Cool. So I'll schedule this for Twitter and
Facebook?
Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody", at the time the most expensive single ever
made, turns 40 today.
I once watched people tweet all the lyrics back and forth on Twitter. It
was really impressive. I might try to get that started on the Facebook
thread. Or Twitter?
On Saturday, October 31, 2015, Katherine Maher <kmaher(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Magnifico!
I prefer the expense one. People like to talk about money.
On Oct 30, 2015 8:04 PM, "James Alexander" <jalexander(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
> Honestly i'm happy with the 4 hour fact as well, i think the subject as
> video is relatively clear but don't mind either way :).
>
> Re: your FB post: LGTM, bit of a concern it's too long but I trust you
> on that.
>
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>
> James Alexander
> Manager, Trust & Safety
> Wikimedia Foundation
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>
> On Oct 30, 2015, at 19:35, Jeff Elder <jelder(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> Great find, Joe! Not sure about the four hours part, though. The article
> says the video was recorded in just four hours on 10 November 1975. But the
> song, which was released October 31 took three weeks to record. So that
> might be confusing. What if I set up the most expensive tweet and this for
> Facebook?
>
> Music executives and even other musicians told Queen that "Bohemian
> Rhapsody," at 5 minutes, 55 seconds long, would never be a hit. But the
> band believed in Freddy Mercury's uniquely operatic song, and released
> it on this day 40 years ago. The single has sold more than 6.7 million
> copies.
>
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> Wikimedia Foundation
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> On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 7:21 PM, James Alexander <
> jalexander(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Good idea! Both LGTM
>>
>> Also only 4 hrs... Wow
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>
>> James Alexander
>> Manager, Trust & Safety
>> Wikimedia Foundation
>> +1 415-839-6885 x6716
>>
>>
>> On Oct 30, 2015, at 19:15, Joe Sutherland <jsutherland(a)wikimedia.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> Queen's hit "Bohemian Rhapsody" turns 40 tomorrow. Sounds like a
good
>> thing to socialise.
>>
>> T: Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody", and its "ground-breaking"
video, turn
>> 40 today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Rhapsody
>>
>> FB: The "ground-breaking" video for Queen's "Bohemian
Rhapsody", which
>> turns 40 years old today, took just four hours to record.
>>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Rhapsody
>>
>> Joe
>>
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