A Queen superfan’s review of ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’

Like many a British Gen X-er, I inhaled Queen almost from birth. “Killer Queen” and “Bohemian Rhapsody” were played on the radio all the time from my first two years of life onwardsFlash Gordon (1980) and Highlander (1986), two movies that are probably now best remembered as extended Queen music videos, rocked my childhood and early teens respectively. 

After the latter, my friends and I shared and memorized Queen’s entire back catalog. Losing myself in the sonic fantasy landscapes and angelic harmonies of albums like Queen II or Sheer Heart Attack or Night at the Opera in parentally unapproved, post-bedtime, big-headphone listening: this was my happy place. Even the band’s mid-career so-so album-filler tracks are still in heavy rotation in the DJ booth in my head.  Read more…

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