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| Length = | Label = | Certification = Silver (BPI)〔(【引用サイトリンク】BPI ">title= Certified Awards )〕 | Writer = Roger Taylor | Producer = | Last single = "Back Chat" (1982) | This single = "Radio Ga Ga" (1984) | Next single = "I Want to Break Free" (1984) }} "Radio Ga Ga" is a 1984 song performed and recorded by the British rock band Queen, written by their drummer Roger Taylor. It was released as a single with "I Go Crazy" by Brian May on the original B-side (3:42) and was included on the album ''The Works''. The song also features on the band's compilation albums, ''Greatest Hits II'', and ''Classic Queen''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher= MTV. Viacom )〕 The single was a worldwide success for the band, reaching number one in 19 countries, number 2 in the UK Singles Chart, and number 16 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in the United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher= QueenZone.com )〕 The band performed the song at every concert from 1984 to their last concert with their lead singer Freddie Mercury in 1986, with their most notable performance at Live Aid in 1985.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher= Queen Concerts )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url= http://www.queenconcerts.com/live/queen/magic.html )〕 ==Meaning== Recorded in 1983 and released in January 1984, the song was a commentary on television overtaking radio's popularity and how one would listen to radio in the past for a favorite comedy, drama, or science fiction programme. It also pertained to the advent of the music video and MTV, which was now competing with radio as an important medium for promoting records. Ironically, Queen had done much to popularize the music video with "Bohemian Rhapsody" in 1975 and the video for "Radio Ga Ga" would become a regular staple on MTV in 1984. It was nominated for an MTV Video Music Award that year.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url= http://www.rockonthenet.com/archive/1984/mtvvmas.htm )〕 Roger Taylor was quoted: Taylor originally conceived of it as "Radio caca" (from something his toddler son once said),〔Roger Taylor speaking in the documentary ''Queen – Days of Our Lives''〕 which doubled as a criticism of radio for the decrease in variety of programming and the type of music being played.〔 "Radio Ga Ga" in one of the original cassette boxes is called 'radio ca ca'. The song makes reference to two important radio events of the 20th century; Orson Welles' 1938 broadcast of H.G. Wells' ''The War of the Worlds'' in the lyric "''through wars of worlds/invaded by Mars''", and Winston Churchill's 18 June 1940 "This was their finest hour" speech from the House of Commons, in the lyric "''You've yet to have your finest hour''". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Radio Ga Ga」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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