History Buffs: Bohemian Rhapsody Part One

[Music] this episode's sponsored by curiosity stream which now comes free with nebula details on the description box below hello and welcome history buffs my name is nick hodges and it's been a while since i've done a musical biopic the last one being amadeus so i figured for the next one what could be better than bohemian rhapsody in this film we follow the rise of one of the greatest or arguably the greatest rock band of all time queen from their formation in 1970 until their legendary performance at live aid in 1985 all of it seen through the eyes of its lead singer freddie mercury before his untimely death from aids in 1991 fans of queen have waited years to see a movie about their favorite band hoping that it would cover everything from the inception of its greatest hits to a glimpse of the wild lives of these titan rock stars but is this what we got in the end did this film try to tell the true story of queen warts and all or is this simply a 50 million dollar sing-along concert with our favorite songs being played instead by hollywood actors generally biopics tend to be less accurate than the average historical film especially when the surviving band members are the movie's consultants and might want to protect their legacy which is fine i guess at least to a point so what i'll be doing in this review is to go over some of the movies and accuracies from the minor stuff to the risque things they left out because they wanted a pg-13 rating to of course the big changes that are a little hard to justify especially once you get to know the true story behind queen this is bohemian rhapsody [Music] so the movie begins funnily enough with a flash forward to the very end of the movie it is the 13th of july 1985 one of the truly pivotal moments of rock history this was the day of live aid the charity concert to raise relief for the ethiopian famine but unlike other concerts over the years this was the biggest and most iconic since woodstock of 1969. anyone who is anyone from the music world was there that day for 16 hours 58 bands performed consecutively in london and philadelphia all of it captured live on the largest satellite broadcast ever made at that time with an estimated 1.6 billion people watching it worldwide this would be queen's magnum opus for the waves portrayed in the movie it was just another day for freddie mercury with him waking up that one morning feeding the bajillion cats he owned hopping into his rolls royce with an unusually calm demeanor that says only one thing this is a professional in his element knowing as he leaps fearlessly onto the stage that he and his bandmates will be giving this audience the performance of a lifetime and it's at this point the movie truly begins with a flashback 15 years earlier to 1970 where we see freddie working as a humble baggage handler at heathrow airport which is true he did briefly work there as a teenager but this was back in 1964 when his family first moved to england the reason for the day change is because queen formed in 1970 and the movie just wanted to crack on with it that being said i don't know why they picked freddie's first job but what's really funny is that once heathrow airport found out the movie was going to mention this they chose to cash in with a cringey dance tribute i want to break free i want to break free i love out of all the songs they could have picked they chose that one i also wonder if heathrow airport actually watched bohemian rhapsody beforehand would they still have done the tributes based on how their baggage handlers were represented wait you missed one [ __ ] i'm not from pakistan yeah somehow i doubt it for those of you who don't know that is an incredibly racist term in the uk and unfortunately appropriate to the time period there was a huge influx of immigration going on in the 60s which freddie's family was a part of before freddie mercury changed his name he was originally called fruck balsara i was born in the african spice island of zanzibar the balsaras were past the indians who fled to england in 1964 to escape civil unrest like we see in the movie freddie's parents didn't fully accept his dream to be a musician yet they both hoped that this was merely a phase and that he would eventually grow out of it someday to get a proper job we then follow freddy to a student pub where he watches a band called smile play two of its members would be the future lead guitarist and drummer of queen brian may and roger taylor and it's here that the movie tries to condense a lot of queen history in just one scene and he can't blame the filmmakers too much for that basically the movie's version of freddie meets brian and roger for the first time and says he's been following smile for a while and would like to contribute some songs he's written and it just so happens that the lead singer tim stafford quit that very night to join another band humpy bong humpy bong they're going places they're gonna be big humpy bong are you joking we're not going anywhere with this what college gigs pubs gotta give it a go now it's true that tim stafford left smile in 1970 because they played the college circuit for two years and the closest they got to success was a single they released a year earlier with mercury records that went absolutely nowhere feeling jaded staff will accept an offer by xbg's drummer colin peterson to join humpy bong who had recently been on the music show top of the pops so you could see why stafford dropped out anyway with him out of the picture we see freddy take a shot to audition for brian and roger i know what i'm doing i got a feeling i should be doing all right doing all right it's a quick little scene that moves things along but it isn't how the band formed it was actually tim staffel who introduced freddie to brian and roger they were both friends from ealing college of art and in