Music Instructor - Friends will be Friends

What this video is

Music Instructor's 'Friends Will Be Friends' is a eurodance reworking of Queen's 1986 anthem, released in 1996 as part of the 'Queen Dance Traxx' series on EMI Electrola / Akropolis Musik & Film GmbH, produced by the Triple-M Crew (Mike Michaels, Mark 'MM' Dollar, Mark Tabak). The release sits at the intersection of mid-90s eurodance's commercial peak and the ongoing institutional canonization of Queen's catalog…

Why it matters

As a product of the German eurodance infrastructure — the same network that produced acts on labels like ZYX, Coconut, and CDL — this video is a documentary artifact of mid-tier European club-pop production circa 1996, illustrating how independent German production houses leveraged major catalog…

The director

Oliver Sommer (b. 1963, Nürnberg, Germany) is a prolific German music video director and producer with over 400 directorial credits, affiliated with AVA Studios Germany. His career spans from mid-1990s eurodance to 2010s German pop, with credits including…