Music Video History 'Queen'

Queen are an English rock band that started in 1970. They went on to make the very first music video, that was made for the purpose to show them playing their music in some form of narrative/more physical form instead of just listening to the song itself. The song they used for this first music video was 'Bohemian Rhapsody', the single from their 1975 album 'A Night At The Opera'. The single is still popular now, and a vast majority of people like the band Queen, some more than others, those who don't like the band as much at least like one song. That song usually being 'Bohemian Rhapsody' as it is different from any other song, it doesn't feature a chorus, it consists of a ballad segment which ends with a guitar solo, it featured a hard rock section and also a section of operatic singing. The lost of their front man Freddie Mercury, stopped the band in it's tracks before they went on to release the album the band had all been working on a few months after his death, this also being a best seller. Freddie Mercury was known for having one of the greatest voices of all time, due to the pitches and scales he could meet, managing to sing such low notes before skipping up to incredibly high notes.



The video is simple, and basic featuring different shots, and also merging several shots together before fading them out against each other. This having a creative effect, and almost makes the beginning scenes of the video when the band are singing in sync, in the poses almost eerie, and adds a slight shudder to the aspect of the song. It then proceeds on to show the band on the stage, performing their song for the camera.

These charts show the sales of the single 'Bohemian Rhapsody' alone, without the album it belongs to. The single managed to stay in the top 20, in 12 different countries a year after it was released. It also managed to be positioned in 2nd place, in the 'Billboard Hot 100' in the US, in 1992. This being 12 years after the single was released, and even now the single is still popular, no matter what genre of music a person tends to listen to. The sales and certifications table at the bottom of the image also shows how popular the song was, it selling over 6 million vinyl copies of the single alone.