Bohemian Rhapsody misheard lyrics & music: Rainer Hersch

Now, the thing about Bohemian Rhapsody, what makes it so special: well, for a start it is an incredibly.... ...long song the other is the words. The words are amazing. They are so amazing they have... ...a tendency to be misheard. For example when I was first listening to this and before I focussed on this for this show I used to think this bit was 'wish me luck', 'wish me luck' - here we go: It's 'wish me luck' isn't it? Wish me luck! Turns out it's something called 'Bismillah'. Who know that? Who know that? 'Bismillah' - oh, you're such liars. But that's happened to me quite a lot of times. For example it was a time I used to think that the only reason why we didn't see Saddam Hussein anymore was because The Monkeys had him. Listen to this: Some of you can't believe you just seen that. The rest of you are trying to... ...remember all the words that song actually are. OK. So that's some of the confusions. Now, the fact is that the Bohemian Rhapsody theme... ...it's got classical beginnings, actually. It, in fact, started with Bach. It was a Bach chorale where the theme was first heard. Sounds like this: The rock-out bit is very tame, I'll tell you that. And then Scott Joplin then took up his famous 'Bohemian Ragsody'. Please, Scott Joplin: And the first people to try to set in modern era were Benny and Björn from ABBA. This is their version: But the original one that we know - the classic version - was recorded by Queen. Apparently took them three weeks and in that three weeks some of the bits were recorded over and over - a hundred and eighty times. A hundred and eighty overdubs. We say poo poo to all of that. We are going to do it in one hit with your help. Are you up for it? And to focus your singing, please welcome back the lovely, the talented Charlotte Page. SINGS BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY WITH AUDIENCE

Channel: Rainer Hersch Fan Channel

Views: 3,611,548

Rating: 4.816915 out of 5

Keywords: Rainer Hersch (Person), Queen, Freddie Mercury (Musical Artist), Brian May (Musical Artist), Misheard Lyrics, mondegreen, comedy, music, conductor, Windows Waltz, Bill Bailey, Spike Jones, Victor Borge, Anna Russell, Gerard Hoffnung, movie, barcelona, lyrics, hit, I just killed a man, Killer Queen, Somebody to Love, Don't Stop Me Now, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, We Are The Champions, Song, musical, Hans Liberg, Igudesman and Joo, Salut Salon, Funny, musician, quartet, classical

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Length: 4min 57sec (297 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 28 2015