Still have my autographed programme from the gig, signed by all the band, it's one of my treasured possessions. Also have the vinyl album signed too, they did a signing session at the HMV store the day after the gig, Rick was in full costume, and in full character. Brilliant.
I didn't know that about Brian May. I was going to say that to play a bad guitar solo and hit all of the really wrong notes like he did you'd have to be quite good at playing.
Rest In Peace Rik. Miss You. (Just loving how his Mrs (Barbara) is in the video at 0.58 secs to 1 mins 5 secs, back when she was still a make-up artist)
First time I saw this on Much Music(Weird Al played it) I laughed so hard it hurt. These guys were too much,just as funny as Spinal Tap---maybe funnier. Thanks.
Bad News actually debuted on TV in 1983 as part of the UK comedy show "The Comic Strip presents.....". Spinal Tap came out in '84. The boys then went on to make "The Young Ones". I think they're both great!
You guys just don't get it. Vim Vuego (lead guitarist and vocalist) offered "Bo Rhap" years ago to a band nobody knew, I think they were called Queen. They didn't want it, so Bad News played it. Only later Queen stole it from them, claiming they it was THEIR song. But EVERYBODY knows it was Bad News'.
Let's be honest, the solo for Bohemian Rhapsody is going to be transcribed on Brain May's grave. So for him to be such a sport and completely do a piss take on his best known solo says a lot about him as a person.
If Brian May can see the joke and actually produced this then it has their approval. The fact that the joke is that the band are terrible and have no talent and murdered this rock masterpiece simply seems to be totally lost on you. How do you know that Brian May didn't actually play the solo as a joke???
Exactly, it's similar to how many popular artists parodied by Weird Al Yankovic were in on the joke, and even helped to produce his tracks or lent their musicians/equipment to him.
Classic - "have we got a nappy roadie? Just someone to take all the sh#t." "hey mr bass man...." "there were 2 cds off top of my head. i had them. Bad News - Bad News is the best and there was a second one with a white and red cover, though someon nicked mine. I dug out the BAd news CD I do have, with this and many other lovely bits and am playing in the car at the momment. Takes me back to those teenage years. A true comedy classic.
'Hello, my name is Spider Webb, and I am the drummer from Bad News' - Den (pretending to be Spider) 'Crap drummer' -Colin 'I am the crap drummer....oh hello Spider' -Den (pretending to Spider when Spider walks in)
@Ronindennis Correct, Brian May wrote 90% of the music for Bad News and also played most of the guitar in the recordings, including the solo in this making it sound bad. Comedy at its best!
I'm a little ashamed to say that this video in 1987 was the first time I heard Bohemian Rhapsody. I was 11 and when my dad told me it was a real song, I had to hear it. So I got a Queen tape and I guess that's when I became a real fan. I had already heard Another one bites the dust, Flash and a few other songs but not Bohemian Rhapsody. It just blew my mind hearing Queen play it. Thanks for the upload and the memories.
@aydooknow Promotion for "This Is Spinal Tap" actually began in 1982. Billboard advertised 'Smell The Glove', complete with the 'greased naked woman' cover, around the time that it (fictionally) would've come out. The TV ad pushing Tap's nonexistent "Heavy Metal Memories" LP aired in 1983.
In reply to the Bad News- Spinal Tap thing. If you had watched one of the Comic Strip documentaries, you would know that Ade said that Bad News outdates Spinal Tap by about 3 months! It's just pure coincidence.
musiclover10: their "Bad News Tour" mockumentary was in production at the same time as "This is Spinal Tap", so I'd say neither came first. Oddly enough, a very similar thing happened years later when "CB4" and "Fear of a Black Hat" were being done around the same time of each other.
I love the original version too, but I think this is great parody too. Heard it first time when I was around 10 years old, and have laughed just as much as the first time I heard it every time I've heard it! The vocal, the horrible guitar solos, and all the things happening in the video: The guitar that starts burning in the solo, the explosion behind the vocalist in the middle of the solo, the man that takes soot in his face, and that they are showing their asses! I love both versions of this.
