Video
David Mallet's music video for the song features scenes from Fritz Lang's 1927 science fiction movie Metropolis and was filmed at Carlton TV Studios and Shepperton Studios, London in November 1983. This video features footage from Fritz Lang's Metropolis, the band in a car flying over the city, and Queen performing the song in front of the city's workers. Freddie Mercury's solo song "Love Kills" was used in Giorgio Moroder's restored version of the film, and in exchange Queen were granted the rights to use footage from it in their "Radio Ga Ga" video. However, Queen had to buy performance rights to the film from the communist East German government, which was the copyright holder at the time. At the end of the music video, the words "Thanks To Metropolis" appears.
The video also features footage from earlier Queen promo videos (such as "Bohemian Rhapsody", "We Are the Champions", "Don't Stop Me Now" and "Flash") in a photo album. A different version of "Bohemian Rhapsody" is also shown.
An alternate version with previously unseen camera angles, out-takes and backstage footage from the original video shoot appears on Queen Days Of Our Lives DVD and Blu-ray releases.
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