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The Best of Queen The Break Free Tour

Get ready to Break Free with the UK’s biggest Queen Tribute band – Majesty, in a brand-new show – The Break Free Tour!

Join Freddie, Brian, Roger and John as they take you on a magical journey performing The Best of Queen, whilst celebrating the music and showmanship of the UK’s favourite rock band.

 From Queen’s early beginnings with Bohemian Rhapsody, to their sell out concerts at Wembley Stadium, you’ll experience highlights from Queen’s extraordinary musical performances, whilst you relive the spellbinding atmosphere that Queen delivered over their illustrious career.

 For nearly 50 years, Queen have wowed audiences with their legendary live concerts, heart thumping anthems, and jaw dropping, epic scale productions.  With 18 number one albums, 18 number one singles and nearly 300 million records sold, it’s no wonder Queen are recognised as the world’s greatest rock band.

 The Best of Queen show will transport you to a Queen concert at the height of their power.  With iconic sound and lights and featuring a selection of Queen’s Greatest Hits, this magical, live stage show is “Guaranteed to Blow your Mind!”

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The Best of Queen – The Break Free Tour

Get ready to Break Free with the UK’s biggest Queen Tribute band – Majesty, in a brand-new show – The Break Free Tour!

Join Freddie, Brian, Roger and John as they take you on a magical journey performing The Best of Queen, whilst celebrating the music and showmanship of the UK’s favourite rock band.

From Queen’s early beginnings with Bohemian Rhapsody, to their sell out concerts at Wembley Stadium, you’ll experience highlights from Queen’s extraordinary musical performances, whilst you relive the spellbinding atmosphere that Queen delivered over their illustrious career.

For nearly 50 years, Queen have wowed audiences with their legendary live concerts, heart thumping anthems, and jaw dropping, epic scale productions.  With 18 number one albums, 18 number one singles and nearly 300 million records sold, it’s no wonder Queen are recognised as the world’s greatest rock band.

The Best of Queen show will transport you to a Queen concert at the height of their power.  With iconic sound and lights and featuring a selection of Queen’s Greatest Hits, this magical, live stage show is “Guaranteed to Blow your Mind!”

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Join Freddie, Brian, Roger and John as they take you on a magical journey performing The Best of Queen, whilst celebrating the music and showmanship of the UK’s favourite rock band.

From Queen’s early beginnings with Bohemian Rhapsody , to their sell out concerts at Wembley Stadium, you’ll experience highlights from Queen’s extraordinary musical performances, whilst you relive the spellbinding atmosphere that Queen created over their illustrious career.

For nearly 50 years, Queen have wowed audiences with their legendary live concerts, heart thumping anthems, and jaw dropping, epic scale productions.  With 18 number one albums, 18 number one singles and nearly 300 million records sold, it’s no wonder Queen are recognised as the world’s greatest rock band.

The Best of Queen show will transport you to a Queen concert at the height of their power.  With iconic sound and lights and featuring a selection of Queen’s greatest hits, this magical, live stage show is “Guaranteed to Blow your Mind!”

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Get ready to Break Free with the UK’s biggest Queen Tribute band – Majesty, in a brand-new show – The Break Free Tour!

Join Freddie, Brian, Roger and John as they take you on a magical journey performing The Best of Queen , whilst celebrating the music and showmanship of the UK’s favourite rock band.

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Weeks after Rami Malek won Best Actor at the Academy Awards for his portrayal of Freddie Mercury in the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody , there are reports that he might be asked to strap on the fake teeth one more time for a sequel. The New York Post quotes their longtime video director Rudi Dolezal as saying that a follow-up move is “being heavily discussed in the Queen family.”

The exact scope of the proposed sequel is unknown and although we have some ideas of our own, odds are very high that the group’s final tour in 1986 will play a role. Not only is it the only tour outside of the timeline of the first movie, but it’s a chance to show the band playing a bunch of hits they didn’t get to the first time around. The Live Aid sequence was most everyone’s favorite part of the first movie, and this is a chance to do it even bigger. Here’s video of the real Queen playing “I Want to Break Free” in Budapest on the 1986 tour. Don’t be surprised if you see a note-for-note recreation of it on the big screen sometime in 2021.

