Freddie Mercury starred in two Queen music videos that were banned by MTV, who Roger Taylor slammed for being “narrow-minded.”

Queen made some incredible music videos over the decades, but did you know that two of them were deemed so controversial that they were banned from airing on MTV?

In 1982, the band’s Body Language video – which was released 42 years ago this week – became the first ever to be censored from the cable channel.

Its erotic bathhouse scenes were considered unsuitable for audiences at the time, but the track still went on to become Queen’s fifth-biggest US hit single. In fact, the song outperformed Radio Ga Ga and Somebody to Love across the pond.

Then, two years later, MTV banned Queen’s famous I Want To Break Free music video, with Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon dressed in drag as Coronation Street characters.

But this time the ban saw the single stall just outside of the US Top 50 and Queen drummer Roger was far from happy.

In an unearthed interview from an episode of Queen the Greatest, Roger said: “Well MTV were very narrow-minded. It was Whitesnake, and ****ing Whitesnake, and then another Whitesnake track. And they decided they didn’t think that men in drag was ‘rock enough’ I guess, and so they didn’t play the video.”