First time watching Queen Bohemian Rhapsody (Official Video)
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One of the most iconic songs ever, Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen has stood the test of time. Alexis has seen the movie but had never seen the actual band before. @Queen
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so cute Baby......and Music from a Genius
She's a beautiful baby. Congratulations.
Not only that but Wayne's World gave Bohemian Rhapsody a resurgence back on the charts again.
It's sort of sad actually. Many of the young ones nowadays don't know Wayne's World from a kick in the arse! LOL I was at the Queen concert in Montreal in 1981. It was my 24th B-day. Sadly, Freddie passed on my B-day 10 yrs later. I light a candle for him and play Who Wants To Live Forever every Nov 24. It'll be 34 yrs this Nov.
Mike Myers also let Freddie check out Waynes World before it was released. Freddie loved it. Brian Mays relayed it in several interviews.
It helped give it exposure to the youngins 😜
That's the thing about truly great music and bands. They are always there waiting for a new generation to discover them 20 years later, and 20 years after that, ad infinitum. At least for the '70s & '80s music.
I had the chance to re enact the head banging with friends in a car listening to Bohemian Rhapsody, it was great
This video was made _BEFORE_ videos became a thing and before MTV was a gleam in music producers' eyes.
But like a lot of things, it started with The Beatles. They created promotional films back in the 60s because they were in demand but had enough of all the screaming girls and the madness that surrounded any live appearances. Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields Forever in 1967 were the first that weren't just performance videos although they did produce films in 1966 for Paperback Writer and Rain which were just them playing and singing.
@@ianz9916 I think _ALL_ bands owe a debt of gratitude to the Beatles for getting the rock rolling.😉
According to Brian May, record company management kept pleading with the group to cut the single down, but Freddie Mercury refused. Thankfully he didn't give in to corporate pressure.
Congratulations to Emilia. 💥🌺 Queen is proper choice
"Bohemian Rhapsody", which was released originally in 1975, is the creation of Freddie but he never told anyone what he was thinking when he wrote the lyrics. Freddie tended to write in metaphors and this is one of them. 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 A cappella. 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 it for years but the song never had a name. The other members of Queen tentatively titled it "Freddie's Cowboy Song". The lyricist Tim Rice (who wrote the lyrics for "Jesus Christ, Superstar", "Evita", "Aladdin", "The Lion King", ...) was a close friend of Freddie's and he believes this portion of the song’s lyrics were about Mercury 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 an accumulation of 3 weeks at 6 different studios 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 Scaramouch, a stock clown of 16th-century Italian literature.
*.Galilao refer to Brian with his BSc degree in physics and later his Ph.D.in Astrophysics.
* Figaro refers to the Mozart opera, "The Marriage of Figaro" and it is a subtle way to reference Roger 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.
* The final reference of Magnifico is John 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 Red Special guitar 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.
[The story of the Deacy Amp is that shortly after John joined the band in 1971, he was walking along a London street when he spotted a cluster of bright electrical wire sticking out of a dumpster. As an electrical engineering student with a penchant for tinkering, the wires warranted a closer look. John did some digging and found that they were connected to a circuit board. Once he returned home, he noted that the board seemed to be from an old radio. Since John had to leave his amp at Queen's rehearsal space, he thought he might be able to build an amp to use at home.
So he decided to retrofit the circuit board and wiring into a small cabinet that housed two speakers, including a 6.5-inch Elac Twin Cone. He installed a quarter-inch input jack and a volume knob, the latter later removed when he discovered that the makeshift amp sounded its best when turned all the way up. The whole unit was powered by a brick-sized PP9 nine-volt battery pack that were connected to a circuit board.
Eventually, he brought the amp to the band’s rehearsal space to show it off. Brian was immediately intrigued. Brian asked John if he could try it out. When Brian plugged in the Deacy Amp, magic was made. Stoked by the guitarist’s renowned high-attack play style and combined with his treble booster and Red Special, it became clear that the Deacy was the final piece of the puzzle. Queen had discovered their famous tone. .Poor John lost the use of his 'practice amp that day. Brian would go on to use the Deacy Amp on between 90 and 95 percent of Queen songs.
