Music Video
The video for the Freddie Mercury version of the song was directed by David Mallet and filmed at the now demolished Limehouse Studios, London and features Freddie singing in front of a wall of mirrors, then running through a house with an unknown woman, before dancing on a podium.
The BFI video was directed by Richard Heslop for the British Films Institute was included on Made In Heaven: The Films release and features features the inhabitants of a block of council flats of every sexual persuasion. Couples kiss, kids play, and teenagers steal and destroy a car in this monochrome piece and the audio also uses the vinyl edit.
The video for the Queen version of the song included on Queen Jewels, the 2004 Greatest Karaoke Hits DVD and the Japanese releases of the Days Of Our Lives documentary in Japan features footage from Freddie's original solo video intercut with footage of Queen performing at Wembley Stadium on 12 July 1986, One Vision and A Kind Of Magic and Freddie's solo video Living On My Own.
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“I think sometimes, could I only have music on my own terms; could I live in a great city and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves,—that were a bath and a medicine.”
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