QUEEN


The Works

(1984)



1. Radio Ga-Ga 5'49
(Roger Taylor)
2. Tear It Up 3'26
(Brian May)
3. It's A Hard Life 4'10
(Freddie Mercury)
4. Man On The Prowl 3'28
(Freddie Mercury)
5. Machines (or "Back To Humans") 5'11
(Brian May / Roger Taylor)
6. I Want To Break Free 3'20
(John Deacon)
7. Keep Passing The Open Windows 5'23
(Freddie Mercury)
For the film version of The Hotel New Hampshire
8. Hammer To Fall 4'29
(Brian May)
9. Is This The World We Created ... ? 2'18
(Freddie Mercury / Brian May)

Bonus Tracks (1991 HOLLYWOOD RECORDS)

10. I Go Crazy 3'43

(Brian May)
11. Radio Ga-Ga (Extended Version) 6'52
(Roger Taylor)
12. I Want To Break Free (Extended Mix) 7'11
(John Deacon)

Total Time: 55:20


  • Freddie Mercury - Lead Vocals, Piano (3, 7), Rhythm Guitar (4)
  • Brian May - Banjo, Electric Guitar, GIBSON Chet Atkins CE Nylon-stringed Guitar (9), Keyboards, Vocals, Harmony Vocals (8)
  • John Deacon - Bass, Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Keyboards
  • Roger Taylor - Drums, Electronic Drums, ROLAND VP330 Vocoder, Vocals

  • Fred Mandel - Rip roaring Piano finale ("Prowl"), Synthesizer Arrangement and Programming ("Radio Ga-Ga"), Synthesizer Solo ("Break Free"), Synthesizer ("Hammer To Fall")
  • Mack - Demolition Fairlight CMI II Sampler Programming ("Machines")

    Produced by QUEEN / Reinhold Mack
    Mike Beiriger: Additional engineering
    Stefan Wissnet: Additional engineering
    Ed Delena: Additional engineering
    Manager: Jim Beach
    Bill Smith: Sleeve Design
    George Hurrell: Photography

    Digital Remasters, 1994

    Recording Commenced at
    RECORD PLANT STUDIOS, Los Angeles and MUSICLAND STUDIOS, Munich

    Recording is owner by RAINCLOUD PRODUCTIONS Ltd. under exclusive license to EMI RECORDS Ltd.

    Released on February 27, 1984





    1. Radio Ga-Ga

      I'd sit alone and watch your light
      My only friend through teenage nights
      And everything I had to know
      I heard it on my radio
      Radio.

      You gave them all those old time stars
      Through wars of worlds - invaded by Mars
      You made 'em laugh - you made 'em cry
      You made us feel like we could fly.

      So don't become some background noise
      A backdrop for the girls and boys
      Who just don't know or just don't care
      And just complain when you're not there
      You had your time, you had the power
      You've yet to have your finest hour
      Radio.

      All we hear is Radio ga-ga
      Radio goo-goo
      Radio ga-ga
      All we hear is Radio ga-ga
      Radio blah blah
      Radio what's new?
      Radio, someone still loves you!

      We watch the shows - we watch the stars
      On videos for hours and hours
      We hardly need to use our ears
      How music changes through the years.

      Let's hope you never leave old friend
      Like all good things on you we depend
      So stick around cos we might miss you
      When we grow tired of all this visual
      You had your time - you had the power
      You've yet to have your finest hour
      Radio - Radio.

      All we hear is Radio ga-ga
      Radio goo-goo Radio ga-ga
      All we hear is Radio ga-ga
      Radio goo-goo
      Radio ga-ga
      All we hear is Radio ga-ga
      Radio blah blah
      Radio what's new ?
      Radio, someone still loves you !

    2. Tear It Up

      Are you ready ? - well are you ready ?

      Give me your mind baby give me your body
      Give me some time baby let's have a party
      It ain't no time for sleepin' baby
      Soon it's round your street I,m creeping
      - You better be ready -

      We gonna Tear it up
      Stir it up
      Break it up - Baby -
      You gotta Tear it up
      Shake it up
      Make it up - as you go along.

      Tear it up
      Square it up
      Wake it up - Baby.

      Tear it up
      Stir it up
      Stake it out - and you can't go wrong.
      (Hey)
      I love you cos you're sweet and I love you cos you're naughtly
      I love you for you mind but give me your body
      I wanna be a toy at your birthday party
      Wind me up - wind me up - wind me up - let me go -

      Tear it up
      Stir it up
      Break it up - let me go.

      Tear it up
      Shake it up
      Make it up - as you go along.

