Queen 'Who Wants to Live Forever' Lyrics & Meaning: What Is the Song in 'Stranger Things' Season 5 Trailer?

The trailer for the fifth and final season of Stranger Things is here, and there’s a classic track soundtracking the action!

An epic version of Queen‘s “Who Wants to Live Forever” is heard playing during the trailer for the fifth season of the hit Netflix TV show, which premiered on Thursday (October 30), just ahead of Halloween.

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The 1986 track was composed by Brian May and sung on the album version as a duet between himself and Freddie Mercury. It also features the National Philharmonic Orchestra.

Interestingly, it was also used in 1986′s Highlander.

“The song was written – I’ve documented this very well, I know – but what happened was we went to see the Highlander rushes with Russell Mulcahy, and that was our first experience in any way with Highlander – I hadn’t read the script; I don’t think any of us had – and it was very moving,” Brian explained in the Greatest Video Hits 2 DVD commentary.

“[The film is] about a man who becomes conscious that he’s immortal, and he’s reluctant to accept that fact, but he’s told that if he falls in love he’s in big trouble, but of course he falls in love anyway. And the girl that he falls in love with eventually grows old and dies in his arms, and that kind of opened up a floodgate in me – I was dealing with a lot of tragedies in my life: the death of my father, the death of my marriage, and so forth. I could immediately hear this ‘Who Wants To Live Forever’ in my head, and it was almost complete in the car going home – I remember singing it to my manager as he drove me home, and he was pretty surprised. He said, ‘Where did that come from?’ and I said, ‘I don’t even know.’”

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