early 1969 stafford brought freddie to a smile rehearsal and he immediately clicked with brian and roger and became a regular at their gigs freddie loves smile sound and gave constant feedback on how the band should look and perform on stage i used to follow sort of smile a lot in isis and we'll be like friends i used to go to their shows and he would always say you know you guys are brilliant brilliant brilliant is amazing but you know you should do this and you should do this what did you see in in what brian and roger ding was smiling nothing i think he sort of had in the back of his mind maybe you know some some idea about maybe working with us inspired by a smile freddie set about finding his own band to join there was eye bags sour milk c wreckage but they never went anywhere so when staff were left smile it only made sense that brian freddie and roger start an entirely new band one that freddy would call queen we also see earlier in this scene freddie supposedly meeting the brief love of his life mary austin on the same night he meets brian and roger which also isn't true in reality mary went on a couple of dates with brian may but nothing ever happened so freddie met mary through brian and that's how the relationship began well maybe not initially apparently it took 46 months to pick up the courage to ask her out but i will say that it is true that she worked at bieber which was a high street boutique back in the 70s and she and freddie were very much into the kensington fashion scene i love your style i think we should all take more risks these intimate moments with mary may have helped inspire him with some of the more outlandish outfits he later wore in his career we've got a few uh a few fresh faces this is john deacon our bass player yeah and our new lead singer freddie bolsara freddie bolsara so this is meant to be queen's first ever performance and there's a couple of things to mention although we see john deacon on stage he wasn't the original bass player but the fourth and i completely agree why that was left out as it took queen 10 months of stressful searching before they got lucky with john the other thing to mention is that by the time queen formed freddie had long overcome his shyness and awkwardness on stage [Music] freddie's performance here is more of how he used to be with his previous band ibex in one show he sang with us back to the crowd kind of like the way jim morrison used to do in the early days of the doors [Music] [Applause] but it didn't take long for freddie to find his confidence and soon he was leaping up and down the stage the way we used to seeing him as for the bottom of freddie's mic falling out that did happen during a show but that was also with ibex and ever since then freddy only performed with the top pulse section and that became his trademark style the movie then cuts to a year later in 1971 where queen has been touring up and down the uk but meeting little success which was true many of their gigs were at small town festivals pubs and colleges but what the band really felt they should be doing were the big concerts in the movie freddie suggests they go about this by selling off roger's van so they can book a studio to record an album and apparently they do this all in one night don't you think i sound like [ __ ] no it's good can we try it again sure yep sure it's mature money the truth is they didn't need to pay for a session because a friend of brian mays was setting up a new recording studio called the lane lee and he offered queen free time to record their demo not an entire album as the movie says the reason was because the studio wanted a loud band to test their equipment so obviously queen said yes because they knew their demo would not only sound professional but it'll also be a chance to network sometime around the end of 1971 the band was at delaine lee when a couple of producers from triton studios overheard them playing well i'll tell you these kids in the box a student band doing some weird stuff how about demos you got some been up all night mate now in the movie that guy was a talent scout for the record label emi and when the band are later having lunch with family freddie gets a call from emi saying they wish to sign up the band and have john reed elton john's manager represent them but the movie is seriously jumping the gun here because john reed did become their manager until 1975. it was norman sheffield from triton studios who managed them from 1971 until 1975 and with trident studios queen produced three albums that made a lot of money so why is there no mention of queen's first manager because they naively signed a contract that for 50 pounds a week the bulk of their record sales went to trident studios and we explained to them at length that money wasn't there yet it would be there and we could see it coming um if the sales were like they were reported to me it would flow so being constantly broke they felt they were being ripped off when roger saw their manager had bought his second rolls royce that's why if you listen to their song death on two legs it's actually a diss track meant to slag off norman sheffield [Music] [Music] furious with this norman sheffield threatened to sue the ban for defamation but in the end everything was settled out of court thanks largely to queen's second manager john reed and their lawyer jim beach but in the movie john reed's character is the one who discovers queen and breaks them out of the public he goes about this by getting them on top of the pops which was a huge tv music chart show on bbc one now queen did appear on top of the pops which was on the 21st of february 1974 but unlike in the movie where they're playing killer queen the original song was seven seas of right but most of their footage was lost in the bbc archives killer queen was their second appearance and that was the one most people saw so they probably