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Iconic 70s rock stars Queen<\/strong> have been well-known for their incredible style and visuals \u2014 so much so that their music video for arguably their most famous song ended up receiving major accolades a whopping 32 years after it was released.<\/p>\n On this day in 2007<\/a>, the band\u2019s legendary promotional video for their beloved hit \u201cBohemian Rhapsody\u201d was named the United Kingdom\u2019s best music video via a survey of music lovers released on October 6. The survey, which was organized by the O2, consisted of 1,051 adults, and a whopping 30% of those polled cited the visual as their top choice.<\/p>\n Potentially the coolest part about this recognition for the band is that the visual was made with minimal resources. The band, and the video\u2019s director Bruce Gowers<\/strong>, had an incredibly small budget to work with: \u00a33,500, which is a little less than $5,000 in today\u2019s cash. As far as the shoot itself, it only took the group a short four hours to pull it all together.<\/p>\n “I didn\u2019t get commission and was just a hired \u00adfreelancer,” Gowers once told The Mirror<\/em><\/a>. “We didn\u2019t really know what things cost in those days as we weren\u2019t used to doing videos. We had no idea if \u00a33,500 was cheap or not. Everything was set up for their tour so they performed as they would in front of an audience \u2013 and it looked like they were.”<\/p>\n Interestingly enough, the band was tasked with performing the single on the beloved show Top of the Pops<\/em> \u2014 which was a daunting prospect considering how complex the song is structurally. So, instead of allowing the song to be played over a dance routine by Pan\u2019s People, they improvised and created the visual.<\/p>\n “It was filmed with the express purpose of giving it to Top of the Pops<\/em>. For those of us who remember it, it wasn’t a classy program. Top of the Pops<\/em> didn’t have a good reputation among musicians. Nobody liked it, really,” Brian May<\/strong>, guitarist for the legendary band, previously told the BBC<\/a>. “It always seemed like a bit of a travesty. If your music had any meaning, it seemed to trickle away when you were standing on a box in a studio with lots of kids around. But you could hardly knock it because it was the way that records were sold.”<\/p>\n After the shoot was completed, the band and Gowers were unsure what would ultimately come of it \u2014 until it ended up airing at random on the music show.<\/p>\n “We all sat around a TV at the editing facility with our fingers crossed, wondering whether it was going to be on \u2013 and then, wham! There it was,” Gowers previously revealed to The Mirror<\/em>. “The crazy thing is, when it aired the fans weren\u2019t the only ones seeing it for the first time \u2014 the band were too.”<\/p>\n Ultimately though, the video\u2019s director does think about what they could\u2019ve done as a team with more resources. “If we\u2019d had more money and more time we would have made something that was a lot \u00adbetter than what it was,” Gowers noted. “I always say it was six minutes that changed my whole life. It was also the greatest risk of Queen\u2019s career.”<\/p>\n This story was originally reported by Parade<\/a> on Oct 6, 2025, where it first appeared in the News<\/a> section. 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