"If Beethoven wrote rock music, it would be this." Great description!

No matter what type of music you like you can never doubt that this song is genius.

I was born one week after Freddie Mercury in 1946 and first heard Bohemian Rhapsody in 1975 when it was released. Today it is still as fresh as the day I first heard it. Rest in peace Freddie. It is thought that the man he killed in the song is his previous self when he came out as being gay to his mother.

Happy Happy Birthday !!! Enjoy !!! Love Queen

This is a "rabbit hole" you will find very hard to get out of!

Welcome to the Queen ride. For safety, keep arms and hands in vehicle at all times. (P.S. The very beginning was Freddie harmonizing with himself. You'll never hear that part live because it's recordings of Freddie only).

Happy birthday Queen is 1 of the best group ever!!! this song is a masterpiece in my view love your reaction

Freddie said it loud and proud: "Who wants to live forever?"

A lady I know passed before COVID and she asked for Queen's Don't stop me now to be played at the end of her funeral. We were all dancing in our chairs. It was so her.

Freddie was DEFINITELY one of the best performers in history!

This is all Freddie multi tracked at the start. It’s a true rhapsody as it is a single piece with several genres sewn together. Ballad, rock, operetta, and balled to close.

Dang!!!! ...... Indeed my Friend. RIP Freddie but your music will live on forever.

Happy birthday!! Freddie was a freakin' genius!! The recording of “Bohemian Rhapsody” took three weeks and featured 180 overdubs of vocals and instruments. Since the studios of the time only offered 24-track analogue tape, it was necessary for the three to overdub themselves many times and "bounce" these down to successive sub-mixes. In the end, eighth-generation tapes were used. May recalled placing a tape in front of the light and being able to see through it, as the tape had been used so many times.

i did hear, God did come back to earth to watch a live QUEEN concert.

“Another one bites the dust”. My favorite childhood skating memory.

I was a pimply teen of fifteen when I first heard Bohemian Rhapsody back in 1975. I was totally knocked out. Even my mother was blown away by it.😁

Freddie was a genius, but so was the other guys in Queen. They where so versatile. If you want to get this awe feeling check out their Live Aid performance ... brilliant. Happy new year to you -:)

This song takes you for a ride. Just sit back and enjoy it. This has got to be Freddie at his best.

Yes :) more Queen. Masterpiece! So true Freddie voice is beautiful and unique.

You take my breath away... Queen...the most beautiful love song..ever

One strange fact I love..the lead guitarist is actually an astro physicist... doctorate and all...rock god legend and astro physicist... incredible

Live aid is one of their best stage shows

I would be so honored to have you do a reaction to Queen's "Don't Stop Me NOW!!" I would like this song (with just a few lyric changes) played as i leave this world... from a 67 yr old granny, not in the best of health, who has LOVED her life and been so blessed by God. Music is one of his many gifts to the world and it's wonderful to hear reactions because someone who loves it also is 'experiencing' it with me. I've watched lots of reactors, many good, but you're the one I especially enjoy. You have a great appreciation of music and there's something very kind about you that comes out over the 'tube'. You also keep your comments visual or brief until the end of the song. Superb and well done! Happy Birthday my friend and thank you for bringing us the best!

The first time I heard Bohemian Rhapsody was on the radio Oct 31, 1975 when I was 11 years old. I was blown away by the song.

My dad introduced me to this song when I was like 6 or 7 years old. We would just sit outside in the car and listen to music and just talk while my mom would be making dinner or whatever. My dad introduced me to a lot of the rock music I listen to today and Queen is just one of many.

All the high notes in the Opera section are by the Drummer Roger Taylor. Highest part is at 5:23 he hits the note Bb5 there thats pretty high.

Freddie Mercury liked opera and wanted to do a rock opera. Later in his life when he was ill and dying of AIDS he wrote the song Barcelona and sang it along side famous opera soprano Montserrat Caballe.

A true classic, Unbelievable to hear it again with fresh eyes and ears

I was a kid, sitting on my Aunt's bed in my grandparents house, when I first heard this. I think it was 1984, and we would rock out to them. Great times

Happy belated birthday, brother! I loved your reaction because you're a musically educated person who got into the guts of this song.

You HAVE to see their 20 minute session at the Live Aid performance at Wembley Stadium in London. It was a worldwide concert on television to raise money for starving children. They are known as the best 20 minutes of any band in history.

Im like 42.. so this song was just always there.. and it will never go away.. bohemian rhapsody comes on and everyone is a vocalist:)

One of the most gorgeous tunes ever and Freddie's amazing voice. The perfect Harmonies. The awesome instrumentations and players. The creativity! The daring! What's not to like :-D A unique experience.

