GENIUS!! First Time Reaction to Queen - 'Bohemian Rhapsody'

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MY 100TH VIDEO!! <3 Thank you all for being here!!

StaceyRPGReacts
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You really gotta watch their LIVE AID performance in it's entirety, the day QUEEN literally ruled the earth

garycoates
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"True poetry is for the listener. It ruins the mystery if everything's explained." ~ Freddie Mercury.

DavidOrensanz
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Bohemian Rhapsody is not a song. It's an experience.

veevintage
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There will never be another Queen. please watch their gig at Live Aid. You will be shaken off your seat.

kenglasson
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Bohemian Rhapsody", which was released originally in 1975, is the creation of Freddie Mercury but he never told anyone what he was thinking when he wrote the lyrics. Freddie tended to write in metaphors so I would not suggest taking any of his songs literally. He wanted listeners to be able to apply to the song whatever meaning it had to them personally. Not what it meant to him.

BTW - Freddie did admit that "Bohemian Rhapsody" was composed of three separate songs that he had been working on but could not seem to finish. So he decided to mash them together, adding some transitions and bridges, and created "Bohemian Rhapsody".

"Bohemian Rhapsody" can be broken down into 6 parts:

Part I is the "Into". The video image shows the four members of Queen singing and harmonizing the lyrics of the "Intro" in acapella. In reality, it is only Freddie's voice you hear on the recording. Freddie laid down 5 separate tracks of himself singing and harmonizing with himself. (FYI - multi-tracking and overdubbing runs rampant in Bohemian Rhapsody.)

Next is the "Ballad" portion of the song ('Mama, just killed a man'). Freddie had worked on this song for years but it never had a name. The other members of Queen tentatively titled it "Freddie's Cowboy Song". The lyrist Sir Tim Rice, (a close friend of Freddie who wrote the lyrics for "Jesus Christ, Superstar", "Evita", "Alladin", and "The Lion King", ...) believes this portion of the song’s lyrics were about Freddie confessing to his fans that he was gay.

The third section is the guitar solo. This is the only part of Bohemian Rhapsody not written by Freddie. Freddie told Brian that he wanted a guitar solo in the song and where he wanted it to fit into the song but left it to Brian to create. Brian wanted to have his guitar effectively sing a verse that would inject a different melody. He heard something in his head. He said that he could hear this melody and had no idea where it came from. That melody isn’t anywhere else in the song, but it’s on a familiar chord sequence, so it dovetails in quite nicely.

The guitar solo leads to the fourth section which is the "Operatic" section. Freddie not only loved Rock but he loved Opera. He was always fascinated with the idea of combining rock and opera. It took 3 weeks to record "Bohemian Rhapsody" and the "Operatic" section was much smaller when they began recording but Freddie kept adding to it.

Various lyrics in the "Operatic" section seem to refer to the band...

* Freddie casts himself as Scaramouche, a stock clown of 16th-century Italian literature.
* Galileo who was an Italian astrometer, physicist, and engineer definitely refers to Brian (Queen's lead guitarist) who in real life is Dr. Brian May, who has a Ph.D. in Astrophysics.
* Figaro refers to the Mozart opera, "The Marriage of Figaro" and it is a subtle way to reference Roger Taylor (Queen's drummer) who has a four-range vocal span (E2-E6) and was even frequently cited as hitting E5 in live performances. Freddie compared Roger's voice to a dog whistle and it is Roger's voice that hits those high notes.
* The final reference of Magnifico is John Deacon (Queen's bass guitarist), who has not just a BSc but a First Class Honors Degree in Electronics.

John is the creator of the "Deacy Amp". When Brian's homemade electric guitar (dubbed The Red Special) was connected through a treble-booster (an effects unit used by guitarists to increase the high end of their tonal spectrum) to the "Deacy Amp", Brian could produce sounds reminiscent of various orchestral instruments, such as violin, cello, trombone, clarinet, or even vocals from his guitar.

It is hard to realize that it is only Freddie, Brian, and Roger singing in the "Operatic" section (John never sang on the records). This was 1975, well before digital recordings and they were using 24-track analog tape. This made it necessary for the three to overdub themselves many times and "bounce" these down to successive sub-mixes. Some sections feature 180 separate overdubs!

The fifth section is the "Hard Rock" portion. In this section, Freddie sings angry lyrics addressed to an unspecified "you", accusing them of betrayal and abuse and insisting "Can't do this to me, baby", before the final lines conclude with him singing, "Just gotta get right outta here".

