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Bohemian Rhapsody


2018, "Bohemian Rhapsody" became the most-streamed song from the 20th century, and the most-streamed of all classic rock songs. The number of downloads of the song and original video has exceeded 1.6 billion downloads across global on-demand streaming services. According to Mercury's friend Chris Smith (a keyboard player in Smile), Mercury first started developing "Bohemian Rhapsody" in the late 1960s; Mercury used to play parts of songs he was writing at the piano, and one of his pieces, known
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debut performance and later recorded a ten track demo at Meadowside Studios in Wisbech. Shortly into 1999 Weller departed to University, leaving the band without a permanent bassist. In late 1999, singer-songwriter Seymour Glass briefly joined on bass before leaving to front another local band, Miss Black America. Auditioning many bass players and managing to win a local band competition covering "Bohemian Rhapsody", they formed a new incarnation of the band in 2001, with Rob Brown (guitar) and Dave Jago (bass) under the new
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and a maple neck. In 2017, the "Mini May" was upsized with a 22 3/4" scale neck. An acoustic guitar, featuring a 24-fret neck and the body outline of the Red Special went into production in 2007. This model is named the "Rhapsody", after the Queen song "Bohemian Rhapsody". A bass guitar called the "Bri-Bass" was announced on May's website and is available. It looks like his normal guitar but with four bass strings. It features a bound mahogany
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Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. In 2004 the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. , "Bohemian Rhapsody" is the second most-played song on British radio, in clubs and on jukeboxes collectively, after Procol Harum's "A Whiter Shade of Pale". On 30 September 2007 for BBC Radio 1's 40th birthday, it was revealed on "The Radio 1 Chart Show" that "Bohemian Rhapsody" had been the most played song since Radio 1's launch. In December 2018, "
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Queen live performances


Bass Guitar, Vocals, Triangle," since he sang on Liar. The Night at the Opera Tour of 1975/76 coincided with "Bohemian Rhapsody" dominating the singles charts, and the band performed sections of it on three occasions during the course of a typical show. It was perhaps fitting that, given his passionate efforts in promoting the Bohemian Rhapsody single on the radio, the concert opened with a recorded introduction by Kenny Everett followed by the operatic section, during which the band waited in the wings. This was followed by
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contained a special appearance from Brian May and Ben Elton who emerged together in a cloud of smoke during the encore rendition of "Bohemian Rhapsody" with May playing guitar. As with the year before, Elton gave a thank you speech and the entire cast performed "The Show Must Go On", accompanied by May on guitar. On Saturday 12 September 2009 at the early matinee performance Brian May again emerged in a cloud of smoke playing the guitar in "Bohemian Rhapsody". What was the occasion for this appearance is not
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heard in stereo, the words "little high" come from the left speaker whereas the "little low" comes from the right); chromatic side-slipping on "easy come, easy go" highlights the dream-like atmosphere. The end of this section is marked by the bass entrance and the cross-handed piano vamp in B. The piano begins in B major along with the entrance of John Deacon's bass guitar, marking the onset of this section. After it plays twice, Mercury's vocals enter.
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it or "You're My Best Friend" released as the first single to "A Night at the Opera" instead of "Bohemian Rhapsody". Shortly afterwards, on Kenny Everett's radio show, Freddie Mercury hands the single to the eponymous host, who then reads out "I'm In Love With My Car" rather than Bohemian Rhapsody, which is then correctly played on air. At Mercury's party, Brian asks Roger which is the sexiest part of a car. The song was also featured in Amazon Prime
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remaining members Brian May and Roger Taylor took the stage to accept the award, Brian May was overcome with emotion and said that "Freddie would be tickled." In the final scene of said video, a pose of the band from the video from the original "Bohemian Rhapsody" clip morphs into an identically posed 1985 photo, first featured in the "One Vision" video. In the 2018 Queen biopic "Bohemian Rhapsody", Myers has a cameo as a fictional record executive who pans the song and refuses to release
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CineEurope, an early showing of the film closed the show with appearances by Rami Malek and producer Graham King and special appearances by Brian May and Roger Taylor, who were playing a concert of Queen + Adam Lambert in Barcelona. It was announced on 6 September 2018 that the film would receive a PG-13 rating in the United States by the MPAA. "Bohemian Rhapsody" grossed $216.4 million in the United States and Canada, and $687.3 million in other territories, for a total worldwide gross of $903.2 million, against
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and Hans Zimmer. In 2018, Paul was also bass guitar coach to actor Joseph Mazzello, who played the part of Queen’s rock bassist John Deacon in the 20th Century Fox Academy Award winning production of Bohemian Rhapsody. TV shows Artists that Paul worked with on TV shows include: Alyn Ainsworth Orchestra, George Benson, Chuck Berry, Glen Campbell, Joe Cocker, John Coleman Orchestra, Randy Crawford, Gloria Estefan, James Galway, Janet Jackson, Al Jarreau, Tom Jones, Barry Manilow, Luciano Pavarotti, The Pointer
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Joseph Mazzello


