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The Untold Story of How Queen Created “Bohemian Rhapsody,” the Six-Minute Single Nobody Wanted to Release
In the autumn of 1975, the British music business ran on a simple rule. A single had to be short, catchy, and easy to slot between the adverts. Anything over three and a half minutes was considered commercial suicide. Radio programmers said so. Record executives said so. Everybody said so. Freddie Mercury did not care.…