Revenge Recommends: "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen

On this day (24th November) in 1991, Freddie Mercury, probably the greatest Zoroastrian since the Emperor Chosroes II of the Sassanian Empire, died from AIDs. When it comes to flamboyant, charismatic, and focused front men, Freddie had few if any peers.

In this 12th July 1986 performance from Wembley Stadium, Freddie and the other members of Queen tackle their sprawling masterpiece, Bohemian Rhapsody, before a vast, rapturous audience and manage to convey the full power and subtlty of a very complex song in a brilliant performance, which is why, 22 years after his death, he is still remembered as if he had just died yesterday.

C.B.Liddell
The Revenge of Riff Raff
24th November, 2013

Revenge...?

Riff Raff was a legendary rock magazine based in London in the late 1980s and 1990s. Edited by the ultimate music biz insider, Mark Crampton, and employing such talents as Mark Blake, Jerry Ewing, Mike Harris, Paul Smith, Chris Collingwood, Alan McCrorie, Simon Robinson, Lyn Guy, Anna Marx, Nick Douglas, Marion Garden, Peter "Grunty" Grant, Joe "The Crow" Mackett, Billy "The Kluck" Kulke, and, lastest and mostest, the incredible Liddell Brothers, Mark (a.k.a. "El Perro") and Colin (a.k.a. "Der Fly"). Unfortunately, Riff Raff was just too R n' R for its own good. A genuine working class rock mag, written, edited, and translated into 16 European languages in a drug-N-Jack-D-fuelled haze, often on the back of motorbikes, with spell checking by our staff of attentive rock bimbos (chosen purely for their blondeness and big knockers), it soon fell behind more trainspotterly, nerdish, and politically correct publications like Q, Kerrang, Mojo, Metal Hammer, and Horse & Hound. This website is an archive and kind of shrine dedicated to the writing of its greatest writers, some of whom, luckily for the Rock Kosmos, still continue to write about music. This is the REVENGE of Riff Raff...Rock on!