Thanks to DJ Kenny
The fact that the song made it to the radio was largely due to British DJ Kenny Everett, who was friends with Freddie. He had a popular morning radio show on Capital Radio. Against his orders not to play the song, he played it anyway.
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He played the full song on his show 14 times in just two days. And on the following Monday, everyone wanted to buy the single, but they couldn’t because the single hadn’t been released yet in record stores. Everett went on to say “Forget my words, this song could last for half an hour – and still would have been wonderful. It should be a masterpiece for the ages!”