The whole album has been produced by Brian May (of Queen) and he also played the guitar on this version bohemian rhapsody (though not visible in clip). It is Brian May himself who destroys his own solo!
They were actually both in production at the same time, although being TV, the comic strip aired slightly earlier. Metal was there to be mocked, and if you were going to mock it, then big skulls had to be included.
I still have it on tape. Also, on the same tape, Weird Al "interviews" George Harrison, Def Leppard, Ozzy Osbourne, and Paula Abdul. the House of Fun with an intro by a chipmunk voiced George Michael, Black or White and Don't Cry with narration. Comic gold.
@nikkilixx what I'm saying is the Bad News Tour film was done in 1984 before Spinal Tap did theirs. It was only a few months before, but it's inaccurate when people say Bad News are a copy of Spinal Tap.
This is classic. The original Bad News actually pre dated Spinal tap.
That first MAMAAA gets me every time!
Still have my autographed programme from the gig, signed by all the band, it's one of my treasured possessions. Also have the vinyl album signed too, they did a signing session at the HMV store the day after the gig, Rick was in full costume, and in full character. Brilliant.
If they aren't framed, in a prominent place in your home, that is criminal
@@wtbmorezvifflemeyer programme is framed and displayed in the man cave (honest). Wife won't allow it in the living room though, b**ch.
And it actually is Brian May playing the solo and he produced the album. A man not afraid to send himself up.
I didn't know that about Brian May. I was going to say that to play a bad guitar solo and hit all of the really wrong notes like he did you'd have to be quite good at playing.
Whhhaaattt? Lmao
RIP RIk!! Man his delivery reading out the contract here is amazing!!! BAD NEWS!!
Thanks for uploading this, I don't know how I've not seen it till now but laughed my head off : )
I still have the VHS video single with this on somewhere.
maybe Kanye West was trying to sing this version
Rest In Peace Rik. Miss You. (Just loving how his Mrs (Barbara) is in the video at 0.58 secs to 1 mins 5 secs, back when she was still a make-up artist)
First time I saw this on Much Music(Weird Al played it) I laughed so hard it hurt. These guys were too much,just as funny as Spinal Tap---maybe funnier. Thanks.
Bad News actually debuted on TV in 1983 as part of the UK comedy show "The Comic Strip presents.....". Spinal Tap came out in '84. The boys then went on to make "The Young Ones".
I think they're both great!
The pilot of the Young Ones Demolition was 1982
This is the best cover of Bohemian Rhapsody in the universe.
1.56 has to be one of the funniest things i have ever seen.
"no, no, no, no, absolutely not!"
It's so bad it's funny! And that 'reading of the contract' was fucking amazing.
You guys just don't get it. Vim Vuego (lead guitarist and vocalist) offered "Bo Rhap" years ago to a band nobody knew, I think they were called Queen. They didn't want it, so Bad News played it. Only later Queen stole it from them, claiming they it was THEIR song. But EVERYBODY knows it was Bad News'.
This is the best metal ever made! I absolutely love them. Vim, Colin, Den and Spider will always be the best!
Brian May actually did the guitar for this hehehe
Yup, he did
Andrew Clarke well he actually did and it’s not meant to be amazing, it’s meant to be funny which is all bad news ever aimed to do
But Brian produced this OMG
Love it
Yes he playing on this parody
amazing, damn that guit
ar solo was amazing :P
On the live performances it was Brian May playing the guitar back stage, and he gets accidentally revealed lol
at 2.00 when Rik says 'Absolutly not!" just cracks me up :)
This is one of the funniest things ive ever seen.
Hhahahahahaha when Riks reading out the contract thing...."simple" (:
LOL makes me laugh x]
But i love these guys
Exactly! And Brian May of Queen even produced the Bad News album. I am sure that Freddy Mecury had a sense of humor.
