FIRST TIME REACTION- Queen - It's A Hard Life (Official Video) 

what to say. I love this video! Roger & John HATED it - Brian was neutral on it - based on the costumes they had to wear. Personally I think John makes an adorable silver unicorn, ANYWAY. Freddie's lamenting a breakup (another one, poor guy). He's got his real life gal-pal Barbara Valentin in the video (she's the one wearing the black ostrich feather dress and leans over the balcony to show off her... um, love?..for Freddie as he sings. She also steps on his foot) . The song is quite beautiful.

You must watch the commentary w brian and rodger to this lmfao 😅😅😅😅😅

Great reaction! The video signifies an elaborate party or celebration, but despite all of the people and different attractions or distractions, you can still be very alone in a crowd. Freddie liked this type of theme. The opening of the song is directly taken from the opera, aria (song) Vesti La Guibba. Which basically means put on your costume and perform, the audience is waiting. It is taken from the opera Pagliacci. It is a story about a clown who finds out that his wife is cheating on him, but he still has to put on his costume and perform, while he is experiencing a mental break down and he is obviously very unhappy, but he has to make other people laugh. There is a bit of this same theme in Bohemian Rhapsody as well, "Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango?" Actually this song does share some cords with Bohemian Rhapsody. There is a great live version of this song - It's A Hard Life - Queen live in Rio 1985.

Crazy video but great song. Brian said this song came straight from Freddie's heart.

Once again, hysterical facial reactions….hahaha according to Brian & Roger, Freddie looks like a giant prawn, & he does!!! You just gotta love him!

Brian is the one walking up the stairs with the coffin shaped guitar case. Freddie took inspiration from the opera Pagliacci for some of the costumes ideas and the idea of the pain of love, specifically for the opening bars and lines, Freddie took inspiration from the iconic aria "Ridi, Pagliaccio,". Roger, John and Brian all HATED the visuals and costumes. Though personally I adore Brian's costume. I think the skull guitar actually works and Brian still has it in his collection.I've read that Freddie's costume is supposed to be a Mediterranean prawn. Brian and Roger's audio commentary for the video is hilarious! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HgWp78Spu6s.html Queen has a lot of lovely, positive songs-Keep yourself alive (Houston '77), doing alright, some day one day, long away, hang on in there, ride the wild wind, don't try so hard, teo toriatte (a beautiful gesture of love and tribute to their Japanese fans), etc. They also have some awesome, fun, bouncy songs-lazing on a Sunday afternoon, good company and seaside rendezvous.

This is a beautiful song, but a lots of people talk only about costumes. I like this video, it ´s unique

CASH, WOULD YOU PULEAZE ADD TO YOUR REACTIONS-TO-DO LIST, A LIVE PERFORMANCE OF THIS SONG.... AT ROCK IN RIO, 1985 (THE FIRST CONCERT ON JAN 11/12, NOT the second show on Jan 18/19... Freddie's voice was pretty shot at the second show!) AND/OR AT JAPAN IN 1985🖖

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Theatrical (and the Barbara Valentin moment in time)...but LIVE is electric.

Freddie became the godfather of the producer Reinhold Mack's 3rd son Freddie Mack. Julian, his elder son asked Freddie to come to his birthday party wearing this costume and he did! Freddie loved that family and spent a lot of times in their house in Munich where he felt the loving family atmosphere.

The lady in black who steps on his foot is Barbara Valentin. They were sharing an apartment and were together for several months in Munich. She was a well known German actress who said Freddie was the love of her life. Brian thought this song was a very good representation of Freddie's real self

I love Deaky's eye roll when he and Roger turn and walk away. Brian spoke of that skull guitar in an interview. He said it is actually playable.

Queen songs, no matter how sad, is always uplifting. Please react to My Melancholy Blues.

The close in this video would be called avant garde. Not everyone in the band appreciated the fashion forward thinking.

My favorite Queen video! And a very beautiful song. I love the idea of a masked ball. Freddie always likes to inject a little fun, he has such a sense of the ridiculous: his costume, the wig, his toes getting stepped on by Barbara Valentin. Actually, he was recovering from an injury to his knee, which is why he sinks down to sit for the last line of the song.

