Bohemian Rhapsody questions

Good points. I have no dog in the "how many times Kenny Everett played Bo Rhap" hunt. It's the date that for my own purposes that's important, to establish just how early on this TOTP cover was released....

[QUOTE] [b]Daniel Nester wrote:[/b]

There have been TOTP CD reissues; I wonder if they on those?

I think these covers are charming. The people behind them are legit and have these other careers, and they did these albums for a regular gig. These compilations are a bit before my time, but nowadays the closest comparison would be the Kidz Bop compiliations these days. [/QUOTE]

I've heard that Elton John was on some of those records, before he got famous....I think there's even a CD compilation of the stuff he did for them, might be wrong on that...

[QUOTE] [b]mooghead wrote:[/b]

This is in one of the youtube comments

"'It had reportedly taken Freddie and the boys almost a month to perfect the original, resulting in close to 200 vocal overdubs, but Tony and the others did thier recording in just one night. It was so good that Kenny Everett spliced thier version together with Queens rendition and defied listeners to tell the difference'"

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I doubt it took that long, or that many attempts, for Queen to get the overdubs right.

Still, it would make sense that the Top of the Pops people could do it more quickly and easily - all they had to do was emulate what they were hearing, rather than actually come up with anything.

Interesting comment from Ian Hunter,
What were your thoughts when you first heard ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’?’

"Buffin and I were there during the mixing – actually, it was the third day of the song being mixed. It came blaring out of four monster speakers right in front of me – a glorious caphophony of ‘bits’ Fred had put together. What did it mean? ‘Nothing’ Fred told me. They were so far into it they were asking me what I thought of the third line in the second section etc. etc. But really, the whole thing was pretty overwhelming coming in off Wardour Streeet on a rainy day. I know some people have compared it to ‘Marionette’ but the only thing they might have nicked was the idea of doing something in the same vein. There are no similarities between the songs."

So many people now have claimed to have been in the mix ... now, the mix did take a while, so theoretically there could've been a lot of visitors without necessarily having been in the studio at the exact same time, but it makes me wonder... either at least half of them are talking bollocks, or it's too much of a coincidence.

You're talking about the TOTP cover? There's a finite number of people involved, and there's not much bollocks. I mean, you can just say that, but it's not necessarily true. I'm interviewing the actual people now, and verifying facts.

No, I mean just about every second person who knew Fred at the time claims to have been present when Fred + Roy were mixing 'Bo Rhap.'

Ah, I see. As Bugs Bunny once put it, "pronoun trouble."