READ MORE But it was unwritten law among us in those days that the real core of a song lyric was a private matter for the composer, whoever that might be. So I still respect that.
However, the best way to understand the song is through the words of the man himself, who said in an interview in Sydney in 1985: “We had so much hunger. We had so much that we wanted to bring out, it was all sort of kept in.
“So we had all kinds of songs and Bohemian Rhapsody happened to be, it was basically three songs that I wanted to put out and I just put the three together.
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Ed Sheeran
Edward Christopher Sheeran, (born 17 February 1991) is an English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. He was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire, and raised in Framlingham, Suffolk. He attended the Academy of Contemporary Music in Guildford, Surrey, as an undergraduate from the age of 18 in 2009. In early 2011, Sheeran independently released the extended play,
No. 5 Collaborations Project. After signing with Asylum Records, his debut album,
+ (read as plus ), was released on 9 September 2011 and has since been certified seven-times platinum in the UK. The album contains the single The A Team , which earned him the Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically. In 2012, Sheeran won the Brit Awards for Best British Male Solo Artist and British Breakthrough Act.
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Dad’s Army, It Ain’t Half Hot Mum and Hi-de-Hi writer Jimmy Perry has died aged 93. In this interview with Radio Times, first published in March 2014, he recalls first working on Dad’s Army with co-creator David Croft, and explains the enduring popularity of the BBC comedy classic.
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