Joseph Francis Mazzello III (born September 21, 1983) is an American actor, director, and screenwriter. He is best known for his roles as Tim Murphy in "Jurassic Park", Eugene Sledge in the HBO miniseries "The Pacific", Dustin Moskovitz in "The Social Network" and Queen bass player John Deacon in the biopic "Bohemian Rhapsody". Mazzello was born in Rhinebeck, New York, and raised in Hyde Park, New York, the son of Virginia (née Strong) and Joseph Mazzello,
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usual equipment, the group used a wide variety of instruments on the album. Mercury used a grand piano for the majority of the songs, contributing a jangle piano on "Seaside Rendezvous", while Taylor used a timpani and gong on "Bohemian Rhapsody". Deacon played double bass on "'39" and Wurlitzer Electric Piano on "You're My Best Friend". In the album liner notes, May was credited to "orchestral backdrops" — a reference to the fact that he played a number of instruments not
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Rafael Moreira


and wanted to know if I would be interested in auditioning with him for the TV show and my reply was "lets do it!" At the auditions we got to play Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen), Need you Tonight (INXS) and Suffragette City (David Bowie) and when we finished playing, there was excitement in the room and chemistry on the stage!! Sasha also auditioned on bass with Paul and I. To complete the house band, the producers of the show ended up choosing drummer Nate Morton and rhythm
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Queen with lead singer Freddie Mercury and drummer Roger Taylor, having previously performed with Taylor in the band Smile, which he had joined while he was at university. Within five years of their formation in 1970 and the recruitment of bass player John Deacon completing the lineup, Queen had become one of the biggest rock bands in the world with the success of the album "A Night at the Opera" and its single "Bohemian Rhapsody". From the mid-1970s until the early 1990s, Queen were an almost constant presence in the
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the first six months because she was afraid the audience would laugh at her. She later said that the frank lyrics encouraged pathos from the listeners. Ian went on a promotional tour for the single and performed at small shows for almost half a year. These appearances included a British morning show where Queen was promoting their 1975 single "Bohemian Rhapsody". In the beginning, Ian toured with a drummer, bass player, and her tour manager. Ian said she knew the song was successful when the size of the audience grew
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List of Bohemian Rhapsody cover versions


The song "Bohemian Rhapsody", written by Freddie Mercury and originally recorded by rock band Queen for their album "A Night at the Opera", has been covered by many different artists. The San Francisco Bay Area duo "The Braids" recorded an R&B version of "Bohemian Rhapsody" for the soundtrack to the Jon Lovitz movie "High School High". It was also their debut single and became a major hit in Europe. Jeremy Helligar from "Entertainment Weekly" wrote: "Stripping ”Bohemian Rhapsody” down
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recorded and mixed at Sarm East Studios in late 1975. As with "Bohemian Rhapsody", most of the guitar parts on the song were initially played on piano by Mercury, to demonstrate to Brian May how they needed to be played on guitar. The song is dominated by guitars, strong lead and backing vocals as well as piano. It's in 4/4 meter, and has a piano arpeggio intro with heavy guitars, bowed double bass, mechanical sounding noise and a loud shriek by Roger Taylor, which abruptly leads into
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done on only one track, rather than recording multiple tracks. May stated that he wanted to compose "a little tune that would be a counterpart to the main melody; I didn't just want to play the melody". The guitarist said that his better material stems from this way of working: in which he thought of the tune before playing it: "the fingers tend to be predictable unless being led by the brain." "Bohemian Rhapsody" has been affiliated to the genres of progressive rock/symphonic rock
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Bohemian Rhapsody


to die / I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all." This is where the guitar solo enters. Towards the end of the ballad section, the band builds in intensity, incorporating a guitar solo (in E major) played and composed by May. The intensity continues to build, but once the bass line completes its descent establishing modulation to the new key (A major), the entire band cuts out abruptly at 3:03 except for quiet, staccato A major quaver (eighth-note) chords on the
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clear. He did the same again on Saturday 14 November 2009 at the matinee. On Sunday 31 January 2010 in The O2 Dublin, Brian May once again played Bohemian Rhapsody with the company during the finale of both the matinee and evening shows to celebrate the end of their year-long tour. On Saturday 5 September 2010 Brian also appeared though a cloud of smoke, again to play "Bohemian Rhapsody". This was due to the annual cast change, as well as a celebration of what would have been Freddie Mercury
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to reach itch known as 'Bohemian Rhapsody.' And scratch them we did." The EP features some of the same line-up as "Conditions of My Parole", including Keenan on vocals, Carina Round on vocals and guitar, Mat Mitchell on bass, guitar and programming, Juliette Commagere on additional vocals, Josh Eustis on guitar and piano, Matt McJunkins on bass and Jeff Friedl on drums and percussion, as well as guest musicians Zac Rae on piano, Josh Morreau on bass and Claire Acey on vocals
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Bohemian Rhapsody


was released, with "I'm in Love with My Car" as the B-side. Following Everett's escapade in October 1975, Eric Hall, a record plugger, gave a copy to David "Diddy" Hamilton to play on his weekday Radio One show. Hall stated "Monster, Monster! This could be a hit!" The song became the 1975 UK Christmas number one, holding the top position for nine weeks. "Bohemian Rhapsody" was the first song ever to get to number one in the
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Brad Houser


John Bradley Houser (born September 7, 1960) is an American bass guitar, baritone saxophone and bass clarinet player, originally from Dallas, Texas. He was a co-founding member of the New Bohemians, later to become known as Edie Brickell & New Bohemians. He also co-founded Critters Buggin (of Seattle, Washington) with fellow New Bohemian Matt Chamberlain and Skerik. In 2006 he stated, "In Austin I play with the Patrice Pike Band, Steve Wedemeyer, Colin Brooks, Oliver Rajamani, Zydeco
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Oliver Holzwarth


Oliver Holzwarth (born 19 October 1967) is a German bass guitarist. Oliver is best known as the live/studio bass player for Blind Guardian between 1998 and 2012, and as an official member of Rhapsody of Fire from 2010 to 2014. His brother, drummer Alex Holzwarth, was also a member of Rhapsody of Fire. Moreover, he is a member of the side project Coldseed. He also was the bass player of the progressive metal band Sieges Even, which he and his brother were founding members of, and
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Mercury mentally prepared the song beforehand and directed the band throughout. Mercury used a C. Bechstein concert grand piano, which he played in the promotional video and the UK tour. Due to the elaborate nature of the song, it was recorded in various sections. The piano was the same one Paul McCartney had used to record Hey Jude. Baker recalled in 1999, "'Bohemian Rhapsody' was totally insane, but we enjoyed every minute of it. It was basically a joke, but a successful joke. [Laughs]
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wailings, furiously wrenched guitars and ravishingly over-ambitious ideas. Possesses one of the most unorthodox 'axe' solos known to mankind." The style of the song was compared to that of Queen by "Rolling Stone"s Mark Kemp, while other critics, including David Browne of "Entertainment Weekly", Jon Lusk of the BBC and Simon Williams of "NME" wrote about its similarity to Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody". Williams described the song as being "not unlike 'Bohemian Rhapsody' being played backwards by a
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the Radio Star" (1979), which became the first music video played on MTV in 1981. In 1975, the British rock band Queen employed Bruce Gowers to make a promotional video to show their new single "Bohemian Rhapsody" on the BBC music series "Top of the Pops". According to rock historian Paul Fowles, the song is "widely credited as the first global hit single for which an accompanying video was central to the marketing strategy". "Rolling Stone" has said of "Bohemian Rhapsody"
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of the first single, "Bohemian Rhapsody") to allow it to be the B-side and locked himself in a cupboard until Mercury agreed. This decision would later become the cause of much internal friction in the band, in that while it was only the B-side, it generated an equal amount of publishing royalties for Taylor as the main single did for Mercury simply because it was the B-side to "Bohemian Rhapsody". The song was often played live during the 1977–81 period. Taylor sang it
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List of UK top-ten singles in 1991


and "Bohemian Rhapsody" ("Wayne's World"). The Comic Relief single for 1991 was recorded by comedy duo Gareth Hale and Norman Pace (known together as Hale & Pace), alongside "The Stonkers", consisting of Brian May (who also produced the track), David Gilmour and Tony Iommi (on guitar), Neil Murray (bass guitar), Cozy Powell, Roger Taylor and Rowan Atkinson's comic persona Mr. Bean (all on drums). The single, titled "The Stonk"
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Bohemian Rhapsody


