Editing Bohemian Rhapsody (section)

==Legacy==
===Musical impact===
[[File:Bohemian Rhapsody.jpg|thumb|upright|The [[Queen Extravaganza Tour|Queen Extravaganza]] performing the song at the [[Fox Theatre (Detroit)|Fox Theatre]], Detroit in 2012]]

In 1976, when asked for his opinion on "Bohemian Rhapsody", [[the Beach Boys]]' leader [[Brian Wilson]] praised the song as "the most competitive thing that's come along in ages" and "a fulfillment and an answer to a teenage prayer—of artistic music".<ref>{{cite journal|last=Cromelin|first=Richard|title=Pet Sounds & The California Consciousness|journal=Sounds|date=7 August 1976|url=http://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/brian-wilson-part-2|access-date=15 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140606203914/http://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/brian-wilson-part-2|archive-date=6 June 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> Producer [[Steve Levine]] said the track broke "all sonic production barriers" in a fashion similar to the Beach Boys' "[[Good Vibrations]]" (1966), which also consisted of disparate music sections recorded separately,<ref>{{cite web |last=McAlpine |first=Fraser |date=10 October 2015 |title=10&nbsp;Things you may not know about Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody' |url=http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2015/10/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-queens-bohemian-rhapsody |website=[[BBC America]] |access-date=24 May 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160523092613/http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2015/10/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-queens-bohemian-rhapsody |archive-date=23 May 2016}}</ref> [[Phil Spector]]'s "[[Be My Baby]]" (1963), and [[10cc]]'s "[[I'm Not in Love]]" (1975).{{sfn|Jones|2012|p=133}} [[Greg Lake]], whose song "[[I Believe in Father Christmas]]" was kept from number one in the UK by "Bohemian Rhapsody" when it was released in 1975, acknowledged that he was "beaten by one of the greatest records ever made", describing it as "a once-in-a-lifetime recording".<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.uncut.co.uk/features/the-making-of-greg-lake-s-i-believe-in-father-christmas-833 | title=The Making Of... Greg Lake's I Believe In Father Christmas | work=[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]] | first=Garry | last=Mulholland | date=19 December 2014 | access-date=17 August 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150910162228/http://www.uncut.co.uk/features/the-making-of-greg-lake-s-i-believe-in-father-christmas-833 | archive-date=10 September 2015 | url-status=live }}</ref>

Addressing the song's enduring popularity, author and music lecturer Jochen Eisentraut wrote in 2012: "A year before [[punk rock|punk]] made it unfashionable, progressive rock had an astounding success with the theoretically over-length (nearly 6-minute) single 'Bohemian Rhapsody' which bore many of the hallmarks of the 'prog' genre". He said it was "unique at this point to hear a hit single in this style", it was "more accessible than other music of the genre" and was "able to communicate beyond the usual confines of the style".<ref name="Eisentraut"/> Author and progressive rock historian Stephen Lambe called it a "remarkable" single and said it "provides a neat but coincidental bridge between prog in its prime and the move to more aggressive songwriting", suggesting the song "feels like a grotesque (although probably unintentional) parody of progressive rock".<ref name="Lambe"/> ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide|The New Rolling Stone Album Guide]]'' described it as "either a prog-rock benchmark or the most convoluted [[novelty song]] ever recorded".<ref>{{cite book|editor1=Nathan Brackett|editor2=Christian Hoard|title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide|year=2004|page=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/668 668]|publisher=Simon & Schuster Ltd|isbn=978-0743201698|url=https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/668}}</ref> Writing for the [[BBC]] in 2015, the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]''{{'}}s music critic [[Greg Kot]] called it a "prog-rock pocket [[operetta]]" and said the song's "reign as a work of wigged-out genius rather than a dated gimmick testifies to its go-for-broke attitude—one that has resonated across generations".<ref name="Kot"/>

In 2009, ''[[The Guardian]]''{{'}}s music critic, [[Tom Service]], examined the song's relationship with the traditions of [[classical music]], describing its popularity as "one of the strangest musical phenomena out there":