Absolutely love queen..love the reaction

Greatest gift you can give yourself for your birthday is listening to Bo Rap for the first time 😂😊

I was a high school kid when this first played on the radio. To be honest, we heard so many new sounds in the mid seventies that this was just another at that time. We didn't watch videos. We listened to the radio, bought records, and tapes. We enjoyed wild concerts. As the years have passed, and with the overall reduction of quality music, I think that we now really appreciate the skills and imagination required to be musical stars in the seventies. Read the bios of the members of this group. They were all very intelligent and spent years developing their skills. Happy Birthday! That's a good time to discover Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody

This song combined choral music (like gospel), opera, rock, blues, and broadway musicals in one performance. That is very hard to do and especially this well.

The body of the lyrics was something Freddy had been working on since his youth... it started out as a western movie set type thing in an opera style and evolved into this. :)

I was 17 years old, in my brother's bedroom with 4 huge speakers surrounding the room. We got real stoned, cranked it up, and lay in the middle of the room while the sound flew around, and through, us. I strongly suggest this!

8 minutes of rock-n-roll opera. Everything just fits together.

This was the first of its kind. It was called a “Rock Opera”. So amazing! They wrote, played, and sang! Baller band!!! Love you! 💕

Freddie we miss you 😢 R.I.P. 🙏🏻 AMAZING KING 👑 OF MUSIC

For your birthday, you were introduced to the greatest song of all time! Happy Birthday!

I can´t believe you heard this never before! It´s a legend!

Freddy worked on his voice, he had a 3 octave range. You know how to reach success? When preparation meets opportunity. When opportunity does hit you better be ready, grab it and don’t let it go.

"How many vocal tracks is this?" All of them, my friend! They literally wore out tape because they kept adding more and more.

This was our rock music back in the 70s and 80s, we had the greatest band in the world, Queen and Freddie Mercury! 👑💓

Yeah, Freddie is the best music gift you can get for your Birthday 💕 Always!

The song came out when I was 6. Its just always been there.

My all-time favorite band. This song came out the year I was born. I consider myself pretty eclectic in my musical tastes, but Queen just is beyond genre and beyond compare. They're as untouchable as Michael Jackson.

Listening to queen is experience. You will fall in love with them. ❤

Yes Bro, this was before auto tune, no Fake voices just pure ART !!!

If you want to know more about this song, check out the mini doc Inside The Rhapsody, it is in 3 parts. 1) Brian May (lead guitar) and Roger Taylor (drums) talk about how it came about and the reaction to it. 2) Roger talks about making the video, which was groundbreaking in it's day. 3) Brian walks you through the master tape and how the tracks were laid down. It's fascinating stuff.

If people aren't mentioning Queen in the top 10 all time rock bands they're just uneducated. This was released on Halloween, 1975. I was almost 16, young n dumb. My friends and I honestly thought it dumb, because of the operatic part. We were all about Zeppelin, Floyd, AC/DC, The Who etc. etc..This just couldn't BE real rock to us at the time. Like I said "young and dumb" because it's obviously one of the all-time Rock greats. Great reaction and Happy Birthday!

probably the best front man in the world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Right, dude?!?! My first and favorite concert in 1981, Queen!!!! Legends!

The first time I remember hearing this, I think I was around seven or eight years old. This would have been around '83 or '84 or so. My older brothers were teaching me how to play poker and my oldest brother had the Queen Greatest Hits on cassette and was playing on the his little boom box. I definitely remember hearing this song. However, at that age, I remember my favorite songs from that cassette being Bicycle Race, Killer Queen, and We Will Rock You. Bohemian Rhapsody seemed almost too crazy, but of course, it grew on me.

The song is about Freddie telling his Mom and the world that he is gay. He killed the man everyone thought he was, to tell his truth. It’s a rock opera. That is why the different genres with highs and lows. Freddie was a genius. Brian May on lead guitar has a PhD in Astrophysics. They are legendary.

when I first heard this tune-wow-I was 14 years old; It was 1975; It was my first kiss from a girl while we listened to Bohemian Rhapsody.

Another one bites the dust ! Next please 😁👍✌️🇬🇧🙏

when i first heard this song it was 1976 i was 16 years old and i was in a pool room / snack bar , pin ball machines etc and this played on a Juke Box and yes the sound was just as great back then , Queen became my favorite band from that point on. i am 60 years old today and this song remains my fav queen song. And as for gospel sounding song by Queen i recommend "Somebody to Love" but do the audio version (studio) oh and happy birthday !

The whole first part is just Freddie Mercury. And over himself later the band comes in

Great reaction. So happy to see people appreciating real music.

You reviewed God tier music on your birthday, best gift you could ever give yourself! No one is ever ready for this song on first hearing it.

Hi mate greetings from Melbourne Australia - I am glad to see you are doing reaction videos again - you have a great appreciation of music - keep up the good work - Queen are one of the greatest bands of all time but in their day they were hated by the critics but we the public always loved them - fun fact Queen are the only band in history that all members of the band wrote a number 1 chat topping song - not even the beatles achieved that -amazing band they were,

they did a song for highlander movie called who wants to live for ever

Awesome song....great reaction...

