“People have a hard time understanding how unsurprising Bohemian Rhapsody was to us”: These are the two early Queen songs that Brian May says paved the way for Bohemian Rhapsody

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There has never been another song like Bohemian Rhapsody. The cornerstone of Queen’s 1975 album A Night At The Opera, Freddie Mercury’s multi-part operatic rock fever dream spent nine record-breaking weeks at Number One in the UK singles chart.

Following Mercury’s death in 1991, it returned to the top of the UK charts and reached Number 2 in the US, and it was subsequently immortalised in an iconic scene in the movie Wayne’s World.