{{blockquote|The precedents of "Bohemian Rhapsody" are as much in the 19th-century classical traditions of rhapsodic, quasi-improvisational reveries—like, say, the piano works of [[Robert Schumann|Schumann]] or [[Frédéric Chopin|Chopin]] or the tone-poems of [[Richard Strauss|Strauss]] or [[Franz Liszt|Liszt]]—as they are in prog-rock or the contemporary pop of 1975. That's because the song manages a sleight of musical hand that only a handful of real master-musicians have managed: the illusion that its huge variety of styles—from intro, to ballad, to operatic excess, to hard-rock, to reflective coda—are unified into a single statement, a drama that somehow makes sense. It's a classic example of the [[unity in diversity]] that high-minded musical commentators have heard in the symphonies of [[Ludwig van Beethoven|Beethoven]] or the operas of [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]]. And that's exactly what the piece is: a miniature operatic-rhapsodic-symphonic-tone-poem.<ref name="service"/>}}

A comparison was also made between the song and [[Led Zeppelin]]'s 1971 epic "[[Stairway to Heaven]]" by music writers [[Pete Prown]] and [[HP Newquist]]. They observed both songs were "a slow, introspective beginning and gradual climb to a raging metal jam and back again", with the notable distinction being "while Zeppelin meshed [[Folk music|folk]] influences with heavy metal, Queen opted for the light grandeur of the operetta as part of its hard rock". They said "for sheer cleverness alone, not to mention May's riveting electric work, 'Bohemian Rhapsody' rightfully became one of the top singles of 1975 and established Queen in the elite of seventies rock bands".<ref name="Prown/Newquist"/>

In 2015, ''[[The Economist]]'' described it as "one of the most innovative pieces of the progressive rock era". It wrote "though Led Zeppelin's [[John Paul Jones (musician)|John Paul Jones]] and [[the Beatles]]' [[Paul McCartney]] had experimented with symphonic elements, and [[Roger Waters]] of [[Pink Floyd]] and [[Pete Townshend]] of [[the Who]] had created narrative albums with distinct 'movements', none had had the audacity to import a miniature opera into rock music."<ref name="economist"/>

===''Wayne's World''===
In 1992, the song enjoyed renewed popularity in the United States after being featured in a scene in the film ''[[Wayne's World (film)|Wayne's World]]'', in which the titular character and his friends [[headbanging|headbang]] in a car to the hard rock part near the end of the song.<ref name="Scapelliti">{{cite web|url=https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/brian-may-wayne-s-world-bohemian-rhapsody-scene-hit-close-home|title=Brian May: 'Wayne's World' "Bohemian Rhapsody" Scene Hit Close to Home|last=Scapelliti|first=Christopher|date=5 June 2017|work=Guitar World|access-date=7 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191008223040/https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/brian-may-wayne-s-world-bohemian-rhapsody-scene-hit-close-home|archive-date=8 October 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> The film's director, [[Penelope Spheeris]], was hesitant to use the song, as it did not entirely fit with the lead characters, who were fans of less flamboyant hard rock and heavy metal. [[Mike Myers (actor)|Mike Myers]] insisted that the song fit the scene.{{Sfn|Gracyk|2007|p=64}} According to music scholar Theodore Gracyk, by 1992, when the film was released, even "classic rock" stations had stopped playing the almost six-minute song. Gracyk suggests that beginning the tape in the middle of the song after "the lyrics which provide the song's narrative ... forces the film's audience to respond to its presence in the scene without the 'commentary' of the lyrics".{{Sfn|Gracyk|2007|p=63}} Helped by the song, the soundtrack album of the film was a major hit.{{Sfn|Gracyk|2007|p=65}}

In connection with this, a new video was released, interspersing excerpts from the film with footage from the original Queen video, along with some live footage of the band. Myers was horrified that the record company had mixed clips from ''Wayne's World'' with Queen's original video, fearing that this would upset the band. He said, "they've just [[Urination|whizzed]] on a [[Pablo Picasso|Picasso]]." He asked the record company to tell Queen that the video was not his idea and that he apologised to them. The band, though, sent a reply simply saying, "Thank you for using our song." This astonished Myers, who responded, "Thank you for even letting me touch the hem of your garments!"<ref>''Made in Heaven'' video documentary "Champions of the World."</ref>

