Music for Roctober - #27 - Queen
Freddie Mercury worked on "Bohemian Rhapsody" for years before it was recorded late in the summer of 1975 for the album Night at the Opera. The song has no chorus; instead it plays out as a trio form rock song - ballad, opera, hard rock. It is like no rock song before it nor any following and is spectacular in its boldness and sheer bad-assness (check out Brian May's guitar work). The video was also groundbreaking in that it accompanied the single release.
"Bohemian Rhapsody" made it to #1 in the UK and #9 in the US its first time up the charts. With the popularity of the movie Wayne's World and the songs presence in WW, "Bohemian Rhapsody" climbed to #2 on the Billboard charts in 1992.
Let's watch the original version and the Wayne's World version in celebration of CO's 27th Greatest Rock Song:
"Bohemian Rhapsody" made it to #1 in the UK and #9 in the US its first time up the charts. With the popularity of the movie Wayne's World and the songs presence in WW, "Bohemian Rhapsody" climbed to #2 on the Billboard charts in 1992.
Let's watch the original version and the Wayne's World version in celebration of CO's 27th Greatest Rock Song:
A good friend played Queen. I was always put off by the seeming (to me) soulless histrionics and melodrama...not just Freddie's. This, however, was so well-executed, creative, and ultimately catchy that it won me over on the car radio. (I don't think a second creation like that would have worked.) We Are The Champions, though...pulleeze. The most interesting things I know about Queen are the use of Fritz Lang's Metropolis in a video, and May's education and intellectual life. I just like my soulless music in a different form/genre, I guess. I like some odd stuff. With me, though, they missed more than hit.
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I agree on We Are The Champions. This, however, is a shining success.
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