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coffeesp00ns  ·  2898 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I haven't listened to Queen for years and years and years...

in that video, Roger Taylor is wearing a shirt that says "Choose Life". At first is was like "... anti abortion? weirdly regressive considering what i know of Queen".

I looked it u, and it's a suicide prevention campaign from Scotland.

then there's this old chestnut:

If you've never seen that movie, it's awful in the greatest way. It features Sean Connery as an egyptian.





rrrrr  ·  2895 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Wham! also wore those "choose life" t-shirts (designed by Katharine Hamnett):

And Trainspotting (1996) railed against the vacuousness of the slogan: