QUEEN Topped The UK Charts With Blockbuster ‘BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY’ Today 50 Years Ago

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9 January 2026

QUEEN, one of the greatest bands ever topped the UK Charts with their blockbuster hit BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY for 9 weeks straight, starting on 9 January 1976, today 50 years ago.

The song parodies elements of opera with bombastic choruses, sarcastic recitative, and distorted Italian operatic phrases. Lyrical references include Scaramouche, the fandango, Galileo Galilei, Figaro, and Beelzebub, with cries of Bismillah.

Freddie Mercury called it a mock opera.

Producer Roy Thomas Baker recalled years later: “It was totally insane, but we enjoyed every minute of it. It was basically a joke, but a successful joke. [Laughs]. We had to record it in three separate units. We did the whole beginning bit, then the whole middle bit and then the whole end.

It was complete madness. The middle part started off being just a couple of seconds, but Freddie kept coming in with more “Galileos” and we kept on adding to the opera section, and it just got bigger and bigger. We never stopped laughing. It started off as a ballad, but the end was heavy.”

It featured on their 4th LP
A Night At The Opera.

Once again, Freddie.

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QUEEN Released Their Everlasting Stroke Of Genius ‘BOHEMAIN RHAPSODY’ Today 50 Years Ago

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31 October 2025

Eternal legends QUEEN released their everlasting stroke of genius
BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY on 31 October 1975, today 50 years ago.

The song parodies elements of opera with bombastic choruses, sarcastic recitative, and distorted Italian operatic phrases. Lyrical references include Scaramouche, the fandango, Galileo Galilei, Figaro, and Beelzebub, with cries of Bismillah.

Freddie Mercury called it a mock opera.

Producer Roy Thomas Baker recalled years later: “It was totally insane, but we enjoyed every minute of it. It was basically a joke, but a successful joke. [Laughs]. We had to record it in three separate units. We did the whole beginning bit, then the whole middle bit and then the whole end.

It was complete madness. The middle part started off being just a couple of seconds, but Freddie kept coming in with more “Galileos” and we kept on adding to the opera section, and it just got bigger and bigger. We never stopped laughing. It started off as a ballad, but the end was heavy.”

It featured on their 4th LP
A Night At The Opera.

Once again, Freddie.

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UK’s Top 10 Of Most Played Rock Acts Of The 21st Century

10 October 2025

According to a new PPL chart to celebrate (on October 18th) the upcoming National Album Day 2025, imperishable legends QUEEN have amassed over 400 million seconds
of radio and TV airplay, the equivalent of 12.5 years of continuous play this century, with their most played track being A Kind Of Magic.

It makes them the most played rock act of the 21st Century in the UK.

Brian May (Queen’s legendary guitarist): “Astounding news! Bearing in mind that most
of Queen’s major works were done in the 20th century, it’s amazing to top a 21st century list. Big thanks to all our fans.”

TOP 10

1. Queen
2. David Bowie
3. U2
4. Oasis
5. Fleetwood Mac
6. Stereophonics
7. The Rolling Stones
8. The Police
9. The Killers
10. Kings Of Leon

13 July 1985 – This Day 40 Years Ago The ‘LIVE AID’ Concert Marathon Was Held

13 July 2025

On 13th July 1985, 40 years ago today, the massive concert marathon LIVE AID
was held, organized by artists/musicians Bob Geldof (The Boomtown Rats) and Midge
Ure
(Ultravox) to raise funds for the devastating Ethiopian famine.

Announced as the ‘global jukebox’, the event was held simultaneously
at Wembley Stadium in London for 72,000 people, and at John F.
Kennedy Stadium
in Philadelphia with a crowd of 89,500. And an
audience of 1.9 billion TV viewers across 150 nations, that’s nearly
40% of the world population.

3 of the many highlights.

U2

QUEEN

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6 July 1973 – QUEEN Release Their Debut Single ‘KEEP YOURSELF ALIVE’

6 July 2025

Iconic bombast champions QUEEN, led by the greatest rock entertainer in
music history with the late theatrical Freddie Mercury, released their debut
single KEEP YOURSELF ALIVE 52 years ago today, on 6 July 1973.

It was written by guitarist Brian May and was
the opener of their self-titled debut LP.

It didn’t chart until it was re-released in 1975.

In 2008, Rolling Stone Magazine rated the song 31st
on its list of ‘The 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time‘.

Keep yourself alive, Freddy.

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QUEEN Released Hit Single ‘YOU’RE MY BEST FRIEND’ 50 Years Ago Today

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18 June 2025

YOU’RE MY BEST FRIEND was one of the hit singles
on QUEEN‘s masterly album A Night At The Opera.

It was released on 18 June 1970, that’s 50 years ago today.

The song was written by the band’s bass player
John Deacon who wrote it for and about his wife.

