Bohemian Rhapsody performed by Freddie Mercury. Reference notes: A4 from “life had *just* began”.

B♭4
from “but now I’ve gone and thrown it”. G4 from “Mama”. G#4 from the “uhh” (oo) after the just mentioned
G4. Second G♯4 from the following “didn’t mean to make you cry” phrase. P.S: I didn’t choose crazy hard
parts of the song that Freddie simply almost never did like the rock section C5 or the B♭4 “Carry on” to keep
the results as fair as possible. YouTube.com/MarcAjax
A4 B♭4 G4 G♯4 (oo) G♯4 Voice didn’t crack Results
(out of 6)

11/14/1975 (Liverpool) ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ 4

11/26/1975 (Manchester) ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 5

12/24/1975 (Hammersmith) ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ (cracks in the end; not hearable on 4

official release because of overdubs)

4/4/1976 (Tokyo) ✓ ✗ (dodged to G4 ✓ ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✗ (cracks several times throughout the 3

and cracks) performance)

1/30/1976 (Boston) ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 5

2/6/1976 (New York) ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 5

3/23/1976 (Nagoya) ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✗ (cracks) ✗ 2

9/18/1976 (Hyde Park) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

3/26/1976 (Fukuoka) ✗ (dodged) ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✗ (dodged) ✗ (cracks on “Carry on”) 1

3/22/1976 (Tokyo) ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 5

3/2/1976 (Milwaukee) ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 5

3/24/1976 (Himeji) ✗ (dodged) ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✗ (dodged) ✗ 1

9/2/1976 (Edinburgh) ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 5

10/6/1977 (London) ✓ ✗ (lets the crowd ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 5

sing ♥)

5/12/1977 (Copenhagen) ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ (cracks in the end) 4

5/10/1977 (Gothenburg) ✓ ✓ (slightly on ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

second part)

2/9/1977 (Boston) ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 5

12/11/1977 (Houston) ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ (cracks in the end) 4

1/23/1977 (Richfield) ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✗ (dodged) ✗ (cracks on “I don’t want to die”) 2

5/23/1977 (Bristol) ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 5

5/30/1977 (Glasgow) ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 5

11/18/1977 (Detroit) ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 5

6/6/1977 (Earls Court) ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 5

2/5/1977 (New York) ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 5

5/17/1977 (Rotterdam) ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 5

3/13/1977 (Seattle) ✗ (hits it but cracks) ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ 3

3/1/1977 (Phoenix) ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✗ (dodged) ✗ 2

12/5/1977 (Chicago) ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 5

11/23/1977 (Philadelphia) ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 5

5/8/1977 (Stockholm) ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 5

5/13/1978 (London) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

5/11/1978 (London) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

11/14/1978 (Providence) ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ 4

4/12/1978 (Stockholm) ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 5

11/6/1978 (Landover) ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 5

11/25/1978 (Richfield) ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 5

4/28/1978 (Berlin) ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 5

12/14/1978 (Vancouver) ✗ (hits it but cracks) ✗ (dodged to G4 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ 3
and cracks)

4/26/1978 (Dortmund) ✓ ✗ (lets the crowd ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 5

sing)

12/03/1978 (Toronto) ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ 4

4/30/1978 (Zurich) ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ 4

11/17/1978 (New York) ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 5

10/28/1978 (Dallas) ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ 4

4/13/1978 (Copenhagen) ✓ ✓ (slightly on ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

second part)

1
 A4 B♭4 G4 G♯4 (oo) G♯4 Voice didn’t crack Results
(out of 6)

12/16/1978 (Oakland) ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 5

12/7/1978 (Chicago) ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✗ (cracked) ✓ ✗ 3

11/19/1978 (Uniondale) ✗ (hits it but cracks) ✗ (dodged to G4 ✓ ✓ ✗ (hits it but ✗ 2

and cracks) cracks)

5/2/1978 (Vienna) ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 5

4/23/1978 (Paris) ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✗ (hits it but ✗ 3

cracks)

12/4/1979 (Newcastle) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

12/26/1979 (Hammersmith) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

12/6/1979 (Liverpool) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

4/23/1979 (Tokyo) ✗ (missed/shouted) ✗ (dodged to G4 ✗ (missed/ ✗ (dodged) ✗ (dodged ✗ 0

and cracks) shouted) and
cracked)

5/2/1979 (Yamaguchi) ✗ (missed/shouted) ✗ (dodged to G4 ✓ ✗ (cracked) ✗ (dodged) ✗ 1

and cracks)

4/25/1979 (Tokyo) ✗ (missed/shouted) ✗ (dodged to G4 ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✗ (dodged) ✗ 1

and cracks)

5/6/1979 (Sapporo) ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✗ (missed) ✗ 3

4/14/1979 (Tokyo) ✗ (missed/cracked) ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✗ 2

Tokyo: 4/13/1979 ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✗ (cut short) ✓ ✓ ✓ 4

12/1/1979 (Glasgow) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

4/28/1979 (Nagoya) ✗ (missed/shouted) ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✗ (dodged) ✗ 1

8/18/1979 (Saarbrucken) ✓ ✓ (slightly) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

1/24/1979 (Berlin) ✗ (missed/cracked) ✗ (dodged to G4 ✗ (lets the ✗ (lets the ✓ ✗ 1

and cracks) crowd sing) crowd
sing)

1/29/1979 (Rotterdam) ✗ (sligthly cracked) ✗ (dodged to G4 ✗ (lets the ✓ ✗ (cracked) ✗ 1

and cracks) crowd sing)

Fukuoka: 4/30/1979 ✗ (sligthly cracked) ✗ (dodged to G4 ✗ ✗ (dodged) ✗ (cracked) ✗ 0

and cracks)

4/19/1979 (Osaka) ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✗ 3

2/28/1979 (Paris) ✓ ✗ (dodged to G4 ✓ ✓ ✗ (cracked) ✗ 3

and cracks)

4/21/1979 (Kanazawa) ✗ (sligthly cracked) ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✗ (dodged) ✗ 1

2/1/1979 (Cologne) ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ 4

2/2/1979 (Frankfurt) ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 5

2/20/1979 (Barcelona) ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 5

Oakland: 7/14/1980 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

Wembley Arena: 12/8/1980 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ 5

Cologne: 11/26/1980 ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 5

Brussels: 12/12/1980 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ 5

Hartford: 8/20/1980 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6
Frankfurt: 12/14/1980 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

Wembley Arena: 12/10/1980 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ (cracked) ✗ 4

Milwaukee: 9/10/1980 ✓ ✗ (cracked) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ 4

Inglewood: 7/12/1980 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

Brussels: 12/13/1980 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

Birmingham: 12/6/1980 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ (voice cracks but he nails the B♭4 5

“carry on”!)

Rosemont: 9/19/1980 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ 5

New York: 9/28/1980 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

Leiden: 11/27/1980 ✓ ✗ (dodged to G4 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ 4

and cracks)

Wembley Arena: 12/9/1980 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ (cracked) ✗ 4

Montreal: 8/29/1980 ✓ ✗ (dodged to G4 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ 4
and cracks)

Berlin: 11/30/1980 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ (cracked) ✗ 4

Paris: 11/25/1980 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ (cracked) ✗ 4

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 A4 B♭4 G4 G♯4 (oo) G♯4 Voice didn’t crack Results
(out of 6)

Toronto: 8/30/1980 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6
Essen: 11/29/1980 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ 5

New York: 9/29/1980 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

Zurich: 11/23/1980 ✗ (sligthly cracked) ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ 3

Puebla: 10/17/1981 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

Montreal: 11/24/1981 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ (slight crack on rock section; 5

overdubbed in official release)

Monterrey: 10/9/1981 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

Tokyo: 2/16/1981 ✗ (cracked) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ (cracked) ✗ 3

Buenos Aires: 3/8/1981 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

Tokyo: 2/17/1981 ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✗ (cracked) ✗ 3

Puebla: 10/18/1981 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

Caracas: 9/27/1981 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

Rosario: 3/6/1981 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6
Buenos Aires: 2/28/1981 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

Buenos Aires: 3/1/1981 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

Sao Paulo: 3/20/1981 ✓ ✓ (vowels?) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

Mar Del Plata: 3/4/1981 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

Buenos Aires: 3/8/1981 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

Sao Paulo: 3/21/1981 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

Tokyo: 2/13/1981 ✗ (cracked) ✗ (dodged to G4 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ 3

and cracks)

Tokyo: 2/12/1981 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ 5

Edinburgh: 6/1/1982 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

Cologne: 5/6/1982 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

Kassel: 5/18/1982 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

Hoffman Estates: 8/13/1982 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ 5

Vienna: 5/12/1982 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ (cracked) ✗ 4

Stockholm: 4/10/1982 ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ 4

Milton Keynes 6/5/1982 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

Fukuoka: 10/19/1982 ✓ ✗ (dodged to G4 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ 4

and cracks)

Wurzburg: 5/9/1982 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6
Paris: 5/3/1982 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

Hamburg: 5/16/1982 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

Tokorozawa: 11/3/1982 ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 5

East Rutherford: 8/9/1982 ✓ ✗ (flat) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ 4

Montreal: 7/21/1982 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ 5

Leiden: 4/25/1982 ✓ ✗ (cracked) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ 4

