Radio Gaga

Can you believe it's 20 years since Radio Gaga was released?

It was a pretty important time for Queen. After the lacklustre reception of Hot Space and no releases in 1983, if Radio Gaga flopped it really could have been the end.

Imagine my relief and joy when it came into the UK charts at No. 4 - they were back! The rest you know!


PS - before the single was released, one of my classmates at college said he'd heard it. I said 'what, Radio Gaga?' and he said 'no, on Radio Nova'.

You mean I've been doing the clapclap for TWENTY years now? AGH! I feel so bloody OLD!!!!

ohhhh.....Radio ga ga is 20 years old & i'm 20 years old too!!!!!!

OMG! ***Feels old*** and my b-day just a week away. Curse you Father Time! ***Krizzy runs off to check for wrinkles***

:o(

How time flies - I remember tuning into the Peter Powell show on Radio 1 and listening to it's first radio airing on his regular 'five 45's at 5:45' feature.

seems like only yesterday....

Radio Gaga was the first video I saw by Queen. Actually, I think it was the first Queen song I had heard by then. I was 9. When I saw the video that is, not when it was released. So it must have been in 1990.

"Radio ga ga is 20 years old & i'm 20 years old too!!!!!!"

*whine* Wish I were 20 again -- wait, that would mean Freddie would be alive and Queen would be off on another tour..
I love the movie Metropolis (the original and Giorgio Moroder versions)
and thought the video made good use of some of the footage from the movie...very George Orwell, considering the year was 1984! (Good Bowie song too!)

:0 i never relised, my fav video too :)

cool :)

20 yrs ago huh? how time flies

Yep. I posted about this over at QOL last night. Didn't want to post the exact same thing here so I'm glad someone else did.

It's making me feel quite old too, as I've mentioned here many times, it was released on my 13th birthday, making me the big 33 today :-/

It's my mom's favorite Queen song... I think a lot of people identify with the love of the radio as a teen.

The funny thing I just realized is that the message about radio being made somewhat obsolete by video, is now sort of the fate of video, specifically MTV itself.

I mean, the big music video channels hardly show videos anymore! All we see is Video Ga Ga!

I honestly...don't like this song :P

I remember GaGa being at No2 the day i got married.

The only Queen single to reach number 1 here in Sweden...

I remember in 1989 I had been into Queen for three years when I first heard the Works album and finally figured out that these familiar-from-the-radio songs (Gaga, Breakfree, Hammerfall) are also from Queen. It was a nice surprise.

"Wish I were 20 again -- wait, that would mean Freddie would be alive and Queen would be off on another tour.."

Lisa, how I wish I was 20 back then!!! At least you saw them while they were still the full complete Queen! I am jealous. ;-)

Barry, I like the video, too but the song bores me to death by now. I used to like it but I've listened to it too often.