Radio Ga Ga

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"Radio Ga Ga" is a 1984 song by the British rock band Queen, written by their drummer Roger Taylor. It was released as a single with "I Go Crazy" by Brian May as the B-side. It was included as the opening track on the album The Works and is also featured on the band's compilation albums Greatest Hits II and Classic Queen. Although Queen had long had individual songwriting contributions from all members, this marked the first time a song individually credited to Taylor was chosen as the A-side of a single in their home country ("Calling All Girls" had been a minor hit in the US and Canada in 1982). The song, which makes a nostalgic defence of the radio format, was a worldwide success for the band, reaching number one in 19 countries, number two on the UK singles chart and the Australian Kent Music Report and number 16 on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming the band's final original single to reach the US top 40 in Freddie Mercury's lifetime on that chart (whereas their follow-up singles would...

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