'I remember us, when the track came on the radio… and the middle bit came on, we are doing this anyway It's human instinct' said Brian as he mimes head-banging like the characters in the film. 'It is a masterful piece of work but with Freddie’s stuff and with Queen’s stuff there was always a bit of tongue in cheek, you know, and I think you guys latched into that.' Wayne's World was a major box office success, and made American audiences fall in love with Queen again.īrian confessed that the band themselves have a similar reaction every time they hear 'Bohemian Rhapsody' and instinctually head-bang when the riff comes in. I have to say we loved the movie, as well.' We released an album and that sketch, I think, was responsible for the album being such a big hit. 'One, we found it hilarious and two, we found it rewarding. He went to the next place knowing what had happened and enjoying it.' You got us back to a new American public. May then added: 'He (Freddie) had been known to say, ‘Look, you know, I suppose I have to die before we get America back.'' He was very weak, but he just smiled and laughed and said, ‘Yeah, how wonderful is that?’'

You know, you said you wanted to have the approval' Brian remembered.

'I think, you, Mike, did get me the tape and I took it round to Freddie not long before he went and showed it to him.

Brian expanded on what happened in live-streamed interview about the making of the film, Wayne’s World Reunited Apart, which stunned Mike Myers and the film's cast in real-time.

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