"Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen: Everything You Didn't Know
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The Bell's Effect
The opera bit was getting longer and so we kept splicing huge lengths of tape onto the reel. This went on over a three or four day period while we decided the length of the section. That section alone took about three weeks to record, which in 1975 was the average time spent on a whole album. Some of these vocal takes is insane. Like they, some of these falsetto's that they're doing and like high notes that they are hitting, did you not sound human? It is truly a phenomenon of mixing that this thing came together.
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