Somebody to Love. Matt Richards

and employed the services of a young lawyer, Jim Beach, to begin extricating them from their Trident contracts. These negotiations would go on for months and cost the band a small fortune, money that, at that stage, none of them had. However, that was soon to change: 1975 would prove to be the year Queen became global superstars and acquired all the trappings that came with such success, much of it due to Freddie Mercury. ‘There are many things we want to do and I feel we have a great deal of room in which to achieve them,’ he said in an interview at the beginning of 1975.¹⁷

      But even Freddie couldn’t have imagined the success that 1975 would bring, primarily as a result of the creation of his own magnum opus, ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’.