changed it so fans wouldn't get confused which is fine it's a minor detail but there's one thing i need to talk about in this scene it is this i understand that it's the policy the bbc we have procedures i need you to explain it to the band please let's make it ready look chaps it is going to be playback lip syncs all that's required we do know how to play our instruments you want me to lip-synch i don't understand why we can't simply perform live the audience will never know the difference i can't believe i have to defend the bbc on this but there's an actual reason why they need to mime their song this was a music chart tv show that had bands playing back to back to back there was very little time for each band to get set up and make sure all their instruments and mics were properly balanced wouldn't be surprised they only had seven minutes or something and when you were dealing with bbc sound engineers who you don't know and aren't familiar with how your band likes doing things then there's a chance of something going wrong like the time new order refused to mine blue monday on top of the pops in 1983 how does it feel when you treat me like you do [Music] sounds awful doesn't it that's why if you don't have enough time to do your sound checks it's often safer just to mime it anyway why am i mentioning this because the impression of the bbc in the movie is that not only are they lame and uncool for not allowing queen to play live but they don't even tell them until they're on stage which just wasn't true in order to be on top of the pops queen had to record a special backing track the day before now of course they prefer to do it live and i'm sure they complained but they understood why the way things are done are a load of bollocks on chat this is the bbc i'm relieved well you would be no perfect performance exactly and out of that perfect performance seven seas of rye reached number 10 of the uk charts from the achievements made from that hit single and their debut album queen toured america for the first time as a support act for mock the hoople and like we see in the movie the tour was an enormous success and by december 1974 the third album sheer heart attack reached the top 10 in the us charts the movie then cuts to a meeting where queen is pitching their fourth album a knight of the opera which is generally regarded as their finest album joining them is their lawyer jim beach john reed and emi executive ray foster now ray foster's character is fictional but he's supposed to be loosely based on roy featherston who is the general manager of the pop division at emi in reality this character is a composite of several of my execs basically anyone who questioned queen's vision and they're kind of being made fun of here that's why ray foster is portrayed to be unimaginative formulas are a complete and utter waste of time formulas work let's stick with the formulas i like formulas uncultured are you aware that no one actually likes opera i like opera do you i do and most importantly unadventurous surely a man of your unique taste isn't afraid of little risk please don't make me regret this now i know this is supposed to be all tongue-in-cheek the idea of queen needing permission to record their fourth album is ridiculous not only was the real roy featherston a huge fan but emi had already spent considerable time and money in breaking them out of their previous contract they even advanced queen 100 000 pounds so they could pay trident the severance package to cut a very long story short we we agreed that we would go with john reed as our manager and john reed's plan you know because we said you know how do we get out of this his plan was okay boys i will deal with the financial situation you guys go back in the studio and make the best album you've ever made as you can see queen was free to make any kind of album they wanted all they had to do was make sure it didn't suck which is a lot of pressure on a band especially when that band is broke and in debt basically if the knight of the opera failed then queen would have broken up that was the real drama going on with the making of this album not this little speech freddie's character has about opera we call the album a knight at the opera it's a rock and roll record with the scale of opera the pesos of greek tragedy the wit of shakespeare the unbridled joy of musical theater i'm sorry but i have no clue what he's on about the only operatic song in their entire album is bohemian rhapsody the rest of your traditional queen songs the only reason why it's called the knight of the opera is because it's named after a movie one of the key memories i have is we're all sitting up one saturday night with nothing better to do than watch a night at the opera by the marx brothers we were big marx brothers fans we've been sort of thinking of things to call the album etc etc and then suddenly there was the there right in front of us and a night at the opera this didn't only happen once by the way the next album is also named after a marx brothers movie called a day at the races there's even a picture of them giving groucho marx a gold disc as a thank you in any case queen set out to record their album in august 1975 and headed to rockfield studios in wales now this converted farm may look like emi was being cheap but i can assure you this is one of the best studios in europe and the fact that you could sleep there made it even better for two weeks these guys lived and worked together in complete isolation and this led to some colorful arguments about their songs one in particular the movie mentions was roger taylor's i'm in love with my car what does that even mean not strong i'm late what did i miss discussing roger's castle is it strong enough that's all i'm asking when my hands on your grease gun that's very subtle this is a metaphor just a bit weird roger what exactly are you doing