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Was "Somebody to Love" a better song than "Bohemian Rhapsody" ?

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Both songs are great for me.
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We are the champs and crazy little thing also got to no. 2
And somebody to love was freddies mams favourite.
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Yeah Freddie wrote some fantastic songs for Queen singles and i loved his style of song writing. simply a genius !
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Both are brilliant but difficult to pick one above the other.

Bo Rhap is more adventurous and back in the day the mock opera section was really unexpected. Somebody To Love is simpler in as much as it doesn't chop and change. The gospel overtones are great as is the middle vocal section.

Both guitar solos are great and in typical Brian May fashion fit each song perfectly, but by no means are they an indication of Brian's true genius as an inventive guitarist. On ANATO both Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon and Good Company have solos that are more interesting and ADATR has Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy and The Millionaire Waltz which are far more adventurous than his solo on SBTL.