The Great Pretender
The Great Pretender is a popular song first recorded, in 1956, by The Platters with Tony Williams as lead vocalist. The words and music were written by Buck Ram, the Platters' manager and producer. The Platters' recording reached the number one position on both the R&B and pop charts in 1956.
The most notable of the many covers of The Great Pretender was probably the version made in 1987 by Freddie Mercury, the lead singer of the rock band Queen. Freddie's recording reached number four on the UK Singles Chart, and his music video for the song became one of the most well-known of his career
In 1999, National Public Radio included The Great Pretender in the "NPR 100", National Public Radio's list of the one hundred most important American musical works of the twentieth century. In 2004, the song was voted 351st greatest song of all time by Rolling Stone magazine.
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