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The Release of Bohemian Rhapsody

In the movie scene when the band was talking about a possible release of “Bohemian Rhapsody” as a single, one of them points at a gold disc of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon album. The disc shown has a logo of the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), making it a gold disc for sales in the US.

Source: rollingstone.com

But during the 1970s, Pink Floyd’s American releases were actually issued by Columbia Records. So even if it was correct to show a gold disc for UK sales, it wouldn’t have been the correct one, as Dark Side of the Moon was issued on the Harvest label, which was a subsidiary of EMI Records at the time.

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