About The Song
– Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” – a powerful priceless six-minute suite of opera rock about a young man who’s killed someone, sold his soul to Devil and wants to know if Scaramouche can do the Fandango – remains one of Queen’s most popular work and is placed on lists of the greatest songs of all time. Scaramouche is a stock clown character of Italian literature. Fandango is a lively couples dance from Spain.
– Freddie Mercury revealed in an interview, “There was a time when the others wanted to chop ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ around a bit, but I refused”. EMI and Elektra both tried to cut chunks off the song. Roger Taylor said, “They said ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ was too long and wouldn’t work. We thought, ‘Well we could cut it, but it wouldn’t make any sense’, it doesn’t make much sense now and it would make even less sense then; you would miss all the different moods of the song. So we said no. It’ll either fly or it won’t.”
– In 1975, “Bohemian Rhapsody” was the most expensive single ever made.
– Freddie Mercury refused to give an explanation of his lyrics other than saying “Bohemian Rhapsody” was about relationships.
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