Bohemian Rhapsody
Around 48 minutes into Bohemian Rhapsody, Freddie Mercury (played by Rami Malik) and Kenny Everett (Dickie Beau) are chatting in the latter’s radio studio. Everett has just started the title song to this movie spinning on the turntable, sowing the seed of a demand that would soon bring the record company to release it as a single — a single that would eventually spend nine weeks at the top of the British charts from the closing weeks of 1975.
As the music rolls, selected quotes from the music press appear on the screen. “Wannabemagazine continued its long tradition of getting things completely wrong, calling it ‘a brazen hodgepodge’.
