Bohemian Rhapsody Trailer

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Tons of music fans on this site that I think will appreciate discussing this trailer.  

 

 

The Donger

May 21st, 2018 at 6:30 PM ^

Kilmer more than channeled Jim Morrison - he actually became the Lizard King.  He was incredible playing that part....

Image result for jim morrison val kilmer

UM Fan from Sydney

May 21st, 2018 at 5:37 PM ^

This trailer was shown prior to Deadpool. I am looking forward to it, though I know very little about Queen. They have some fantastic music, though....for a rock band, of course.

LSAClassOf2000

May 21st, 2018 at 6:12 PM ^

This is what happens when you randomize your Amazon Music selections. "Hot Space" was really not a great Queen album by Queen standards (it was a day late and many dollars short for the disco movement certainly), but all the same, "Body Language" is fun to air drum to so long as no one can hear what is actually coming through the earbuds. 

kehnonymous

May 21st, 2018 at 8:37 PM ^

Hot Space portended a lot of the issues the band that during the 80's that threatened their existence - on one hand you had Brian May and Roger Taylor who hewed closer to Queen's metal side and on the other hand,you had Freddie Mercury and John Deacon who were getting into that era's soul and funk sounds.  (Mercury collaborated with Michael Jackson on something that never got off the ground and Deacon's bassline from Another One Bites the Dust was inspired by him hanging out with Chic)  Tensions within the band were running pretty high during the early 80's and they were >.< close to splitting up.

I'll probably watch the movie unless everyone says it's gawd-awful because I'm such a huge fan but I'm certain that there's a lot of stuff they'll gloss over or ignore.  Which is disappointing but I get that - if the film showed even 1/1000ths of Freddie's manwhoring (NTTAWWT) it'd deservedly get an NC-17

M and M Boys

May 21st, 2018 at 6:24 PM ^

It's always been my personal theory that's exactly what Princess Grace of Monaco was doing when her car went off the cliff and she died in September1982 after the song was released.....

MTV banned the Queen video................

I also believe Andy Kaufman had something to do with the 1919 Black Sox Scandal...

Wendyk5

May 22nd, 2018 at 12:14 AM ^

I posted above about my friend's husband being Freddie Mercury's bodyguard during the Fat Bottom Girls tour. According to him, Freddie was pretty private about his homosexuality and also liked women. He was more open about those trysts than he was about the male ones. I think it's wrong to eliminate the AIDS part of his life, but I wonder if the choice to downplay his sexuality is a reflection of the way he was in private. 

Wendyk5

May 22nd, 2018 at 12:14 AM ^

I posted above about my friend's husband being Freddie Mercury's bodyguard during the Fat Bottom Girls tour. According to him, Freddie was pretty private about his homosexuality and also liked women. He was more open about those trysts than he was about the male ones. I think it's wrong to eliminate the AIDS part of his life, but I wonder if the choice to downplay his sexuality is a reflection of the way he was in private. 

kehnonymous

May 22nd, 2018 at 12:33 PM ^

Yeah, he was on one hand pretty voracious about his one-night stands but also incredibly private and shy - that kind of dichotomy is not uncommon with a lot of creative types.  (Not to the extent of dwarf strippers, mind you)  And it's probably not a stretch to say that Freddie Mercury wrestled most of his life with both that duality as well as his coming to terms with his sexuality - I think you can read Bohemian Rhapsody's lyrics as his confession about that.

 

Mike Damone

May 21st, 2018 at 6:44 PM ^

to seeing this.  Freddy Mercury one of the best front men ever, and certainly embodied the "live fast, die young" attitude of some of the 60's/70's rock stars, perhaps more than anyone else.

Wonder if they will make a movie about Mick, Keith and The Rolling Stones.  One about Keith Moon would be good as well.

And I know it is debateable and a matter of opinion and taste - but in my opinion, Led Zeppelin is hands down the greatest rock band of all time, and have a difficult time taking any other opinion on the matter that seriously.  The quantity and high quality of what they produced between '69 through '78 is unreal.

Oldadguy

May 21st, 2018 at 8:08 PM ^

I believe sascha baron Cohen was supposed to play Freddie but the surviving band members vetoed it. I think he would have been great!

mooseman

May 21st, 2018 at 8:14 PM ^

"A member of the band, I won't say who, he said, 'This is such a great movie because it's got such an amazing thing that happens in the middle of the movie,'" Cohen recalled. "I go, 'What happens in the middle of the movie?' He goes, 'Freddie dies.'" While Cohen assumed the band meant the film would be structured non-linearly like Pulp Fiction, he soon realized that they wanted the second half of the film to focus on how Queen carried on after Mercury's death in 1991.

StephenRKass

May 21st, 2018 at 8:17 PM ^

I'm going to go to Queen Extravaganza with Marc Martel is in the Chicago area in April 2019. I rarely go to concerts, but want to see this. If you are interested in listening, Martel has some incredible, incredible covers of Queen songs. Here are a couple. There are many more.

Somebody to Love

Bohemian Rhapsody

Oh, and I definitely am interested in the movie. Queen brings back memories of high school days.

StephenRKass

May 21st, 2018 at 11:06 PM ^

I must admit, several years ago I was kind of mesmerized by many of those videos. He did a concert in my suburb about 7 or 8 years ago, before he exploded with Queen. I was planning to go see him at House of Blues - Chicago, and wouldn't you know it, I had a family wedding the same weekend out of town. Quite the voice.

BoFan

May 22nd, 2018 at 5:35 PM ^

That guy has an incredible voice. Thanks for the link.



I don’t get the suits and button down shirts though He needs to go all out and do the full act. Starting with the flamboyant clothes and then he can learn how to embody the adream performance attitude. That would be amazing. He’d increase his audience 10 fold.

UMgradMSUdad

May 21st, 2018 at 10:12 PM ^

Queen put on one hell of a show.  I remember their concert at the Saginaw Civic Center in 1977.  Thin Lizzy was the warm up band, and I had seats on the ice (covered with boards), as it was hockey season and in the Saginaw Gears home arena. 

Wendyk5

May 22nd, 2018 at 12:07 AM ^

I just found out a friend of mine's husband was Freddie Mercury's bodyguard during the Fat Bottom Girls Tour. If you google Fredie Mercury on Superman's shoulder, there's a pic of two guys dressed up as Superman holding up Freddie. He's the one on the left. 

BoFan

May 22nd, 2018 at 1:24 AM ^

I saw them many times at Cobo Hall in the 70s. By far they were greatest live concert band, and I saw nearly all of the great bands of the seventies and early eighties.

MMB 82

May 22nd, 2018 at 1:31 AM ^

I get a kick out of the fact that he and his father built his guitar from scratch (and he continues to use The Red Special to this day), he is one of the few guitarists with a readily unique and recognizeable guitar tone, AND that he went back to University and earned a PhD in Astrophysics. Literally a rocket scientist....!

fishgoblue1

May 22nd, 2018 at 8:23 AM ^

So my daughter got married last year.  Her and her bridesmaids walked down the isle to "Somebody to Love".  I wasn't sure how it would play out at first, we held back until the orchastra part after the bridesmaids were in place.  It was actually pretty awesome and she has received a lot of complitments about choosing that song.