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In the US, it peaked at No 9 on its original release, but rose to No 2 in 1992 after being prominently featured in the film Wayne’s World. It initially spent nine weeks at UK No 1, and a further five after Mercury’s death in 1991. Queen guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor declined to comment about the discovery.īohemian Rhapsody was the lead single from Queen’s fourth album, A Night at the Opera. The pages bear witness to the many hours he put into perfecting his craft, as he experiments and plays with language, and hones and shapes the lyrics and harmonies for these songs which, for many of us, have simply always been there in our lives.”

Gabriel Heaton, a specialist in Sotheby’s books and manuscripts department, noted that the various sheets of lyrics display “the extensive redrafting which was part of his songwriting process” and added: “The care and detail of these drafts is all the more remarkable when they relate to a man who so often downplayed his composition process. The song’s famous exclamations are all there – Galileo, fandango, Scaramouche and “thunderbolts and lightning” – alongside other words left on the cutting room floor: matador and Belladonna. Rather than “Mama, just killed a man / Put a gun against his head, pulled my trigger, now he’s dead”, it goes: The Bohemian Rhapsody draft also reveals an early version of another verse. Photograph: Sotheby’s / Queen Music Ltd - Sony Music Publishing UK Ltd

One of the 15 pages of drafts for Bohemian Rhapsody, with “Mongolian Rhapsody” crossed out at the top.

Instal the new for windows Bohemian Rhapsody