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Boheimian Rrhapsody (Queen) sung by Lanny Shum @ PMC Auditorium 2024 - 4K movie Queen’s 1975 opus, “Bohemian Rhapsody,” is the defining work of late lead singer Freddie Mercury’s career. Spanning six minutes long with a balladic intro, operatic section, hard-rock part, and piano outro, it inspired an award-winning 2018 biopic of the same name. Decades later, however, there are still debates over the meaning of the A Night at the Opera track. The most popular theory about “Bohemian Rhapsody” is that it served as Mercury’s way of coming out as gay or bisexual. Mercury biographer Lesley-Ann Jones claims to have confirmed the theory with Mercury’s longtime lover Jim Hutton. “‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ WAS Freddie’s confessional,” Hutton told Jones. “It was about how different his life could have been, and how much happier he might have been, had he just been able to be himself, the whole of his life.” In this interpretation, the first verse represents Mercury killing his old image: Spoken to Roger Taylor
