Guitarists Steve Vai, Yngwie Malmsteen Zakk Wylde, Nuno Bettencourt and Tosin Abasi made a curious version of “Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody” during a Generation Ax show in Niagara Falls, United States, on the 24th.
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The performance was guided entirely by guitars, without vocals, and sung at the top of the lungs by the audience.
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“Bohemian Rhapsody” is a song by Queen. It was written by Freddie Mercury for the band’s 1975 album A Night at the Opera. It is a six-minute suite, consisting of several sections without a chorus: an intro, a ballad segment, an operatic passage, a hard rock part and a reflective coda. The song is a more accessible take on the 1970s progressive rock genre.
When it was released as a single, “Bohemian Rhapsody” became a commercial success, staying at the top of the UK Singles Chart for nine weeks and selling more than a million copies by the end of January 1976.
It reached number one again in 1991 for another five weeks when the same version was re-released following Mercury’s death, eventually becoming the UK’s third-best-selling single of all time.
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