Best performer and singer EVER.

Happy Birthday!! Today is my birthday too. I hope you get everything you want today.

Happy birthday and really enjoy your reactions If Beethoven did rock, just love that line you said 😎 Queen are considered one of the all time bands in history, sadly Freddie Mercury passed away much to soon from us. just a few of their more popular songs to consider by queen We are the champions Another one bites the dust We will rock you Fat bottomed girls Wishing you and your family a safe and healthy 2021

I’m 74 and in my 30s and 40s was very much into music. I wrote stuff and a friend of mine recorded it in the studio. I think I was in Maida Vale BBC Studio when he came to me and said that he had something he wanted me to listen to. It was, of course, Bohemian Rhapsody. It had not been released but my mate had a copy of the master tape (hot off the press) on his own tape spool and he played that to me! I was knocked out as most people are by it! So I was one of the first people in the world to hear that song and I treasure that moment!

Freddie was the man... crazy talent.

Please check out “Dragon Attack” Live at Montreal or in “In The Lap of the Gods” Live at the Rainbow 1974 ❤️ Great reaction. The first time I heard Bohemian Rhapsody had to be on the radio when I was a kid. I heard Freddie’s voice-- and Queen stole my heart right about there.

Happy birthday, Sagittarius ♐️ “Are they in a choir?” Yep. They’re in Queen! (And they are most definitely in the elite echelon of musicians.)

This was the first song I heard from Queen and what a blaster it was. it was a Christmas present from my father

March of The Black Queen is another Queen track with multiple transitions and is an absolute rollercoaster 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼

Yeah, you knew that song before! ^^ Always a dead giveaway when someone starts to nod his head right *before* the rock part starts: 5:25 😁😁😁

You should listen to Queen Live in Montreal, Live Aid, 1981-Somebody to Love. Freddy Mercury and all the band members are British but you can't hear their accents when they sing. Robert May, the lead guitarist, still plays the electro guitar his father made when Robert May was growing up because he couldn't afford to buy one.

!976. I was working my first job. 3rd shift at a donut shop when I heard this for the first time. The place was empty and when it came on the radio the second time we cranked it up and rocked! Nothing like it.

When I first heard this song I was a teenager in 11th grade more importantly I am so thrilled that this younger generation is really opening up to our music in our generation because really it was the best

I was driving to work at McDonalds in 1976, and I remember hearing this on the car radio....I was 16. As much as I like this tune, I had already bought the previous album Sheer Heart Attack, which to this day is my favorite Queen album as they rock a bit harder on that album. I caught this tour in Detroit at Cobo Hall that year. For the middle part, Queen would leave the stage and then come back as they could never replicate the "opera" part. A band called Thin Lizzy opened for them and had a hit "The Boys Are Back In Town" that summer. Great reaction! You are great!

Try PRINCES OF THE UNIVERSE . there can be only one

I was at Higgins Lake in Michigan. July 4th vacation, the summer of 1976. My cousin told me I had to hear this song, and then she played it for me. I wasn't quite 10 years old yet; but I was so impacted by it, I remember it to this day.

Queen - Best band ever. RIP Freddie.

Happy Birthday! And Queen IS and always has been spoken about as being in the upper eschelon of music, your just late to the game 😊

Do breakthru ,dragon attack and i want to breakfree

The best composer and showman

Bohemiam Rhapsody is a fantastic Birthday present!!!👍✌ Happy Birthday to you!!!👍✌😎

I LOVE REACTION VIDS! MAYBE TRY PINK FLOYD ... ORIGINAL TRACK 'GREAT GIG IN THE SKY'

Thank for super reaction - god bless all!

The harmonies in the beginning is ALL Freddie Mercury!!! One guy who sings in the beginning and wrote this song too! Got to see this genius live 3 times, the first time in the front row!!! They were friggin' amazing!

I was 15 years old and at school when I first heard this on a scratchy old transistor radio and then saw the video on "Top of the pops" now i'm 61 and still love this song

Happy Birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 have a wonderful day 💖

One of the best rock operas ever!!!!

I was a sophomore in college when this song came out. Saw them in concert in 1978.

I think you will be surprised of how many songs by Queen you actually know and love

Freddie's voice had incredible octave range, from bass to opera, & everything in between.....**Welcome to the queen rabbit hole, enjoy the ride, you are going to love it** 😄 GREAT REACTION!!! Would luv to see you react to their, Somebody to Love song, it displays his voice's ability to do gymnastics!!!

... and all this was done with 1970s technology. Mainly on reel-to-reel tape. Incredible.

Masters of anthems.

Best reaction to Bohemian Rhapsody ever!!! Love your passion for good music!