New series of Queen - The Greatest mini-series celebrates 50th Anniversary of Bohemian Rhapsody
Queen’s weekly series The Greatest has been brought back to life for a special five-part mini-series in celebration of the 50th anniversary of "Bohemian Rhapsody".
“It’s interesting. Bohemian Rhapsody is viewed as a giant step for Queen creatively, but from the inside, it didn’t feel that way. It’s one of the threads of Queen in our development. You’ve only got to look at the first album, with My Fairy King,” Brian May says. “On the second album, Queen II, there’s a monumentally long and complicated track called March of the Black Queen. It’s a lot more complicated in many ways than Bohemian Rhapsody,” adds Roger Taylor.
While to the outside world "Bohemian Rhapsody" is regarded as Queen’s masterstroke, for Brian May and Roger Taylor, talking in this first episode of a new series of Queen The Greatest, this was very much a typical day’s work with Freddie Mercury.
This new series of The Greatest will continue weekly throughout November.
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