The ''Wayne's World'' video version of "Bohemian Rhapsody" won Queen its only [[MTV Video Music Award]] for "[[MTV Video Music Award for Best Video from a Film|Best Video from a Film]]".{{Sfn|Rock and Roll Hall of Fame}} When remaining members Brian May and Roger Taylor took the stage to accept the award, Brian May was overcome with emotion and said that "Freddie would be tickled." In the final scene of the video, a pose of the band from the video from the original "Bohemian Rhapsody" clip [[morphing|morphs]] into an identically posed 1985 photo, first featured in the "[[One Vision]]" video.

In the 2018 Queen biopic feature film ''[[Bohemian Rhapsody (film)|Bohemian Rhapsody]]'', Myers makes a [[Cameo appearance|cameo]] as a fictional record executive who pans the song and refuses to release it as a single, proclaiming that it is too long for radio and that it is not a song that "teenagers can crank up the volume in their car and bang their heads to", a reference to the aforementioned scene in ''Wayne's World''.<ref>{{cite news |title=Mike Myers references 'Wayne's World' during his 'Bohemian Rhapsody' cameo |url=https://www.nme.com/news/film/mike-myers-bohemian-rhapsody-waynes-world-2393931 |access-date=12 November 2018 |agency=NME |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181112181621/https://www.nme.com/news/film/mike-myers-bohemian-rhapsody-waynes-world-2393931 |archive-date=12 November 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Achievements and accolades===
The song has won numerous awards and has been covered and parodied by many artists. At the [[19th Annual Grammy Awards]] in February 1977, "Bohemian Rhapsody" received two [[Grammy Award]] nominations for [[Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals#Recipients|Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus]] and [[Grammy Award for Best Vocal Arrangement for Two or More Voices#1970s|Best Arrangement for Voices]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.awardsandshows.com/features/grammy-awards-1977-225.html|title=Grammy Award Nominees 1977 – Grammy Award Winners|website=www.awardsandshows.com|access-date=2 May 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/queen |title=Queen – Artist – Grammy.com |publisher=[[Grammy Awards]] database search |access-date=4 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171117093307/https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/queen |archive-date=17 November 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref> In October 1977, only two years after its release, the [[British Phonographic Industry]] named "Bohemian Rhapsody" as the best British single of the period 1952–77.{{Sfn|Gracyk|2007|p=63}} It is a regular entry in greatest-songs polls, and it was named by the Guinness Book of Records in 2002 as the top British single of all time.{{Sfn|Chiu|2005}} The song is also listed in the [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]]'s 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rockhall.com/exhibits/one-hit-wonders-songs-that-shaped-rock-and-roll/|title=The Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll|access-date=13 July 2011|publisher=Rock & Roll Hall of Fame|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628094517/http://rockhall.com/exhibits/one-hit-wonders-songs-that-shaped-rock-and-roll/|archive-date=28 June 2011|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2004, the song was inducted into the [[Grammy Hall of Fame]].{{Sfn|The Recording Academy|2004}} {{As of|2004}}, "Bohemian Rhapsody" is the second most-played song on British radio, in clubs and on jukeboxes collectively, after [[Procol Harum]]'s "[[A Whiter Shade of Pale]]".{{Sfn|ClashMusic.com|2009}} On 30 September 2007 for [[BBC Radio 1]]'s 40th birthday, it was revealed on ''[[The Official Chart|The Radio 1 Chart Show]]'' that "Bohemian Rhapsody" had been the most played song since Radio 1's launch.<ref>{{cite news |first=Felix |last=Lowe |title=Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody voted best video |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1565502/Queens-Bohemian-Rhapsody-voted-best-video.html |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |date=8 October 2007 |access-date=19 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181119173637/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1565502/Queens-Bohemian-Rhapsody-voted-best-video.html |archive-date=19 November 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In December 2018, "Bohemian Rhapsody" officially became the most-streamed song from the 20th century, surpassing Nirvana's "[[Smells Like Teen Spirit]]" and Guns N' Roses' "[[Sweet Child o' Mine]]".<ref name="Forbes 2018"/><ref name="Guardian 2018">{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/dec/11/queen-bohemian-rhapsody-most-streamed-song-20th-century|title=Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody becomes most-streamed song from the 20th century {{!}} Music |website=The Guardian|date=11 December 2018|access-date=16 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181215165817/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/dec/11/queen-bohemian-rhapsody-most-streamed-song-20th-century|archive-date=15 December 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> "Bohemian Rhapsody" also became the most-streamed classic rock song of all time.<ref name="Forbes 2018"/> The number of downloads of the song and original video exceeded 1.6 billion downloads across global on-demand streaming services.<ref name="Guardian 2018"/> The video surpassed one billion views on YouTube in July 2019, making it the oldest music video to reach one billion on the platform, and the first pre-1990s song to reach that figure.<ref>{{cite news |title=Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody' Becomes Oldest Music Video to Get a Billion YouTube Views |url=https://variety.com/2019/music/news/queen-bohemian-rhapsody-video-youtube-billion-record-1203275069/ |access-date=22 July 2019 |work=Variety |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190722115651/https://variety.com/2019/music/news/queen-bohemian-rhapsody-video-youtube-billion-record-1203275069/ |archive-date=22 July 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Carpani |first=Jessica |title=Bohemian Rhapsody becomes first pre-1990s song to rack up billion hits on YouTube, site announces |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/07/22/bohemian-rhapsody-becomes-first-pre-1990s-song-rack-billion/ |date=22 July 2019 |access-date=22 July 2019 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190722192556/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/07/22/bohemian-rhapsody-becomes-first-pre-1990s-song-rack-billion/ |archive-date=22 July 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2022, the single was selected by the U.S. [[Library of Congress]] for preservation in the [[National Recording Registry]] as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."<ref>{{cite web |title=National Recording Registry Inducts Music from Alicia Keys, Ricky Martin, Journey and More in 2022 |url=https://newsroom.loc.gov/news/national-recording-registry-inducts-music-from-alicia-keys--ricky-martin--journey-and-more-in-2022/s/fee30140-0454-401c-a2a2-205298e32fb1 |website=Library of Congress |access-date=13 April 2022 |language=en}}</ref>