with that car so according to queen myth roger got the last laugh in the end by locking himself in a cupboard and refused to come out until his bandmates agreed that his song i'm in love with my car would be on the b side of the bohemian rhapsody single what happens is when it comes to getting paid the record royalties for writing the tracks are split 50 50 between the a side and the b side which is clearly an unfair situation but that's the way it was so i'm in love with my car became one of the biggest earners in terms of a song of all time he's not joking by the way bohemian rhapsody is the third best-selling british single of all time so roger got a crapload of money speaking of which let's take a look at the making of bohemian rhapsody now i'm happy to say that this scene stays very close to history this was a monster of a track to make and because it took six studios to put it together everyone only heard bits and pieces of it the only one he knew how was all gonna sound in the end was freddie mercury [Music] so now what this is when the operatic section comes in oh the operatic section yeah the process of splicing it all together was apparently so taxing in the original tape you could hold it up to the light and see through it because the oxide had worn off everything was quickly transferred of course but brian may himself said that every time freddy added another galileo they lost something jesus how many more galileos do you want freddie wants to do a few more overdubs do we even have any tape left i do have to say the tape is wearing out uh dub 26 of uh fred's thing it took over three weeks just to cut bohemian rhapsody as for the night of the opera it was rumored to be the most expensive album ever made at that time running at a cost of 40 000 pounds which was unheard of but that wasn't what troubled emi the most it was the fact that queen unanimously decided that bohemian rhapsody would be the next single for a band that always argued over every little thing they were oddly united on this issue and very few people at emi could understand why it goes on forever six bloody minutes pity your wife if you think six minutes is forever not possible anything over three minutes and the radio stations won't program it period bohemian rhapsody that's it or we walk okay this is just crap freddie and the rest of queen never threatened to walk in protest because they couldn't afford to the success of the next album was make or break for them the film gives the impression that queen were already superstars by this point but that hadn't happened yet they were just a popular rock band with enormous potential also it wasn't just one guy at emi saying no pretty much everyone was telling them it was a bad idea i was the idiot who said why don't we ask them to do an edit and the the response was a couple of words i played it to elton john at the time and he said are you off your head you'll never get that on the radio fortunately for freddie he just so happened to be friends with a radio dj called kenny everett the way it's presented in the movies that freddie came on capitol radio and gave kenny a copy of bohemian rhapsody live on air and cheekily told him not to play it no one will play it on the radio so emi won't release it what's wrong with this song nothing's wrong with it at all except that it's six minutes long six minutes oh you'd have to be mad to play it'd have to be bonkers positively forbidden let's hear it now it's not clear how kenny managed to get a copy because there have been conflicting stories over the years one is that brian may claim that kenny stole it and played it on the radio without the band's consent another one is that roy thomas baker queen's producer said they gave it to kenny knowing full well what he was going to do we invited kenny over along and he listened to it and we gave him a copy and we said whatever you do you can't play this and he said okay i want player and winked and then that following weekend he played it like 14 times the one thing i can say is that whilst freddie appeared on kenny's show before he wasn't on that particular broadcast but in the end it doesn't really matter the chemistry between these two characters is very authentic to what their real friendship was like but regardless of how kenny got a hold of bohemian rhapsody it can't be denied that he helped turn it into a smash hit emi was shocked by the overwhelming positive response forcing their hand to release it officially on the 31st of october 1975 their fears that no radio station would play it all the way through or unfounded the single went platinum and held on to the number one chart for nine weeks and sold a million copies in the uk alone queen's rice super stardom had begun since i have your attention i thought i'd mention quickly that whilst my bohemian rhapsody review will be split up into parts 1 and 2 on youtube you can watch it in its entirety right now on nebula nebula is a streaming service made by creators where we release content early ad-free and even show exclusive nebula originals that you can't find anywhere else it's also a platform without the restrictions of 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did so well because then they took it personally so given how the movie glosses over this fascinating bit of queen history i figured why not mention it quickly here now to be fair the music press wasn't fixated on only hating queen it was pretty much anyone who was popular back then we were taking if you like music icons at that time and we were rubbishing them basically the music icons he's talking about are bands like the who pink floyd and so on the decision to rubbish them had nothing to do with the quality of their music but just because it was cool too by the mid-1970s a new genre of music blast onto the scene called punk and it was loud it was crude it was vulgar it was anti-establishment