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

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!

one local radio station in Croatia plays Jealousy a lot and the other day they played Love Of My Life.
also a few years ago I was in a beauty store where I Was Born To Love You was playing. and that was the original '85 solo Freddie version!

I heard Queen in Montreal 81 on the radio today, pleasantly suprised!

Why would any radio station play anything at all by Queen these days? If you want to listen to Queen load your mp3-players or put on your remastered albums and fire away. But don't expect any music being sandwiched in between commercials, cause that is why any radio station exists these days.

Pretty sure an instrumental of Pain Is So Close... was played on the BBC World Cup coverage

I think I've said this story before.

In 2005 there was a FM Radio station here (in Mumbai) which played local music through the day but starting 10-11 pm western rock music would be aired, through 7 am or so. No RJ, no introductions, no conversations. Just one song after another.

I was a Queen fan already, but thanks to that station I also discovered a number of other bands. I'd be sleeping with my headphones on, and would suddenly wake up to something new that I liked. I'd have to then memorize some of the lines (such as "First We take Manhattan"and then search for the song the next day online (if I recall correctly Youtube was yet to be launched, but Google was there). Then try to get that song and more of that artist off of Limeshare/Gnutella or some such.

The songs were usually only the hits and this included standard Queen fare like AKOM, Radio Gaga, Bohemian Rhapsody etc. So, imagine my surprise and delight when I heard "Mad the Swine" that one time.

Hearing body language while shopping at 9 am in a local supermarket gave me a brief chuckle!

[Quote]don't expect any music being sandwiched in between commercials, cause that is why any radio station exists these days.[/Quote]

In your country, in other countries the commercial culture is slightly different (or behind the times at cashing in, i guess) and still has a large amount of stations which are owned by the public through either Tax or Licence fee, which mean there are no commercials.

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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.[/QUOTE]

It's worth noting that this same song was used in an episode of the Soviet/Russian TV show "Yeralash" around this time in the 90s.

On a side note, an A Day At The Races LP can be seen playing in the Soviet film "Colonel Zorin Version" from 1978, however the music being played in the scene with the LP has nothing to do with Queen or even rock in general. Nothing to do with the radio, though, but it's funny nonetheless.

Yesterday I was in Slovakia and while being in a cafe in the mountains Brian's Driven By You was played. Totally unexpected.

Okay, not the radio but "Fun It" was playing on the jukebox at a pub I was in not so long ago. I don't listen to a lot of radio tbh, but thought this was a strange selection, even for someone in the pub.

Over the years at a local fast food diner called Munchie P's in Geneva IL USA, I have heard "I Wanna Testify", "Lucille", and "Only Make Believe" but these song versions were not solo or Queen covers.

On my way to Munchie P's today, I just happened to be listening to Roger's version of "I Wanna Testify" blasting in my car. Upon my request, the owner of the shop played Parliament's version of "I Wanna Testify" while I enjoyed my burger during a lunch break from work.

I also heard "I Want to Break Free" while eating there today, but the owner said it was just a coincidence.

Munchie P's sounds delightful. I'm a huge Americana fan and I can imagine exactly what it's like.

Just googled it. Brilliant.

WMMR in Philadelphia would play "I Go Crazy" when "Radio Ga Ga" came out and before The Works was released.