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A brief history of the production of 'Bohemian Rhapsody'

Few individuals have become so synonymous with the title "rock star" as Queen's Freddie Mercury. The group's late lead singer was famed for his intense charisma, his musicality, and his bitter fight with AIDS that ultimately claimed his life in 1991. Without a doubt, his most enduring song was Queen's hit, "Bohemian Rhapsody" which displayed a fair amount of emotional, tonal, and musical range for the group, cementing their place in the stratosphere of modern music history. 



Brockhampton succeeds with flying colors on ‘iridescence’

 Much like the first album of their first trilogy, "iridescence" sounds  like a solid blueprint that will polished with the following albums. The  blemishes are visible, but the bigger picture is so wonderful that  those blemishes are (mostly) excused because the possibility for  improvement is pretty much guaranteed. How could a group that shows as  much talent as Brockhampton not have the ability to improve? But as it  is, without thinking of the follow-ups, "iridescence" still captures the  magic of the original "Saturation" trilogy and stands as one of 2018’s  most inventive hip hop records in a year that has brought us a lot of  amazing hip hop.