취미생활 : 01. RADIO GAGA / QUEEN

이 번에 고른 QUEEN은 사실 내가 워낙에 좋아하는 밴드이기도 하고,

최근에 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY 영화가 나와서 이기도 하다.

GRESTEST HIT 위주로 할려고 했다가, 그렇게 하면

솔직히 끝날 기미가 보일 것 같지 않아서, 내가 원래 하려고 했던 앨범 위주로 하기로 했다.

1984년에 발매된 앨범으로, 스튜디오 앨범 11번째 앨범이다.

I WANT TO BREAK FREE 뮤직비디오가 미국에서 상영 금지되면서, 미국 투어를 하지 않았고

그에 따라서 미국에서의 판매량에 큰 영향을 미치기도 했다.

하지만, 유럽에서는 아주 좋은 반응을 힘입어 5백만장을 팔았다.

이 음반은 사실 그 전 음반인 HOT SPARE가 거의 망하다시피 하면서, 약간의 여유를 가진 후에 심기일전하여

만들어낸 음반이기에, 그 음악안에 다양한 요소들이 접목되어 있다.

약간의 전자음, 복고로의 회귀, 메탈틱한 음악 등.

위에 얘기한 저 내용이 위의 힛트 싱글 4곡에 그대로 표현되어있다고 보면된다.

이제는 일단 정규음반의 리스트만으로 해보자.

추가된 것까지 하기에는 너무 벅차다.

1번곡인, RADIO GAGA 부터 시작이다.

좋은 곡이 너무 많아서 언제 다 할지 걱정이 앞서긴한다.

일단, 뮤직비디오부터 감상해보자.

뮤직 비디오에 대한 설명을 읽어보자.

Video

David Mallet's music video for the song features scenes from Fritz Lang's 1927 German expressionist science fiction film Metropolis and was filmed at Carlton TV Studios and Shepperton Studios, London, in November 1983.

DAVID MALLET가 FRITZ LANG의 독일 표현주의자인 과학 픽션 필름의 장면을 차용했다.

It features the band in a car flying over the title city, and later performing the song in front of the city's working class. 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.[17] At the end of the music video, the words "Thanks To Metropolis" appear. The video also features footage from earlier Queen promo videos.

이 영상에서 주목할 부분은 관객들이 단체로 박수를 치는 장면이 나중에는 라이브에서도 표현된 것이 최고!

그런데, 마치 나치를 연상하는 듯 앞으로 내미는 장면이 쫌...

영화에 대한 저작권이 영화감독이 아닌 동독정부에 있었다는 것이 좀 특이한 부분이긴 하다.

Meaning

Recorded in 1983 and released in January 1984, the song was a commentary on television overtaking radio's popularity and how one would listen to radio in the past for a favourite comedy, drama, or science fiction programme. It also addressed the advent of the music video and MTV, which was then competing with radio as an important medium for promoting records. Ironically, Queen had done much to popularize the music video with "Bohemian Rhapsody" in 1975 and the video for "Radio Ga Ga" would receive a Best Art Direction nomination.[11]

Roger Taylor was quoted:

That's part of what the song's about, really. The fact that they [music videos] seem to be taking over almost from the aural side, the visual side seems to be almost more important.[12]

Taylor originally conceived of it as "Radio caca" (from something his toddler son once said),[13] which doubled as a criticism of radio for the decrease in variety of programming and the type of music being played.[4]

The song makes reference to two important radio events of the 20th century; Orson Welles' 1938 broadcast of H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds in the lyric "through wars of worlds/invaded by Mars", and Winston Churchill's 18 June 1940 "This was their finest hour" speech from the House of Commons, in the lyric "You've yet to have your finest hour".[14]

이 곡의 의미? 이 곡은 로저 테일러(드러머)의 아들이 하는 말에서 기원.

RADIO CACA -> RADIO GAGA.

얼마전 영화 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY에서 마지막 공연에 나왔던 1985년 LIVE AID에서의 RADIO GAGA이다.

어릴 때 (중학교 때쯤)에도 난 이 노래를 알았으니, 그땐 댄스곡인지 알았는데 ㅋㅋㅋ.

FREDDIE MERCURY의 몸 추임새가 참 방정맞으면서도 잘 어울린다.

후렴구에서 다 같이 손뼉치는 장면은 정말 명장면이다.

하지만, 난 개인적으로 WEMBLEY LIVE를 참 감동적이게 봤다. LIVE AID는 사실 잘 기억에 남지 않는다.

LIVE AT WEMBLEY STADIUM, FRIDAY 11 JULY 1986.

전자 사운드와 드럼, 그리고 베이스의 조화.

음....프레디 머큐리가 죽고 난 뒤에, 아담 램버트랑 같이 연주하는 것은 사실 내가 제대로 본 적이 없다.

이 번에 한번 봐보는 것도 나쁘지 않으니까...