"Bohemian Rhapsody" is a song by the British rock band Queen. It was written by Freddie Mercury for the band's 1975 album "A Night at the Opera". It is a six-minute suite, consisting of several sections without a chorus: an intro, a ballad segment, an operatic passage, a hard rock part and a reflective coda. The song is a more accessible take on the 1970s progressive rock genre. Upon its release as a single, "Bohemian Rhapsody" became a commercial success,
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with "rhapsody" affirming the romantic ideals of art rock". Commenting on bohemianism, Judith Peraino said "Mercury intended ... [this song] to be a 'mock opera', something outside the norm of rock songs, and it does follow a certain operatic logic: choruses of multi-tracked voices alternate with aria-like solos, the emotions are excessive, the plot confusing." "Bohemian Rhapsody" begins with an introduction, then goes into a piano ballad, before a guitar solo leads to an operatic
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best-selling album of all time in the United Kingdom. Two of Mercury's songs, "We Are the Champions" and "Bohemian Rhapsody", have also each been voted as the greatest song of all time in major polls by Sony Ericsson and "Guinness World Records". Both songs have been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame; "Bohemian Rhapsody" in 2004 and "We Are the Champions" in 2009. In October 2007 the video for "Bohemian Rhapsody" was voted the greatest of all time
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Paul Whitington, writing for the "Irish Independent", gave the film 3/5 stars, saying: ""Bohemian Rhapsody" is not big on subtlety: it tells Freddie's story loudly, taking dramatic shortcuts, over-neatly conflating events and reducing most of the surrounding characters to single dimensions. Some of the dialogue's a bit heavy-handed too, but I must say I was thoroughly entertained." For the "Evening Standard", Craig McLean wrote: ""Bohemian Rhapsody" is triumphant entertainment. The
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initially mixed, "Bohemian Rhapsody" became Queen's most popular song and is considered one of the greatest rock songs. The single was accompanied by a promotional video, which scholars consider ground-breaking. "Rolling Stone" stated that its influence "cannot be overstated, practically inventing the music video seven years before MTV went on the air." "The Guardian" ranked the music video for "Bohemian Rhapsody" number 31 on their list of the 50 key events in rock music history, adding it ensured "
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'm In Love With My Car" on 27 November 2015 for Record Store Day 2015. Queen also released "A Night At The Odeon, Live At Hammersmith 75", on CD, DVD-Video and Blu-ray. This includes the first live "professionally" recorded performance of "Bohemian Rhapsody". However, the very first recording and live performance of "Bohemian Rhapsody" was the performance on 14 November 1975 in Liverpool. The "a cappella" opening was too complex to perform live, so Mercury tried
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it has more ragged energy than so many good ones, largely because of Rami Malek’s performance as Mercury, all glitter and muscle and nerve endings." She described it as "a movie for sensualists, not quality-control experts". Chief "Guardian" pop critic Alexis Petridis described the portrayal of Mercury as "sanitised", writing: ""Bohemian Rhapsody" is a film that plays so fast and loose with the truth, it ends up seeming faintly ridiculous: you start out nitpicking about minor chronological errors
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studio manager Lylle Breier, the idea of the Muppets singing "Bohemian Rhapsody" had long been an idea that they wanted to do, but only was able to bring the project together within a short time before the video's release. Thatcher noted they had a long list of possible songs they wanted to do with a large group of Muppets, including Don McLean's "American Pie", but "Bohemian Rhapsody" was their ultimate selection. Filming was completed within a day by 20 staffers; Thatcher considered the task to
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and Mike Myers in supporting roles. Queen members Brian May and Roger Taylor served as consultants. A British-American venture, the film was produced by 20th Century Fox, Regency Enterprises, GK Films, and Queen Films, with Fox serving as distributor. "Bohemian Rhapsody" was announced in 2010, with Sacha Baron Cohen set to play Mercury. After he left the project in 2013 following creative differences with producers, the project languished for several years before Malek was cast in November 2016. Bryan Singer was the director through
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withdrew "Bohemian Rhapsody"'s nomination for the year's GLAAD Media Award in the Outstanding Film – Wide Release category. On 6 February 2019, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts removed Singer's name from "Bohemian Rhapsody"'s nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best British Film. Upon getting nominated for, and winning, its Best Editing awards, several clips from the film went viral online and were criticised for their poor editing styles and continuity errors. Editor John Ottman, aware of the quality of the clips
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Bohemian Rhapsody" officially became the most-streamed song from the 20th century, surpassing Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and Guns N' Roses' "Sweet Child o' Mine". "Bohemian Rhapsody" also became the most-streamed classic rock song of all time. The number of downloads of the song and original video exceeded 1.6 billion downloads across global on-demand streaming services. The video surpassed one billion views on YouTube in July 2019, making it the oldest music video to reach one billion on
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a "Greatest Hits" cassette in Iran, a leaflet in Persian was included with translation and explanations (refers to a book published in Iran called "The March of the Black Queen" by Sarah Sefati and Farhad Arkani, which included the whole biography of the band and complete lyrics with Persian translation (2000)). In the explanation, Queen states that "Bohemian Rhapsody" is about a young man who has accidentally killed someone and, like Faust, sold his soul to the devil. On the night before his
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it does. They sound extremely self-important." Allan Jones of "Melody Maker" was unimpressed, describing the song as "a superficially impressive pastiche of incongruous musical styles" and that Queen "contrived to approximate the demented fury of the Balham Amateur Operatic Society performing "The Pirates of Penzance"... 'Bohemian Rhapsody' is full of drama, passion and romance and sounds rather like one of those mini-opera affairs that Pete Townsend ["sic"] used to tack on to the end of Who albums
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post-production special effects have done their job: the Live Aid scenes are convincingly epic. The actors have done their job, too, notably Malek, who oozes pure Mercury." For "Time", Stephanie Zacharek wrote: "In strict filmmaking terms, "Bohemian Rhapsody" is a bit of a mess. Some of its scenes connect awkwardly, and it hits every beat of disaster and triumph squarely, like a gong. Yet if it has many of the problems we associate with 'bad' movies,
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make a salable PG-13 movie out of an R-rated rock life, "Bohemian Rhapsody" leaves you feeling that something essential and elemental is missing", but said to put Malek "high on the list for best film performances of 2018," as the actor "digs so deep into the role that we can't believe we’re not watching the real thing." Dave Calhoun wrote for "Time Out": "It boasts a film-stealing, possessed performance by Rami Malek, who pouts, struts and
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a Picasso." He asked the record company to tell Queen that the video was not his idea, and that he apologised to them. The band, though, sent a reply simply saying, "Thank you for using our song." This astonished Myers, who responded, "Thank you for even letting me touch the hem of your garments!" The "Wayne's World" video version of "Bohemian Rhapsody" won Queen its only MTV Video Music Award for "Best Video from a Film". When
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List of Bohemian Rhapsody cover versions


its first week of release. Unlike other cover versions, the Muppets' single features the final master of Queen's original 1975 recording. The video and song is an official production of The Muppets Studio. The success of the video caused Walt Disney Records to release the cover as a single on December 13, 2009, where it peaked at #32 on the UK Singles Chart. The Muppets' version of "Bohemian Rhapsody" was directed by Kirk Thatcher, who has been involved with several other Muppets videos. According to
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Bad News (Bad News album)


