Its achievements are spectacular, not simply within the Queen story however the historical past of pop music. The one single to be a Christmas No.1 twice. The one single to be No.1 within the UK in 4 totally different calendar years. The primary single for 18 years to spend 9 weeks atop the British chart. Not simply the third best-selling single within the UK of all time, however featured on the top-selling UK album ever. We might solely be speaking about “Bohemian Rhapsody,” which turned a UK No.1 for a second time on December 21, 1991.
No fewer than 5 totally different studios had been used within the manufacturing of the groundbreaking track, beginning at Rockfield in Wales in August 1975. It took three weeks to assemble, and in some components of the observe, there have been 180 separate vocal overdubs. “Rhapsody” raced to the highest of the British chart and stayed there for 9 weeks, over Christmas 1975 and into the brand new yr.
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By early in 1976, it had offered its first million, and went on to be a Prime 10 hit in America that yr, and once more in 1992, due to its inclusion within the film Wayne’s World. By then, the anthemic track had turn into a British No.1, and a Christmas chart-topper once more, when it re-charted because the nation mourned Freddie Mercury’s loss of life on November 24, 1991.
In November 2022, to mark the seventieth anniversary of the UK singles chart, the Official Charts Firm revealed an up to date record of the UK’s bestselling singles of all time. “Bohemian Rhapsody“ was at No. 3 with 2.63 million sales and (in the digital era) combined chart units. That was only behind Band Aid’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas” at No.2 on 3.83 million, and the runaway chief, Elton John’s “Candle In The Wind 1997”/“Something About The Way You Look Tonight,” with 4.94 million. However Queen trumped each of these, in that “Rhapsody” is, after all, additionally on their Biggest Hits assortment, the UK’s all-time top-selling album with gross sales of greater than seven million.
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