We Will Rock You
We Will Rock You is the soundtrack to the Queen jukebox musical of the same name, released through Parlophone in 2002. The show was written by Ben Elton and built around the band's songs. It follows the Bohemians, a renegade group trying to bring back the free exchange of thought and culture in a vaguely Orwellian society.
It sits apart from Queen's fourteen studio albums, from 1973's Queen to Made in Heaven in 1995, as a stage-and-screen project that gave the catalogue a new setting. The West End production opened in 2002, directed by Christopher Renshaw with choreography by Arlene Phillips. Critics were cool at first, but audiences took to it. It ran at the Dominion Theatre until 2014, and later productions have reached six continents. It is worth hearing as a way into how those songs work as theatre.
We Will Rock You: tracklist and credits
24 tracks · 1:14:01Tracklist
- 1InnuendoDeacon, May, Mercury, Taylor2:29
- 2Radio Ga GaRoger Taylor3:44
- 3I Want to Break FreeJohn Deacon3:29
- 4Somebody to LoveFreddie Mercury3:28
- 5Killer QueenFreddie Mercury2:27
- 6Play the GameFreddie Mercury3:14
- 7Under PressureBowie, Deacon, May, Mercury, Taylor3:48
- 8A Kind of MagicRoger Taylor3:36
- 9I Want It AllDeacon, May, Mercury, Taylor3:21
- 10HeadlongDeacon, May, Mercury, Taylor3:26
- 11No-One but You (Only the Good Die Young)Brian May4:43
- 12Ogre BattleFreddie Mercury0:40
- 13One VisionDeacon, May, Mercury, Taylor4:35
- 14Who Wants to Live ForeverBrian May4:18
- 15FlashBrian May0:42
- 16Seven Seas of RhyeFreddie Mercury2:32
- 17Don’t Stop Me NowFreddie Mercury1:09
- 18Another One Bites the DustJohn Deacon3:04
- 19Hammer to FallBrian May3:03
- 20These Are the Days of Our LivesDeacon, May, Mercury, Taylor3:06
- 21We Will Rock YouBrian May2:09
- 22We Are the ChampionsBrian May and Freddie Mercury2:26
- 23We Will Rock You (fast version)Brian May2:39
- 24Bohemian RhapsodyFreddie Mercury5:53
- Recorded at
- The Dominion Theatre
- Recorded
- July 2002
- Label
- Parlophone
- Length
- 1:14:01
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Releases and pressings
How we know the release date only year precision available
| Source | Date | Note |
|---|---|---|
| MusicBrainz | 2002 | |
| Wikidata | 2002 | |
| UK / Europe release | 2002 | earliest UK or European date |
3 editions
| Date | Country | Label | Barcode | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | XE | Parlophone | 724358000320 | original |
| 26 May 2003 | GB | Parlophone | 724358493825 | other |
| 15 October 2012 | XE | Parlophone | 5099997395720 | deluxe |
Cover art sources
deezer · upscaled: major: best source 1200x1200, upscaled to 1500 (x1.25)
| Source | Size | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| deezer ✓ | 1200×1200 | upscaled: major: best source 1200x1200, upscaled to 1500 (x1.25) |
| coverartarchive | 941×926 | upscaled |