      Tear it up
      Turn it up
      Burn it up.

      - Are you ready (oh yeah)
      Baby baby baby are you ready for me? (Oh yeah)
      Baby baby baby are you ready for love? (Oh yeah)
      Are you ready - are you ready - are you ready for me? (Oh yeah)
      I love you so near, I love you so far
      I gotta tell you baby you're driving me Ga Ga.

    3. It's A Hard Life

      I don't want my freedom
      There's no reason for living with a broken heart.

      This is a tricky situation -
      I've only got myself to blame
      It's just a simple fact of life
      It can happen to anyone -

      You win - you lose
      It,s a chance you have to take with love
      Oh yeah - I fell in love
      But now you say it's over and I'm falling apart.

      It's a hard life
      To be true lovers together
      To love and live forever in each others hearts -
      It's a long hard fight
      To learn to care for each other
      To trust in one another right from the start
      When you're in love -

      I try and mend the broken pieces
      I try to fight back the tears
      They say it's just a state of mind
      But it happens to everyone -

      Now it hurts - deep inside
      When your love has cut you down to size
      Life is tough - on your own
      Now I'm waiting for something to fall from the skies
      Waiting for love.

      Yes it's a hard life
      Two lovers together
      To love and live forever in each others hearts
      It's a long hard fight
      To learn to care for each other
      To trust in one another - right from the start
      When you're in love -
      Yes it's a hard life
      In a world that's filled with sorrow
      There are people searching for love in every way -

      It's a long hard fight -
      But I'll always live for tomorrow
      I'll look back on myself and say I did it for love
      Yes I did it for love - for love - oh I did it for love.

    4. Man On The Prowl

      I'm gonna take a little walk on the wild side
      I'm gonna loosen up and get me some gas
      I'm gonna get me some action
      Go crazing, driving in the fast lane
      My baby left me alone
      She done me dirty and I'm feeling so lonely
      So come home, come home
      If you don't you're gonna break my heart.

      Man on the prowl
      You better watch out
      I'm on the loose and I'm looking for trouble
      So look out - look out
      I'm a man on the prowl.

      I don't wanna be a rock'n'roll steady
      I just wanna be low down trash
      I wanna go to the movies
      All I wanna do is sit on my ass
      So honey come home
      Don't leave me when I'm feeling so lonely
      Come home - come home
      If you don't you're gonna break break my heart.

      Man on the prowl
      You better watch out
      I'm on the loose and I'm looking for trouble
      So look out - look out
      I'm a man on the prowl.

      Well I keep dreaming about my baby
      But it ain't gonna get me nowhere
      I wanna teach my baby dancin'
      But I ain't no Fred Astair.

      So baby look out - I'm a man on the prowl
      Look out - man on the prowl - yeah
      Baby, baby, baby look out - man on the prowl.

      Baby come home
      I'm on the loose and I'm looking for trouble
      Baby come home - oh yeah
      Cause I'm a man on the prowl
      So honey come home - come home
      Cause I'm a man on the prowl - yeah
      Man on the prowl.

    5. Machines (or "Back To Humans")

      It's a Machine's world
      Don't tell me I ain't go a soul
      When the machines take over
      It ain't no place for you and me.

      They tell me don't care
      But deep inside I'm just a man
      They freeze me they burn me
      They squeeze me they stress me
      With smoke-blackened pistons of steel they compress me
      But no-one, but no-one, but no-one can wrest me away
      Back to Humans.

      "We have no disease, no trouble of mind
      "We're fighting for peace, no regard for the time
      "We never cry, we never retreat
      "We have no conception of love of defeat."

      What's tahat the Machine noise
      It's bytes and megachips for tea
      It's that Machine, boys
      With Random Access Memory
      Never worry, never mind
      Not for money, not for gold.

      It's software it's hardware
      It's heartbeat is time-share
      It's midwife's a disk drive
      It's a sex-life is quantised
      It's self-perpetuating a parahumanoidarianised.

      Back to Humans
      Back to Humans.

      "Back to Machines."

      Living in a new world
      Thinking in the past
      Living in a new world
      How you gonna last
      Machine world... it's a Machine's world...

      "Change."

      Back to Humans.

    6. I Want To Break Free

      I want to break free
      I want to break free
      I want to break free from your lies
      You're so self satisfied I don't need you
      I've got to break free
      God knows, God knows I want to break free.

      I've fallen in love
      I've fallen in love for the first time

      And this time I know it's for real
      I've fallen in love, yeah
      God knows, God knows I've fallen in love.

      It's strange but it's true
      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.

