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Encyclopedia > I Want It All
"I Want It All"
"I Want It All" cover
Single by Queen
from the album The Miracle
Released May 2, 1989
Format vinyl record (7", 12"), cassette tape, CD
Genre Rock
Length
  • 4:42 (Album Version)
  • 4:01 (Single Version)
Label Parlophone, EMI, Capitol
Writer(s) Queen (Brian May)
Producer(s) Queen and David Richards
Chart positions
  • #50 (US)
Queen singles chronology
"One Year of Love"
(1986)
"I Want It All"
(1989)
"Breakthru"
(1989)

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The song itself is a hard rock anthem, and lyrically features themes relating to rebellion and social upheaval. Because of this, the song became an anti-apartheid song in South Africa and has also been used as a gay rights protest theme and a rallying anthem for African American youth.[citation needed] The single release is significantly different from the album track, shortening the length of May's solo and intro. Hard rock is a form of rock and roll music which finds its closest roots in early 1960s garage rock and psychedelic rock. ... An anthem is a choral composition to an English religious text sung in church services. ... A segregated beach in South Africa, 1982. ... The gay rights movement is a collection of loosely aligned civil rights groups, human rights groups, support groups and political activists seeking acceptance, tolerance and equality for non-heterosexual, (homosexual, bisexual), and transgender people - despite the fact that it is typically referred to as the gay rights movement, members also...


It peaked at #3 in the United Kingdom and #50 on the US Billboard, and #3 on the US Mainstream Rock Tracks.


External links

Queen
John Deacon | Brian May | Freddie Mercury | Roger Taylor
Discography
Studio albums: Queen | Queen II | Sheer Heart Attack | A Night at the Opera | A Day at the Races | News of the World | Jazz | The Game | Flash Gordon | Hot Space | The Works | A Kind of Magic | The Miracle | Innuendo | Made in Heaven
Live albums: Live Killers | Live Magic | Live at Wembley '86 | Queen on Fire - Live at the Bowl | Return of the Champions
Compilation albums: Greatest Hits | At the Beeb | Greatest Hits II | Classic Queen | Queen Rocks | Greatest Hits III | Stone Cold Classics
DVDs: We Will Rock You | The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert | Greatest Video Hits 1 | Live at Wembley Stadium | Greatest Video Hits 2 | Queen on Fire - Live at the Bowl | Return of the Champions | Super Live in Japan
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