ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on a couple of music videos separated in their release by twelve years. Popular music is by definition well liked by a wide range of people and this admiration invariably extends to and indeed from the musicians who deliver the material, especially those prominent in live performances and music videos. The pertinence to disability studies becomes clear when people draw on popular music studies to find performance and family are entangled in the representation that does not disguise how the rock star persona is eroded by non-normative embodiment. Innuendo, the Queen album that features 'These are the days of our lives', 'addresses impending death as memorably and gracefully as any work could hope to, and does so without a moment of self-pity'. When tutors and students consider 'These are the days of our lives' alongside Johnny Cash's 'Hurt', the dichotomous framing of the passage of time provides a useful starting point for discussion.