Brian used the little amp from the 1970s until the 90s and, unlike most amps, the Deacy, unburdened by complexity, never failed to deliver a consistent tone. It was a solid-state design and had no tubes, which made it more durable than a tube amp. According to Brian, it never malfunctioned.]
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 "Outré", returns to the "Ballad" to close the circle of the song and ends with the sound of a Chinese gong.
As far as the video itself… Though some artists had made video clips to accompany songs before this video, 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 Brian, the video was produced so that the band could avoid miming on Top of the Pops (Top of the Pops [TOTP] ) which 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.
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.
Congratulations on your new baby girl so adorable!
Thank you for sharing baby Amelia with us, seeing Alexis with her, on the show, is very fitting. ☺️👶👍🎼
Freddie actually got to see the Wayne’s World scene hours before he passed away and loved it.
This song is 50 years old and is still as unique and timeless as it was when it was released back in '74. And congratulation Alexis she is beautiful.
Was lucky enough to see one of Freddie's last US shows back in Sept of 82. He was amazing
Congrats Alexis on the new baby, so sweet.
Yes, I know it's a music reaction channel. However, all I could think was "The baby's here! Yay!"
Congratulations!
You need to take a look at the Green Day crowd at Hyde Park, London singing along to Bohemian Rhapsody in 2017 - it's on the Green Day channel
Another Awesome reaction Alexis congratulations on the birth of Amelia she's beautiful welcome to the world little Angel may God continue to bless you and your family Alexis
Oh wow! She's already had the baby!?! 😯
Crazy how time flies by! 🤯
I’m 54 and never realized there’s no chorus! I’ve belted out this song so many times.
We love you and forgive you 👑🫶💙
Yep. I didn't notice that either until Rick Beato mentioned it on his channel.
Pretty much totally unconventional.
so cute the little new Queen fan
Load of blessing for the precious baby. Congratulation dear
Congratulations Alexis 🙏
Congratulations Alexis!! Your baby looks adorable! Great reaction you guys!!
Song was epic from 1st time it was ever heard on US ‘Album Oriented Radio’. Wayne’s World gave it a resurgence on the air. Bohemian Rhapsody (the movie) just increased the popularity for a whole new audience. Kudos to Freddie, & Brian May for NOT giving in to the suits & chopping it down!!
What a beautiful baby! Congrats!
Surely when you hear that Queen masterpiece, that beautiful creature resting in its mother's womb, you will become a fan of the band.🙂👍
Congratulations on your precious baby!! 👍🎉🎊👶👼 I knew you were getting close, but I didn't know it was a done deal!!! 👍👍
Love of my life Brian May tribute to Freddie Live just made me ball.
I put the Like just because of the baby. So sweet.
Three generations reacting to Queen at the same time ❤.
Okmm. The baby was sleeping, I know.
Congrats❤
Congratulations Alexis and welcome Emilia. Happy to you also Uncle Birch.
Your baby girl is gorgeous 🎉🎉🎉❤❤
"Is this the real life, is this just fantasy?" Right up to "Mama, just killed a man". Is just Freddies' voice, multi tracked for the harmonies.
A masterpiece song by Queen. Surprised Alexis hasn't seen this video before but I have to remember she a Youngin''
Angelina Jordan did a great cover of this in AGT
Everyone has heard tons of Queen songs… in commercials. In movies. At any game played in an arena ( we are the champions … we will rock you … etc etc etc )
Queen was scheduled to do the Brit show ¨Top of the Pops¨ but didn´t want to do it, so, instead they put together what became the first big budget production music video.and basically created the modern music video.
Oh, this is the best! Both musically & personally. New music can make you feel newborn, but nothing like bringing an actual newborn! Congrats Alexis!
Congratulations Alexis for your beautiful baby. Wish your family all the best. 🙏
Freddie Mercury's most loved instrument was the audience. Nobody back then and even today could play it like he did. Freddie was unique. What shocked me most about Freddie was that he had so many "friends" and was such a lonely person. How come nobody ever saw that?
