110 Fun Facts About Bohemian Rhapsody

Who plays Freddie Mercury in the 2018 film Bohemian Rhapsody?

Rami Malek won the Best Actor Oscar for the part, played in false teeth that copied Mercury's overbite; he spent hours each day studying footage of the singer with a movement coach.

What is Freddie Mercury's birth name, which he drops early in the film Bohemian Rhapsody?

Farrokh Bulsara took his new name in two steps: he was already calling himself Freddie at boarding school in India, and legally became Mercury around the time Queen formed.

What is Freddie's job at the start of the story in the film Bohemian Rhapsody?

Baggage handler at Heathrow is true to life, since Mercury really did work there, though the film skips the clothes stall he ran at Kensington Market with Roger Taylor.

In the film Bohemian Rhapsody, what is the name of the band Freddie joins before it becomes Queen?

Smile loses its singer on the very night Freddie turns up, and he talks his way in; in reality he had been friends with the band since 1969 and knew that singer, Tim Staffell, from art college.

Where does Mary Austin work when Freddie meets her in the film Bohemian Rhapsody?

The boutique Biba really was Mary Austin's workplace, but it was Brian May who dated her first; he recalls Freddie asking whether he was serious about her before asking her out himself.

In Bohemian Rhapsody, what does Freddie sell to pay for Queen's first album?

Their van. The real Queen cut their debut album in off-peak downtime at Trident Studios, moving in to record once the paying artists had gone home.

In Bohemian Rhapsody, which song are Queen made to lip-sync on Top of the Pops?

Killer Queen. The real band disliked the show as well: Brian May has said the 'Bohemian Rhapsody' video was made expressly so Top of the Pops could screen it without them.

In the Queen biopic, which fictional EMI executive refuses to release "Bohemian Rhapsody" as a single?

Ray Foster. He is loosely based on EMI chief Roy Featherstone, who did think the song too long for a single but was in reality a big fan of the band.

Which Wayne's World star plays the EMI executive who rejects the title song in Bohemian Rhapsody?

Mike Myers. His character scoffs that teenagers will never bang their heads to the song in a car, a wink at the Wayne's World scene that sent it back up the US charts in 1992.

In the Queen biopic, which radio DJ gives "Bohemian Rhapsody" its first airplay?

Kenny Everett. This part is true: the Capital Radio DJ got hold of a copy before release and played it again and again, and the demand he stirred up pushed the single out uncut.

In Bohemian Rhapsody, which album are Queen recording when they fall out with EMI?

A Night at the Opera. The film puts the whole band at the microphone for the title song's choir, but the real one was built from three voices: bassist John Deacon did not sing on it.

Who plays Mary Austin in Bohemian Rhapsody?

Lucy Boynton. She and the film's leading man became a couple after meeting on set, and he told her from the Oscar stage: 'You have captured my heart.'

Who plays Paul Prenter, Freddie's manipulative personal manager, in Bohemian Rhapsody?

Allen Leech. His character betrays Freddie in a TV interview, but the real Prenter sold his stories about Mercury's private life to a newspaper, and never went on air with them.

Which Game of Thrones actor plays Queen's manager John Reid in Bohemian Rhapsody?

Aidan Gillen. In the film Freddie sacks Reid in a row over going solo, but the real parting in 1978 was amicable: Reid called it the gentlest split he ever had with an act.

Who plays Jim 'Miami' Beach, Queen's lawyer turned manager, in Bohemian Rhapsody?

Tom Hollander. He reportedly walked off the troubled shoot over the director's behaviour and had to be persuaded to come back.

Who plays guitarist Brian May in Bohemian Rhapsody?

Gwilym Lee. The film's Freddie taunts his guitarist as 'Dr. Brian May', author of a thesis no one reads; the real May did go back and finish his astrophysics PhD, more than 30 years after shelving it.

Joe Mazzello, who plays John Deacon in Bohemian Rhapsody, was a child star of which Steven Spielberg film?

Jurassic Park. Spielberg had looked at Mazzello for Hook and found him too young, promised to get him into another film, and then cast him as Tim, the park owner's grandson.

Who plays drummer Roger Taylor in Bohemian Rhapsody?

Ben Hardy. The part was first lined up for Johnny Flynn in 2015, when the stalled film still had another script and another Freddie; Hardy took it once shooting was finally set.

In Bohemian Rhapsody, Freddie leaves Queen to make a solo album in which German city?

Munich. The film treats his $4 million solo deal as a betrayal, but drummer Roger Taylor had already released a solo album, Fun in Space, in 1981.

In Bohemian Rhapsody, the backlash to which Queen video comes just before Freddie leaves the band?

"I Want to Break Free". The band dressed in drag to spoof the soap Coronation Street, a joke that landed in Britain but cost them airplay in America, where the film's Freddie fumes that MTV banned it.

In Bohemian Rhapsody, Freddie's father lives by "Good thoughts, good words, good deeds", the creed of which religion?

Zoroastrianism. The film makes Freddie's Parsi roots a wedge between him and his father, but his mother said he was proud to be a Parsee, just not particularly religious.

Where was the Live Aid concert sequence in Bohemian Rhapsody actually filmed?

Bovingdon Airfield. The stage was built on the main runway of the old RAF base in Hertfordshire, and the cast have said the Live Aid concert was the very first thing they shot.

Which song from Queen's real Live Aid set is missing from the concert in Bohemian Rhapsody's cinema cut?

Crazy Little Thing Called Love. The cast re-enacted Queen's whole set, but this song and one more were trimmed in the edit; the complete performance was saved for the home release.

Who was first announced to play Freddie Mercury when plans for a Queen film were revealed in 2010?

Sacha Baron Cohen. He walked away in 2013, reportedly because he wanted a gritty, adult tell-all about Mercury while Queen wanted a family-friendly film about the band.

Which actor was announced in 2013 as the new Freddie Mercury for the long-delayed Queen biopic?

Ben Whishaw. Within a year he was saying script problems had put the film on hold, and by the time it finally went before the cameras the part had gone to someone else.

Who is credited as the director of Bohemian Rhapsody?

Bryan Singer. He was fired with about two weeks of filming left, but Directors Guild rules allow a film only one credited director, and he had cast it and shot most of it.

Who finished directing Bohemian Rhapsody after its original director was fired in December 2017?

Dexter Fletcher. He had signed on to direct the same film in 2013 and left within months over creative differences, so he ended up finishing a project he had once walked away from.

When Bohemian Rhapsody's director failed to turn up on set, which crew member directed in his place?

The cinematographer. Newton Thomas Sigel took charge on the days the director went missing, and the absences ended with the studio firing him with about two weeks of filming left.

Queen's Brian May and Roger Taylor re-recorded which studio's famous fanfare to open the film Bohemian Rhapsody?

20th Century Fox. It was May's idea: the logo music arrives on his stacked, harmonised guitars with Taylor's percussion, and the same track opens the soundtrack album.

Whose voice was blended with Freddie Mercury's own recordings for the singing in Bohemian Rhapsody?

Marc Martel's. The Canadian rock singer sounds so like Mercury that producer Graham King said you could close your eyes and it's Freddie; his takes were mixed in with Queen's master tapes.

Footage of which performer was studied to help Malek copy Mercury's stage moves?

Minnelli was an inspiration for Mercury himself; Malek also worked with a movement coach and learned to speak with prosthetic teeth.

Which singer has an uncredited cameo as a trucker who catches Freddie's eye in Bohemian Rhapsody?

Adam Lambert. Bearded and uncredited at a truck stop, Queen's touring singer kept fans guessing for months, then confirmed it by posting a still with the words 'Who is he!?'

Where did Bohemian Rhapsody hold its world premiere?

Wembley Arena, London. The venue shares a complex with Wembley Stadium, where Queen played their Live Aid set in 1985, and tickets for the screening were sold to fans.

Bohemian Rhapsody dethroned which top-grossing music biopic?

Straight Outta Compton. The N.W.A film was left far behind as Bohemian Rhapsody took about $911 million worldwide, yet studio accounts aired in its writer's lawsuit showed it $51 million in the red.

Which country was Bohemian Rhapsody's largest market outside North America?

Japan. Sing-along screenings, cosplay and repeat viewers turned it into the country's biggest film of 2018, and its takings there passed those in the band's home market.

Which film took Bohemian Rhapsody's record as the highest-grossing biopic?

Oppenheimer. Christopher Nolan's film passed the Queen biopic's $911 million in September 2023, ending a five-year reign built on sing-along screenings and repeat viewings in spite of mixed reviews.

Which fellow nominee lost the 2019 Best Actor Oscar to the star of Bohemian Rhapsody?

Christian Bale. The Vice star was one of four nominees beaten by the film's lead, and Bohemian Rhapsody left with four Oscars, more than any other film, despite review scores among the lowest of any Best Picture nominee.

Which Best Picture winner beat Bohemian Rhapsody at the 2019 Oscars?

Green Book. Bohemian Rhapsody had been the surprise winner of the Golden Globe for best drama, while the heavily tipped A Star Is Born went home with one song award, but the Oscar went to Green Book.

Which of Bohemian Rhapsody's Oscar wins was mocked online when a clip of one scene went viral?

Best Film Editing. The clip, of Queen meeting their future manager, became notorious for its barrage of cuts, and editor John Ottman agreed: he said seeing it made him want to put a bag over his head.

Which awards body withdrew Bohemian Rhapsody's nomination after renewed allegations against its director?

GLAAD. The LGBTQ media watchdog pulled the film from its awards after new allegations against its director, while Britain's film academy kept the film nominated and suspended only his name.

Anthony McCarten, who wrote Bohemian Rhapsody, also scripted which Oscar-winning biopic?

The Theory of Everything. McCarten's biopics kept winning their leads the Best Actor Oscar: Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking, Gary Oldman as Churchill in Darkest Hour, then Bohemian Rhapsody's Freddie.

Which song does Bohemian Rhapsody show Queen writing in the early 1980s, years after they really did?

"We Will Rock You". Brian May wrote it in 1977 after a crowd in Stafford kept singing to the band once the encore was over; he wanted an anthem the audience could perform themselves.

Which event does Bohemian Rhapsody move to before Live Aid?

Freddie's HIV diagnosis. Accounts place the real diagnosis in 1986 or 1987, well after the concert, and his bandmates were not told until 1989.

Bohemian Rhapsody makes Jim Hutton a waiter at Freddie's party, but what was the real Hutton's job when they met?

Hairdresser. He worked at the Savoy Hotel and met Mercury in a nightclub, where by his own account he turned down a drink without recognising him; they got together on meeting again some eighteen months later.

In Bohemian Rhapsody, which ballad does Freddie show Mary a vast Rio crowd singing back to him?

Love of My Life. The film places the Rio show years too early: the recording it uses is from Rock in Rio in January 1985, only about six months before Live Aid.

In Bohemian Rhapsody, which pets does Freddie phone home to talk to and give a room each in his new house?

Cats. The film barely exaggerates: Mercury kept at least ten over his life, most of them rescues, and wrote the song Delilah for his favourite.

Which staple of a hit single does "Bohemian Rhapsody" famously do without?

A repeating chorus. The song runs for almost six minutes through a ballad, a mock opera and a hard-rock finale without once returning to a refrain, one reason executives doubted radio would touch it.

What did "Weird Al" Yankovic call his 1993 polka version of "Bohemian Rhapsody"?

Bohemian Polka. His polkas usually stitch a string of other people's hits into a medley, but on the album Alapalooza he played this one song all the way through at oompah speed.

A draft showing that "Bohemian Rhapsody" was first titled "Mongolian Rhapsody" was sold in 2023 by which auction house?

Sotheby's. On the page Mercury had written 'Mongolian Rhapsody' and then crossed out the first word; it was sold with almost 1,500 of his belongings on behalf of his friend Mary Austin.

The cry of "Bismillah" in the lyrics of "Bohemian Rhapsody" comes from which language?

Arabic. It means 'in the name of God', and Mercury never said why it sits among the Scaramouches and Galileos; Brian May has called the song beyond analysis.

In December 2018 "Bohemian Rhapsody" became the 20th century's most-streamed song, pushing which track into second place?

Smells Like Teen Spirit. The Queen biopic drove the surge: weeks after its release the 1975 single passed 1.6 billion streams and edged ahead of Nirvana's 1991 anthem.

What was the B-side of the original 1975 'Bohemian Rhapsody' single?

I'm in Love with My Car. Roger Taylor's car anthem is a running joke in the 2018 biopic, where his bandmates mock its lyrics, yet it went out on the flip side of the very single the film is named after.

Which part of "Bohemian Rhapsody" took some 180 overdubs?

Operatic section. Mercury, May and Taylor stacked their own voices into a mock choir there, bouncing the tape down so many times that May could hold it to the light and see through it.

The 1992 reissue of "Bohemian Rhapsody" stalled at US number two behind which rap hit?

Jump. Kris Kross held the top spot for eight weeks, but number two was still seven places higher than Queen's single had climbed first time round in 1976.

In which category did "Bohemian Rhapsody" win Queen an MTV Video Music Award in 1992?

Best Video from a Film. The band whose 1975 promo is credited with launching the video age won 17 years later for a re-cut of it, spliced with scenes from Wayne's World.

In a 2002 Guinness poll for Britain's favourite single, which song did "Bohemian Rhapsody" beat into second place?

Imagine. It was revenge of a sort: a year earlier John Lennon's song had pushed Queen's into second place in an Observer and Channel 4 poll of the best number ones.

At which studios, where Queen were rehearsing for a tour, was the "Bohemian Rhapsody" video shot in 1975?

Elstree. Queen had only three and a half days there to rehearse for their tour, and took about four hours out of them to tape the promo.

The chart-topping 1991 "Bohemian Rhapsody" reissue also carried a song from which Queen album?

Innuendo. The reissue was a double A-side with These Are the Days of Our Lives, released weeks after Mercury's death to raise money for an AIDS charity, the Terrence Higgins Trust.

The "Bohemian Rhapsody" video's director later directed which talent show?

American Idol. Bruce Gowers shot the promo in about four hours; it made his name and took him to the United States, where decades later he directed the talent show's live episodes from its first season.

As of 2004, which song was the only one played more than "Bohemian Rhapsody" on British radio, in clubs and on jukeboxes?

A Whiter Shade of Pale. Procol Harum's 1967 hit kept the top spot in that count, but when Radio 1 marked its 40th birthday in 2007, Queen's song was named the station's most played.

Which band's song did the studio first want for the Wayne's World headbanging scene set to 'Bohemian Rhapsody'?

Guns N' Roses were the hot act of 1992, but the comedy's star threatened to quit unless Queen's 1975 epic was used. The scene sent the single back up the US charts.

The Best Actor Oscar for Bohemian Rhapsody made its star the first winner with roots in which country?

Egypt is where both of his parents were born before they emigrated to California. Censors there still cut the film before it could be shown.

The producers of Bohemian Rhapsody chose their Freddie Mercury after watching him lead which TV series?

Mr. Robot had won him an Emmy as a withdrawn hacker, about as far from a stadium showman as a role gets. He still had to send Queen a test recording for approval.

Bohemian Rhapsody held the record for top-grossing music biopic until which film about a music legend overtook it?

Michael, the story of Michael Jackson, edged past the Queen film's $911 million total in June 2026. The same producer, Graham King, made both.

Which song do Queen play on their first US tour in Bohemian Rhapsody, four years before it was written?

Fat Bottomed Girls scores the band's 1974 trek across the States, but nobody had written it yet: it dates from 1978. The film reshuffles several hits this way.

The album that carries 'Bohemian Rhapsody' borrows its title from a film by which comedy team?

The Marx Brothers made the comedy the band watched during the recording sessions. Groucho later became a friend and invited Queen to his Los Angeles home.

In 2019 the 'Bohemian Rhapsody' video became the oldest music video to pass which YouTube milestone?

One billion views arrived in July 2019 for a clip shot in just four hours in 1975. The band made it so they would not have to mime the track on television.

Bohemian Rhapsody shows Freddie Mercury's family as refugees from which East African island, his real birthplace?

Zanzibar is where he was born in 1946, in Stone Town. The family left in 1964, the year of the Zanzibar Revolution, and settled in Feltham, Middlesex, on the edge of London.

Why did record executives first resist releasing 'Bohemian Rhapsody' as a single?

Its length, five minutes and 55 seconds, convinced them it could never be a hit. Mercury refused to trim it, saying it would go out whole or not at all.

In Wayne's World, the friends headbang to 'Bohemian Rhapsody' in which car, nicknamed the Mirthmobile?

AMC Pacer is the model, a 1970s bubble of a car that the comedy bought second-hand and painted baby blue with flames down the sides.

Which creator of The Crown shares the story credit on Bohemian Rhapsody, having written its first script?

Peter Morgan was hired back in 2010, when a comedian was lined up to star. After years of rewrites he kept a story credit on a film about a very different Queen.

Which frontman, whose exit lets Freddie join the band in Bohemian Rhapsody, returned to record for its soundtrack?

Tim Staffell rejoined Brian May and Roger Taylor in 2018 to re-record Doing All Right, a number he and May had written together five decades earlier.

In Bohemian Rhapsody, what does Freddie ask Mary Austin shortly before he begins to question his sexuality?

To marry him is the question, and she says yes. The engagement ends once he comes out to her, yet the two stay close friends for the rest of the story.

Bohemian Rhapsody's closing titles say Freddie Mercury died in 1991 of which illness, brought on by AIDS?

Pneumonia killed him at his London home about 24 hours after he told the world he had AIDS. He was 45.

In Bohemian Rhapsody, reporters grill Freddie about his health at a press conference for which Queen album?

Hot Space is the 1982 record being launched, though the press in the scene ignore the music and pry into his private life instead.

Which bass-driven Queen hit does Bohemian Rhapsody show the band making in 1981, a year after its real release?

Another One Bites the Dust was really written and released in 1980. It is one of several hits the film shuffles to suit its story.

Bohemian Rhapsody implies Freddie Mercury was sent to boarding school as a punishment; which country was the school in?

India was home to his British-style boarding school, near Bombay, from the age of eight. His mother said the aim was a better education, not a punishment.

Bohemian Rhapsody shows Paul Prenter betraying Freddie on a TV talk show, but which newspaper really ran his story?

The Sun printed his 1987 interview after he had stopped working for the band. On screen the betrayal comes two years sooner, as revenge for being sacked.

Bohemian Rhapsody skips the clothes stall the real Freddie Mercury ran with Roger Taylor at which London market?

Kensington Market is where the pair sold second-hand Edwardian clothes and scarves. They also shared a flat, so he was no stranger when he asked to join the band.

Bohemian Rhapsody shows Queen agreeing to share songwriting credits in 1985; which album really introduced the policy?

The Miracle, from 1989, was the first Queen album credited to the whole band. The record they made right after Live Aid still listed individual writers.

Bohemian Rhapsody overtook which blockbuster to become the UK's fastest-selling digital download film?

Avengers: Infinity War lost the record when the Queen film sold 265,000 downloads in eight days. Its disc release then set a first-week record as well.

In which country did Bohemian Rhapsody climb back to the top of the box office in its seventh week?

South Korea made it the most successful musical film ever released there, selling nearly 10 million tickets. No Hollywood release had regained first place so late before.

Which country gave Bohemian Rhapsody an arthouse release in 2019 with about three minutes censored?

China cut scenes showing drugs and homosexuality, then trimmed the star's Oscar speech too, where he called Mercury a gay man and an immigrant.

At which London studio did the star of Bohemian Rhapsody record a vocal test that was sent to Queen for approval?

Abbey Road, the Beatles' old base, hosted the try-out that the band had to sign off. He went on to take singing and piano lessons for the part.

What does Brian May, a consultant on the film Bohemian Rhapsody, famously use in place of a plectrum?

A sixpence coin is his pick of choice, and decades of it wore down the pickup covers of his guitar. He built that instrument with his father as a teenager.

What kind of Bohemian Rhapsody screenings were held in cinemas across the United Kingdom in early 2019?

Sing-along screenings began at the Prince Charles Cinema off Leicester Square before spreading nationwide. Audiences in East Asia took to the idea as well.

In Bohemian Rhapsody, the frontman whose exit makes room for Freddie quits to join which oddly named band?

Humpy Bong was a real group, and the departing vocalist really did join it. His old bandmates kept one of the numbers he co-wrote for Queen's debut album.

A screenwriter's lawsuit revealed that the studio's accounts recorded Bohemian Rhapsody, a worldwide smash, as what?

A $51 million loss is what the ledgers showed, a classic case of Hollywood accounting. One trade estimate had put the real net profit at about $350 million.

In Bohemian Rhapsody, what news does Mary Austin bring when she urges Freddie to rejoin Queen for Live Aid?

She is pregnant, a sign of how far their lives have drifted apart. Her visit pushes him to sack his scheming personal manager and head home.

The EMI boss who rejects the single in Bohemian Rhapsody is loosely based on which real executive, a Queen fan?

Roy Featherstone was in fact a supporter of the band, and EMI did put the single out. Queen stayed with the label for almost 40 years, whatever the film says.

Bohemian Rhapsody plays up Freddie's indifference to his family's roots in which religious community?

Parsi heritage mattered more to him than the film lets on. His mother and sister said he was proud of his ancestry in private and simply kept it away from the press.

Which children's TV favourites went viral in 2009 with a cover of 'Bohemian Rhapsody' that later charted in the UK?

The Muppets' video spread so fast online that it was released as a single late that year, peaking at number 32 in the UK.

The piano Freddie Mercury played on 'Bohemian Rhapsody' is said to be the one used on which Beatles hit?

Hey Jude is the Beatles track the Bechstein grand is reputed to have played on. Rick Wakeman is said to have used the same piano on David Bowie's Hunky Dory.

Which honour did the recording of 'Bohemian Rhapsody' receive in 2004, nearly three decades after its release?

Grammy Hall of Fame entry made up for 1977, when the single was nominated for two Grammys and won neither.

The director of Bohemian Rhapsody was fired after failing to return to the set following which holiday week?

Thanksgiving week of 2017 ended without him, so the studio halted the shoot and then replaced him with about two weeks of filming left.

In 2022 which US institution chose 'Bohemian Rhapsody' for preservation in its National Recording Registry?

Library of Congress curators add only recordings judged culturally, historically or aesthetically significant, and they picked the single 47 years after its release.

Queen began recording 'Bohemian Rhapsody' at Rockfield, a farm studio in which part of the UK?

Wales is home to Rockfield, near Monmouth, which in 1965 became the world's first residential studio. Bands lived in its converted farm buildings while they worked.

Which UK chart feat has 'Bohemian Rhapsody' achieved twice with the same recording, in 1975 and 1991?

Christmas number one fell to Queen in 1975, during a nine-week stay at the top, and again in 1991 when the single was reissued after Mercury's death.

The four shadowed faces that open the 'Bohemian Rhapsody' video recreate the cover of which of the band's albums?

Queen II carried the Mick Rock portrait that the clip copies, the band's favourite image of themselves. The video returns to the same pose for its multi-voiced middle passage.

Which instrument does Roger Taylor strike, stripped to the waist, in the last seconds of the 'Bohemian Rhapsody' video?

A gong, strictly a tam-tam, supplies the record's last sound. In the clip he hits it in the pose of the Gongman who opened every Rank film.

How did Queen deliver the heavily multi-tracked middle section of 'Bohemian Rhapsody' at their concerts?

They played a tape of the studio version while the band left the stage and coloured lights danced to the voices. The four came back for the hard rock finale.

Which station's DJ played 'Bohemian Rhapsody' 14 times in two days, creating the demand that forced its release?

Capital Radio's switchboard was swamped with callers asking when they could buy it. The DJ had been handed the reel on the promise that he would not air it.

Which producer of five Queen albums shared the production credit on 'Bohemian Rhapsody' with the band?

Roy Thomas Baker later called the sessions totally insane and said they enjoyed every minute. He had worked with Queen since 1972.

Brian May and Roger Taylor marked the 50th anniversary of 'Bohemian Rhapsody' by playing it at which 2025 event?

Last Night of the Proms gave the piece a full orchestral setting, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and a theatre tenor taking the lead vocal.

Which band's cover of 'Bohemian Rhapsody' was recorded for the soundtrack of the 2016 film Suicide Squad?

Panic! at the Disco reached number 64 in the US with it, four decades after Queen's original peaked at number nine there.

At the 1992 Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, which star sang the opening ballad of 'Bohemian Rhapsody'?

Elton John took the ballad, and a hard rock vocalist took over for the heavy final part. The concert raised money for AIDS research in Mercury's name.

Brian May has played 'Bohemian Rhapsody' for decades on which guitar, built at home with his father?

Red Special has a neck cut from an old fireplace mantel that a family friend was about to throw away, which is why it is also nicknamed the Fireplace.

Which animated film knocked Bohemian Rhapsody off the top of the US box office in its second weekend?

The Grinch opened in first place and left the Queen film second with $31.2 million. A week later a Fantastic Beasts sequel pushed both of them down a rung.

The band pose copied in the 'Bohemian Rhapsody' video was itself inspired by a photograph of which film star?

Marlene Dietrich's portrait gave photographer Mick Rock the idea for the album sleeve that the clip restages.

Which director, who had already filmed Queen's concerts, made the 'Bohemian Rhapsody' promo video in 1975?

Bruce Gowers shot it in about four hours for £4,500, and its impact helped make the promo clip a standard tool for selling a single.