We Will Rock You & We Are The Champions

Trash Theory's videos are some of the most engrossing explorations of music scenes, worlds, and oddities. In this particular example, the oddity is the band themselves - Queen, who were beloved by British people but derided by the media at a time when punk was coming into prominence. The video explores how, in spite of their undeniable poshness, camp aesthetic, and strange subject matter, they overcame ridicule and criticism to become one of the most loved and celebrated bands from the UK. More from Trash Theory... 

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Queen are an odd band to be so beloved by the British people. They were endlessly posh, wrote extremely camp complex songs about murderous escorts, bicycle races and tigers defying the laws of gravity, referencing in equal parts heavy metal, music hall and opera. And it goes without saying they were fronted by the kind of man that Conservative governments would want you to be scared of: a self-possessed queer person of colour. And yet their first greatest hits is the best selling UK album of all time. Everyone of working age knows every single word of "Bohemian Rhapsody". And it's their songs that will echo across the nation's football stadiums forevermore. This is New British Canon, and this is the story of "We Will Rock You" and "We Are The Champions". 

00:00 Introduction

00:50 A Day At The Races

07:19 News Of The World

16:30 We Will Rock You and We Are The Champions

24:47 The Afterwards, Live Aid Etc

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