{"id":249919,"date":"2025-10-30T01:55:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T01:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/249919\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T01:55:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T01:55:21","slug":"bohemian-rhapsody-celebrates-half-a-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/249919\/","title":{"rendered":"Bohemian Rhapsody celebrates half a century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\ufefft was this week half a century ago that rock band Queen released one of the most groundbreaking anthems in music history into the world.<\/p>\n<p>Freddie Mercury&#8217;s five minute, 55 second track that many said would never be a hit and the record label didn&#8217;t want to release, is turning the big 5-0, so to celebrate, the Today hosts recreated its iconic music video.<\/p>\n<p>With Karl Stefanovic filling out Mercury&#8217;s shoes and co-host, Sarah Abo, donning a wig like guitarist, Bryan May&#8217;s shaggy mop of hair, Michael Atkinson and Alison Piotrowski rounded out the quartet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9now.nine.com.au\/today\/sign-up-for-the-today-show-newsletter\/57b05181-ffe6-4143-9ddf-54d56d42db7f\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/7ce16070-63aa-42bd-a3ee-448b73a4dc54.png\"   alt=\"TODAY 2023\"\/>Subscribe to the Today newsletter here. (Nine)<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/d5871639-e721-4c36-bac2-ed9c029a7bfb.jpeg\"   alt=\"Karl Stefanovic Sarah Abo Michael Atkinson Alison Piotrowski Today Show October 30, 2025\"\/>Michael Atkinson, Sarah Abo, Karl Stefanovic and Alison Piotrowski did their best Queen impression. (Today)<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/9now.nine.com.au\/today\/prunella-scales-fawlty-towers-comedy-legend-dead-at-93-entertainment-news-on-october-29\/2f2483ab-cc45-4f4c-8d35-fdb0765a3789\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Surprise big name star cast in new Miami Vice remake\">Surprise big name star cast in new Miami Vice remake<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With a couple of lip-syncing slip ups and struggling at times to keep a straight face, overall the team did a half decent job.<\/p>\n<p>Check out Dickie&#8217;s reaction and the full rock out jam session in the video above\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I\ufefft was this week half a century ago that rock band Queen released one of the most groundbreaking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-249919","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}