Queen- Bohemian Rhapsody OST- Brian May, Roger Taylor
You know after a best-selling book is made into a popular film how you’ll hear from early adopters, “Yeah it’s good, but there was a lot in the book that wasn’t in the movie”? Same can be said for the four Oscar-winning Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody as compared to their almost fifty year reign as a world-class band atop the rock throne: there’s a lot more ” there” there than can fit into a feature length film.
In my interviews spanning the last forty of those years, Queen’s Brian May and Roger Taylor take us places on the band’s royal road far off the well-known stops such as the Live Aid concert. For instance, Bohemian Rhapsody‘s focus on Freddie Mercury, the composer of Queen’s breakthrough smash song and movie’s namesake, did not write anything for the group’s early albums. Guitarist/ songwriter Brian May nearly died while on tour in America in 1974. Drummer/ songwriter Roger Taylor confirms that Queen were penniless, and their record label ready to drop them, when A Night at the Opera was released, and Brian May reveals that the band lost money on every tour until 1986!