Bad News is the self-titled debut album from British heavy metal group Bad News released in October 1987 by EMI. The album features a cover of the famous Queen song "Bohemian Rhapsody" and was produced by Queen's guitarist Brian May. "Bohemian Rhapsody" was released as a single along with music video created for it, written and directed by Adrian Edmondson, who portrays Vim Fuego in the group. The video was released as a video single by Picture Music International. In 2004, EMI re-released the album
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and doctors. Among them are Matt Williams, producer and writer of "The Cosby Show", "Home Improvement", and "Roseanne"; actor Rami Malek, Golden Globe and Emmy award winner for best drama series ("Mr. Robot") and plays Freddie Mercury in "Bohemian Rhapsody" for which he won the 2019 Golden Globe for Best Actor and the 2019 Academy Award for Actor in a Leading Role; Jack McBrayer, actor on "30 Rock"; Jerry Sloan, NBA player and Hall of
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Spain and other countries. Sales were certified quadruple Platinum in Australia, triple Platinum in Canada, and Platinum in Poland. Most music videos on the DVD have been converted to 16:9 widescreen. This was achieved by cropping the top and bottom of the original 4:3 frame. Audio: The second disc also contains some extras, such as a documentary about "Bohemian Rhapsody" called "Inside the Rhapsody" and a photo gallery. A Flames version of "Bohemian Rhapsody" is available. Audio commentaries by Freddie Mercury and John Deacon
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Heart" b/w "Look at Me" for the Ye Old King Label. After the Rusics broke up Manzi joined the Bohemians, replacing lead guitarist Richard Martinez, who went on the join the Cats Meow, who recorded a few singles for Decca. In 1967 the Bohemians changed their name to Bohemian Vendetta. More personnel changes were to come that year. After Nick Manzi's entry, Randy Pollock switched from guitar to bass, and Chuck Monica replaced Richie Sorrento on drums. Bohemian Vendetta played at venues such as
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, hard rock, and progressive pop. The song is highly unusual for a popular single in featuring no chorus, combining disparate musical styles and containing lyrics which eschew conventional love-based narratives for allusions to murder and nihilism. The Beach Boys' 1966 single "Good Vibrations", which also consisted of disparate music sections recorded separately, was a precursor to "Bohemian Rhapsody". Music scholar Sheila Whiteley suggests that "the title draws strongly on contemporary rock ideology, the individualism of the "bohemian" artists' world,
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Darkness". The band was joined by another two members, Patrice Guers (bass) and Dominique Leurquin (guitars). Alex Holzwarth, who had been playing drums for Rhapsody onstage since 2000 was listed in the official band line-up on these releases, although Holzwarth has played drums in the studio since The Dark Secret EP. "The Dark Secret" EP was released on June 28, 2004. It gave listeners a taste of what could be expected from the new album, labelled "" which was released several
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the grave repercussions of the sodomy laws of the time. When the band wanted to release the single in 1975, various executives suggested to them that, at 5 minutes and 55 seconds, it was too long and would never be a hit. The song was played to other musicians who commented the band had no hope of it ever being played on radio. According to producer Roy Thomas Baker, he and the band bypassed this corporate decision by playing the song for Capital Radio DJ Kenny Everett: "we had a reel
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Sweet Lady (Queen song)


one can hear the wires on the snare drum of Taylor's kit vibrating along with John Deacon's bass guitar riff. "Sweet Lady" was first performed live on the A Night at the Opera Tour in November 1975. It was one of only three songs from the soon to be released album ("A Night At The Opera") to be performed live (the others being "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "The Prophet's Song"). The band were still completing the album a week before it was to
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piano, marking the start of the "Opera" section. A rapid series of rhythmic and harmonic changes introduces a pseudo-operatic midsection, which contains the bulk of the elaborate vocal multi-tracking, depicting the narrator's descent into hell. While the underlying pulse of the song is maintained, the dynamics vary greatly from bar to bar, from only Mercury's voice accompanied by a piano to a multi-voice choir supported by drums, bass, piano, and timpani. The choir effect was created by having May
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range of instruments such as a double bass, harp, ukulele and more. Upon release, the album topped the UK Albums Chart for four non-consecutive weeks. It peaked at number four on the US "Billboard" 200 chart and became the band's first Platinum-selling album in the US. The worldwide sales for the album are over six million copies. It also produced the band's most successful single in the UK, "Bohemian Rhapsody", which became their first UK number one and one of the
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, making it one of the few Queen songs not to feature their lead singer. "Bohemian Rhapsody" was written by Mercury with the first guitar solo composed by May. All piano, bass and drum parts, as well as the vocal arrangements, were thought up by Mercury on a daily basis and written down "in blocks" (using note names instead of sheets) on a phonebook. During the recording, the song became affectionately known as "Fred's Thing" to the band, and the title only emerged during
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"Billie Jean" (No. 2), Adele's "Someone like You" (No. 3), Oasis' "Don't Look Back in Anger" (No. 4) and The Beatles' "Hey Jude" (No. 5). The song was also ranked #5 in RadioMafia's list of "Top 500 Songs". To mark the 40th anniversary of "Bohemian Rhapsody", the song was released on a limited edition 12" vinyl with the original B-side "I
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simply as "The Cowboy Song", contained lyrics that ended up in the completed version produced years later, in 1975, specifically, "Mama ... just killed a man." Producer Roy Thomas Baker, who began working with Queen in 1972, related how Mercury once played the opening ballad section on the piano for him in Mercury's flat: "He played the beginning on the piano, then stopped and said, 'And this is where the opera section comes in!' Then we went out to eat dinner
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Patrice Guers


