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Bohemian Rhapsody

Review for "featured article" criteria.— miketm - Queen WikiProject - 00:24, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Great song. My comments on the article:

• In the intro: "world's biggest bands" = "world's most popular bands" ?
• The second paragraph of "Recording" mixes various tenses and is generally poorly worded.
• "...but declares that he "need[s] no sympathy" because nothing matters." I thought he says he needs no sympathy because he's "easy come, easy go". No?
  • easy come, easy go is something that you say in order to describe someone who thinks that everything is easy to achieve, and who therefore does not worry about anything.

I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy

Because I'm easy come, easy go

A little high, little low

Anyway the wind blows, doesn't really matter to me, to me

— miketm - Queen WikiProject - 03:31, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

I think that's different than "because nothing matters": he needs no sympathy because he doesn't care, not because nothing matters. Maybe I'm splitting hairs... -- bcasterline • talk 03:54, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

• Some explanation or context for the lyrical allusions in the Opera would be nice.
• "This was a very small sum compared to the multi-million dollar industry music videos have become" commentary seems out of place to me.
• The section "Promotional video" would benefit from some more inline citations, especially:
  • "It was created for the sole purpose of allowing the band to be on tour and appear "live" on the BBC's Top of the Pops."
    • Removed "sole" and added ref.— miketm - Queen WikiProject - 03:11, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
  • "The "Bohemian Rhapsody" video is often cited as "the first ever music promo video.""
• The section "Live performances" has a lot of awkward wording -- for example, the sentence beginning "During the Jazz and Live Killers tours..."
• I'm not a huge fan of lists of trivia, and I think most of that information can be added elsewhere. (The first point is especially interesting.)

Otherwise looks pretty good. -- bcasterline • talk 02:30, 7 September 2006 (UTC)