• YurkshireLad
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    11 months ago

    It isn’t really special, but there’s the bit in Bohemian Rhapsody where Roger Taylor’s high backing vocal is a bit longer than everyone else’s. I’m pretty sure that was a mistake that was left in, possibly because they couldn’t take it out with the tech they had back then.

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      11 months ago

      couldn’t take it out with the tech they had back then.

      I’ve heard that they nearly lost the recording because their tape machine had a minor flaw which scraped away some of the tape and which nearly ate the whole tape because of how much multi track overdubbing they were doing.

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        11 months ago

        I think you’re right, that does sound familiar. Could you imagine accidentally destroying the tapes for BR?!