{"id":24256,"date":"2025-10-31T16:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T16:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/24256\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T16:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T16:36:08","slug":"queen-celebrating-50th-anniversary-of-bohemian-rhapsody-with-new-youtube-series-106-5-the-arch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/24256\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen celebrating 50th anniversary of \u2018Bohemian Rhapsody\u2019 with new YouTube series \u2013 106.5 The Arch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/M_QueenBoheianRhapsody50_103125.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid w-100 wp-post-image\" alt=\"M queenboheianrhapsody50 103125\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Cover of Queen\u2019s 50th anniversary \u2018Bohemian Rhapsody\u2019\/(Hollywood Records)<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u00a0marks the 50th anniversary of the release of Queen\u2019s iconic\u00a0track \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fJ9rUzIMcZQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Bohemian Rhapsody<\/a>,\u201d and to\u00a0commemorate the occasion, the band has launched\u00a0Queen The Greatest Special, a five-part weekly YouTube series.<\/p>\n<p>In this week\u2019s episode, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JobuSQcj_OA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">The Path to Bohemian Rhapsody<\/a>, Queen\u2019s Brian May and Roger Taylor discuss the band\u2019s journey to \u201cBohemian Rhapsody,\u201d noting that while\u00a0 the public may have been surprised by such a grand song, for them it was just something they came to expect from their frontman Freddie Mercury.<\/p>\n<p>They give earlier examples of Freddie\u2019s experimentation, including \u201cMy Fairy King,\u201d from their debut album, as well as \u201cThe March of the Black Queen\u201d and \u201cThe Fairy Feller\u2019s Master-Stroke\u201d from Queen II.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s interesting. \u2018Bohemian Rhapsody\u2019 is viewed as a giant step for Queen creatively, but from the inside, it didn\u2019t\u00a0really look that way, it didn\u2019t feel that\u00a0way,\u201d May says. \u201cIt\u2019s one of the threads of Queen in our development. This is the stuff that Freddie brings to the table. We\u2019re used to it and we love it. It\u2019s very entertaining. It\u2019s quite off the wall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>May adds, \u201cYou don\u2019t always know where he\u2019s going, but that\u2019s the thing people love most about Freddie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The video series also launches on the same day Queen has released \u201cBohemian Rhapsody\u201d on transparent blue heavyweight 12-inch vinyl, as a 12-inch picture disc and as a blue cassette single. It is <a href=\"https:\/\/queen.lnk.to\/BoRhap50th\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">available now<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cover of Queen\u2019s 50th anniversary \u2018Bohemian Rhapsody\u2019\/(Hollywood Records) Friday\u00a0marks the 50th anniversary of the release of Queen\u2019s iconic\u00a0track&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123,9870],"class_list":{"0":"post-24256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-queens","12":"tag-queens-headlines","13":"tag-queens-news","14":"tag-syndicated"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}