Bohemian Rhapsody

"Bohemian Rhapsody" is a song by written by Freddie Mercury for the band's 1975 album A Night at the Opera. "Bohemian Rhapsody" is in the style of a stream-of-consciousness nightmare that has unusual song structure, especially for popular music.
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.

The opening section.

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.

The Band

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!

A Kind of Magic

Hemos decidido dividir el blog en diferentes temas separados en las siguientes preguntas:

Secciones:

1. ¿Por que la banda de Queen ha tenido tanto éxito?
2. ¿Quien queda de Queen? y ¿Que hacen hoy en día?
3. ¿Por que decidimos hacer este blog sobre Queen?
4. ¿Cual es la historia de los miembros de la banda?
5. Curiosidades sobre la banda. (Biografías)
6. Canciones (Discografía)
¡Y MÁS!

The Show Must Go On

We’ve recently received some information about a split between the remaining Queen group and Paul Rodgers, here’s the full article from BBC News:

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“Rodgers confirms split with Queen”

“Bad Company singer Paul Rodgers says his collaboration with the surviving members of Queen is over.
Rodgers has not ruled out the possibility of working together again.
"It's kind of an open book, really," he said. "If they approach me to do something for charity, for instance, or something like that... I'd be very much into doing that, for sure."
Queen's original singer, Freddie Mercury, died of an Aids-related illness in 1991.
Queen bassist John Deacon retired from music in 1997, Rodgers joined May and Taylor for a set at the inaugural UK Music Hall of Fame Awards in 2004.
They subsequently toured Europe and Japan in 2005.”

Rodgers and Queen performed for Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday

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This split-up will, for sure, be a big impact for the remaining Queen artists, after the Freddy Mercury “stuff”.
Let’s hope for an arrangement and wish them good luck!

We Will Rock You !

Este Blog esta dedicado a la banda de Queen. Para los que no la conozcan, lo que prácticamente es imposible, vamos a empezar dando un poco de información sobre este grupo, que se considera uno de los mejores del siglo XX.

• La banda es conocida por su gran diversidad musical, tanto en lo vocal como en lo instrumental, así como por sus multitudinarios conciertos de gran calidad.
  
• Es reconocida como la banda británica más exitosa del mundo en los últimos 30 años, además de ser considerada, a través de una encuesta radiofónica de la BBC londinense, como la mejor banda británica de la historia, superando a The Beatles por apenas 400 votos.


• Su disco Greatest Hits, de 1981, es el álbum más vendido en la historia del Reino Unido, con la particularidad de que suele ingresar cada tanto en el Top 40 Británico a pesar de tener nula publicidad.