One of the world's best-known songs, Queen’s six-minute hit Bohemian Rhapsody was released in 1975 breaking radio records.
However, the rock anthem could have been known to us a little differently when observing an early draft of the song by Freddie Mercury himself.
Evidence shows that the band’s leading vocalist considered the title Mongolian Rhapsody according to his heir Mary Austin.
15 pages of early drafts for Bohemian Rhapsody are being sold off and on one page Mercury wrote the words Mongolian Rhapsody at the top.
He then crossed off the first word and added Bohemian above it.
This page is set to be displayed to the public at Sotheby’s New York. Thousands of the singer’s possessions are to be auctioned off, along with costumes and furniture stored in his London home since his death in 1991.
This is the first indication that Bohemian Rhapsody would have been called otherwise since the song’s release almost 50 years ago.
Source: Reuters