====Polls====
In a 2001 poll of more than 50,000 readers of ''[[The Observer]]'' newspaper and viewers of British TV's [[Channel 4]] for the 100 best number-one singles of all time, the song came second to [[John Lennon]]'s "[[Imagine (John Lennon song)|Imagine]]".<ref>{{cite news |first=John |last=Arlidge |title='Imagine' top song ever |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/jan/07/johnarlidge.theobserver |newspaper=[[The Observer]] |date=7 January 2001 |access-date=19 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190330005937/https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/jan/07/johnarlidge.theobserver |archive-date=30 March 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> In a 2002 poll of more than 31,000 people conducted for [[Guinness World Records]]' ''[[British Hit Singles]]'', "Bohemian Rhapsody" was voted Britain's favourite single, beating Lennon's "Imagine" to the top spot.<ref>{{cite news |title=Bohemian Rhapsody named favourite song |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/may/08/3 |access-date=27 May 2019 |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=8 May 2002 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190528114910/https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/may/08/3 |archive-date=28 May 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2002, it came in 10th in a [[BBC World Service]] poll to find the world's favourite song.{{Sfn|BBC|2002}}

In the Netherlands, ''Bohemian Rhapsody'' has been in the top five of the annual year's end ''"Top 100 Aller Tijden"'' ("All-Time Top 100 [Singles]") since 1977, topping the list eight times, more than any other artists.{{Sfn|Radio Veronica}} Since 1999, the Dutch "[[Top 2000]]" pop music poll supplanted the Top-100, to list and play the 2,000 all-time greatest songs annually in December, and the song has been ranked first in all but five years (2005, 2010, 2014, 2015 and 2020, when it was runner up).<ref>[http://www.radio2.nl/top2000 Top 2000 Lijst] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150118065012/http://www.radio2.nl/top2000 |date=18 January 2015 }} radio2.nl. Retrieved 18 January 2015</ref>

