Don’t Cease Me Now’s in second place, Any person to Love in third place, We Are The Champions / We Will Rock You in fourth, and Radio Ga Ga rounded off the highest 5. The complete Prime 40 countdown hosted by Steve Wright is out there on BBC Sounds from Friday 31 March and highlights of the Prime 40 might be broadcast on Radio 2 on Monday 10 April at 4pm.
From Monday 20 February, listeners had been requested to vote for as much as three of their favorite songs from Queen’s Prime 75 UK chart singles, together with collaborations with the band following Freddie Mercury’s demise. Voting closed on Wednesday 8 March, with the outcomes compiled for this particular present, Your Final Queen Music.
Bohemian Rhapsody was launched because the lead single from Queen’s fourth album, A Night time on the Opera, in 1975 and have become the band’s first primary. Written by Freddie Mercury and referred to by him as a ‘mock opera’, the monitor – typically considered Queen’s signature music – is without doubt one of the few progressive rock songs of the Nineteen Seventies to attain widespread business success. It topped the UK Singles Chart for 9 weeks, plus an additional 5 weeks following Freddie Mercury’s demise in 1991, and stays the UK’s third best-selling single of all time. In 2004, it was inducted into the Grammy Corridor of Fame and, following the discharge of the 2018 biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, it turned essentially the most streamed music of the 20 th century.
Sir Brian Could says: “Whats up all you lovely Radio 2 listeners. Thanks for voting for this music. I suppose we’re very thrilled not solely since you voted for that exact monitor, however since you voted in any respect and it signifies that we’re nonetheless in your hearts and your minds and we’re very grateful, and I’m hoping that we’ll be on the market doing our factor for you earlier than too lengthy. Bohemian Rhapsody, in fact, is the best testomony to the powers of our expensive Freddie and I do know he could be delighted to listen to this information. What may very well be higher. Thanks.”
Steve Wright says: “That is the actual life, not simply fantasy! The Radio 2 listeners have spoken and it’s clear that nothing can cease them now from loving Queen’s iconic hit Bohemian Rhapsody. I’m thrilled to crown this timeless hit the winner, proving that it nonetheless rocks the airwaves many years after its launch.”
The Prime 40, as voted by Radio 2 listeners
1. Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)
2. Do not Cease Me Now (1979)
3. Any person To Love (1976)
4. We Are The Champions / We Will Rock You (1977)
5. Radio Ga Ga (1984)
6. Who Desires To Stay Without end (1986)
7. Killer Queen (1974)
8. Beneath Strain (1981)
9. Love Of My Life (1979)
10. These Are The Days Of Our Lives (1991)
11. I Wish to Break Free (1984)
12. The Present Should Go On (1991)
13. Seven Seas Of Rhye (1974)
14. Hammer To Fall (1984)
15. You are My Finest Pal (1976)
16. A Variety Of Magic (1986)
17. Fats Bottomed Ladies (1978)
18. One other One Bites The Mud (1980)
19. Loopy Little Factor Referred to as Love (1979)
20. Good Previous Usual Lover Boy (1977)
21. One Imaginative and prescient (1985)
22. Innuendo (1991)
23. Now I am Right here (1975)
24. Tie Your Mom Down (1977)
25. Unfold Your Wings (1978)
26. Any person To Love – 5 Stay EP (1992)
27. I Need It All (1989)
28. Breakthru (1989)
29. We Will Rock You (2000)
30. Flash (1980)
31. Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen & The Muppets, 2009)
32. Save Me (1980)
33. Bicycle Race (1978)
34. Too A lot Love Will Kill You (1996)
35. It is A Onerous Life (1984)
36. I am Going Barely Mad (1991)
37. Associates Will Be Associates (1986)
38. No-One However You (Solely the Good Die Younger) (1998)
39. Las Palabras De Amor (1982)
40. Headlong (1991)
