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It Lasted Six Minutes, I Had No choir... and yet It Was Number 1: "Bohemian Rhapsody" From Queen Came to the Top 50 Years Ago

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The genesis of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody dates back to the late 1960s. Freddie Mercury was then a student at Ealing Art College. He began as some ideas for a song scribbled into pieces of paper. Queen’s guitarist Brian May remembers that the brilliant singer and composer gave them the first glimpse, in the early 1970s, of the masterpiece he once called “The Cowboy Song.” Perhaps by the phrase “Mama... I just killed a man.” “I remember Freddie ca…
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The genesis of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody dates back to the late 1960s. Freddie Mercury was then a student at Ealing Art College. He began as some ideas for a song scribbled into pieces of paper. Queen’s guitarist Brian May remembers that the brilliant singer and composer gave them the first glimpse, in the early 1970s, of the masterpiece he once called “The Cowboy Song.” Perhaps by the phrase “Mama... I just killed a man.” “I remember Freddie ca…

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Futuro broke the news in on Friday, January 9, 2026.
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