-- Matt
I'm glad I found this. It was on AlTV in 1992, and I no longer have it on tape.
they are all fantastic, love em
Let's be honest, the solo for Bohemian Rhapsody is going to be transcribed on Brain May's grave.
So for him to be such a sport and completely do a piss take on his best known solo says a lot about him as a person.
"No, no, no, no, absolutely not!" Absolutely brilliant.
3:24 Rik doing the same gesture as Freddie. XD
Love that guy. Hilarious.
I just piss myself laughing every time I hear the guitar solo....:)
One of the funniest spoofs ever!
this is the best cover of anything done by anyone
Ade's singing is breathtaking, sooo beautiful
Love it! A true classic. Thanks!
Woooosh! That was the sound of the joke going over your head.
LMFAO! I'm so glad this was made!
I wish I still had the cd.
I love when Rik's wig comes off, lol!
Really nice to see them, young, having a good laugh...where it all started for them. They are immortal :)
RIP Rick Mayall. He was a genius.
What raw emotion!
I love Rik's reading of the contract...." Its an indictive." Thanks Rik for keeping me smiling. I pray you are smiling too.
Thanks so much - could NOT STOP LAUGHING.
WELL DONE RIK THAT WAS AMAZINGLY WELL REHEARSED!
'You didn't let the bloody dog in free did ya?'
If Brian May can see the joke and actually produced this then it has their approval. The fact that the joke is that the band are terrible and have no talent and murdered this rock masterpiece simply seems to be totally lost on you. How do you know that Brian May didn't actually play the solo as a joke???
Exactly, it's similar to how many popular artists parodied by Weird Al Yankovic were in on the joke, and even helped to produce his tracks or lent their musicians/equipment to him.
Produced by Brian May. Absolutely BRILLIANT!!
I have this on 12 inch single still!!
came out waayy back in 1987!!
BRILL :¬)
Funniest shit I've seen in a VERY VERY long time! Cheers!
The absolute pinnacle of Rock 'N Roll excellence.
Love it. still have the LP
ugh they killed it!
FUCKING CLASSIC!
I HADN'T SEEN THIS IN YEARS!!!
THANKS FOR POSTING THIS! \m/
Classic - "have we got a nappy roadie? Just someone to take all the sh#t."
"hey mr bass man...."
"there were 2 cds off top of my head. i had them. Bad News - Bad News is the best and there was a second one with a white and red cover, though someon nicked mine. I dug out the BAd news CD I do have, with this and many other lovely bits and am playing in the car at the momment. Takes me back to those teenage years. A true comedy classic.
R.I.P Rik .... so fucking sad :((
LMAO! x 1,000,000 I haven't seen this in at least 18 years. Thanks for posting.
They set out to write the most gawdawful cover of all time and they achieved it in spades. It shall always be remembered.
I still have this 7" vinyl single. pure dead brilliant man
My name is vim fuego I let my guitar speak for me
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...that's because you are incoherent most of the time... ☺️👍
'Hello, my name is Spider Webb, and I am the drummer from Bad News' - Den (pretending to be Spider)
'Crap drummer' -Colin
'I am the crap drummer....oh hello Spider' -Den (pretending to Spider when Spider walks in)
Gone waaaay too soon man :'( rip rik
@Ronindennis Correct, Brian May wrote 90% of the music for Bad News and also played most of the guitar in the recordings, including the solo in this making it sound bad.
Comedy at its best!
Love love love Bad News!!! Rest easy Rik x
So bad it's good Ade and Rik pure comedy genius
I'm a little ashamed to say that this video in 1987 was the first time I heard Bohemian Rhapsody. I was 11 and when my dad told me it was a real song, I had to hear it. So I got a Queen tape and I guess that's when I became a real fan. I had already heard Another one bites the dust, Flash and a few other songs but not Bohemian Rhapsody. It just blew my mind hearing Queen play it. Thanks for the upload and the memories.
My dad loved early Queen, so I grew up with this. Bad News was genius and actually pre dated Spinal tap.
