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“I Want to Break Free” is a song by the British rock band Queen, which was written by its bassist John Deacon. The song was featured on the Queen’s 1984 album The Works and distributed as a single on 7-inch and 12-inch vinyl records and 3-inch and 5-inch CDs. The song had three versions: album, single and extended, differing in length by a more than a factor of 2. It was included in most live concerts by the group, in several videos, and in The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert where it was sung by Lisa Stansfield. The song is largely known for its music video for which all the band members dressed in women’s clothes, a concept proposed by Roger Taylor, which parodied the long running British soap opera Coronation Street. Mercury also wore women’s outfits in many live... Read on...