Bohemian Rhapsody was written by Freddie Mercury and released by Queen in 1975 on the album A Night at the Opera. The six-minute single broke radio conventions with its mix of ballad, opera and hard rock, and its innovative promotional video helped define the music video era. It returned to the charts after its famous headbanging scene in Wayne's World in 1992 and again after the 2018 biopic of the same name. Today the opening piano and operatic middle section are instantly recognisable online, making short clips a shorthand for drama, exaggeration and epic timing in edits and memes.