What is the most surprising Queen song you have heard on the radio?

I convinced a local station to let me play 4 hours of Queen 'deep cuts" in 1991.

In 1991, right after Freddie died, virtually every radio station in Brazil aired a greatest hits tribute.

I thought that was not fair, because their catalogue deserved much more.

I grabbed my complete vinyl collection and took it to our top "alternative" station here in Brasilia, Brazil.

I asked the person in charge to let me choose the songs for a Queen tribute show and he asked me if I had information enough to also write something down, so that the DJ could read in between songs. Mind you, this is before the internet and information did not flow that easy and also getting access to a whole collection of records from a band was a real challenge.

Long story short, they were astounded with what I could offer and suggested that we produced a two parts special, 2 hours each.

I can remember playing Ogre Battle, Stone Cold Crazy, The Prophet's Song, the original Love of My Life, Spread Your Wings, Dragon Attack, I Go Crazy, Machines, Keep Passing the Open Windows, Man on the Prowl, Love Kills, Don't Lose Your Head and Was it All Worth It.

They also had me interviewed by the DJ during the shows. For many years to come they have also let me play a whole bootleg Queen concert every November to celebrate Freddie.

Cheers,

Ogre-

^^ wins the thread

Just a few weeks ago, I walked into the local shopping centre (which normally pipes only well-known, classic pop through its PA) and I was surprised and indeed delighted to hear Death On Two Legs in all its glory.

Tenement Funster

Back in 1957 I surprisingly heard Loser In The End somewhere in North Korea.

[QUOTE] [b]Arnaldo "Ogre-" Silveira wrote:[/b]

I convinced a local station to let me play 4 hours of Queen 'deep cuts" in 1991.

In 1991, right after Freddie died, virtually every radio station in Brazil aired a greatest hits tribute.

I thought that was not fair, because their catalogue deserved much more.

I grabbed my complete vinyl collection and took it to our top "alternative" station here in Brasilia, Brazil.

I asked the person in charge to let me choose the songs for a Queen tribute show and he asked me if I had information enough to also write something down, so that the DJ could read in between songs. Mind you, this is before the internet and information did not flow that easy and also getting access to a whole collection of records from a band was a real challenge.

Long story short, they were astounded with what I could offer and suggested that we produced a two parts special, 2 hours each.

I can remember playing Ogre Battle, Stone Cold Crazy, The Prophet's Song, the original Love of My Life, Spread Your Wings, Dragon Attack, I Go Crazy, Machines, Keep Passing the Open Windows, Man on the Prowl, Love Kills, Don't Lose Your Head and Was it All Worth It.

They also had me interviewed by the DJ during the shows. For many years to come they have also let me play a whole bootleg Queen concert every November to celebrate Freddie.

Cheers,

Ogre-[/QUOTE]

Now, that is cool! Good for you and the fans.

Radio gaga first time... still havent heard anything nearly like it..

So 8 - 10 years ago. here in Slovakia on the main radio station "Radio Slovensko" ... "Leaving Home Ain't Easy" ...

I think it was back in 1999, some Queen fans prepared a number of rarities for a one hour special on Spanish radio. This was a huge deal to me back then because I still didn't have any decent Internet connection and I pretty much only owned my original CD albums, and these guys played b-sides (Soul Brother, My Life Has Been Saved 1989), Stone Cold Crazy (Trent Reznor remix), Heaven For Everyone (Shove It version) and a few more, all of which were new to me. I still have it on minidisc. Funny enough, I remember a friend of mine said the next day: "I never knew Queen had so many cool tracks", haha.

But yeah, that was on purpose rather than a casual deep cut out of the blue.

Not on the radio, but last December I was shopping in a mall in Bournemouth when "I can hear music" (Larry Lurex) was playing over the tannoy.

Not on the Radio, perhaps but on the movie. It was russian film "V Polose Priboya" (At the Line of the Tide / In The Surfline):

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0328599/

average crime-detective-procedural movie with some teddious action parts.

but in the middle of it there's a scene where "good cops" are havin' recreation on the flat with some girls.

It's was totally surprisin for me, when Seaside Rendezvous started playin throughout this episode! It was unusually loud perhaps for background theme, so my private thanks to a composer of this movie.

What was the song?

Actually. ..KLOS played SINT repeatedly prior to the QPR tour. I guess that might count


Aside from that. ....none have been surprising

@Mustafa IbraGame: the few times I played in Moscow the DJ in the club kept playing Seaside Rendezvous too. There must be a connection!

My Fairy King was on the radio the other day on BBC Radio 2! Listen from about 14:30 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b3ftrr.

Dragon Attack is heard quite a bit on the station thanks to the one presenter, more often than Play The Game, Breakthru and Save Me put together!