Radio, someone still loves you.
The I'd sit alone and watch your light.
My only friend through teenage nights
And everything I had to know,
I heard it on my radio.
My radio was a huge desktop set that sat next to my bed and had AM & FM, but also short wave and God knows what else. It took 5 minutes for the tubes to warm up and start functioning. It picked up all the local college stations where I learned about the Hindi Kali (strife) Yuga (ages). They taught me that if the world didn’t end by 2003, it would be around another 20 years longer. On a good night, from my bedroom in Connecticut, I could hear Key West.
That’s also where I learned about The Who and how spooky their music was when it was novel. Of course, my eldest brother sold the radio for magic beans. He collects gold now, “just in case”; eschews the internet, even to write family; and has a bug-out bag.
I once told him he should have bought turnips instead of gold. He asked sincerely, “Why?” I told him, “just in case”, I will sell him my turnips for all his gold.
Freddie had something going with the first half of this song. Radio, someone still loves you.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | August 5, 2020 7:39 AM
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I never told a soul just how I've been feeling over you
But they said it really loud, they said it on the air
On the radio
Whoa, oh, oh
On the radio
Whoa oh oh oh
On the radio
Whoa, oh, oh
On the radio
Whoa, oh, oh
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | August 5, 2020 6:28 AM
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Internet Killed the Video Star. RIP, 2020.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | August 5, 2020 6:46 AM
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Hey OP: thanks for the thread. I hadn’t heard that song before. Your words paint an exquisite picture of your life back then, in Connecticut.
Never been there but I’d like to go one day. It’s lights out now in LA, and a nice breeze coming in. Just me and you guys , listening to the radio...
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | August 5, 2020 6:58 AM
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Queen loved scenes from the early industrial days. In Radio Gaga, Freddie pays homage to the famous Harold Lloyd “clock” scene from decades earlier.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | August 5, 2020 7:16 AM
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This very early 1982 hodgepodge of a video also displays Queen’s love for nostalgia, though the Depression-era children are particularly heartbreaking.
Bear in mind that Freddie moved to England at age 18 in 1964, so his family didn’t personally experience the British Isle Depression, War, or extended rationing themselves.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | August 5, 2020 7:28 AM
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None of the members of Queen experienced the Great Depression or WWII because they were all born after that time.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | August 5, 2020 7:39 AM
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