Arguably their biggest record to date, Queen’s six minute epic ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ has created a new record, by becoming the first music video prior to the 1990’s to generate more than one billion views on Youtube. The track was originally released back in 1975, thirty four years ago, lifted from their fourth studio album, ‘A Night at the Opera’. The opening shot of the music video depicts the heads of the four band members against a black background.

Marking this milestone, a remastered version of the music video in HD has been released onto Queen’s Youtube channel.

Roger Taylor and Brian May responded to the landmark, “We are honoured that Bohemian Rhapsody has just hit one billion views on YouTube. We want to thank you all and celebrate with our amazing fans all around the world by creating three new music videos to our songs, all featuring you! Whether you are a musician, singer, dancer, visual artist or you just want to have some fun. Go to www.youarethechampions.com to find out more and we’ll see you on the road somewhere.”

The campaign, entitled You Are the Champions, will give fans an opportunity to take on a starring role within three of their most infamous tracks, namely ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, ‘Don’t Stop Me Now’, and ‘A Kind of Magic’, at this link.

It was announced recently that an unreleased version of Freddie Mercury’s ‘Time Waits for No One’, is set to be released later in the month. Recorded by Dave Clark in 1986, (of the Dave Clark Five), it was produced for a concept album and musical of the same name by Freddie.

An official release explained, “‘Time Waits For No One’ is a tribute to the musical force of Freddie Mercury; the performance, the drama, the vocal range, and after four decades waiting in the wings, is finally out for new and old fans alike.”

Concerning the sessions, Dave Clark praised the late frontman. “We got on great…if I didn’t like something I’d say, and vice versa…we were both aiming for the same thing: to make something special.”