Patrice Guers (born 5 September 1969 in Annecy, Haute-Savoie) was the former bassist of the Italian symphonic metal band Rhapsody of Fire. He joined the band after Alessandro Lotta left the band and performed with them until 2011, when he departed with guitarist Luca Turilli to found Luca Turilli's Rhapsody. He has also worked with Patrick Rondat, contributing in several albums and live appearances. He started playing bass at the age of fourteen. He has a progressive style of playing bass. Patrice is endorsed by the Vigier
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Songs and Tunes from the Original Soundtrack of Magical Sentosa


band "The Fantastic Fish". The piece is supposedly inspired by Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody due to the fact that the song changes music genres in every verse. "It's My World" is characterized by strong bass and hip hop beats. Sung by Kiki, it expresses his feelings throughout the lyrics. Heavy sampling of scratching is used at the song bridges. The song samples the stomp-stomp-clap rhythm of the hit song "We Will Rock You" by Queen replacing the stomps with two hyperbeats and the
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Paul Westwood


Filmography •Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) (bass guitar coach) For composers Queen •The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004) For composer Richard Hartley •Little Voice (film) (1998) For composer John Altman •Evita (Film) (1996) For composers Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber •Labyrinth (1986 film) (1986) For composer Trevor Jones, David Bowie •Sid and Nancy (1986) For the Sex Pistols •Hors-La-Loi (Outlaws) (1985)] For composer Philippe Sarde •Joyeuses Paques (Happy
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the trailer instead of reviewing the film. They jumped to conclusions. Once people stake their claim, it's hard for them to withdraw." Fraser Nelson, editor of "The Spectator", wrote: "Don’t believe the critics. If you like Queen’s music, see the Queen film," and he likened the critics' negative reaction to the film to the original reaction to the song "Bohemian Rhapsody" and the popular musical "We Will Rock You". Also writing for "The Spectator"
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it as a single, proclaiming that it is too long for radio and that it is not a song that "teenagers can crank up the volume in their car and bang their heads to", a reference to the iconic scene in "Wayne's World". The song has won numerous awards, and has been covered and parodied by many artists. In 1977 "Bohemian Rhapsody" received two Grammy Award nominations for Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus and Best Arrangement for Voices. (The winners
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was added to play Mercury's long-term boyfriend Jim Hutton. On 26 September 2017, it was announced that Aidan Gillen had been cast as John Reid, Queen's second manager, from 1975 to 1978, who took over from Norman Sheffield of Trident Studios; while Tom Hollander was set to play Jim Beach, Queen's third manager, who took over from John Reid in 1978. The film includes cameos by current Queen vocalist Adam Lambert as a truck driver and the film's editor John Ottman as a live TV
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early 20th century British composers exhibiting the influence of folksong composed a number of examples, including Ralph Vaughan Williams's three "Norfolk Rhapsodies", George Butterworth's "A Shropshire Lad", and Frederick Delius's "Brigg Fair" (which is subtitled "An English Rhapsody") . Some familiar examples may give an idea of the character of a rhapsody: In 1975, the British rock band Queen released "Bohemian Rhapsody", a bombastic mock-operatic rock song which is in the form of a four-part
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of the previous D-flat, not a modulation) and has a lively rhythm, leading to the Lassan in B-flat minor. The Lassan is played slowly, with a rhythm in improvisational style, again finishing with a large cadenza at the end, leading sequentially to the Friska (Allegro) in B-flat major. The melody is played in semiquavers and is considered to be quite difficult, since it demands the player to move fast in octaves. The bass line repeats the same strong quaver rhythms, also
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his supportive bandmates. The members are shocked to hear this, but Freddie tells them that pitying him is only a waste of time. On the day of Live Aid, Freddie reconnects with Jim, Mary, and his family. The film moves to a quarter hour of the band onstage, performing "Bohemian Rhapsody", "Radio Ga Ga", "Hammer to Fall", and "We Are the Champions", helping increase donations and turning the event into a massive success. The film ends with inter-
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and self-indulgent piece of revisionist history, where the legend is always prioritized over the truth, even when the truth was surely far more interesting." For "The Spectator", Jasper Rees described "Bohemian Rhapsody" as "a succession of predigested clichés", writing "you are overcome by the sapping impression that almost nothing happened the way it's being presented." He concluded: "The costumes and wigs are splendid, and the songs are still up to snuff. But this homage to a showman is
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bits of operatic harmonies to snatches that sound like Sparks and David Cassidy, but, in the end the whole adds up to less than the sum of its parts." He did, however, say that it was "unthinkable" that it wouldn't be a hit. The most positive review came from "Sounds", which called it "impossibly disjointed and complex, but a dazzlingly clever epic from the fevered mind of Freddie Mercury". In 1976, when asked for his opinion on "Bohemian Rhapsody",
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'Bohemian Rhapsody' which bore many of the hallmarks of the 'prog' genre". He said it was "unique at this point to hear a hit single in this style", it was "more accessible than other music of the genre" and was "able to communicate beyond the usual confines of the style". Author and progressive rock historian Stephen Lambe called it a "remarkable" single and said it "provides a neat but coincidental bridge between prog in its prime and the move to more aggressive songwriting
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the song "Flick of the Wrist". In 1986, it featured as the B-side to "Who Wants to Live Forever". Freddie Mercury: Brian May: The song was regularly performed between 1974 and 1981 as part of a medley. In 1974–75, the song was played following "In the Lap of the Gods", and in 1975–76, the song followed "Bohemian Rhapsody". In 1984 and 1985, during The Works Tour, it was reintroduced in a medley following a truncated version of "