      But life still goes on
      I can't get used to, living without, living without,
      Living without you by my side
      I don't want to live alone, hey
      God knows, got to make it on my own
      So baby can't you see
      I've got to break free.

      I've got to break free.
      I want to break free, yeah
      I want, I want, I want, I want to break free.

    7. Keep Passing The Open Windows

      This is the only life for me
      Surround myself around my own fantasy
      You just gotta be strong and believe in yourself
      Forget all the sadness cause love is all you need.

      Do you know what it's like to be alone in this world
      When you're down and out on your luck and you're a failure
      Wake up screaming in the middle of the night
      You think it's all been a waste of time
      It's been a bad year
      You start believing everything's gonna be alright
      Next minute you're down and you're flat on your back
      A brand new day is beginning
      Get that sunny feeling and you're on your way.

      Just believe - just keep passing the open windows
      Just believe - just keep passing the open windows
      Do you know how it feels when you don't have a friend
      Without a job and no money to spend
      You're a stranger

      All you think about is suicide
      One of these days you're gonna lose the fight
      You better keep out of danger - yeah
      That same old feeling just keep burning deep inside
      You keep telling yourself it's gonna be the end
      Oh get yourself together
      Things are looking better everyday

      Just believe - keep passing the open windows
      Just believe - keep passing the open windows

      This is the only life for me
      Surround myself around my own fantasy
      You just gotta be strong and believe in yourself
      Forget all the sadness cause love is all you need.

      You just gotta be strong and believe in yourself
      Forget all the sadness cause love is all you need.

      Love is all you need - baby - love is all you need.

      Just believe - just keep passing the open windows.

    8. Hammer To Fall

      Here we stand or here we fall
      History won't care at all
      Make the bed, light the light
      Lady Mercy won't be home tonight.
    Chorus:

    You don't waste no time at all
    Don't hear the bell but you answer the call
    It comes to you as to us all
    We're just waiting
    For the hammer to fall

      Oh every night, and every day
      A little piece of you is falling away
      But lift your face, the Western Way -
      Build your muscles as your body decays.
    Chorus
      Toe your line and play their game
      Let the anaesthetic cover it all
      Till one day they call your name
      You know it's time for the Hammer to Fall.

      Rich or poor or famous for
      Your truth it's all the same
      Lock your door but rain is pouring
      Through your window pane
      Baby now your struggle's all vain.

      For me who grew up tall and proud
      In the shadow of the Mushroom Cloud
      Convinced our voices can't be heard
      We just wanna scream it louder and louder
    Chorus
      What the hell we fighting for?
      Just surrender and it won't hurt at all
      You just got time to say your prayers
      While you're waiting for the Hammer to Fall.

    9. Is This The World We Created ... ?

      Just think of all those hungry mouths we have to feed
      Take a look at all the suffering we breed
      So many lonely faces scattered all around
      Searching for what they need.

      Is this the world we created
      What did me do it for
      Is this the world we invaded
      Against me law
      So it seems in the end
      Is this what we're all living for today
      The world that we created.

      You know that everyday a helpless child is born
      Who needs some loving care inside a happy home
      Somewhere a wealthy man is sitting on his throne
      Waiting for life to go by.

      Is this the world we created, we made it on our own
      Is this the world we devastated, right to the bone
      If there's a God in the sky looking down
      What can he think of what we've done
      To the world that He created.

    10. I Go Crazy

      I took my baby to see a heavy band
      But I never saw my baby 'till the encore
      She had the singer by the hand
      I didn't wanna cry 'cause I had to be cool
      I didn't wanna tell you that you're too cruel
      Did you have to run off with that dog-gone fool?

      All I gotta do is think about you
      Ev'ry night and day I go crazy
      All I gotta do is get my hands on you
      You better stay away from me baby

      I wouldn't mind the postman if the neighbours didn't know
      Or the gas man the electric man - man to fix the car
      I'd have to let it go
      But you had to bring me down for a rock 'n roll clone
      Leave me like a sucker standing all alone
      Did you have to run off with that rolling stone?

      All I gotta do is think about you
      Ev'ry night and day I go crazy
      All I gotta do is get my hands on you
      You better stay away from me baby

      So I ain't gonna go and see the Rolling Stones no more
      no more

      I don't wanna go see Queen no more no more

      Now I don't wanna hurt you like you been a-hurting me
      But you know that I'll be watching
      Rolling on the floor next time you're on TV
      Had enough of your pretending that you know where it's at
      Coming on to all the boys like a real spoilt brat
      To think that I nearly let you get away with all that
      No way man

      All I gotta do is think about you
      Ev'ry night and day I go crazy
      All I gotta do is get my hands on you