Wednesday, 18 December 2013
21.
Number 21 is by the extremely famous band 'Queen', who was very big for the rockers when they began their career and their music video for 'I want to break free'. Freddie Mercury was a homosexual which Queen fans were not aware of. We look back on their videos now and can see that this was obvious and clear due to how camp he was. Also, the band's name was 'Queen' which is another word for someone who is gay. David Mallet was the director and wanted to hold this in a Coronation Street house. Roger's wife had the idea of dressing in drag and they kept Freddie's moustache to add comedy. This music video acknowledged this camp side of the group however this backfired when their sales began to fall dramatically in America due to macho American rock fans failing to buy their records. Many Americans believed that Aids was sent from God to get rid of the gay people in the world, and remained modest until his death from Aids in 1991. Their sales in Britain however remained the same.
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