Roy Thomas Baker, Producer of Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody,’ Dies at 78

Billboard ^ | 4/22/2025 | Katie Atkinson

[Recovering_Democrat]

Roy Thomas Baker — the producer behind some of rock’s biggest hits, including Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” — has died at age 78, his family announced Tuesday (April 22).

Baker died at his home in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, on April 12. No cause of death has been revealed.

The producer’s credits feature a who’s who of rock stars over the past half-century, including Journey, Yes, Foreigner, The Cars, Alice Cooper, Cheap Trick, Devo, Mötley Crüe, Guns N’ Roses and Smashing Pumpkins. Baker worked with Queen on five of the band’s 1970s albums, including on their bombastic A Night at the Opera lead single “Bohemian Rhapsody,” which is reportedly the most-streamed song recorded in the 20th century. The 1975 single debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 in January 1976

[DIRTYSECRET]

Like women some things make no sense. I thank you.

[DIRTYSECRET]

**IMHO, it’s a Vietnam War protest song.**
Interesting but you make it too intellectual for me.

I think go Glen Cambell’s Galveston. Filmed with him in an army uniform. “I am so afraid of dying”. Took 50 years to know what he was saying.

[Albion Wilde]

bump

[Burma Jones]

Galveston is such a great song. You hear the title, and you think it’s about a place. Then it starts, and you think it’s about a girl. Then it continues, and it’s about a young soldier afraid of dying.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Very good.

[The Duke]

"Wow, that’s an obscure reference; I had to look it up."

And Robert Duvall played Boo Radley in "To Kill a Mockingbird".

[Fledermaus]

Vanda & Young created Flash and the Pan.

I enjoyed them.

[Fledermaus]

Same for The Police

[posterchild]

There have been several rewrites:

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