‘A Night At The Opera’ was also the first Queen album to go to No.1 in the UK, where it sold over a million copies, giving them their first platinum record. ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ spent nine consecutive weeks at No.1 and became the only single to sell more a million copies on two separate occasions, and was named recently in the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles as the top song of the last 50 years. It was basically a joke, but a successful joke.”īut it was worth it. “Bohemian Rhapsody was totally insane,” he said. Recalling when Freddie sat at the piano and first played ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ to him and the band, producer Roy Thomas Baker says, “Freddie set out three impressive verses then stopped and said, ‘Now dear, this is where the opera section comes in’.” That was when Baker started smiling and, by his own recent recollections, he hardly stopped smiling for the rest of the session – arduous though it was in pre-digital days to stack up the 180-voice ‘chorus’ (all Mercury/May/Taylor vocals) over seven 12-hour days. There would be many more masterful albums to come from Queen over the next 20 years, but here, perhaps, was the band at its 1970s musical apotheosis. Combining outstanding showmanship with remarkable versatility, more than any rock band before or since, Queen could literally do it all – and here, on one album, was the ultimate proof. Their fourth album, ‘A Night At The Opera’ encapsulated everything about Queen’s music that made it so unique. Originally recorded in no less than six different studios between August and November 1975, it was reckoned at the time to be the most expensive album ever recorded, although, at around £45,000, it now looks remarkably cheap at the price. ‘A Night At The Opera’ is now regarded by many to be the definitive ’70s-era Queen release. Queen commemorate the 30th anniversary of this historic occasion – on Monday, Novemwith a new combined CD/DVD Special Collectors Edition release of the album. 1 in many countries around the world, and on Monday, November 21, 1975, the first single from the album went to No.1 in the UK charts, a position it was to hold for 9 weeks. Three decades ago Queen released their classic album “A Night at the Opera”, which went to No.
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