Perhaps the most popular theme of the British band Queen, who are "Bohemian Rhapsody«Today it is 40 years old since its publication on the album" A Night at the Opera ", released on October 31, 1975. The song, composed by Freddy Mercury and premiered live in Liverpool (England) in November of that year, it has sold six and a half million copies as a single worldwide since then and has been covered by dozens of artists.
Elton John, Axl Rose, Robbie Williams and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, among others, have performed a piece with a structure more similar to a classical rhapsody than a rock theme. The recording of the piece took place in six studios and maximized the technology available in the 1970s.
“'Bohemian Rhapsody' wasn't the most difficult song to play live. When we were planning that first tour we weren't worried about it, but we realized that there was no point trying to recreate the operatic section of the song with just four "on stage, guitarist Brian May recalled this week on the BBC.
After premiering the song on the English tour of "A Night at the Opera", Queen included "Bohemian Rhapsody" at all of his concerts thereafter, including Mercury's last performance, on August 9, 1986.
Interpretations of the song's lyrics have occupied band fans for years.
"Scaramouche", one of the terms that is repeated in the rhapsody, is one of the characters of the comedy of art, the Italian improvised theater of the 1968th century, a buffoon who always manages to get out of the convoluted situations in which He embarks. The name "Galileo", meanwhile, could have been written in reference to May, who graduated in Physics and Astronomy from Imperial College London in XNUMX.
“I think Freddie was amused that there were so many different interpretations of those lyrics. I think it is a magnificent song that is beyond analysis. It's not that I want to avoid the issue, it's that I think we love some songs precisely because of that, "said the guitarist.
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