2 April, 1984.

This has absolutely nothing to do with the arrival of a new vacuum cleaner yesterday. Nothing at all. No connection whatsoever. Yeah, who am I kidding? Clearly the inner jukebox is as giddy as I am about it.

Written by Queen’s bass guitarist John Deacon, this featured on the band’s eleventh studio album The Works. Whilst the song itself is a well known hit for Queen, it is probably best remembered for the video. It features the band members in drag (John Taylor’s idea) and is a parody of Coronation Street, with Freddie Mercury as a housewife loosely based on Bette Lynch and Brian May’s character a version of Hilda Ogden.

Whilst the video was well received in the UK, thanks to a history of cross-dressing in British comedy, in the US it was considered to be somewhat controversial at the time.

The US aside (where this only reached number forty-five on the charts), the song proved to be a global hit for the band. Reaching the top ten in fourteen countries worldwide it also topped the chart in Austria, Belgium, Israel, Netherlands, Portugal and South Africa. Here in the UK it spent fifteen weeks on the chart and peaked at number three.