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"Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen: Everything You Didn't Know

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Freddy Deacon's Guitar Solo

For Bohemian Rhapsody's lyrical solo, Brian May said he wanted a solo in there. John Deacon built that out of stuff he found in the trash while walking through London. The amplifier section of a transistor radio called the Conquest Supersonic PR80 was built in South Africa and Zimbabwe in the 1960s. It has no tone or volume controls, and it never broke down.

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