Bohemian Rhapsody

Cover versions

• Newark, NJ-native band The Fugees covered the song in their 1994 album "Blunted on Reality" with singer Lauryn Hill perfoming the lyrics, over a 3/4 marching beat and keyboard harmonics, giving the album a more low tempo. The lyrics are trasform to depict the agony of a young black man in the ghetto, after he has executed another gang member.
• Molotov covered the song for the 1997 album "Tributo a QUEEN: Los Grandes Del Rock En Español". This cover mixes spanish and english lyrics and they only loosly resemble the original ones.
• The X Factor runners-up in the UK, G4, released a cover of the song as their debut single, reaching #9 in the UK Singles Chart (it is also on their self-titled album). Some 'die-hard' fans of Queen claimed they felt the band had "butchered" the song.
• The lyrics were put to a different beat and note scheme by "Weird Al" Yankovic in the song "Bohemian Polka" on his album Alapalooza.
• A Finnish one man A cappella rock band, Paska, has made a cover version of Bohemian Rhapsody, that appears on his 2005 album Women Are From Venus, Men From Anus.
• Constantine Maroulis covered the song for the Hollywood Records tribute CD Killer Queen. The cast of We Will Rock You Las Vegas did the background vocal harmonies.
• Russell Watson sings this song on his album Reprise.
• The Flaming Lips also covered the song for the Killer Queen tribute album.
• Bad News, A spoof rock band created for the UK Channel 4 TV series The Comic Strip Presents... covered the song and released it as a single. It reached number 44 in the UK charts. The cover version was produced by Brian May.
• Rolf Harris covered the song in the mid 1990s, along with many other 70s rock classic including Led Zeppelin's "Stairway To Heaven".
• The Nerds, a popular cover band, plays this song beginning to end nearly perfectly.
• The Braids, a bay area duo, recorded an R&B version of this song for the soundtrack to the 1996 Jon Lovitz movie High School High. It was produced by Third Eye Blind's lead singer Stephan Jenkins and was released as a single, although it performed poorly on the charts.
• Canadian singer SuZie McNeil performed an abbreviated version on the TV show "Rock Star: INXS" to much acclaim, including praise from Brian May, in September 2005.