How Wayne’s World Resurrected Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody from the Dead

By 1992, the landscape of American radio was shifting rapidly. Grunge was beginning its takeover, and the operatic excesses of the seventies felt like a distant, dusty relic. Queen, despite their global prestige, found themselves fighting an uphill battle in the United States. Their magnum opus, Bohemian Rhapsody, was widely considered a tired classic, a … Read more

The Day Freddie Mercury Defied Music History With Bohemian Rhapsody

In 1975, the airwaves were dominated by concise, radio-friendly pop songs. Record executives lived by the golden rule that a hit single could never exceed three minutes. Then, a flamboyant genius named Freddie Mercury walked into the studio with a six-minute, genre-bending operatic suite that defied every convention of the era. The label executives listened … Read more