Great find, Joe! Not sure about the four hours part, though. The article says the video was recorded in just four hours on 10 November 1975. But the song, which was released October 31 took three weeks to record. So that might be confusing. What if I set up the most expensive tweet and this for Facebook?

Music executives and even other musicians told Queen that "Bohemian Rhapsody," at 5 minutes, 55 seconds long, would never be a hit. But the band believed in Freddy Mercury's uniquely operatic song, and released it on this day 40 years ago. The single has sold more than 6.7 million copies.

Jeff Elder

Digital communications manager

Wikimedia Foundation

On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 7:21 PM, James Alexander <jalexander@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Good idea! Both LGTM

Also only 4 hrs... Wow

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On Oct 30, 2015, at 19:15, Joe Sutherland <jsutherland@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Hey all,

Queen's hit "Bohemian Rhapsody" turns 40 tomorrow. Sounds like a good thing to socialise.

T: Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody", and its "ground-breaking" video, turn 40 today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Rhapsody

FB: The "ground-breaking" video for Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody", which turns 40 years old today, took just four hours to record. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Rhapsody

Joe

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