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starred as Janson in the second film, "", and third film, "", in the Maze Runner trilogy. Gillen played Queen's manager John Reid in the biopic "Bohemian Rhapsody", which was released on 2 November 2018. Gillen currently stars in The History Channel's "Project Blue Book". He plays Dr. J. Allen Hynek, a brilliant but under appreciated college professor who is recruited by the U.S. Air Force to spearhead an operation called Project Blue Book. He is joined by his partner, Air
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one of the biggest influences on the bass guitar player Eric Wilson. The video also includes a brief cameo by Fishbone lead singer, Angelo Moore. The song was used in the video games "Aggressive Inline" and "Watch Dogs 2", and is available as downloadable content for "Rock Band 3" and "Rocksmith 2014". The trombone solo, played by Jon Blondell, contains an interpolation of the theme from George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue". The version of the song played on the radio typically
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: "We're making a movie here, not a documentary." The visual blog "Information is Beautiful" deduced that, while taking creative licence into account, the film was 79.9% accurate when compared to real-life events, calling it "a fairly truthful account represented in a massively compressed [and] edited timeline". The world premiere of "Bohemian Rhapsody" took place in London at the SSE Arena, Wembley, on 23 October 2018. It was released in the United Kingdom on 24 October 2018
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AIDS diagnosis from the synopsis. Instead, it's simply referred to as "a life-threatening illness". Executives stated that the film would acknowledge Mercury's gay relationships. With the release of the trailer, Queen reached three of the top 20 positions on "Billboard"'s Hot Rock Songs chart: "Bohemian Rhapsody", "Another One Bites the Dust" and "We Are the Champions". All-in-all the studio spent $121 million promoting the film. On 11 June 2018, at
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videos would henceforth be a mandatory tool in the marketing of music". In 2004, "Bohemian Rhapsody" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Appearing in various polls as being one of the greatest songs in popular music, in 2012, the song topped the list on an ITV nationwide poll in the UK to find "The Nation's Favourite Number One" over 60 years of music, while Mercury's vocal performance was chosen as the greatest in rock history by readers of "Rolling Stone". In December
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insecurities and problems in squaring up his life with his childhood. He never explained the lyrics, but I think he put a lot of himself into that song." May, though, says the band had agreed that the core of a lyric was a private issue for the composer. In a BBC Three documentary about the making of "Bohemian Rhapsody", Roger Taylor maintains that the true meaning of the song is "fairly self-explanatory with just a bit of nonsense in the middle". When the band released
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some artists had made video clips to accompany songs (including Queen themselves; for example, "Keep Yourself Alive", "Seven Seas of Rhye", "Killer Queen" and "Liar" already had "pop promos", as they were known at the time), it was only after the success of "Bohemian Rhapsody" that it became regular practice for record companies to produce promotional videos for artists' single releases. These videos could then be shown on television shows around the world, such as the BBC
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", with the notable distinction being "while Zeppelin meshed folk influences with heavy metal, Queen opted for the light grandeur of the operetta as part of its hard rock". They said "for sheer cleverness alone, not to mention May's riveting electric work, 'Bohemian Rhapsody' rightfully became one of the top singles of 1975 and established Queen in the elite of seventies rock bands". In 2015, "The Economist" described it as "one of the most innovative pieces of the progressive rock era".
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sang the closing ballad part together in a duet. "Bohemian Rhapsody" was performed by Queen + Paul Rodgers throughout their tours, accompanied by a video of Mercury. Footage from the "Live at Wembley '86" was used for the 2005-6 tour, and the 1981 Montreal performance used for the Rock the Cosmos Tour. As with the Queen tours, the band went backstage for the operatic section, which was accompanied by a video tribute to Freddie Mercury. When the hard rock section began, the lights came
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Awards in 2011. The average per-film gross was $157 million, although only three films ("Black Panther", "A Star Is Born" and "Bohemian Rhapsody") had actually made over $50 million before the announcement. Thirty-two nominations went to twelve of the year's fifty top-grossing movies. Of those, only seven films—"Black Panther" (1st), "Incredibles 2" (3rd), "Bohemian Rhapsody" (12th), "A Star Is Born" (
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the most open-minded to the idea, writes an upbeat bass riff that ultimately leads to Queen's next hit "Another One Bites the Dust". At a press conference promoting Queen's 1982 album "Hot Space", Freddie is bombarded with questions about his personal life, infuriating him. Freddie's relationship with his bandmates further sours after their music video for "I Want to Break Free", in which the band appears in drag, is banned from MTV. He announces his $4 million solo deal with
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. On 4 November 2016, it was announced that Rami Malek would star as Freddie Mercury. The producers saw his work on "Mr. Robot". He had to make a pre-recording at Abbey Road Studios, which was sent to Queen members for approval. On 21 August 2017, additional cast members were announced: Ben Hardy as drummer Roger Taylor, Gwilym Lee as lead guitarist Brian May, and Joseph Mazzello as bass guitarist John Deacon. On 30 August 2017, it was reported that Allen Leech had been cast
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in the film to play Mercury's personal manager, Paul Prenter, who worked for him from 1977 to 1987, when he was fired for betraying Mercury by selling his personal information to UK newspapers. On 6 September 2017, Lucy Boynton was cast to play Mercury's long-term girlfriend, Mary Austin. Lindsey Stirling, Bryce Dallas Howard, Maria Bello and Ashley Johnson were also considered. On 11 September 2017, Mike Myers joined the cast to play EMI executive Ray Foster, and on 22 September 2017, Aaron McCusker
