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As it turns 50, what Bohemian Rhapsody really means has been explained at last

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Freddie Mercury never told anyone what his most famous song meant. Now his biographer reveals the truth from his diaries and it's as surprising as it's poignant

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His life was about to become a fantasy, which was basically the plan. In the late 1960s, Roger Taylor and Freddie Bulsara were lying on the floor, head to head, lost, listening to Electric Ladyland and talking about the future. Each time they took a bottle of wine, but nothing stronger. “Fred and I weren’t good at smoking marijuana,” Taylor says, more than five decades later. “I used to think my head was burning. I never liked it.” Even before B…

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London. 50 years ago, British singer Freddie Mercury set out to change the rules of music and merge genres like rock or opera into a single song. From this mix was born 'Bohemian Rhapsody', considered one of the best songs in history and turned into an intergenerational anthem. On October 31, 1975, 'Bohemian Rhapsody' saw the light as the first single from Queen's fourth album 'A Night at the Opera', a risky bet, especially for the radios of the…

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Daily Express broke the news in United Kingdom on Thursday, October 30, 2025.
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