Kevin Sutton invites me to a re-think on Bohemian Rhapsody:

>Oh, come now Ian, lighten up my good sir!  It's a masterpiece of its
>genre.  Certainly no La Boheme, but great rock and roll nonetheless!

Kevin offers a tempting bait, but I will *not* be drawn into trying to
define "rock and roll" so as to prove that BR is not R'n'R!!  No way!!!

And I note that Kevin doesn't attempt to defend Mats Norrman's original
suggestion that it's an example of classical / rock crossover.  So it
doesn't belong on this CM list and I have a good excuse to drop the
subject, which I shall do without delay.  And gladly, as I've been
anti-monarchist all my life.

Ian Crisp
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