anti-authority it was not my cup of tea especially that goblin stuff anyway a lot of british journalists hyped up the punk scene as best they could because they felt a reflective society and they did this by making its anti fashion fashionable glamorizing its nihilistic message writing articles about how rock was dead and bands like led zeppelin the who and the rolling stones were a bunch of husbands and they especially hated queen for being a bunch of posh boys and giving their albums such names like a night of the opera a day at the races to these journalists they conjured up images of the elite where they're funny hats and glasses of champagne so queen were deemed to be snobs which i find funny coming from a bunch of champagne anarchists the journalists i mean not the punk bands however the american press wasn't any better listen to this with a rolling stone and their review of the album jazz queen may be the first truly fascist rock band the whole thing makes me wonder why anyone would indulge these creeps and their polluting ideas anyway john reed queen's manager understood this and tried his best to keep the band out of the media's crosshairs and one story in particular inspired a small scene in the movie bohemian rhapsody so i went out to dinner with freddie in the white elephant in carlson street casually in the middle of dinner he said i did an interview with david wigg from the express today i said i thought i told you no interviews without clearing me oh well do you never mind i said well [ __ ] you if you don't work with within my rules you don't work with me i got up and left and i left him there i came home i went upstairs turned on the tv the next thing i knew a brick came through the window and i looked outside here as freddie's standing in the street hands on his hips don't you ever [ __ ] leave me in a trigger i thought you better come in now as funny as that story may be we mustn't forget why john reed was so cautious in a famous article by new music express a journalist called tony stewart interviewed freddie mercury quotes him saying that he wanted to bring valet to the masses and represented him in the worst possible way that was obviously an article i wrote called is this man of pratt where people were left to answer the questions themselves and i think it was a resounding yes from enemies audience of 250 000. ah so it's like if i ask my audience if they think you're i'm not saying you're i'm just asking them if they think you're okay honestly i have nothing against tony stewart i just find the style of journalism to be childish yet this was the kind of grief queen we're used to dealing with throughout their career you get a little sense of that with the negative reviews for bohemian rhapsody but i think the film could have shown more in any case let's get back to the movie after the success of a night of the opera we see a montage of all their greatest tours in the 70s well supposedly anyway funnily enough it ends with queen and rio de janeiro about to perform in the first ever rock in rio festival according to brian it was the largest paying audience in history it certainly was on the two nights the queen played up to 300 000 people attended some sources even claimed it was as many as 470 000 on their first night making it the largest audience queen would ever play to however this landmark gig didn't happen until january 1985 not in the 70s as shown in the movie and this is something that happens a lot of bohemian rhapsody where they'll take key moments in queen history and present them out of order in this case it's because the filmmakers wanted a scene where freddie shows mary austin this enormous crowd singing love of my life while they're still together [Music] [Applause] they're all singing thousands of them all singing to you now i will admit that this is one of the better scenes in the movie even if it isn't 100 accurate it was 1976 when freddie came out to mary which ended their six-year relationship and the way his character uses his music as a way to reach her does feel very freddy the fact that his queen's largest gig where allegedly half a million fans are singing love of my life to mary through the tv makes it even more powerful ferdi had been conflicted for years with his sexual identity and admitting this to mary must have been incredibly difficult because he genuinely loved her and didn't want things to end no don't take it off don't take it off you promised me and never take it off what do you want from me i want you in my life it's a very well done scene even if this particular concert didn't happen until 1985 it isn't a huge deal breaker for me as long as it's authentic feels true to history then that's something i'm willing to get behind anyway after that scene the movie jumps forward to 1980 where freddie has done away with the painted nails and long hair in favor of the mustache she's best known for and it's here that we see him throw one of his epic parties has literally become the stuff of rock and roll legend well at least it's supposed to be to be honest what we see on the screen is very underwhelming like the environment doesn't quite fit what the characters are saying where's mary it's it's not exactly her scene is it freddy what the sporting house party fabulous isn't it if you say so come on let's start yes i don't dance freddie does anyone think that brian may is a bit of a buzzkill here because there's nothing crazy enough going on for him to act like such a fun sponge i'm sorry but this is not a queen party now this is a queen party in real life they're all expensive paid hedonistic bashers with burlesque dancers strippers hookers drag queens half naked butlers naked mud wrestlers with people shagging on the tables hopped up on booze drugs you name it and that's only the stuff the band is willing to admit and there's the other stories the story of the dwarves with the