
Bohemian Rhapsody
Six minutes with no chorus and so many vocal overdubs the tape wore transparent. Still nothing else like it.

Six minutes with no chorus and so many vocal overdubs the tape wore transparent. Still nothing else like it.
Bowie lived near Mountain Studios, dropped in, and one evening's jam became a UK number one with a disputed bassline.

May came home from a Stafford gig where the crowd sang back, and built a chorus from stomps and claps.

Mercury wrote it with audience participation in mind, and a 2011 study named it the catchiest song in pop.

Deacon's bassline owes Chic, Michael Jackson talked them into releasing it, and Queen landed their biggest-selling single.

Mercury wrote it at the piano, then three voices were multitracked into something the size of a gospel choir.

Ten minutes after a Munich bath, a borrowed Fender not the Red Special, and Queen's first American number one.

Deacon's song, Fred Mandel's Jupiter-8 solo in a single take, and a video of Queen in Coronation Street drag.

May and Taylor wrote it, Mercury sang it, and Queen waited until 2019 to give it a video.