We Will Rock You : The Musical by Queen and Ben Elton - The Official Book Including Script and Full Lyrics to All Songs

Since opening at the Dominion Theatre in London's West End in May 2002, We Will Rock You has become one of the most successful musicals in recent memory. Written by acclaimed comedian and TV scriptwriter Ben Elton, and based around the music of Queen, We Will Rock You tell the story of a future Earth where globalization has eliminated all creativity and idiosyncrasy. It's a safe, happy Ga Ga world - unless you want to be a rebel, or you want to rock. In this future nightmare world, now named Planet Mall, all musical instruments are banned, and a huge corporate entity called Globalsoft employs computers to compose anodyne ditties for manufactured boy and girl bands to perform and consumers to download. Hits are scheduled years in advance and talent is dead. Sound familiar? Yet there is resistance to this parlous state of affairs. Led by a boy called Galileo and a girl called Scaramouche, a party of rebels called the Bohemians look to overthrow the oppressive corporation and return to a rock & roll golden age called the Rhapsody - a time, before plastic pop, when musicians composed and played their own songs. Will Galileo lead the Bohemians back to the wonders of the Rhapsody, or will the Ga Cops capture our hapless hero, drag him before the Killer Queen, and consign him to oblivion across the Seven Seas of Rye? Containing the full, unexpurgated script and song lyrics and featuring hundreds of striking photographs, this fully official book captures the magnificence of We Will Rock You and is a tremendous, definitive souvenir for the near-million people who have seen the show - and the many more fans of Queen.