Interesting fact, as I understand the recording of this song (as performed by Bad News) was produced by non other than Brian May.
I still have the original VHS tape of this. Only lasts for 10 mins !!
I about died laughing. Hilarious. Freddie would scream if he saw this.
I love that version a ton , it is the antithesis of nasty crappy. Beautiful.
@aydooknow Promotion for "This Is Spinal Tap" actually began in 1982. Billboard advertised 'Smell The Glove', complete with the 'greased naked woman' cover, around the time that it (fictionally) would've come out. The TV ad pushing Tap's nonexistent "Heavy Metal Memories" LP aired in 1983.
In reply to the Bad News- Spinal Tap thing. If you had watched one of the Comic Strip documentaries, you would know that Ade said that Bad News outdates Spinal Tap by about 3 months! It's just pure coincidence.
Ha Ha I love this parody.Adrian sounds like Venoms' Cronos. Hell fookin' yeah.
The Bad News VHS is like $150 on EBay nowadays. Thanks for posting!
Genius. Simple as. Just genius.
Awesome!
6:35 - 9:30 had me in stitches. I laughed so hard and now I can taste sick.
musiclover10: their "Bad News Tour" mockumentary was in production at the same time as "This is Spinal Tap", so I'd say neither came first. Oddly enough, a very similar thing happened years later when "CB4" and "Fear of a Black Hat" were being done around the same time of each other.
i love that BAD NEWS has stood the test of time.
while so many "serious" bands have disappeared from living memory
I love the original version too, but I think this is great parody too. Heard it first time when I was around 10 years old, and have laughed just as much as the first time I heard it every time I've heard it! The vocal, the horrible guitar solos, and all the things happening in the video: The guitar that starts burning in the solo, the explosion behind the vocalist in the middle of the solo, the man that takes soot in his face, and that they are showing their asses! I love both versions of this.
I came here looking for that song and found this one!
"We couldn't really raise the bar, so we buried it. And it was awesome."
Love this version. I want to find entire albums
when i heard this song on the radio at work my 1st thought was BAD NEWS lol
The whole album has been produced by Brian May (of Queen) and he also played the guitar on this version bohemian rhapsody (though not visible in clip).
It is Brian May himself who destroys his own solo!
no it's not ade did the solo
Just one word: EPIC!!!
I laughed pretty hard at the way they sung the opera part.
They were actually both in production at the same time, although being TV, the comic strip aired slightly earlier. Metal was there to be mocked, and if you were going to mock it, then big skulls had to be included.
*supreme jealousy beam*
That is pretty cool. I wonder if they're doing that at mine.
*runs to HMV*
Me: Mum, dad, can I-
Parents: 1:57 1:59
I think the only place you could have seen this back in the 80's was on PBS.
Pre-Spinal Tap!
So bad news its great.....Brian played in the spirit of the show
Nice one Alan!
Genius!!!
I still have it on tape. Also, on the same tape, Weird Al "interviews" George Harrison, Def Leppard, Ozzy Osbourne, and Paula Abdul. the House of Fun with an intro by a chipmunk voiced George Michael, Black or White and Don't Cry with narration. Comic gold.
Never seen this before! Fab :-D
The best destruction of one of my favorite songs!
i love the MAMA! at the start.
SUPER!!!
'2 Quid for one bloody sausage?'
wow this made my day!
Was anybody else a bit mesmerized just listening to Rik reading that contract?
Rik, Ade & Queen. I AM IN HEAVEN!!
This is the best thing ever
Great video
I'm American and I think Bad News is brilliantly funny. Rik and Ade are as good as it gets! Just wanted to point out that all Americans aren't morons.
@nikkilixx what I'm saying is the Bad News Tour film was done in 1984 before Spinal Tap did theirs.
It was only a few months before, but it's inaccurate when people say Bad News are a copy of Spinal Tap.
Incorrect it was 1983
And to think.. 2 Queen members featured on this.,...... They should preform on the x factor!! Awesome stuff! :p