Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody - Live Cover - Performed by Candice for her graduating recital held on campus at the Australian Institute of Music (AIM) No Copyright infringement intended Check out our other tunes from our recent recitals on our channels below. Check out all our You Tube Channels AIMtvSydney - http://www.youtube.com/user/AimTVSydney AIMtvStage - http://www.youtube.com/user/AIMtvStage AIMtvTestimonials - http://www.youtube.com/user/AIMtvTestimonials AIMtvDramaticArt - http://www.youtube.com/user/AIMtvTestimonials Our Website - http://www.aim.edu.au/ AIMtv on our Website - http://www.aim.edu.au/student-life/aim-tv Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/AustralianInstituteofMusic Twitter - http://twitter.com/AIMsydney Instagram - http://instagram.com/australianinstituteofmusic Linkedin - http://www.linkedin.com/company/739302?trk=NUS_CMPY_TWIT Google Plus - https://plus.google.com/+AimEduAu/posts AIM To study music at AIM is all about having a fun, professional, academic experience, that helps set you up for a diverse lifelong career in the music industry, from performing to studio work, teaching, publishing, entertainment management, music business and a whole lot more, all connected as part of the AIM learning experience. The best thing you can from here do is to come along to an OPEN Day or check out our website at http://www.aim.edu.au "Bohemian Rhapsody" is a song by the British rock band Queen. It was written by Freddie Mercury for the band's 1975 album A Night at the Opera. The song has no chorus, instead consisting of several sections: a ballad segment ending with a guitar solo, an operatic passage, and a hard rock section. At the time, it was the most expensive single ever made and it remains one of the most elaborate recordings in popular music history. When it was released as a single, "Bohemian Rhapsody" became a commercial success, staying at the top of the UK Singles Chart for nine weeks and selling more than a million copies by the end of January 1976.It reached number one again in 1991 for five weeks following Mercury's death, eventually becoming the UK's third best-selling single of all time.It topped the charts in several other markets as well, including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and The Netherlands, later becoming one of the best-selling singles of all time. In the United States the song originally peaked at number nine in 1976; however, it returned to the chart at number two in 1992 following its appearance in the film Wayne's World which revived its American popularity. Although critical reaction was initially mixed, "Bohemian Rhapsody" remains one of Queen's most popular songs. The single was accompanied by a promotional video, which many scholars consider ground-breaking. In 2004, "Bohemian Rhapsody" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.In 2012, the song topped the list on an ITV nationwide poll in the UK to find "The Nation's Favourite Number One" over 60 years of music. Freddie Mercury wrote most of "Bohemian Rhapsody" at his home in Holland Road, Kensington, in west London.The song's producer, Roy Thomas Baker, related how Mercury once played the opening ballad section on the piano for him: "He played the beginning on the piano, then stopped and said, 'And this is where the opera section comes in!' Then we went out to eat dinner." Guitarist Brian May says the band thought that Mercury's blueprint for the song was "intriguing and original, and worthy of work."[8] Much of Queen's material was written in the studio according to May, but this song "was all in Freddie's mind" before they started. Music scholar Sheila Whiteley suggests that "the title draws strongly on contemporary rock ideology, the individualism of the bohemian artists' world, with rhapsody affirming the romantic ideals of art rock."Commenting on bohemianism, Judith Peraino said that "Mercury intended... [this song] to be a 'mock opera', something outside the norm of rock songs, and it does follow a certain operatic logic: choruses of multi-tracked voices alternate with aria-like solos, the emotions are excessive, the plot confusing." According to Chris Smith (a friend of Mercury's and a keyboard player in Smile for a brief period), Mercury first started developing "Bohemian Rhapsody" in the late 1960s; Mercury used to play parts of songs he was writing at the piano, and one of his pieces, known simply as "The Cowboy Song", contained lyrics that ended up in the completed version produced years later in 1975, specifically, "Mama... just killed a man." Recording began at Rockfield Studio 1 near Monmouth on 24 August 1975, after a 3-week rehearsal in Herefordshire. During the making of the track, an additional four studios (Roundhouse, SARM (East), Scorpion, and Wessex) were used

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