QUEEN + ADAM LAMBERT - RADIO GAGA,

LIVE AT THE ISLE OF WIGHT FESTIVAL 2016.

음...FREDDIE 보컬에 너무 익숙해서인지, 와닿지가 않는구먼.

FREDDIE MERCURY TRIBUTE CONCERT에서의 PAUL YOUNG와의 라이브.

이 라이브도 정말 대박 대박 대박 멋진데...

그 외 COVER 밴드가 이 노래를 제대로 소화한 곡이 있는지 지금 완전 열심히 찾아보고 있다.

요 라이브 재밌눼...

QUEEN EXTRAVAGANZE - MARC MARTEL - RADIO GAGA

INMATES OF CPDRC PHILIPPINES DANCING.

마칭 밴드 같은 느낌인데,,,감동적인걸. 그리고

저렇게 하는 것도 꽤나 좋아보인다.

가사.

"Radio Ga Ga"

Radio.

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

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.

Radio.

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, 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 'cause 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?

Someone still loves you!

Radio ga ga [3x]

You had your time, you had the power

You've yet to have your finest hour

Radio, Radio.

Influences

American pop singer Lady Gaga credits her stage name to this song.[56][57] She stated that she "adored" Queen, and that they had a hit called 'Radio Gaga'. "That's why I love the name", she said.[58]

영향이라고 말하면, 우리들이 잘 알고 있는 LADY GAGA가 이 이름에서 나왔다는 것.

이 앨범은 전체적으로 유럽에서는 굉장히 좋은 순위에 있는데, 유독 미국에서 만큼은 14, 16위를 한거보면

I WANT TO BREAK FREE 비디오가 상영되지 못해서, 투어를 안한 것이 영향이 꽤나 크지 않았나 싶다.

Live versions

Queen finished their sets before the encores on The Works Tour with "Radio Ga Ga" and Mercury would normally sing "you had your time" in a lower octave and modify the deliveries of "you had the power, you've yet to have your finest hour" while Roger Taylor sang the pre-chorus in the high octave. Live versions from the 1984/85 tour were recorded and filmed on the concert films Queen Rock in Rio 1985, and Final Live in Japan 1985.[18] As heard on bootleg recordings, Deacon can be heard providing backing vocals to the song; it is one of the very few occasions he sang in concert.

라이브 버전?에 대한 내용들이다..편하게 읽어나보자.

ROCK IN RIO 및 FINAL LIVE IN JAPAN에서의 라이브...

부트렉 레코딩에서는 가끔 디콘도 코러스를 했고..........아주 가끔 ㅋ

"I remember thinking 'oh great, they've picked it up' and then I thought 'this is not a Queen audience'. This is a general audience who've bought tickets before they even knew we were on the bill. And they all did it. How did they know? Nobody told them to do it."

—Brian May on the audience participation in clapping to "Radio Ga Ga" at Live Aid.[19]

라이브 에이드에서 일반 관객들까지 박수를 치게 만들었던 그 공연이 대단!

Queen played a shorter, up-tempo version of "Radio Ga Ga" during the Live Aid concert on 13 July 1985 at Wembley Stadium, where Queen's "show-stealing performance" had 72,000 people clapping in unison.[6][20] It was the second song the band performed at Live Aid after opening with "Bohemian Rhapsody".[7][21] "Radio Ga Ga" became a live favourite thanks largely to the audience participation potential of the clapping sequence prompted by the rhythm of the chorus (copied from the video).

72,000명의 관객과 하나되는 멋진 공연.

Mercury sang all high notes in this version. The song was played for the Magic Tour a year later, including twice more at Wembley Stadium; it was recorded for the live album Live at Wembley '86, VHS Video and DVD on 12 July 1986, the second night in the venue.[9]

Paul Young performed the song with Queen at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert again at Wembley Stadium on 20 April 1992.[22] At the "Party at the Palace" concert, celebrating Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee in 2002, "Radio Ga Ga" opened up Queen's set with Roger Taylor on vocals and Phil Collins on the drums.[23]

폴 영의 웸블리 공연, 앗...로저 테일러랑 필 콜린스의 공연은 못 봤눼.

This song was played on the Queen + Paul Rodgers Tour in 2005–2006 and sung by Roger Taylor and Paul Rodgers. It was recorded officially at the Hallam FM Arena in Sheffield on 5 May 2005. The result, Return of the Champions, was released on CD and DVD on 19 September 2005 and 17 October 2005. It was also played on the Rock the Cosmos Tour during late 2008, this time with only Rodgers on lead vocals. The concert album Live in Ukraine came as a result of this tour, yet the song is not available on the CD or DVD versions released 15 June 2009. This performance of "Radio Ga Ga" is only available as a digital download from iTunes. It was again played on the Queen + Adam Lambert Tour with Adam Lambert on lead vocals.

찾자면, 너무 끝이 없어서...

RADIO GAGA 12" EXTENDED VERSION까지만 들어보자...제발 이것만...