Skip to Navigation

QOL Discography

The Works

The Works
After the disappointing sales of the last album Queen blasted back with four Top 20 hits. Of the four tracks Roger Taylor’s ‘Radio Ga Ga’, proved each member of Queen could write hit singles and subsequently became a live anthem with audiences copying the hand claps of it’s Metropolis inspired video. Keyboardist Fred Mandel makes a magnificent contribution on four tracks on an album.

Buy “The Works”

Download “The Works”

Tracks
1. Radio Ga Ga (Taylor)
2. Tear It Up (May)
3. It’s A Hard Life (Mercury)
4. Man On The Prowl (Mercury)
5. Machines (or Back To Humans) (Taylor/May)
6. I Want To Break Free (Deacon)
7. Keep Passing The Open Windows (Mercury)
8. Hammer To Fall (May)
9. Is This The World We Created (Mercury/May)

Did You Know?
1. The Works was Queen’s first album to be recorded in the USA and was their 13th album release
2. The album featured two of the biggest ever hits accompanied by mega budget videos in Radio Ga Ga and I Want To Break Free
3. The band promoted album with extensive tour of UK, Europe, South Africa, Japan, Australia and South America
4. Every track off the album was made available on a single release – first time this had happened. ‘Man On The Prowl’ was the b-side to ‘Thank God It’s Christmas’
5. The works video EP promoting the album won a highly commended award for best compilation video

Album Details
Release Date – UK 27 February 1984 / US 28 February 1984
Highest Chart Position – UK 2 / US 23
Number Of Weeks On Chart – UK 93 / US 20
Producers – Queen and Mack
Engineers – Mack (additional engineering Mike Beiriger)
Recording Studios – Record Plant and Musicland
Date Recorded – August 1983- January 1984
Additional Musicians – Fred Mandel (piano on Man On The Prowl, synths on Radio Ga Ga, I Want To Break Free and Hammer To Fall)
Artwork Concept – Queen
Award Status – Platinum (UK) Gold (US)

1991 Hollywood Records remasters included the tracks;
I Go Crazy, Radio Ga Ga (extended version) & I Want To Break Free (extended mix)

Singles
Radio Ga Ga / b-side I Go Crazy
Release Date – UK 23 January 1984 / US 7 February 1984
Highest Chart Position – UK No.2 / US No. 16

I Want To Break Free remix / b-side Machines (or Back To Humans) (UK)/ Machines (or Back To Humans) (US)
Release Date – UK 2 April 1984 / US 13 April 1984
Highest Chart Position – UK No.3 / US No.45

It’s A Hard Life / b-side Is This The World We Created
Release Date – UK 16 July 1984 / US 16 July 1984
Highest Chart Position – UK No.6 / US No.72

Hammer To Fall / b-side Tear It Up
Release Date – UK 10 September 1984 / US 12 October 1984
Highest Chart Position – UK No.13 – US –

Thank God It’s Christmas* / b-side Man On The Prowl
Release Date – UK 26 November 1984 / US 27 November 1984
Highest Chart Position – UK No.21 / US –

*Thank God It’s Christmas” did not appear on The Works, but the b-side Man On The Prowl did

QOL History