This is one of those songs you can’t help but sing along to, it’s involuntary 😄
Congrats on your beautiful baby. Thank you for sharing her with us, now she's a you tube star.🎉
CONGRATS 🎉 on the new baby! That's amazing❤
You look awesome for someone who just had a baby...wow😍
I remember the commercial for Wayne's World, with this song. Ahh the memories!! Thanks for reviewing this video. Keep smiling 🙂👍🇨🇦
she had the baby!!!!
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
19:20 The bit about artists just getting their lives together, only to die not long afterward, reminds me of Stevie Ray Vaughan. He conquered his addictions and got his life on track, and was performing better than ever. Then a helicopter crash took him from us in 1990. RIP 💔 😪.
It's so wonderful that people have posted his albums and live performances on CZcams, so that he can still live on through his music. Imo he was one of the greatest guitarists of all time, and also a top frontman for his band Double Trouble. His voice was alright and very bluesy, but he really sang through his guitar. 😊👍
those changes is what makes it a rhapsody
Congrats Alexis on the new baby!!
Happy to see the new baby. Congratulations Alexis.
This is always been 1 of favorite songs and bands
It’s the Most Streamed song of the 20 the Century
Congrats for the little one. Great reaction.
I have loved this song basically all my life! A few years ago I watched the video of Pentatonix cover, and was impressed. I looked it up on google to see what the surviving band members thought of the cover. Brian May said he liked it and people should watch it.
Alexis, Congratulations on a beautiful baby girl.... thank you for sharing her with us on this review
UK number one for Christmas 1975. Remember that radio and TV was still mono - stereo still yet to become mainstream. Everything, I mean everything was analogue - digital was still yet to come. The video/film, which they showed on TV, "the top of the pops" played the one you just showed, apparently it cost 500 quid to do.
💯 Freddie Mercury was the greatest frontman, singer, and performer of all time, hard to top him with anyone. Queen was just a brilliantly talented band overall, R.I.P Freddie ❤️
of all time? Indeed a fine frontman but of all time really?
so many back then Robert Plant comes to mind
Very true!
The greatest showman on Earth!!!
IMHO He hasn't ever been topped
Greatest showman for sure. Everybody has their own personal preference when it comes to singers tho. He's not in my top 5 but I'm a big fan of Queen
One of the greatest showman, yes, vocalist? There ate too many good ones to say there is a best.
Congratulations Alexis
Guys, in November '25 it will be 50th anniversary of Bohemian Rhapsody. I mean, can you believe it? It sounds crazy... When I hear the song, even now, I'm that kid who tortures his parents by running it over and over and over... endlessly. Thanks for making me young again.
Written by Mercury. he also named the band Queen and designed the Queen's logo.
This is one of a few songs that blew up the music world
Besides Steve Perry, Freddie's voice is one of a kind and can be picked out anytime, anywhere if you didn't know the song. Genius.
Awwwww, congratulations Alexis. She is lovely. Thank you for bringing her for us to see her. I think I heard the baby say, which Queen are you all talking about.!!!
It's not just a song, it's a journey.
play this song in a room full of genx'ers the hole room reacts to the head banging parts because of Wayne's world
The whole room maybe? 😊😂
That headbanging car scene in Wayne's World was one of the most accurate things put in a movie. Years before that came out me and my friends were doing that exact same thing in the mid and late 80s when driving around.
In my opinion, it is Freddie Mercury's, and queens greatest song.
Now you must see the Pentatonix cover/tribute to this song. Mitch nails the guitar solo!
Wayne's World played Bohemian Rhapsody in it's entirety. They didn't shorten it. Some things did happen onscreen while it was playing, though.
She's beautiful
(Not a creepy video, and I’ve heard anyone in my life say that in my life.). I don’t know what else to say. This is a masterpiece, original, breakthrough, out of the box, awesomely talented. I agree with all you’ve said otherwise. And the first harmony before Freddie on the piano is really just Freddie harmonizing with himself 16 times over. Just so masterful. I miss them all.
I remember distinctly. About a week after Wayne's World came out. Having just passed the fairgrounds headed into Tampa. Listening to 98Rock around 3 or 4.
The DJ comes and says he got a request for that new song from Queen they played in Wayne's World.
I laughed my ass off.
I remember listening to the song before watching Wayne's world and now when I listen to the song all I can see in my head is the car scene in Wayne's world I was brought up listening to rock music from my dad
Alexis is such a breath of fresh air! You seem like an awesome person and someone we could just hang with and talk about anything!