cocaine was a myth that went round and certainly when i discussed it with freddie he never denied it he would just laugh about it so clearly there was some shenanigans going on with dwarves it it sounds good to have a dwarf walking around with a bowl of cocaine on his head doesn't it no i never saw one of those probably all gone by the time i got there if this film had been r-rated and we saw debauchery drug sex and the rest of it then that would have justified the dialogue but no they wanted a pg-13 rating so these rock stars look like wet blankets it also slightly undermines their concern for freddie's well-being and the crowds he was with in this case paul prancer who is pretty much the movie's villain he was freddie's personal manager and been working for him since 1977 and the rest of the band hated this guy they felt he was a bad influence and pushed freddie to go out clubbing every night hooking up with coke with men and being overall very possessive of freddie that's why you always see him hovering around him in the movie and this does seem to be genuine if you look at the real footage of paul prenter he's often touching freddy or clinging to him at one point you even see freddy telling him to outright stop it but what the rest of the band hated most was printer influencing freddy creatively i'm tired of the bloody anthems i want the energy and the clubs the bodies i want to make people mean disco why not do you mind pissing off now whatever paul prenter may have been i don't think he was quite the evil genius the movie makes him out to be there's a scene we suggest to jon reads that freddy should perhaps leave queen to start a solo career mink queen how long can that last and since john was queen's manager he should be the one to propose it so john reed mentions later that cbs records was interested in hiring freddie for a solo album which they were but this didn't happen until a few years later however genry quickly discovers that this was all just a trap it's a lot of money for your friend and i think you should consider it are you asking me to break up the band paul i don't know what you're talking about john so in a fit of fury freddy fires john reed on the spot and kicks him out of the car then we see paul prenter lie and say that he even warned jon not to do it which is a slimy thing to do but in real life none of this ever happened the reason for john reed's departure was far less melodramatic it was simply because he was coming up to the end of his contract and the band wanted to manage themselves at the time john reed was also managing elton john's career and they felt his focus wasn't 100 on them so in 1977 they told reed they appreciated everything he'd done for them but they felt it was time to part ways and offered a severance package to end the contract early i thought that was um that was a very very nice way to tell me and it was it was the correct way to tell me and i've never had any difficulty with them at all there's been one of the gentlest parting of the ways of of md i've ever worked with yeah so the complete opposite of what we see in the movie as far as inaccuracies go it's not good but it's nowhere near as bad as this one it's when queen are discussing mtv's decision to ban their music video i want to break free which featured the entire band dressed in drag it was a parody of a boring british so-called coronation street which was lost on americans and i don't blame them singh has the most boring music intro of all time i mean look at this even the cat's falling asleep anyway mtv's banning of the video didn't happen until 1984 but the film changes it to 1982 because that was a particularly stressful year for queen their album hot space didn't do so well and they were constantly at each other's throats well more than usual but that's normal for a band that's been on tour for like a decade but rather than just admit that everyone was feeling burnt out the film chooses this approach when freddy says that he wants to take a break to focus on a solo career the entire band goes mental now it is true they were pissed at freddy for getting paid more from cbs than what emi was paying them but what isn't true is this crap that freddie broke up queen by going solo you just kill queen oh give it a kiss one day she might wake up you need us ready more than you know i don't need anyone in real life it wasn't just freddie who wanted a break it was something they all agreed to do and none of them had an issue with freddie going solo because he wasn't even the first one to do it roger taylor had his album fun in space in 1981 and his second album strange frontier in 1984 then he had brian may with eddie van halen on the starfleet project in 1983 which was a small rock album based on the children's tv show then also in 1983 john deacon co-produced a hip-hop single called picking up sounds with man friday and jive jr [Music] i mean it's ridiculous out of everyone in queen freddie mercury was the last one to go solo but he gets the most flack for it in this movie i think most people thought that i would be the first one to to have a solo album and then the band you know queen would break up and all that but um here you are after 13 years the four old four old ladies are still rocking away well that about wraps it up for part one of my bohemian rhapsody review and stay tuned for part two when it comes out next week my name is nick hodges and thanks for watching history buffs [Music] you

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Length: 36min 44sec (2204 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 23 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/Ingloriousbaxter32]

I’m a huge Queen fan and people from work were surprised that I had zero interest in this movie.

Watching this validated my choice

[u/memory_of_a_high]

I am glad he said part two is next week. Five months is his norm.