Bohemian Rhapsody

artist
Queen

album
A Night at the Opera

genre
progressive rock

decade
seventies

significance

 * charted at number nine
 * certified gold

trivia

 * little known until used in the hit film Wayne's World
 * in the trial scene, the word "Bismillah" means "in the name of God" in Arabic. Freddie Mercury was born in what is now Tanzania
 * the final line ends with a nearly-inaudible gong sound