Queen perform Bohemian Rhapsody at Live Aid in 1985
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Brian May has shared an exclusive interview filmed in Tenerife ahead of the re-release of his second solo album Another World, where he dropped a touching Freddie Mercury fact related to the writing of Bohemian Rhapsody. The Queen guitarist said of songwriting: “I think in the course of writing a song, you cannot escape putting yourself in there, and you don’t even know what you’re doing. You don’t know if it’s conscious or unconscious. All kinds of things get into a song, and years later, people can point out some kind of connection and some kind of meaning. And you go, ‘Oh, yeah, I suppose that was in there.’”
Brian shared: “And I think that’s the delight. That’s the great thing about a song which connects with people. Not only does it connect with the things that was… things that were in the author’s mind, but also with the listener, the listener makes it part of his life or her life and their life. And that’s something precious because that’s the communication. The song, a good song, or a good poem or a good painting connects you with the artist. And it suggests something to you which triggers understanding your own feelings better. And to me, that’s a very precious part of songs. And to me, it’s a joy that Freddie never told us what Bohemian Rhapsody was about. It’s great that everybody has their own ideas about what that’s about. It’s something precious.”
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