Freddie Mercury of Queen wrote the hit song Bohemian Rhapsody in 1975 for their album A Night At The Opera. It has no chorus, but instead has four parts: a ballad, an operatic passage, guitar solo, and a hard rock section. At the time of its recording, it was the most expensive single ever made and still remains one of the most elaborate recordings in popular music history.
It had huge success on the UK charts for nine weeks and sold more than a million copies. It eventually became the UK’s third best selling single of all time. It hit the charts big in Canada, the US, and Australia, too. Sixteen years after it topped the charts in the US it returned to the Top Ten charts after the release of Wayne’s World.
The song was featured in the film and brought it back to popularity in 1992. The director almost didn’t even put the song in the film, because it didn’t really fit the characters, but Mike Myers insisted they use the song in the film.