In a 2012 readers poll conducted by ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine, "Bohemian Rhapsody" was voted the best vocal performance in rock history.<ref>{{cite magazine|title = 1. Queen, 'Bohemian Rhapsody' – Readers' Poll: The Best Vocal Performances in Rock History|url = https://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/readers-poll-the-best-vocal-performances-in-rock-history-20120905/1-queen-bohemian-rhapsody-0846043|magazine = Rolling Stone|date = 5 September 2012|access-date = 9 February 2016|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160206123449/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/readers-poll-the-best-vocal-performances-in-rock-history-20120905/1-queen-bohemian-rhapsody-0846043|archive-date = 6 February 2016|url-status = live}}</ref> In 2010, the song ranked at 166 on ''Rolling Stone''{{'}}s "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list,<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/500-greatest-songs-of-all-time-151127/queen-bohemian-rhapsody-64474/|title=500 Greatest Songs of All Time|access-date=16 August 2018|magazine=Rolling Stone|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180816194837/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/500-greatest-songs-of-all-time-151127/queen-bohemian-rhapsody-64474/|archive-date=16 August 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> and was re-ranked at number 17 in 2021.<ref name="rollingstone.com"/>

In 2012, the song topped an [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] poll in the UK to find "The Nation's Favourite Number One" over 60 years of music, ahead of [[Michael Jackson]]'s "[[Billie Jean]]" (number two), [[Adele]]'s "[[Someone like You (Adele song)|Someone like You]]" (number three), [[Oasis (band)|Oasis]]' "[[Don't Look Back in Anger]]" (number four) and [[The Beatles]]' "[[Hey Jude]]" (number five).<ref name="ITV poll">[https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/queen-s-bohemian-rhapsody-voted-the-nation-s-favourite-number-1-single__2258/ "Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody voted the Nation's Favourite Number 1 Single"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190528120734/https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/queen-s-bohemian-rhapsody-voted-the-nation-s-favourite-number-1-single__2258/ |date=28 May 2019 }}. Official Charts Company. Retrieved 17 January 2012</ref> The song was also ranked number five in RadioMafia's list of "Top 500 Songs".<ref>[http://www.yle.fi/radiomafia/sailio/sivu.8.shtml Radiomafian Top 500 (v. 1995)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130629203932/http://www.yle.fi/radiomafia/sailio/sivu.8.shtml |date=29 June 2013 }} (in Finnish). yle.fi. Accessed on 26 July 2013.</ref>

===Cover versions===
[[File:Robb Queen.jpg|thumb|right|[[Robbie Williams]] on stage in Poland in 2015 performing the song with the Queen image in the background]]
{{See also|List of Bohemian Rhapsody cover versions}}
Over two dozen artists have recorded or performed cover versions of "Bohemian Rhapsody", including charted single releases by:
* [[Bad News (band)|Bad News]] – a 1986 spoof version produced by [[Brian May]] which reached UK number 44
* The Braids – an R&B version recorded for the soundtrack to the 1996 film ''[[High School High]]'' and which peaked at UK number 21, US number 42, and Canada number 13<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Jeremy|last=Helligar|title=Music Single Review: ''Bohemian Rhapsody''|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|access-date=28 October 2018|url=https://ew.com/article/1996/11/15/music-single-review-bohemian-rhapsody/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181029030855/https://ew.com/article/1996/11/15/music-single-review-bohemian-rhapsody/|archive-date=29 October 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Panic! at the Disco]] – a version recorded for the soundtrack of the 2016 film ''[[Suicide Squad (2016 film)|Suicide Squad]]'' and which peaked at UK number 80, US number 64 and Canada number 47<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/events/amas/8479116/panic-at-the-disco-bohemian-rhapsody-queen-cover-amas-2018|title=Panic! at the Disco Channels Queen on 'Bohemian Rhapsody' Cover at 2018 AMAs|date=9 October 2018|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|access-date=4 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181104215641/https://www.billboard.com/articles/events/amas/8479116/panic-at-the-disco-bohemian-rhapsody-queen-cover-amas-2018|archive-date=4 November 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>

