Queen adalah grup band rock dari Britania Raya yang dibentuk tahun 1970 di London. Cikal bakal Queen adalah saat Tim Staffell (vokalis dan basis) dan Brian May (gitaris) membuat band dengan drumer dan mendapatkan Roger Taylor dan membentuk band Smile.
Lalu Tim Staffell keluar dan Freddie Mercury masuk sekaligus menguubah nama menjadi "Queen". Kemudian Queen mendapatkan pemain bass John Deacon.
Tahun 1973, Queen merilis album "Queen" dengan single, yaitu Keep Yourself Alive dan Liar.
Tahun berikutnya Queen merilis album Queen II dengan single Seven Seas of Rhye. Pada album ini, musik Queen menjadi lebih heavy metal dan hard rock, namun ada beberapa lagu yang ballad dan rock opera.
Pada 1974 Queen merilis albumnya ke-3 yaitu Sheer Heart Attack dan meraih kesuksesan lewat singel "Killer Queen".
Pada 1975 Queen merilis album keempat yaitu A Night at the Opera.
Lagu fenomenal lainnya dari Queen adalah We are The Champions, I Want To Break Free, Somebody To Love, Too Much Love Will Kill You, The Show Must Go On. Dan tentunya lagu yang menjadi masterpiece Queen, yaitu Bohemian Rhapsody yang dirilis pada tanggal 31 Oktober 1975.
Lagu Bohemian Rhapsody menjadi misteri, apakah lagu ini sebuah metafora dari hubungan asmara Freddie Mercury yang gagal. Karena dari liriknya 'berkisah' tentang seorang pemuda yang telah membunuh seseorang, menjual jiwanya kepada Beelzebub.
Bohemian Rhapsody
Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide,
No escape from reality.
Open your eyes,
Look up to the skies and see,
I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy,
Because I'm easy come, easy go,
Little high, little low,
Anyway the wind blows doesn't really matter to me, to me.
Mama, just killed a man,
Put a gun against his head,
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead.
Mama, life had just begun,
But now I've gone and thrown it all away.
Mama, ooh,
Didn't mean to make you cry,
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow,
Carry on, carry on as if nothing really matters.
Too late, my time has come,
Sent shivers down my spine,
Body's aching all the time.
Goodbye, everybody, I've got to go,
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth.
Mama, ooh (anyway the wind blows),
I don't wanna die,
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all.
I see a little silhouetto of a man,
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango?
Thunderbolt and lightning,
Very, very frightening me.
(Galileo) Galileo.
(Galileo) Galileo,
Galileo Figaro
Magnifico.
I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me.
He's just a poor boy from a poor family,
Spare him his life from this monstrosity.
Easy come, easy go, will you let me go?
Bismillah! No, we will not let you go. (Let him go!)
Bismillah! We will not let you go. (Let him go!)
Bismillah! We will not let you go. (Let me go!)
Will not let you go. (Let me go!)
Never, never let you go
Never let me go, oh.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Oh, mama mia, mama mia (Mama mia, let me go.)
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me, for me.
So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye?
So you think you can love me and leave me to die?
Oh, baby, can't do this to me, baby,
Just gotta get out, just gotta get right outta here.
(Oh, yeah, oh yeah)
Nothing really matters,
Anyone can see,
Nothing really matters,
Nothing really matters to me.
Anyway the wind blows.
Sumber :
https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen
https://medium.com/rock-dut/mengapa-kita-masih-layak-mendengarkan-queen-194e37907b1a
http://hiburan.metrotvnews.com/read/2014/11/26/324175/20-fakta-tentang-queen-bohemian-rhapsody
http://www.bbc.com/indonesia/vert_cul/2015/09/150905_vert_cul_rock_klasik
