# Cover Up: Bohemian Rhapsody **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 4, 2012, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-up-bohemian-rhapsody/617824 "2012-04-04T16:30:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-up-bohemian-rhapsody/617824/1 "2012-04-04T16:30:00Z")
Please post your favorite cover of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody”. Mine would be from the 2008 Australia Battle of The Choirs, [where all three finalists combined to sing a tribute.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5QZn2iiazc&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![lazybratsche](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ba8739/32.png) [@lazybratsche](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lazybratsche)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-up-bohemian-rhapsody/617824/2 "2012-04-04T16:38:59Z")
As done by the [Muppets](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgbNymZ7vqY). ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-up-bohemian-rhapsody/617824/3 "2012-04-04T16:49:28Z")
Yeah, the Muppets have to be way up there on the list. I mean, _anything_ they do is cool. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-up-bohemian-rhapsody/617824/4 "2012-04-04T16:51:00Z")
Momma? ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-up-bohemian-rhapsody/617824/5 "2012-04-04T17:03:34Z")
An interesting / very well played on is ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro’s verion - [youtube link](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snPQ1z5FoqQ). But for the “best”? [Probably the Canadian Guy arrested for Public Drunkenness that sang the entire song in the back of the patrol car on the way to the station…](http://www.spot.ph/newsfeatures/50806/video-drunk-canadian-man-arrested-sings-bohemian-rhapsody-in-police-car) (link to news story and I think a clip). It went viral about a week or so ago and is hilarious. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-up-bohemian-rhapsody/617824/6 "2012-04-04T17:22:52Z")
Weird Al’s [Bohemian Polka](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZsN3S0WJ_o). ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-up-bohemian-rhapsody/617824/7 "2012-04-04T18:25:07Z")
A handbell choir in Raleigh, the Raleigh Ringers, had a nice [cover](http://www.rhapsody.com/artist/the-raleigh-ringers/album/the-raleigh-ringers-the-raleigh-ringers/track/bohemian-rhapsody). ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-up-bohemian-rhapsody/617824/8 "2012-04-04T20:16:54Z")
[There’s always this version.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wM58YXp2x0) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-up-bohemian-rhapsody/617824/9 "2012-04-04T20:43:06Z")
> [@Johnny\_Q](#): > > [There’s always this version.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wM58YXp2x0) That’s the worst thing I’ve heard in many moons. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2012, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-up-bohemian-rhapsody/617824/10 "2012-04-04T20:56:11Z")
I dare anyone to top(?) this… [William Shatner’s version](http://youtu.be/cKo4FMzt_hM) ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2012, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-up-bohemian-rhapsody/617824/11 "2012-04-05T00:58:26Z")
I just opened this thread, and 30 seconds later the song came on the jukebox. Spooky. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2012, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-up-bohemian-rhapsody/617824/12 "2012-04-05T15:12:47Z")
[Move over, _Jesus Christ-Superstar_.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRWNrk7FxG4) ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2012, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-up-bohemian-rhapsody/617824/13 "2012-04-05T15:27:09Z")
[The Cosmopolitan Hotel commercial version](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Xa7cYMD-Dc) ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2012, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-up-bohemian-rhapsody/617824/14 "2012-04-05T15:46:30Z")
[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zPen7MdrDOw/hqdefault.jpg "Lee Evans Bohemian Rhapsody") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPen7MdrDOw) Comedy by Lee Evans ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2012, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-up-bohemian-rhapsody/617824/15 "2012-04-05T16:15:20Z")
We played it in my high school marching band and I thought we were quite enjoyable. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2012, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-up-bohemian-rhapsody/617824/16 "2012-04-05T16:54:33Z")
Can’t link to Youtube right now but Faye Wong does a great version of it. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2012, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-up-bohemian-rhapsody/617824/17 "2012-04-05T17:20:19Z")
> [@Johnny\_Q](#): > > [There’s always this version.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wM58YXp2x0) That’s was awesomely hilarious. I never heard of these guys. Apparently, a spoof band of some sort? ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2012, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-up-bohemian-rhapsody/617824/18 "2012-04-05T17:39:48Z")
[Here is an instrumental](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w2jkESL0Fk) version using two-handed tapping technique on the guitar. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2012, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-up-bohemian-rhapsody/617824/19 "2012-04-05T19:28:03Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > That’s was awesomely hilarious. I never heard of these guys. Apparently, a spoof band of some sort? [Yep.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_News) Edmonson, Mayall, and Planer are probably best known as stars of the British TV series “The Young Ones.” ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2012, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-up-bohemian-rhapsody/617824/20 "2012-04-05T19:37:36Z")
Here’s a nice version performed by Dr. Queen, an Argentinian Queen tribute band: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/12r_G1CZf_c/hqdefault.jpg "DR QUEEN BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY EN ESPAÑOL") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12r_G1CZf_c) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cover-up-bohemian-rhapsody/617824.md?page=2)