Bohemian Rhapsody (song)

"Bohemian Rhapsody" is a song by the British rock band Queen. It was released on October 31, 1975. It was written by Freddie Mercury for the band's 1975 album A Night at the Opera. It is a 5 minute and 55 second suite, consisting of several sections without a chorus: an intro, a ballad segment, a guitar solo, an operatic passage, a hard rock part and a reflective coda. The song is a more accessible take on the 1970s progressive rock genre.

Upon its release as a single, "Bohemian Rhapsody" became a commercial success, topping the UK Singles Chart for over two months and selling more than a million copies by the end of January 1976. It reached number one again in 1991 for another five weeks when the same version was re-released following Mercury's death, eventually becoming the UK's third-best-selling single of all time. It is also the only song to be the UK Christmas number one twice by the same artist. It topped the charts in several other countries as well, including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and the Netherlands, later becoming one of the best-selling singles of all time selling over six million copies worldwide. In the United States, the song originally peaked at number nine in 1976, but returned to the chart in 1992 after being used in the film Wayne's World and reached a new peak of number two on the Billboard Hot 100. The release of the film of the same name in 2018 resulted in renewed popularity and chart success worldwide for the song.

"Bohemian Rhapsody" became Queen's most popular song and is considered one of the greatest songs of all time. The song also helped popularise the music video format.