Queen album brings rock to Iran

[emad]

BBC News snip:

Rock band Queen, fronted by gay icon Freddie Mercury, has become the first rock act to receive an official seal of approval in Iran.
Western music is strictly censored in the Islamic republic, where homosexuality is considered a crime. But an album of Queen's greatest hits was released in Iran on Monday.

Mercury, who died in 1991, was proud of his Iranian ancestry, and illegal bootleg albums and singles made Queen one of the most popular bands in Iran. The album contains hits such as Bohemian Rhapsody, The Miracle and I Want to Break Free, but reportedly omits a number of Queen's love songs.

The cassette, costing less than $1 (55 pence), comes complete with translated lyrics and an explanatory leaflet.

It tells Queen fans that Bohemian Rhapsody is about a young man who has accidentally killed someone and, like Faust, sold his soul to the devil. On the night before his execution he calls God in Arabic, "Bismillah", and so regains his soul from Satan.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3593532.stm

[Deja Q]

1. $1?! I wish US consumers got it that good!

They'll have to when all our middle class jobs go away, replaced by piddle retail crap!

[Atlas Mugged]

2. He was NOT proud of his ancestry!

Maybe in later life, which I'm unaware of, but during the early stages of his career his ethnicity was a deep, closeted secret. Among other things.....

[LuCifer]

3. Yeah I just hear this on Howard Stern

Yet ANOTHER "first" for Queen!

They really are one of the most underrated bands EVER. Especially here in the good ol' USA, where we like our fagits femme, not all shorthaired and with a mustache! I still can't believe that people would throw razor blade up on stage when they toured in the early 80's cuz too many 'Mericans didn't like Freddie's new look. Man, what is wrong with people?! Oh yeah, stupidity!

Lu Cifer
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