A video cover featuring [[The Muppets]] also went viral<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/weirdnewsvideo/7558462/The-Muppets-perform-Stand-by-Me-on-YouTube.html | title = The Muppets perform Stand by Me on YouTube | work = The Daily Telegraph | date = 6 April 2010 | access-date = 13 July 2010 | location = London | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191017142840/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/weirdnewsvideo/7558462/The-Muppets-perform-Stand-by-Me-on-YouTube.html | archive-date = 17 October 2019 | url-status = dead }}</ref> and was subsequently released as a single in late 2009, peaking at number 32 in the UK.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/377914/the_muppets_bohemian_rhapsody_to_be_released_as_single.html | title = The Muppets Bohemian Rhapsody to be released as single | first = Simon | last = Brew | date = 9 December 2009 | access-date = 13 July 2010 | publisher = [[Den of Geek]] | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120324004243/http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/377914/the_muppets_bohemian_rhapsody_to_be_released_as_single.html | archive-date = 24 March 2012 | url-status = dead }}</ref>

[["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'s 1993 album ''[[Alapalooza]]'' includes a version of the song entitled "[[List of "Weird Al" Yankovic polka medleys#Bohemian Polka|Bohemian Polka]]", which is a rearrangement of the entire song as a [[polka]].<ref>{{cite news|last = Jenkins|first = Mark|title = POP RECORDINGS;Pearl Jam's Second: More R.E.M. Than Grunge|url = http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-971372.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131105214055/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-971372.html|url-status = dead|archive-date = 5 November 2013|newspaper = [[The Washington Post]]|date = 24 October 1993|access-date = 14 June 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last = Berman|first = Judy|title = A Brief History of Weird Al's Polka Medleys|work = Music|publisher = Flavorwire|date = 15 June 2011|url = http://www.flavorwire.com/187436/a-brief-history-of-weird-als-polka-medleys|access-date = 26 June 2012|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191017173723/https://www.flavorwire.com/187436/a-brief-history-of-weird-als-polka-medleys|archive-date = 17 October 2019|url-status = dead}}</ref>

===40th anniversary===
To mark the 40th anniversary of "Bohemian Rhapsody", the song was released on a limited edition 12" vinyl with the original B-side "I'm In Love With My Car" on 27 November 2015 for Record Store Day 2015. Queen also released ''A Night At The Odeon, Live At Hammersmith 75'', on [[Compact disc|CD]], [[DVD-Video]] and [[Blu-ray]]. This includes the first live "professionally" recorded performance of "Bohemian Rhapsody".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.queenlive.ca/queen/75-12-24.htm|title=First Performance of Bohemian Rhapsody|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170910043351/http://www.queenlive.ca/queen/75-12-24.htm|archive-date=10 September 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> However, the first recording and live performance of "Bohemian Rhapsody" was the performance on 14 November 1975 in Liverpool.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.queenlive.ca/queen/75-11-14.htm|title=QUEEN LIVE – information on concerts; reviews, pictures, and more|website=www.queenlive.ca|access-date=26 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170827043843/http://www.queenlive.ca/queen/75-11-14.htm|archive-date=27 August 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>

=== Auction ===
From 4 August to 5 September 2023, the Freddie Mercury: A World of His Own exhibition was held at [[Sotheby's]] in [[New Bond Street]], London where almost 1,500 items of Mercury's went on display before being sold across six auctions.<ref name="auction"/> His [[Yamaha Corporation|Yamaha]] baby grand piano, which he used to compose "Bohemian Rhapsody", sold for £1.7 million, while his handwritten lyrics for the song went for £1.38 million.<ref name="auction">{{Cite news |date=6 September 2023 |title=Freddie Mercury: Queen star's piano and other items fetch high prices at auction |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-66729573 |access-date=22 September 2023}}</ref> A silver snake bangle worn by Mercury in the "Bohemian Rhapsody" music video was sold for £698,500.<ref name="auction"/>