and might have interpreted the video as an open declaration of transvestism and Mercury's bisexuality , which could explain why the video wasn't aired in that country.
In some other countries, such as South Africa and in South America, the song was highly praised because it was seen as an anthem of the fight against oppression, whereas the reaction to the video was mixed. When Mercury appeared in front of an audience of , and started singing "I Want to Break Free", stones were thrown at him.
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He quickly realised that his female outfit was the reason and removed his wig and false breasts , which calmed down the audience — they did not wish to see the song about freedom mocked. This incident however puzzled and disappointed the singer. After the release of The Works , the song was performed at almost all of Queen's live concerts.
Spike Edney usually played the synthesizer introduction, after which Mercury appeared on stage, often in the outfit worn in the video — dark bobbed wig, pink blouse and false breasts — which he would remove later during the song. Some lines were sung by the audience, and "God knows" was chanted by the whole group.
Live recordings of the song appeared on the concert albums Live Magic , Live at Wembley '86 and Return of the Champions. In addition, the song was performed at several concerts which were then included in Queen's videos such as Queen at Wembley , We Are the Champions: Starting in July , a remixed one-minute version of the song was featured in a Coca-Cola C2 video advertisement. The video was directed by David Mallet. We wanted people to know that we didn't take ourselves too seriously, that we could still laugh at ourselves.
I think we proved that. The video depicts Mercury as a housewife, loosely based on Bet Lynch , who wants to "break free" from his life. Although Lynch was a blonde in the soap opera, Mercury thought he would look too silly as a blonde and chose a dark wig. May plays another, more relaxed housewife based on Hilda Ogden. Deacon appears as a conservative "grandma", while Taylor plays a schoolgirl, who like Mercury wants a different life. At the beginning, during the synthesizer prelude, the clip shows a common British brick terraced house as featured in Coronation Street and then moves into May's bedroom.
May is woken up by a Teasmade. He gets up, dressed in a pink shirt, pink socks and pink bunny -shaped slippers, with hair rollers in his head. The camera moves to the living room and the kitchen where Mercury is vacuuming the floor with a Hoover Junior. During the trials Mercury realised that he couldn't walk freely in high-heeled shoes and settled on 2-inch ones.
May descends the staircase and goes to the kitchen. He passes Deacon, who is sitting on a couch, dressed in a black cloak, gloves, grey wig and a hat. Deacon reads a newspaper, constantly snorting and shaking his head. Taylor is busy with dishwashing in the kitchen, dressed as a stereotypical schoolgirl — blonde wig, white blouse, grey miniskirt, coloured tie and a straw hat behind his back. Mercury stops vacuuming and starts singing. During the first verse, Mercury opens the door of a storage room that briefly reveals a dark place, which is further used in the second verse; it appears to be a coal mine.
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Think you're not attached to the declaration that "the Bible is the infallible, inerrant Word of God? Just as I easily get attached to the things I may declare about the Bible. In all such declarations, we are at best attaching ourselves to words and concepts and little belief systems, all of which will dissolve and disappear.
Just like you and I will dissolve and disappear. Knowing this and so practicing the art of detaching from outcomes is the key to personal freedom and happiness. One of the keys, anyway. How do you practice detachment? How do you become free of the little me and it's inveterate nature to cling? To get sucked into the illusion of permanence? The spiritual traditions teach that we are free already.
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In Christianity, that is the mystery of the Gospel. In Buddhism, it was only after the Buddha "let go" under the Bodhi tree that the mystery of enlightenment took place.
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