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"Bohemian
Rhapsody" is a song written by Freddie Mercury and
originally recorded by the band Queen for their 1975 album A
Night at the Opera. The song is in the style of a
stream-of-consciousness nightmare, and has unusual musical
structure for popular music (it has no chorus, instead
consisting of seemingly disjunct sections including operatic
segments and an a cappella and heavy metal part). Despite
this, it was released as a single and became a huge
commercial success. In addition, the song is widely hailed
as Queen's magnum opus, and it marked a decisive point in
the band's career and set them on the way to become one of
the world's most popular music groups. The single was
accompanied by a groundbreaking music video (then termed a "promotional
video") which helped establish the visual language of the
modern music video. A truncated version of the song was
included in all Queen's subsequent live concert performances
(as the band could not recreate the middle section live,
because of the many overdubbed voices) and still enjoys
great popularity around the world. |
