Awesome Queen

Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? After amusing us with their performance of Don’t Stop Believin’, HarvardTHUD is back with another charming cover, this time taking on Queen’s Magnum Opus on their colorful plastic noisemakers.

Funko will soon offer POP! vinyl figures based on Freddie Mercury, Roger Taylor, Brian May, and John Deacon. Freddie gets three outfits – a harlequin jumpsuit, his 1986 Wembley Stadium look, and a FYE exclusive shirtless look based on their 1982 Madison Square Garden shows.

A warm and soothing cover version of Queen’s rock opera classic arranged and performed by a quartet of talented musicians: Sam Novack, Lakshmi Sawhney, Jordan McElroy, and Michael Charles Smith If you fancy yourself a marimba expert, sheet music is available here.

While Anthony Vincent of Ten Second Songs can’t quite reach the vocal heights of Freddie Mercury (or Marc Martel), his ability to mimic various musical styles is still quite a talent. Here, he sings Queen’s most iconic tune in three and half dozen ways.

Trombone player Christopher Bill and 27 of his closest friends joined together at the 2018 International Trombone Fest perform the richest and most layered cover of Queen’s classic rock opera that we’ve ever heard. Galileo, Figaro! Magnifico!

This extended ad spot for UK retailers John Lewis & Partners + Waitrose & Partners is proof positive that commercials are so much better outside of the US, as a choir of kids perform a slightly modified version of Queen’s classic while performing a charming space opera.

The first full trailer for the upcoming Queen biopic looks sure looks solid, with the role of Freddie Mercury in the very capable hands of Rami Malek, and the story taking us from the earliest days of the band, through its meteoric rise, to the tragic decline of one of its frontman.

Despite the behind-the-scenes drama, our first look at the Queen biopic looks really promising, with Mr. Robot’s Rami Malek truly transforming himself into the persona of lead singer Freddie Mercury, and a soundtrack filled with some of the greatest songs of all time.

Tristan Clarke and Joe Buono aka The Melodica Men present a fun full-length cover of Queen’s classic rock opera Bohemian Rhapsody, doing the fandango, thunderbolt and lightning on their silly mouth-blown instruments.

The musicians of Apartment Sessions turn in an energetic rendition of Queen’s 1976 classic Somebody to Love, as performed in the cozy confines of a New York City subway car. While nobody will ever sing like Freddie Mercury, they make up for it with sheer enthusiasm.

Back in 2010, musicians P.B. and M.D. took the time to translate and painstakingly line up the lyrics of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody into their native tongue of German. You don’t have to spreche ein bisschen Deutsch to enjoy their energetic performance.

We never had a doubt that Freddie Mercury was the greatest rock vocalist ever, but if you need any convincing, listen to this isolated version of his lead vocals from Don’t Stop Me Now. It’s a much more somber track without the chorus and instruments, but still incredibly powerful.

Watch piano virtuoso Peter Bence as his fingers fly across the keys of his Steinway in this amazing arrangement of Queen’s 1978 classic Don’t Stop Me Now, with a tiny bit of Bohemian Rhapsody thrown in for good measure. Sheet music available here if you can keep up.

For his latest arrangement, musician Leo Moracchioli takes on Queen’s 1980 rock anthem Another One Bites the Dust, covering it in a delicious metal coating, and tossing in a couple of unconventional instruments for bonus fun.

A fantastic new remix of the classic Queen track All Dead, All Dead, created from a raw session of Freddie Mercury’s lead vocals – which didn’t appear on the album – and the instrumentation from 1977’s News of the World. Pre-order the amazing 40th anniversary box set now.

Like many of us, Puddles Pity Party has the occasional bad day. The sad clown with the golden voice works out his stress with a little pie, some cupcakes, and a impassioned cover smoosh-up of Queen and David Bowie’s Under Pressure, and Let It Go from Disney’s Frozen.

We can only imagine that Freddie Mercury was looking down with a big grin on his face at the crowd at this Green Day concert at London’s Hyde Park, as over 65,000 fans joined together in harmony to sing the Queen rock opera classic Bohemian Rhapsody.

Following up on his hit performance of Bohemian Rhapsody on a 100+ year old fairground organ, YouTuber Alexey Rom is back with another Queen tune played on an instrument that predates the band by seven decades. They’re taking requests now.

We can think of no more fitting tribute to the late George Michael than this incredible performance of Queen’s Somebody to Love that he sang in tribute to another great musician taken from us far too soon.

Queen’s 1977 classic We Will Rock You is one of rock and roll’s (and sports’) greatest anthems. So the idea of a cover version is kind of sacrilege. But we’ll give this 1981 version a pass, since it was recorded by Queen themselves, and gives the song a whole different flavor.

(Gore) Joey van Embden created this fan tribute to Fallout 4 using a combination of in-game footage set to the uplifting 1978 Queen track Don’t Stop Me Now. Bethesda should really use this as a commercial.

Malinda Kathleen Reese decided to take the lyrics of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody, then poured them through Google Translate several times, and sang the nonsensical new words. We’re guessing this is how Bad Lip Reading makes up their scripts.

Guitarist Billy Watman turns in a fingerstyle rendition of Queen’s magnum opus which would be impressive if played by anyone, but it’s even more amazing that he’s just 14 years old and can play like this. More on Billy’s YouTube page. (Video by Tony Goode)

Just in time for Bohemian Rhapsody‘s 40th anniversary, Bandai’s S.H. Figuarts has released an action figure of Queen’s frontman in his now iconic Wembley concert outfit. It comes with three pairs of hands, two faces, a microphone and a mic stand.

An unusual cover version of Queen’s classic Bohemian Rhapsody played on a 110-year-old Marenghi fairground organ, a mechanical instrument which plays music with pipes, percussion, and music recorded on punch cards.

Jimmy Fallon and the Roots join an all-star lineup of vocalists including Blake Shelton, Carrie Underwood, Ariana Grande, Sam Smith, Meghan Trainor, One Direction, Usher and the mighty Christina Aguilera to sing the Queen classic.