Saturday, September 13, 2025

Bohemian Rapsody


 A beautiful rendition of a beautiful song!
Bohemian Rapsody was written in 1971 by Freddie Mercury.  This is one of the only progressive rock songs of the 1970s to have proved accessible to a mainstream audience.  It was a "mock opera" that resulted from the combination of three songs he had written.  The song parodies elements of opera with bombastic choruses, sarcastic recitative and distorted Italian operatic phrases.

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