Congratulations on your new addition Alexis. ❤
I love this episode, thanks 🙏
Great review! Congrats on the birth of Amelia. Please do a review of some classic Chicago or Bold Sweat & Tears since Alexis likes bands with horns in them.
Rami Malek was born for that role. They absolutely nailed the story and cast.
Well done Dad! So cool you review and share music with your beautiful daughter. Congrats on the new baby. God Bless all of you
This video is said to be the first music video produced with a record.
To get a taste of "Bohemian Rhapsody" a couple of years before it was born, I recommend listening to "March of the Black Queen/Funny How Love Is" off of Queen ll. It has a similar structure and rhythm. Listen to the two together as that is the way they play out on the album. My daughter and have head banged to this playing in the car back when she was a teenager.
As for length, 5 minutes and 55 seconds was considered long for AM radio or some FM stations. Check out the "Montreal 1981" live version of this song. The "operatic" section is a recorded piece from the album, its physicallyimpossibletodo live.
I cut my psychedelic rock teeth on the album side, 17:05, "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" back in 1968. Prog rock legends ELP gave me 35 minutes of "Karn Evil 9" and 20+ minutes of "Tarkus" on "Welcome Back My Friends..." in 1974.
I love this channel keep up the good work guys❤
Fun fact: The opera section was not performed live. When it was time for that part of the song, they would play the section of the music video and walk off stage. They used it to take a quick break before the final section started.
Congratulations on your beautiful baby!
Awesome reaction. You guys need to watch the youtube video of Brian May talking about how the song was recorded. He's in the studio with the original 2" tape and actually breaks the song down. Very interesting. It's called Inside The Rhapsody from 2002.
It’s funny you brought up Wayne’s Word, in like 92 I had an AMC Pacer which was the car they drove around in and I would blast this song when pulling up to places where everyone was hanging out and I would get the Wayne’s Word chant from everyone it was so funny
First off, Congratulations to the young woman for your newborn!! Second, this song is 🔥🔥🔥 after almost 50 years!
This was like the first modern style music video.....6 years before MTV!
I used to see it on late night TV....on The Midnight Special, etc.
Look at that little thing....Blessing and happiness to both ......Peace!
Congratulations on your baby🎉, im sure she as beautiful as her mom❤
Nothing but a masterpiece. ♥️🎶
It was thanks to British DJ John Peel, that allowed this 7 minutes or so song to be heard on radio, that started it all.
Thanks for this! ❤
Lovely Amelia too! ❤❤
I think you mean Kenny Everett
Awww, Congrats to Alexis and her Hubby! Welcome to the world Amelia!
Congratulations for beautiful princess❤
CONGRATULATIONS!....Good job MOM! Very happy for you!
From west coast Canada 🇨🇦, peace.
Got to shout out congratulations on your baby! Bless you and your family
If you enjoy movies like the Queen movie check out an older movie about the early days of the Beatles called "Back Beat", like around Liverpool at the Cavern Club and when they go to Hamburg and perform at the Kaiser Club. The movie really gets into when they replaced Pete Best with Ringo and also Stu Suttcliff John Lennons best friend was the Bass player, Paul played rhyme guitar, some great old Beatles music. Stu Suttcliff quit the band in Hamburg to go to art school making the band a quartet from a five piece band. Have a look you won't be disappointed.
This is one of my favorite queen song and the movie was good and I’m happy to see Alexis back
That scene in the movie caused that song to emerge on the charts again too.
Freddie owned the stage! I was 15 when this came out and I was Freddie'd right then and there! Trivia: Freddie had 4 extra teeth. He never had them extracted because he didn't want to do anything that might negatively affect his performance!
As I recall, family members of Freddie and Queen etc. thanked Mike Meyers and the producers of Wayne's World for including that scene in the film because it increased interest in the band and record sales.
It just blows my mind that Brian May is an astrophysicist and helped NASA with the James Webb telescope, and that he and his father build his guitar!
Aww congrats on baby 🎉
The Petersens do an excellent unique version of this song.
Congratulations!!
That scene is iconic