{"id":5603,"date":"2013-01-09T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2013\/01\/09\/the-enduring-cultural-fascination-with-queens-bohemian-rhapsody\/"},"modified":"2013-01-09T07:00:01","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T07:00:01","slug":"the-enduring-cultural-fascination-with-queens-bohemian-rhapsody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20130109-01\/?p=5603","title":{"rendered":"The enduring cultural fascination with Queen&#8217;s Bohemian Rhapsody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <i>Bohemian Rhapsody<\/i> was not part of my world growing up, so I view the continuing cultural fascination with the piece with detached confusion. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transmediale.de\/content\/bohemian-rhapsody-project\">     The Bohemian Rhapsody Project<\/a>,     a movie which takes its spoken dialog exclusively from the song.     (<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/48891094\">trailer<\/a>) <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0_15G_tIl38\">     Bohemian Rhapsody LEGO<\/a> <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ht96HJ01SE4\">     Bohemian Rhapsody Old School Computer Remix<\/a> <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kXTtkKzLY4A\">     The London Symphony Orchestra performs Bohemian Rhapsody<\/a> <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tgbNymZ7vqY\">     The Muppets perform Bohemian Rhapsody<\/a> <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JMgWaxtLbwE\">     Battlestar Galactica reinterpretation of Bohemian Rhapsody<\/a> <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z2J2a3UMubM\">     Bohemian Rhapsody performed on slide whistles and kazoos<\/a> <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oSxBnN1KJ-A\">     Bohemian Rhapsody performed on bassoons<\/a> <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CthW1MgWYuE\">     Bohemian Rhapsody performed by William Shatner<\/a> <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=STt9dqPsFTE\">     Bohemian Rhapsody performed by Wayne and Garth<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> The hallmark of cultural preoccupation is the fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bohemian_Rhapsody\"> the Wikipedia entry<\/a> deconstructs the piece moment by moment, clocking in at over 2000 words, far in excess of the Wikipedia recommendation of a 60-word summary for a 6-minute piece (10 words per minute). And <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2010\/03\/29\/9986468.aspx\"> longer than the entire Wikipedia page for Ruth Bader Ginsburg<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bohemian Rhapsody was not part of my world growing up, so I view the continuing cultural fascination with the piece with detached confusion. The Bohemian Rhapsody Project, a movie which takes its spoken dialog exclusively from the song. (trailer) Bohemian Rhapsody LEGO Bohemian Rhapsody Old School Computer Remix The London Symphony Orchestra performs Bohemian Rhapsody [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-5603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Bohemian Rhapsody was not part of my world growing up, so I view the continuing cultural fascination with the piece with detached confusion. The Bohemian Rhapsody Project, a movie which takes its spoken dialog exclusively from the song. (trailer) Bohemian Rhapsody LEGO Bohemian Rhapsody Old School Computer Remix The London Symphony Orchestra performs Bohemian Rhapsody [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}