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this day. It also became the biggest selling single of the year, selling over a million copies. The Christmas number one single this year was Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody", re-issued after the death of Freddie Mercury in November, coupled with "These Are the Days of Our Lives". As "Bohemian Rhapsody" had previously hit the top in 1975 (also becoming the Christmas number one) it became the first song ever, not counting re-entries, to hit number 1 twice. The death
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of all time in the UK. In the US, "Bohemian Rhapsody" hit the "Billboard" Top 40 charts in three different decades, reaching number 9 in its original 1975 release, number 2 in 1992 after being featured in the film "Wayne's World", and hitting the top 40 once more in 2018 upon the release of the Queen biopic "Bohemian Rhapsody". The band's 1981 "Greatest Hits" album is the biggest selling album in UK history with 6.0 million copies sold by 2014. The
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a production budget of about $52 million. On 11 November, it surpassed "Straight Outta Compton" ($201.6 million) to become the highest-grossing musical biopic of all-time worldwide. "Bohemian Rhapsody" eventually went on to set all-time box office records for the highest-grossing biographical film of all time, the highest-grossing drama film (without action or fantasy), and the highest-grossing LGBT film. It is Fox's fourth highest-grossing film ever, and their fifth
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. It also crossed there, and is the highest-grossing live-action musical film in Japan, passing "Beauty and the Beast" (2017). As of 31 March 2019, "Bohemian Rhapsody" has sold 9,220,250 tickets and grossed in Japan. In South Korea, the film debuted at number two at the box office and by the fourth week took over the number one spot. After a short drop for two weeks, the film reclaimed the number one spot in its seventh week, which is a first
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having its content edited, it debuted to $11.6 million, setting the all-time record for a National Alliance of Arthouse Cinemas release. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 61% based on 379 reviews, and an average rating of 6.11/10. The website's critical consensus reads: ""Bohemian Rhapsody" hits a handful of high notes, but as an in-depth look at a beloved band, it offers more of a medley than a true greatest hits collection." On
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Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 49 out of 100, based on 50 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale, while PostTrak reported filmgoers gave it an 88% positive score and a 75% "definite recommend". The critical response to "Bohemian Rhapsody" made it one of the worst-reviewed films to win a Best Picture award at the Golden Globe Awards (lowest Rotten
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a turning point in his personal life in the year he wrote "Bohemian Rhapsody". He had been living with Mary Austin for seven years but had just embarked on his first love affair with a man. She suggests that the song provides an insight into Mercury's emotional state at the time, "living with Mary ('Mamma', as in Mother Mary) and wanting to break away ('Mamma Mia let me go')". Others suggest it as veiled reference to coming out, and dealing with
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of the year. With the Canadian record-buying public, the single fared better, reaching number one in the "RPM" national singles chart for the week ending 1 May 1976. "Bohemian Rhapsody" was re-released as a double A-side cassette single with "The Show Must Go On" in January 1992 following the death of Freddie Mercury, with proceeds going to the Magic Johnson Foundation for AIDS research. The song re-entered the "Billboard" Hot 100 chart after 16 years, reaching number
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song "I Believe in Father Christmas" was kept from number one in the UK by "Bohemian Rhapsody" when it was released, acknowledged that he was "beaten by one of the greatest records ever made", describing it as "a once-in-a-lifetime recording". Addressing the song's enduring popularity, author and music lecturer Jochen Eisentraut wrote in 2012: "A year before punk made it unfashionable, progressive rock had an astounding success with the theoretically over-length (nearly 6-minute) single
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were Chicago's "If You Leave Me Now," and Starland Vocal Band's "Afternoon Delight," respectively.) In 1977, only two years after its release, the British Phonographic Industry named "Bohemian Rhapsody" as the best British single of the period 1952–77. It is a regular entry in greatest-songs polls, and it was named by the Guinness Book of Records in 2002 as the top British single of all time. The song is also listed in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500
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the platform, and the first pre-1990s song to reach that figure. In a 2001 poll of more than 50,000 readers of "The Observer" newspaper and viewers of British TV's Channel 4 for the 100 best number-one singles of all time, the song came second to John Lennon's "Imagine". In a 2002 poll of more than 31,000 people conducted for Guinness World Records' "British Hit Singles", "Bohemian Rhapsody" was voted Britain's favourite single, beating Lennon's "Imagine" to the
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but four years (2005, 2010, 2014 and 2015 when it was number two). In a 2012 readers poll conducted by "Rolling Stone" magazine, "Bohemian Rhapsody" was voted the best vocal performance in rock history. In 2010, the song ranked at 166 on "Rolling Stone"s "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list. In 2012, the song topped an ITV poll in the UK to find "The Nation's Favourite Number One" over 60 years of music, ahead of Michael Jackson's
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Many scholars consider the "Bohemian Rhapsody" music video ground-breaking, crediting it with popularising the medium. Rock historian Paul Fowles stated that the song is "widely credited as the first global hit single for which an accompanying video was central to the marketing strategy". It has been hailed as launching the MTV age. In December 2018, "Bohemian Rhapsody" became the most-streamed song from the 20th century, and the most-streamed classic rock song of all time. The number of downloads of the song
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collaborated with the film "Bohemian Rhapsody" and released a cover soundtrack of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody". On January 15, 2019 Lee released digital single "XI" with Code Kunst, the track was sang live for the first time on MBC Dreaming Radio. Lee Hi made a comeback with her EP, "24°C", on May 30, 2019. The lead single, "No One" (featuring B.I), topped all charts in South Korea, including Melon, Genie and Mnet. Among
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