(FYI - the "Operatic" and the "Hard Rock" sections of BoRap were featured in a scene in the 1992 film Wayne's World, in which the main character and his friends headbang in a car to the rock part.)

In the sixth and final section, the "Outro", returns to the "Ballad" to close the circle of the song and ends with the sound of a Chinese gong.

As for the video itself...
Before the making of the Bohemian Rhapsody video, some artists had made video clips to accompany songs, including Queen themselves. It was only after the success of "Bohemian Rhapsody" that it became a regular practice for record companies to produce promotional videos for artists' single releases.

According to Queen's lead guitarist, Brian May, the video was produced so that the band could avoid miming on Top of the Pops (Top of the Pops [TOTP] was a British music chart television program, made by the BBC and broadcast weekly). They knew that there was no way that they could realistically mime such a complex song live on TV. In addition, the band was already booked to appear at Dundee's Caird Hall on tour, which clashed with the date that TOTP scheduled the performance of Bohemian Rhapsody on the program. If TOTP accepted the promo video in place of the band live miming on the air, it would solve all the issues.

The video was recorded in just four hours on 10 November 1975, for £4, 500 (a little over $4, 800). The band was involved in the discussion of the video and the result was a cooperative between the band, the director, the assistant director/floor manager, and the cameraman.

It only took about 4 hours to tape. All of the special effects were achieved during the recording, rather than editing. The visual effect of Freddie's face cascading away (during the echoed lines "Magnifico" and "Let me go") was accomplished by pointing the camera at a monitor, giving visual feedback, a glare analogous to audio feedback. The honeycomb illusion was created using a shaped lens. The video was edited within five hours because it was due to be broadcast the same week in which it was taped. The video was sent to the BBC as soon as it was completed and aired for the first time on Top of the Pops in November 1975.

The video has been hailed as launching the MTV age. Welcome to the world of Queen!


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Sassypaws
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To be honest, I don't know how anyone has never heard this song before. It's been around and played so much. But thank you for your reaction to something so iconic and powerful.

playingwithevil
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1. Their producers didn't want them to do this because it was too long for radio.
2. This was their masterpiece.🤩

williamjones
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Freddie's voice was so amazing that it's easy to overlook the fact that every member of that band had a great singing voice too. Especially Roger.

dmanton
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This song is named Britain's favourite number 1 time and time again.
This song was released in 1975 and originally spent 9 weeks at number 1 in the British singles chart.
This song is still widely known to day, arguably Queen's most famous track.

rdp
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I'm not calling you a liar...I just can't imagine a world in which an adult doesn't already know this song.

RossWrock
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I must have listened to this song thousands of times but every time I do it gives me goosebumps!

spireitexi
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“I’ve never seen a band do this before!”
Neither had anyone, hon.

This song was released in 75’. I was 7 years old. My three kids, ages 24, 20 and 18, all absolutely LOVE it. That’s the mark of a true timeless classic.

joeybossolo
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So there is another video related to this you would enjoy. It's footage from a Green Day concert before the band took the stage. The camera is set up above the drum riser showing the crowd of thousands. Bohemian Rhapsody plays over the PA system and THE ENTIRE CROWD sings the song in unison! It's amazing to see strangers from all walks of life come together for this. Even if you watch it on your own time, it's worth it. Also, congrats on 100! Great reaction. 😊

chriswood
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This is a musicians music. Everybody from opera singers to beet boppers. Anyone who is serious about their music, loves this piece.

GaryNoone-jzmq
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Somewhere in the summer of '75 as a twenty year old young buck serving in the Army I got amazing fourth-row tickets to a dual headline concert...Queen and Kiss. Imagine hearing AND seeing Freddie from 30 feet away beginning this tune as their encore. Blown away doesn't begin to describe what I was hearing and seeing. I stood...stunned...rocked to the core of my existence...until Kiss took the stage. I turned and walked out of the venue. Nothing could have lifted me higher...moved me more...touched me in a way that Queen just had.

Very nearly fifty years later, this magnum opus is still a watershed moment. Simply because...who cannot remember where you were when YOU first heard this song?

woodrowsmith
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I’d give anything to hear this for the first time again

JamesKovacic
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Freddy at Live Aid: Microphone in one hand, 86, 000 fans in the other.
His vocal warm ups / crowd control were epic. Can’t help but smile watching Queen perform.

shanepye
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I can not believe that nobody has ever heard this song before....you would have to have been living on Mars for the past 40+ years to have never heard it

farnyone
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Coming to the UK -from Africa - in my youth, having grown up on black and white television, the first thing I ever saw in colour was this very video. It blew my mind then and it still does every time I watch it.

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