Meanwhile, the Brian May and Roger Taylor are just four months away from launching an extensive North American arena tour with Adam Lambert. They sold a ton of tickets before Bohemian Rhapsody became one of the biggest surprise box office hits in years. This time around, they’re almost certain to pack every arena they play. It even feels possible they might try to play a few stadiums. And once the fourth movie comes out that chronicles the Adam Lambert years, there’s no limits to how big they can get.

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The Best Of Queen – The Break Free Tour

Get ready to break free with the uk’s biggest queen tribute band – majesty, in a brand-new show – the break free tour.

Join Freddie, Brian, Roger and John as they take you on a magical journey performing The Best of Queen , whilst celebrating the music and showmanship of the UK’s favourite rock band.

From Queen’s early beginnings with Bohemian Rhapsody , to their sell out concerts at Wembley Stadium, you’ll experience highlights from Queen’s extraordinary musical performances, whilst you relive the spellbinding atmosphere that Queen delivered over their illustrious career.

For nearly 50 years, Queen have wowed audiences with their legendary live concerts, heart thumping anthems, and jaw dropping, epic scale productions. With 18 number one albums, 18 number one singles and nearly 300 million records sold, it’s no wonder Queen are recognised as the world’s greatest rock band.

The Best of Queen show will transport you to a Queen concert at the height of their power. With iconic sound and lights and featuring a selection of Queen’s Greatest Hits, this magical, live stage show is “Guaranteed to Blow your Mind!”

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Get ready to Break Free with the UK’s biggest Queen Tribute band – Majesty , in a brand-new show – The Best of Queen The Break Free Tour!

Join Freddie, Brian, Roger and John as they take you on a magical journey performing The Best of Queen, whilst celebrating the music and showmanship of the UK’s favourite rock band.

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For nearly 50 years, Queen have wowed audiences with their legendary live concerts, heart thumping anthems, and jaw dropping, epic scale productions. With 18 number one albums, 18 number one singles and nearly 300 million records sold, it’s no wonder they are recognised as the world’s greatest rock band.

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Why The Controversy Surrounding Their “I Want to Break Free” Video Led Queen to Break Away from America

Queen was the first band to have a video banned by MTV in 1982 when their racy “Body Language” clip featured a little too much flesh and sexual innuendo for the channel’s taste. Ironically, their next video to be banned by the network was their promo for “I Want to Break Free” from their 1984 album The Works . It featured no sex. However, the members of Queen were in drag. (Gasp!)

No Sex Please, We’re American

The John Deacon-penned song “I Want to Break Free” had nothing racy or edgy about it. The lyrics were a simple declaration of needing independence from someone who was repressing them. They wanted to show their true self to the world.

It’s strange but it’s true

Hey, I can’t get over the way you love me like you do

But I have to be sure

When I walk out that door

Oh, how I want to be free, baby

Oh, how I want to be free

Oh, how I want to break free

The video featured the four members of Queen in drag portraying members of the popular BBC soap opera Coronation Street , which began airing in December 1980 and remains on today. These characters included a woman in hair rollers and an elderly woman (played in the clip by guitarist Brian May and bassist John Deacon, respectively), a teen schoolgirl (drummer Roger Taylor), and a vamping, vacuuming lady (vocalist Freddie Mercury in heels, stockings, a miniskirt, and with a pointy bra underneath his blouse). There are other sections of the video, including a shirtless Mercury singing against a couple of different backdrops and also twirling and writhing with male and female dancers. But those seemed to be less of an issue.

MTV thought that the clip was too racy to show; or perhaps, quite frankly, too gay. Was it banned or just quietly shunned? It’s never been completely clear, but the effect was the same. Other music video shows likely followed suit because of what they perceived to be homoerotic themes. Homophobia was a big problem for macho hetero America then, and since Americans had no idea about the show Coronation Street , seeing Queen dressed up as women just confused them. Then again, when Milton Berle dressed in drag for Ratt’s “Round and Round” video, no one said anything.

Unlike in America, men in drag was much more of a tradition on British television. Perhaps the Queen video felt too sexual to many Americans. Maybe some guys were bothered because they thought Taylor looked hot as schoolgirl. (The video concept was purportedly Taylor’s girlfriend’s idea.) But one might also interpret the video’s latent theme as Mercury declaring how he wanted to break free from obscuring his bisexuality to the public. His recent vocal successor Adam Lambert has been openly gay, something which would not have happened in the ’80s.

