Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody is more than just a masterpiece of songwriting – it’s a work of sheer bravado that only someone with the bulletproof musical confidence of Freddie Mercury could pull off, critics be damned.
“I think fundamentally Freddie had that great freedom,” Brian May told Classic Rock in 2013. “Deep down, he knew he was right and he didn’t care if people slagged him off. He knew he was having fun, he was searching for a dream that was not only his dream, but in some sense fulfilled our audience’s dream. He was an instinctive showman, and he was fearless. Really fearless.”
