For any Queen fan out there....?

Question

What inspired Freddy Mercury to write "Bohemian Rhapsody" lyrics???
Any real fact, or anything else??

Loved him too!!!! WEll, I still do....damn the AIDS....

THere are pretty amazing videos of Queen's last concerts on YOUTUBE....

HERE IT GOES...

Is this the real life, is this just fantasy
Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality
Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see
I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy
Because I'm easy come, easy go, little high, little low
Anyway the wind blows, doesn't really matter to me
...to me

Mama, just killed a man, put a gun against his head
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead
Mama, life had just begun
But now I've gone and thrown it all away
Mama oooh... Didn't mean to make you cry
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
Carry on, carry on, as if nothing really matters

Too late, my time has come, sends shivers down my spine
Body's aching all the time
Goodbye everybody, I've got to go
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth
Mama oooh (any way the wind blows)
I don't want to die, I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all

I see a little silhouetto of a man
Scaramouche, scaramouche, will you do the Fandango
Thunderbolt and lightning, very very frightening me
Galileo (Galileo)
Galileo (Galileo)
Galileo figaro (Magnifico)
But I'm just a poor boy and nobody loves me
He's just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from this monstrosity
Easy come easy go, will you let me go
Bismillah! No, we will not let you go, let him go
Bismillah! We will not let you go, let him go
Bismillah! We will not let you go, let me go
Will not let you go, let me go
Will not let you go let me go
No, no, no, no, no, no, no
Mama mia, mama mia, mama mia let me go
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me, for me

So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye
So you think you can love me and leave me to die
Oh baby, can't do this to me baby
Just gotta get out, just gotta get right out of here
Nothing really matters to me

Answer 1

From the time "Bohemian Rhapsody" was released to the public, there has been speculation regarding the meaning behind the song's lyrics. One common misconception is that the song is a first-person account of an AIDS victim, even though it was written more than a decade before Freddie Mercury contracted HIV, and seven years before HIV was even recognized as a virus. Some believe the lyrics are about a suicidal murderer hunted by demons, or depict the events just preceding an execution, pointing to Albert Camus's novel The Stranger as a probable source of inspiration. Some even believe the lyrics were only written to fit with the music, and have no meaning at all. As evidence, Kenny Everett quoted Mercury as claiming the lyrics were simply "random rhyming nonsense."[citation needed]

Mercury was famously evasive when asked about the song's meaning. Unlike the other members of Queen, who often talked about the inspiration behind the songs they had written, Mercury disliked analysing his own material, and preferred listeners to construct their own personal interpretations.[citation needed] What is known is that the song had an especially personal connection for Mercury, which was confirmed by the band's other members. Following the single's release, Mercury was quoted as saying:

“ It's one of those songs which has such a fantasy feel about it. I think people should just listen to it, think about it, and then make up their own minds as to what it says to them...'Bohemian Rhapsody' didn't just come out of thin air. I did a bit of research although it was tongue-in-cheek and mock opera. Why not?

Answer 2

Greatest Hits cassette in Iran a leaflet in farsi was included with translation and explanations of the lyrics. There Queen states that Bohemian Rhapsody is about a young man who has accidentally killed someone and, like Faust, sold his soul to the devil. On the night before his execution he calls for God in Arabic, "Bismillah", and with the help of angels regains his soul from Shaitan

Answer 3

From what I understand it just had to do with a love of Opera.. all of the members had some experience with classical music..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eoxknrfBZ8

The link is for the first part of the special..but I dont' have time to try and dig through the rest of the pieces to find the info about Bohemian Rhapsody..

Answer 4

Oh, me!! Freddie or Brian. Yeah, nicely they tremendously plenty have been Queen. to no longer say i did no longer like Roger or John, they have been tremendously cool too. well-known music would could be do no longer supply up Me Now. of direction, Im a sucker for Bohemian Rhapsody too =] i do unlike cats... canines and birds are way cooler. well-known album is a night on the Opera and The Miracle. Oh and Innuendo!

Answer 5

There has being a lot of speculation. From a version of Camus' the Stranger to the Vietnam war. But seems to be they are nonsensical, just created to ryhmn

Answer 6

this is something I believe undisclosed to all....

the lyrics is about a boy who wanted to walk away from Christian to embrace Islam (found it as a right path), but staunchly hold by his mother..
Bismillah is the arabic word meaning to praise God before you do/strart something.
then this is about his feeling where he would choose a religion and abandoned his family..
read it again...

Answer 7

such a good song, such a good band, such a amazing vocalist. sucks he had to die. just for that im gonna listen to that song now

Answer 8

Idk but that song gets on my nerves..I loved Freddy though! :D