I Want To Break Free

Documented writing accounts

• John Deacon · official source writing account

An individual writing account is not substituted for a collective release credit. Full work and personnel credits remain unknown where the reviewed source does not establish them.

Identified recordings

Editorial perspective

I Want To Break Free occupies position 6 in the identified The Works programme. It follows Machines (Or Back To Humans). The next work is Keep Passing The Open Windows. Read that placement alongside the album perspective: Queen and Mack produced The Works. Official member profiles identify Radio Ga Ga with Roger Taylor and I Want to Break Free with John Deacon. Our editorial route uses those different writing voices as entrances into the complete record. The videos can illuminate an individual song, but they are external references rather than archive-owned footage. Returning from a song to the track list also reveals the shorter closing Is This the World We Created...? in its album context.

The timing belongs to I Want To Break Free - Remastered 2011, not to every performance of this work.

Sources and provenance

• The Works (Deluxe Edition 2011 Remaster) · catalog track listChecked: 2026-10-08
• QueenOnline · John DeaconChecked: 2026-10-08