The single (more than 404 million streams on Spotify) peaked at #7 in the UK and #16 on the US Billboard Hot 100. It was certified platinum in the US with over one million copies sold.

Ooh, you make me live
Whenever this world is cruel to me
I got you to help me forgive
Ooh, you make me live now, honey
Ooh, you make me live

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New MOJO Issue With QUEEN – Timeless Masterstroke ‘BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY’ Turns 50 This Year

28 March 2025

QUEEN‘s monumental masterstroke BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY was released on 31 October 1975. Almost 50 years ago. It was the main single of their grand A Night At The Opera opus.

The band’s guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor talk in this month’s issue about the sonic step-changes of rock’s most daring and varied band.

Also in the issue: Sex Pistols’ Jones, Cook and Matlock on their live reincarnation; inside the songwriting symbiosis of Lennon and McCartney; The Pogues’ superb album Rum, Sodomy & The Lash at 40; Dionne Warwick on the hits (and writs) that define her career; Low’s Alan Sparhawk rebuilds after tragedy and much more.

You can purchase a copy and have it sent to your home. Info HERE.

BIG BLASTS FROM THE PAST – 10 Classic Albums Turning 50 In 2025

23 December 2024

Artist: BOB DYLAN
Album: Blood On The Tracks

His fifteenth and one of his most
memorable LPs.

All Music: “This is hardly nostalgia, this is the sound of an artist returning to his strengths, what feels most familiar, as he accepts a traumatic situation, namely the breakdown of his marriage. This is an album alternately bitter, sorrowful, regretful, and peaceful, easily the closest he ever came to wearing his emotions on his sleeve.”

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Band: FLEETWOOD MAC
Album: Fleetwood Mac
Their 10th.

Pitchfork said: “Though far from their debut, the band’s 1975 self-titled album felt like a debut: a pop-rock statement and the unexpected intersection of two parallel spheres that offered something genuinely new.”

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Artist: NEIL YOUNG
Album: Tonight’s The Night
His sixth LP.

The record was dedicated to Danny Whitten, guitarist of Crazy Horse,
who wrote the song ‘I Don’t Want To Talk About It’ made famous by Rod
Stewart
.

Rolling Stone wrote: “Tonight’s the Night finds Neil Young on his knees at the top of the heap, struggling to get back to his feet… Crying over the death of his real and imagined friends, Neil Young seems at once heroic and mock heroic, brave and absurd. Like the best of both, he leaves us as he found us, ravaged but rocking.”

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Artist: PATTI SMITH
Album: Horses
Her stunning debut.

Rolling Stone wrote: “Patti Smith’s debut album was a declaration of committed mutiny,
a statement of faith in the transfigurative powers of rock & roll. Horses made her the queen
of punk before it even really existed, but Smith cared more for the poetry in rock.”

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Band: PINK FLOYD
Album: Wish You Were Here
9th longplayer, dedicated to the late
flamboyant co-founder Syd Barrett.

The Village Voice wrote: “The music is not only simple and attractive, with the synthesizer used mostly for texture and the guitar breaks for comment, but it actually achieves some of
he symphonic dignity (and cross-referencing) that The Dark Side of the Moon simulated so ponderously.”

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Band: LED ZEPPELIN
Album: Physical Graffiti
Zep‘s 6th, a double one.

Billboard wrote: “The LP is a tour de force through a number of musical
styles, from straight rock to blues to folky acoustic to orchestral sounds.”

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Band: NEU!
Album: Neu!
3rd one.

AllMusic: “This is music not only for traveling, from one place to the
next, but also for disappearance into the ether at a steady pace.”

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Artist: BRIAN ENO
Album: Another Green World
His third.

Pitchfork: “Brian Eno has done everything from producing huge pop stars to creating tiny art installations to touring with rock bands to inventing ambient music. Another Green World remains his definitive album.”

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Band: QUEEN
Album: A Night At The Opera
Their majestic 4th.

MOJO wrote: “An imperial extravaganza, a cornucopia. A band of hungrily
competitive individualists on a big roll of friendship and delight.”

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Artist: DAVID BOWIE
Album: Young Americans
9th longplayer.

Rolling Stone: “The music works best when Bowie combines his renewed interest in soul
with his knowledge of English pop, rather than opting entirely for one or the other.”

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Happy 78 To One Of The Greatest Entertainers Of All Time FREDDIE MERCURY

5 September 2024

Bombastic and theatrical presence/music and an outstanding vox.

FREDDIE MERCURY is undoubtedly one of the greatest entertainers of all time.
He was born, named Farrokh Bulsara in Stone Town, Sultanate of Zanzibar on
5 September 1946. He would have celebrated his 78th birthday today.

WEMBLEY LIVE AID 1985

Unforgettable.

Mercury passed away on 24 November 1991
following HIV/AIDS complications, aged 45.