Freddie had a bad leg from a previous injury. You’ll see see him sit on the steps at the end

Listening to Freddie is always uplifting.

Love the song hate the video. Suggest In the Lap of the Gods @the Rainbow 🌈

Story to tell you Freddie Mercury was injured while filming that music video true story ☺️

In this video 1984, Freddie moves gingerly cuz he just had a cast removed from his leg. It was injured in a bar in Munich while lifting someone off the ground, pushed sideways, & damaging his right knee!! Didn’t stop Freddie from attending the Elton John concert where he sat at the side of the stage when Elton invited Freddie to join him … but he refused. So Elton dedicated I’M STILL STANDING to him. 😂😂😂

'Large crustacean' is how many critics have described Freddie's costume, lol! I do love this song--Thank you Cash!

And You should check also:”the secrets behind freddie mercury's legendary voice”

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So funny!!! What is he wearing!!??? LOL Like someone else said, Roger and John hated their costumes. Very theatrical!!! Very Freddie!! Over the top for sure. But the voice is still spectacular!!!

You should check:”Things we learned about freddie mercury after he died”🙈

This song is fantastic, but check live in Rio Freddie playing piano..is better like always 🙂

ELE O FREDDIE MAGNIFICO MAGNÂNIMO!!! SEMPRE FOI SEMPRE VAI SER A MELHOR VÓZ DO MUNDO!!! E A TRILHA SONORA DA MINHA VIDA!!!♡♡♡☆☆☆

You want to react to really uplifting Queen song check out Keep Passing The Open Windows from the same album as this one.

You are the best reactor, especially when you do Queen...thank you for your honest thoughts!!

You want a high energy live performance, check out Queen - Tie Your Mother Down (Live in Montreal)

To hear a different side of Quee, listen to Freddy Mercury and Montserrat Caballe singing Barcelona, live at La Nit. Be ready to be amazed

This is regarded by connoisseurs as the last of the classic style type songs Queen did. classic rock, Piano driven, layered vocals, layered guitars and a BohRhap type guitar solo.

Freddie the artist, again! I've read Freddie surprised Brian; presenting that unique guitar to him as a 'prop' in this video. For sure, Freddie had artistic concepts that didn't always please, at first!. I think Roger sings the line "another tricky situation" in their last song, i.e., Only The Good Die Young. Hearing them memorialise this track in their last work stunned me. Now thinking about it brings tears. More evidence of their deep respect for each other. Freddie put a lot of thought into his work/their final product.

IF you were to pick what the visuals of the video were about? Perhaps the Fairy Court (he gets a bit of that in I want to Break free too). He's perhaps a bit like Oberon? Eh its a video, its pretty, the song is great

What's this outfit 😀 It's Freddie 😘

Who cares bout the video? Music counts

Please react to the live version in Rio, it's amazing

It’s a hard life is the direct opposite of what is depicted in the video. That is what makes it funny. Fred’s godson in Munich said what he wanted for his birthday is to have him dress up in this costume and appear at his birthday party and of course Freddie did. However the lyrics really meant a lot to Freddie and he worked on them a long time. It was very personal and Brian helped him along. He was in a relationship with a man named Winnie and it was a difficult one as usual. Fred wanted him to go to London with him but Winnie wanted to stay in Munich and work in the restaurant he had with his Dad. He then wrote Love Me Like There’s No Tomorrow because he was leaving for London. It’s a great love song. He then decided to stick with Jim who he had started seeing while he was with Winnie.

Apparently at the end of the video where Freddie sits down on the stairs he had to be careful as he was still recovering from breaking his leg on a drunken night out some months before.

The clip kinds of put me off a bit but this song is amazing

Can u react to the live version pliz?

Yeah this is a strange video. I think that Freddie's costume suggests that he feels like all eyes are on him because he is at the party alone (maybe?). I do really like the song through and the lyrics are true, it is hard to stay in a relationship at times.

React to this song live in Rio

Another great Queen reaction

This is a great song and video.

this is a hoot,lol,love it

No weird costumes to distract you

Es excelente!! Uno de las mejores canciones y uno de los mejores videos 👌👑🌠

Nice hair !!

Omg! Thank you so much the reaction 🥰🥰

The live version in Rock n Rio 1985 gives me goosebumps every time! 🥺