Quote related to 'Bohemian Rhapsody' from 'A Night At The Opera'

That was really Freddie's baby from the beginning - he came in and knew exactly what he wanted. The backing track was done with just piano, bass and drums, with a few spaces for other things to go in, like the tic-tic-tic on the hi-hats to keep the time, and Freddie sang a guide vocal at the time, but he had all his harmonies written out, and it was really just a question of doing it. He even knew pretty much what he wanted in the way of guitar, although there's always a bit of freedom to do what I want on the guitar side, and I could do the solo as I wanted really, but it was very much Freddie's thing which was mapped out. It took a week just to do the vocals, and that was efficient working as well - we already had our methods well worked out, where the three of us would sing a line, then double- or maybe triple- track it. There were nine parts to some of those vocal pieces.

Brian May; BBC Radio One, January 1983