When it was released as a single, "Bohemian Rhapsody" became an unlikely commercial success, staying at the top of the UK Singles Chart for nine weeks. It has become one of the UK's best ever selling singles with sales of 2,176,00.
Freddie Mercury wrote most of "Bohemian Rhapsody" at his home in Holland Road, Kensington, in West London. Guitarist Brian May says the band thought that Mercury's blueprint for the song was "intriguing and original, and worthy of work".
However, when the band released a Greatest Hits cassette in Iran, a leaflet in Persian was included with translation and explanations. In the explanation, Queen states that "Bohemian Rhapsody" is about a young man who calls desperetly his mother because he has accidentally killed someone and, like Faust, sold his soul to the devil. On the night before his execution, he calls for God in Arabic, "Bismillah", and with the help of angels, regains his soul from Shaitan.
Though some artists had made video clips to accompany songs, it wasn't until after the success of "Bohemian Rhapsody" that it became regular practice for record companies to produce promo videos for artists' single releases. The video has been hailed as launching the MTV age.

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Nearly a third of respondents in a 2007 poll commissioned by the UK telephone company O2 voted this video as "the UK's best music video of all time"
The song has won several awards, and has been covered and parodied by many artists. 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.
It also came in tenth in a BBC World Service poll to find the world's favourite song. In 2000 it came second to "Imagine" by John Lennon in a Channel 4 television poll of The 100 Best Number 1s.
In 2004 the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. As of 2004, "Bohemian Rhapsody" is the second most played song on British radio, in clubs and on jukeboxes collectively.
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In our Opinion, this is one of the best, or THE best song Queen has ever done and we will publicate it's VERY LONG lyrics in future entries.
Hoped you Liked it and... May the Rock'n & Roll be With You!
Hola Tamar y Bar
ResponderEliminarVuestro blog es para mí interesante y atractivo ya que soy una amante de la música de queen. Creo que sería interesante que siguierais el índice de preguntas que os planteais en la entrada "a Kind of Magic" y que son muy muy interesantes, porque ordenaría mejor la información. También sería interesante que incluyerais más texto propio y vuestras opiniones y reflexiones sobre los temas que desarrollais en el blog
Continuad así
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Hola Bar y Tamar
ResponderEliminarTercer comentario. A qué madre hace referencia la canción????
Eithan:
ResponderEliminarSolamente queria añadir que Bohemian Rhaposody ha sido votada mejor cancón del s.XX y que en las recientes encuestas, ha sido votada mejor cancion de la historia. Tambien añadir que Queen gano hace unos dias la batalla de las bandas en M80Radio junto con otras grandes empresas de radio. Queen vencio en la final al grupo encabezado por John Lennon (los beatles) y en las respectivas rondas a Rolling Stones, Genesis o Elthon John entre otros
Guys, the last comment about Bohemian is, to be honest... a bit long. People could just access Wikipedia and read the article the way it is. A suggestion: have you seen the version of "We will rock you" in Krakovia, the Tv show in TV3? This is definitively one of the most famous songs of Queen and one of the ones which lyrics has been modified the most (along with "We are the champions". By the way, I guess my favourite song of them is "Radio ga-ga". May the rock be with you...
ResponderEliminarHola, I am English. I am very bewildered by what you have done, you are a superstar
ResponderEliminarme gusta tú blog porque me gusta queen.
ResponderEliminarHola, I am English. I know very little Spanish. Me Gusta tú blog. It is very good. I am very glad it is in English.
ResponderEliminarYour blog is great.
oh, me encanta Queen. me encanta musica :) adios
ResponderEliminarlol faye
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ResponderEliminarme encanta queen. one of the best bands there has ever been. a great blog and its in english and very good english
ResponderEliminarhello im nathaniel, haha harison, you never use big words, lol faye awww and i like queen very much because they are rock and roll
ResponderEliminarHolla me llamo Saul,
ResponderEliminarMe Encanta Rock Musica
When i went to see we will rock you which is a musical all about Queen in london, the Lead guitarest came out on stage and performed Bohemian Rhapsody.Ive seen that show about 4 or 5 times now and i dont get bored of it :D
Having seen queen live, at the most impressive O2 arena. After my initial excitement of the amazing concert, i then realised that they had not done Bohemian Rhapsody. Immediatly upset, i went home and dedicated the rest of the night to the song.
ResponderEliminarme encanta queen, i am english i love queen what a great blog you have i am so proud to see people who love him he rocks the world i have lots of passion and heart for him and think he is very cool. Freedy Mecury is a lengend infact a lengend and a half. I klove all of his songs and agree bohemian rapsidy a great song dethanly one of his best :) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)
ResponderEliminarhola me llamo daniel i love queen they have great music but they are retarded and the people lokk like puffs
ResponderEliminarHola Me llamo Mitch
ResponderEliminarMe gusta mucho Rock n Roll Musica
In London there is a show called We Will Rock You and I have been to see it like 9 times because I love it so much, once Me and my 2 bestest friend Sul and Nathaniel went to go see it on a special day and one of the actual queen members came out onto the stage and did a guitar solo
I LOVE QUEEN
i think queen were the the best band ever. Hola me llamo ben me gusta tel blog porque es divertido
ResponderEliminarBarcelona !!!!!!!!!!! :)
ResponderEliminarhola me llamo nathan
ResponderEliminari think that your blog was an intruiging read and i whole heartedly agree that it is the best song of all time
Hola, me llamo Miriam
ResponderEliminarI like Queen and Bohemian Rhapsody but I don't think its the best song ever..
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Wow, me gusta mucho tu blog - es muy bueno! :)
ResponderEliminarMe chifla la música y Queen.
This is really interesting.
Adios, Michaela!
QUEEN ES INIMIABLE
ResponderEliminarAL K NOLE GUSTA QUEEN K NO COMENTE K NO LE GUSTA....
K NO ENTRE AL BLOG DIRECTAMENTE Y SE AHORRA UNA MOLESTIA
X CIERTO..
QUEEN SI E LA MEJOR BANDA DE LA HISTORIA
BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY SI ES LA MEJOR CANCION DE LA HISTORIA
SI ALGUIEN LO DUDA, K MIRE ENCUESTAS, ENTREGAS D PREMIOS Y CONCURSOS!