The Tide Recedes

In 2010, May spoke to NPR about being on the promo tour for “I Want to Break Free” in middle America and radio “people’s faces turning ashen. And they would say, ‘No, we can’t play this. We can’t possibly play this. You know, it looks homosexual.’ I know that it really damaged our sort of whole relationship with certainly radio in this country and probably the public as well.” (Side note: Covers for some singles releases featured a shot of the band in drag from the video.) The single for “I Want to Break Free” stalled at No. 45 in America, but it went No. 1 in five countries, including Holland and Belgium, and Top 10 in nine other countries, including their native UK where it hit No. 3.

May contended that this controversy was one of the reasons why Queen’s relationship with America deteriorated for the remainder of late frontman Mercury’s time with the band. “[It] was really a tragedy because so many of our hits would have fitted very well into the life of the States,” May told NPR. “But we didn’t really get back in there until [1991’s] ‘The Show Must Go On’ and ‘These Are the Days of Our Lives.’ And even those weren’t the hits that they were around the rest of the world.”

The Hot Space tour in 1982 was the last time Queen came to America again with Mercury. He passed away from AIDS-related complications in November 1991. The band’s classic lineup had not toured in five years at that point.

As drummer Taylor once recalled of the “I Want to Break Free” controversy—although a bit erroneously in terms of timeline—a lot of MTV was stacked with videos by bands like Whitesnake. (That British hard rock would not truly break until 1987.) But there is a distinct, double-edged irony in what Taylor was pointing out, since by the late ’80s plenty of Sunset Strip bands featured glam men who sometimes literally dressed in their girlfriend’s clothes as part of their act. Those groups got a lot of MTV airplay, replacing more aggressive metal bands who were banished to late night and weekend airplay.

A Royal Return

Even though Queen’s relationship with America got chilly for a few years, they underwent a major revival when the 1992 movie Wayne’s World featured Wayne, Garth, and friends headbanging to Queen’s epic “Bohemian Rhapsody” while driving their car. (One can thank star Mike Myers for insisting that the song be used.) Capitalizing on buzz generated from the scene, the band’s label released a new promo clip for the song combining the original 1975 video and scenes from the movie. This new hybrid won Queen its sole MTV Video Music Award for Best Video From A Film.

The reissued “Bohemian Rhapsody” hit No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, its highest position ever on that singles chart. It returned to Top 40 radio airplay. A new anthology called Classic Queen arrived shortly after the movie’s release, hit No. 4 on the Billboard Top 200 albums chart, and has since gone triple platinum.

Queen is a band that seems to have nine lives. The Wayne’s World scene spurred renewed interest in the band’s music, also buoyed by that spring’s Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert held at Wembley Stadium. The three surviving members played out sporadically throughout the ’90s, although Deacon never played a full Queen concert after the tribute, and his last live performance with them was in 1997.

In 2002, the We Will Rock You jukebox musical began a 12-year run in London’s West End, and it has toured around the world ever since. From 2005-06 and in 2008, May and Taylor, as Queen, toured with Paul Rodgers and recorded one album, The Cosmos Rocks . Since 2012, the band have toured intermittently with singer Adam Lambert, whose flamboyant personality and stage attire are apropos for the band once fronted by Mercury. In 2018, the Bohemian Rhapsody biopic about Queen became a global sensation, winning two Golden Globe Awards and four Oscars, and grossing $900 million. The band’s music got licensed for commercials, movies, and beyond a lot more after that.

The Clip Has Aged Well

And to think America turned their back on Queen for a time. A clip like “I Want to Break Free” would not face the intense scrutiny today that it did back in the day. Artists have been pushing boundaries in terms of gender representation ever since then, but for 1984, at a time when the rock and especially the heavy rock world was very hetero macho, it made many people uncomfortable. (Today, it has accumulated nearly 550 million views on YouTube.) The original incarnation of Queen would never tour on American soil ever again which is a shame.

The “I Want to Break Free” controversy is also a reminder that while the ’80s were often a lot of fun, there was still a lot of prejudice to overcome. Thankfully, modern times, while still rocky, have changed a lot. Some would argue that in the wake of their biopic, the legacy of Queen is bigger than ever.

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Ok that's great. To make it fair though, they're going to disable Season 3 2 set if your Season 4 2 Set is the Season 1 or 2 bonus, right?

Comment by MaximusPM

makes sense

Comment by Quik1silver

Right but if the evoker has s3 2pc and s4 2pc does that mean every 3rd prescience lasts 200% longer?

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