What did Freddie Mercury almost call “Bohemian Rhapsody”?
No chorus. No hook. A six-minute song that is essentially a suite and which the band referred to as a “mock opera.” And yet, somehow, Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” was a huge hit.
It topped the charts in the UK for nine weeks when it was released, and was a top 10 hit in the USA. But it also saw a resurgence on the charts following Freddie Mercury’s death and the song’s inclusion in 1992’s Wayne’s World.
Like the song structure itself, it seems to keep somehow reinventing itself.
And yet this extremely famous and critically acclaimed song was almost called something else entirely. What title did Freddie Mercury originally give to “Bohemian Rhapsody”?
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The answer is: Mongolian Rhapsody. Among some personal items of Freddie Mercury’s that were found and went to auction in 2023, there was a handwritten draft of “Bohemian Rhapsody” on some airline stationery. It had the title “Mongolian Rhapsody”, but Mercury had crossed “Mongolian” off and replaced it with “Bohemian”. We’ll never know how close he was to actually using that title, or why, but it appears it was almost the title to one of the most famous songs in rock history.Source
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