'A Night At The Opera'

At the time of its release, A Night at the Opera was the most expensive album ever made. Brian May later said that if the album hadn't succeeded, the bad would have broken up.

it was their fourth studio album and wound up No. 1 in the United Kingdom and No. 4 in the United States. So all the money spent wound up paying off.

Certainly, it's a well-produced album and listening to all the bells and whistles, it's no doubt that a lot of time and money went into the recording.

"Bohemian Rhapsody" alone seems like a cash cow of a song. Multi-layered vocals, complicated sections that flow from ballad to operatic interlude to hard rock head banging.

The film Wayne's World maybe didn't give us much as a society. What it did do is turn millions of 13-year-old boys in 1992 on to the genius of Queen and "Bohemian Rhapsody" all stemming from the scene coming from the club when Garth and Wayne are driving and miming theatrics around the song, meanwhile the backseat passenger just wants to be "let go" because he has to hurl. A real cultural touchstone.

The B-side to "Bohemian Rhapsody" is Roger Taylor's "I'm in Love with My Car," a tune that Brian May thought was a joke and that Taylor locked himself into a cupboard until Freddie Mercury agreed to put the song as the B-side. As "Bohemian Rhapsody" climbed the charts, "I'm in Love with My Car" also climbed the charts and got Taylor an equal amount of royalties.

This is only noteworthy because "I'm in Love with My Car" is probably the worst song in rock history.

It's so borderline vulgar and full of innuendo that you first assume its an analogy for a girl or lover or whatever. But when you really look at the lyrics it's really about Taylor's car, which is infinitely weirder.