Fukuoka: 10/20/1982 ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 5

Oakland: 9/7/1982 ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✗ (cracked) ✗ 3

Leeds: 5/29/1982 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

Osaka: 10/24/1982 ✓ ✗ (dodged to G4 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 5

and cracks)

New York: 7/28/1982 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

Vienna: 5/13/1982 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6
New York: 7/27/1982 ✓ ✗ (cracked) ✓ ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✗ 3

Boston: 7/23/1982 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

Sapporo: 10/29/1982 ✗ (cracked) ✗ (cracked) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ 3

Lyon: 4/20/1982 ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✗ 3

Berlin: 5/15/1982 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

Edinburgh: 6/2/1982 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6
Detroit: 8/6/1982 ✓ ✗ (cracked) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ 4

Nagoya: 10/26/1982 ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ 4

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 A4 B♭4 G4 G♯4 (oo) G♯4 Voice didn’t crack Results
(out of 6)

Dortmund: 5/1/1982 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6
Leiden: 4/24/1982 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

Zurich: 4/16/1982 ✓ ✗ (cracked) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ 4

Sun City: 10/19/1984 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

Milan: 9/14/1984 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ 5

Brussels: 8/24/1984 ✓ ✗ (dodged to G4 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ 4

and unstable)

Stuttgart: 9/27/1984 ✓ ✓ ✓ (insane ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

vibrato)

Paris: 9/18/1984 ✗ (cracked/flat) ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✗ 2

Vienna: 9/30/1984 ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✗ (unstable/ ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✗ 2

flat)

London: 9/7/1984 ✗ (dodged/cracked) ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✗ (dodged) ✗ 1

Frankfurt: 9/26/1984 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6
Brussels: 9/21/1984 ✗ (cracked) ✗ (dodged) ✗ (cut short) ✗ (dodged) ✗ (dodged) ✗ 0
Hanover: 9/22/1984 ✗ (dodged) ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 4

Dublin: 8/28/1984 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ ✓ ✓ 5

Milan: 9/15/1984 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6
Birmingham: 8/31/1984 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

Dortmund: 9/10/1984 ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ 4

Vienna: 9/29/1984 ✗ (dodged) ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✗ 2

London: 9/8/1984 ✗ (sligthly cracked) ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ 3

Dublin: 8/28/1984 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

Birmingham: 9/2/1984 ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 5

London: 9/5/1984 ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ 4

Munich: 9/16/1984 ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 5

Berlin: 9/24/1984 ✗ (dodged) ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 4

London: 9/4/1984 ✗ (dodged) ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ 3

Live Aid Rehearsal 1985 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

Live Aid 1985 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

Osaka: 5/15/1985 ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 5

Rock In Rio: 1/19/1985 ✗ (dodged) ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ 3

Tokyo: 5/8/1985 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

Melbourne: 4/19/1985 ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ 4

Sydney: 4/26/1985 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6
Nagoya: 5/13/1985 ✓ ✗ (sligthly cracked) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 5

Melbourne: 4/20/1985 ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ 4

Sydney: 4/28/1985 ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ 4

Rock In Rio: 1/12/1985 ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 5

Frejus: 7/30/1986 ✗ (flat) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 5

Mannheim: 6/21/1986 ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 5

Leiden: 6/11/1986 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

Cologne: 7/19/1986 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

Paris: 6/14/1986 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

Berlin: 6/26/1986 ✓ ✓ ✗ (cut short) ✓ ✓ ✓ 5

Leiden: 6/11/1986 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

Leiden: 6/19/1986 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

Leiden: 6/12/1986 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

Munich: 6/28/1986 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6
Barcelona: 8/1/1986 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

Stockholm: 6/7/1986 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

Manchester: 7/16/1986 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6
Slane: 7/5/1986 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✗ ✓ 5

Munich: 6/29/1986 ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✗ (cut short) ✓ ✗ (dodged) ✓ 3

4
 A4 B♭4 G4 G♯4 (oo) G♯4 Voice didn’t crack Results
(out of 6)

Budapest: 7/27/1986 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6
Vienna: 7/21/1986 ✓ ✗ ✗ (cut short) ✓ ✓ ✓ 4

Brussels: 6/17/1986 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

MT Rehearsal: June 1986 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

Newcastle: 7/9/1986 ✓ ✓ ✗ (cut short) ✓ ✓ ✓ 5

Wembley Stadium: 7/12/1986 ✓ ✓ (just one) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

Vienna: 7/22/1986 ✓ ✓ ✗ (cut short) ✓ ✓ ✓ 5

Marbella: 8/5/1986 ✗ (sligthly cracked) ✗ (dodged) ✗ (cut short) ✓ ✓ ✓ 2

Madrid: 8/3/1986 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

Brussels: 6/17/1986 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6

Totals 36 % 75.666 %