Dear Mr. Murdoch: bleccchh!         Photo: TATYANA MAKEYEVA/AFP/Getty Images.

Back in 1994, [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]QUEEN[/lastfm] drummer [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]ROGER TAYLOR[/lastfm] released a protest song called “Dear Mr. Murdoch”, and there’s news about that…

Seeing as how the News Corp. head is in a bit of a tight spot, Roger has decided to re-release the single with some new lyrics added to reflect the current News Of The World scandal.

Ironic, since [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]QUEEN[/lastfm] used the name of the paper for their album NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Look for it on iTunes, or at queenonline.com.

Lyrics to Dear Mr. Murdoch 2011:

Dear Mr. Murdoch, what have you done
With your News of the Screws and your soaraway Sun?
You sharpen our hatred
You’ve blunted our minds
We’re drowning in nipples and bingo and sex crimes

How many times must they poke and they pry
Must they twist and lie?
Just to add to the grime they even screwed up the times
Love to kick their arse goodbye oh wouldn’t I!

Dear Mr. Murdoch you play hard to see
But with your bare-arsed cheek you should be on page three
And dear Mr. Murdoch you’re really the pits
Bad news is good business, you’re the king of the tits

They stain all they touch, they’re real woman haters
But we’re on their trail
They go straight for the lowest common denominators
How could they fail? Go straight to jail – (no bail)!

Dear Mr. Murdoch you’re a powerful man
You control half our media whose lifeblood is scam
And dear Mr. Murdoch we’re not so amused
Just line up the people whose lives they’ve abused

And dear Mr. Murdoch you come down from on high
You even bought up the air waves, you control all our sky

Dear Mr. Murdoch where are you coming from?
Getting so hard to tell if you’re a Yank, Oz or Pom

Dear Mr. Murdoch you’re really the pits
Bad news is good business, you’re the king of the tits

Roger has never been a fan of ol’ RUPERT. In 1998, the drummer was revealed to be the secret celebrity who blocked Murdoch’s purchase of the Manchester United football club. ~JZ.