Home › Entities › song › Who Wants to Live Forever

Who Wants to Live Forever

1986 symphonic pop song preformed by Queen
MusicComposition song Q222586
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

Summary

Who Wants to Live Forever is a song[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of song entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,294 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: single[3]
  • Composer: Brian May[4]
  • Genre: rock music[5]
  • Follows: Pain Is So Close to Pleasure[6]
  • Followed by: One Year of Love[7]
  • Producer: Reinhold Mack[8]
  • Performer: Queen[9]
  • Record label: EMI[10]
  • Part of: A Kind of Magic[11]
  • Language of work or name: English[12]
  • Publication date: September 15, 1986[13]
  • Lyricist: Brian May[14]
  • Main subject: pursuit of immortality[15]
  • Title: Who Wants to Live Forever[16]
  • Copyright status: copyrighted[17]

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Song[18]

  • Genre(s): classical, pop[19]

  • Community tags: classical, pop, stage & screen, vocal[20]

  • MusicBrainz ID: fd9e2746-807e-36f1-b78e-600efc31f57a[21]

Why It Matters

Who Wants to Live Forever has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] It is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

Related Entities

A Kind of Magic Brian May EMI Queen

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [18] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [21] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Who Wants to Live Forever. Retrieved October 22, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/who-wants-to-live-forever
MLA “Who Wants to Live Forever.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 22 Oct. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/who-wants-to-live-forever.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_who-wants-to-live-forever_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Who Wants to Live Forever}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/who-wants-to-live-forever}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-22}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): Who Wants to Live Forever — https://4ort.xyz/entity/who-wants-to-live-forever (retrieved 2026-10-22)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/who-wants-to-live-forever · Last refreshed: