Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The music video for Queen\u2019s<\/a> iconic mega-hit \u201cBohemian Rhapsody\u201d reached a monumental milestone last month, and the feat is far from fiction. Uploaded to the video-hosting website YouTube on Aug. 1, 2008, the five minute and 59 second clip passed one billion views on July 20; additionally, \u201cBohemian Rhapsody\u201d became the oldest song to accomplish this in the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Originally released as a single on Halloween 1975 and included on Queen\u2019s third studio album \u201cA Night At The Opera,\u201d \u201cBohemian Rhapsody\u201d received a mixed response from critics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pete Erskine of the music journalism website (a magazine prior to March 2018) New Musical Express<\/a> mentioned that, “It’ll be interesting to see whether it’ll be played in its entirety on the radio. It’s performed extremely well, but more in terms of production than anything else… Someone somewhere has decided that the boys’ next release must sound ‘epic’. And it does. They sound extremely self-important.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n The British music newspaper Sounds wrote a more optimistic review of the song, describing it as “impossibly disjointed and complex, but a dazzlingly clever epic from the fevered mind of Freddie Mercury.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n