"Oblivion" is a song by British band Bastille from their 2013 album Bad Blood. It was released digitally in the UK on 5 September 2014 as the eighth overall and final single from the album. A limited edition 7-inch vinyl edition of the single, featuring the previously unreleased track "bad_news" as the B-side, was also released on 8 September.
The song was featured on an episode of the television series The Vampire Diaries in 2012.
Background and release
The band confirmed during their headline set at London’s Somerset House on July 15 that "Oblivion" will be the next single from Bad Blood.
Music video
The music video was exclusively premiered on MSN Music UK on Monday July 21. It was later published through Bastille's Vevo channel on YouTube the same day. The video was directed by Austin Peters (who previously directed the band's "Flaws" and "Laura Palmer" music videos) and stars actress Sophie Turner (known for her role in the television series Game of Thrones). She is seen lip-syncing to the lyrics of the song, singing in front of a crowd of people at a demolition derby.
Bad News is the self-titled debut album from British heavy metal group Bad News released in October 1987 by EMI. The album features a cover of the famous Queen song "Bohemian Rhapsody" and was produced by Queen's guitarist Brian May. "Bohemian Rhapsody" was released as a single and had a music video created for it, written and directed by Adrian Edmondson, who portrays Vim Fuego in the group. The video was released as a video single by Picture Music International. In 2004, EMI re-released the album with a re-ordered track listing and with additions of tracks derived from the group's follow-up album The Cash In Compilation.
"Bohemian Rhapsody" is a song by the British rock band Queen. It was written by Freddie Mercury for the band's 1975 studio albumA Night at the Opera. It is a six-minute suite, consisting of several sections without a chorus: an intro, a ballad segment, an operatic passage, a hard rock part and a reflective coda. The song is a more accessible take on the 1970s progressive rock genre. It was the most expensive single ever made at the time of its release.
When it was released as a single, "Bohemian Rhapsody" became a commercial success, staying at the top of the UK Singles Chart for nine weeks and selling more than a million copies by the end of January 1976. It reached number one again in 1991 for another five weeks when the same version was re-released, eventually becoming the UK's third best-selling single of all time. It topped the charts in several other markets as well, including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and The Netherlands, later becoming one of the best-selling singles of all time. In the United States the song originally peaked at number nine in 1976. It returned to the chart at number two in 1992 following its appearance in the film Wayne's World, which revived its American popularity.
That '70s Show is an American comedy television series that originally aired on Fox for 200 episodes and four specials across eight seasons, from August 23, 1998, to May 18, 2006. The series spans the years 1976 through the end of 1979.
Series screenwriters included Philip Stark, Mark Hudis, Jeff and Jackie Filgo, Will Forte, Gregg Mettler, Dean Batali, and series creators Bonnie and Terry Turner. All episodes following the pilot were directed by David Trainer. For Seasons 5–8, episodes were titled after song names from various 1970s rock bands: fifth season episodes are named after songs by Led Zeppelin, sixth season titles are The Who songs, all seventh season titles are from The Rolling Stones and, except for the finale, eighth season titles are Queen songs.
The entire series of 200 episodes has been released on Regions 1, 2 and 4 DVD, and in 2015, the series was released on Blu-ray.
The song was performed by The Muppets characters in 2009. A music video was posted on YouTube on November 23, 2009 before the release of the track, and features Muppets characters singing partially modified lyrics of the original song. It garnered over seven million hits within its first week of release. Unlike other cover versions, the Muppets' single features the final master of Queen's original 1975 recording.
The video and song is an official production of The Muppets Studio. The success of the video caused Walt Disney Records to release the cover as a single on December 13, 2009, where it peaked at #32 on the UK Singles Chart.
Video
The Muppets' version of "Bohemian Rhapsody" was directed by Kirk Thatcher, who has been involved with several other Muppets videos. According to studio manager Lylle Breier, the idea of the Muppets singing "Bohemian Rhapsody" had long been an idea that they wanted to do, but only was able to bring the project together within a short time before the video's release. Thatcher noted they had a long list of possible songs they wanted to do with a large group of Muppets, including Don McLean's "American Pie", but "Bohemian Rhapsody" was their ultimate selection. Filming was completed within a day by 20 staffers; Thatcher considered the task to be "epic in scale" considering they normally only use half a dozen Muppets for a single scene. Breier stated that this and other videos that The Muppets Studio released to YouTube are part of a promotional push for the Muppets; Breier likened outlets on the Internet like YouTube to the variety shows of the 1970s, and felt that the Muppets easily fitted into that culture.
Bad News made their television debut during 1983, in the first series of The Comic Strip Presents... (written by Edmondson, and produced by Michael White/Comic Strip Productions). The episode, "Bad News Tour", took the form of a satirical fly-on-the-wallrockumentary, in which the incompetent band is followed travelling to a gig in Grantham, by an almost equally inept documentary film crew: It seemed to take much inspiration from Mark Kidel's 1976 BBC documentary So You Wanna Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star? that followed the Kursaal Flyers around Scotland and northeast England. The episode was also coincidentally in production at the same time as This Is Spinal Tap, which was released the following year to a much wider audience and subsequently greater acclaim.
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Bohemian Rhapsody (Take 2) (2004 Remaster) · Bad News
Bad News
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Composer: Freddie Mercury
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BAD NEWS - Bohemian Rhapsody (official music video)
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Bad News - Bohemian Rhapsody - Wogan show 1987
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Bohemian Rhapsody (Take 1) (2004 Remaster)
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Bohemian Rhapsody (Take 1) (2004 Remaster) · Bad News
Bad News
℗ 2004 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Composer: Freddie Mercury
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Bad News 14 - Bohemian Rhapsody
"Bohemian Rhapsody". From the Bad News self-titled album. The album was produced by Brian May from Queen.
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Bad News Bohemian Rhapsody from Movie Scene 1987
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Bad News - "Bohemian Rhapsody"
From - Bad News - "The Cash In Compilation"
Vim Fuego (Adrian Edmondson) Lead Guitar, Vocals
Den Dennis (Nigel Planer) Rhythm Guitar
Colin Grigson (Rik Mayall) Bass Guitar
Spider Webb (Peter Richardson) Drums
Brian May - Additional Guitar on "Bad News", "Pretty Woman", "Drink Till I Die", "Life with Brian", "Cashing In on Christmas"
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Bad News - Bohemian Rhapsody & Every Mistake Imaginable (EMI)
Bad News perform their groundbreaking version of "Bohemian Rhapsody", along with some out-takes. EMI.
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Bad News Bohemian Rhapsody & Interview The Wogan Show 1987
Bad News Bohemian Rhapsody & Interview The Wogan Show 1987
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Bad News - Bohemian Rhapsody
The lads play a classic Queen cover and discuss their rubbish contract!
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Bohemian Rhapsody (Take 2) (2004 Remaster) · Bad News
Bad News
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Bohemian Rhapsody (Take 2) (2004 Remaster) · Bad News
Bad News
℗ 2004 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Composer: Freddie Mercury
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Bohemian Rhapsody (Take 2) (2004 Remaster) · Bad News
Bad News
℗ 2004 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Composer: Freddie Mercury
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Bohemian Rhapsody (Take 1) (2004 Remaster) · Bad News
Bad News
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Bohemian Rhapsody (Take 1) (2004 Remaster) · Bad News
Bad News
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Composer: Freddie Mercury
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Bohemian Rhapsody (Take 1) (2004 Remaster) · Bad News
Bad News
℗ 2004 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Composer: Freddie Mercury
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From - Bad News - "The Cash In Compilation"
Vim Fuego (Adrian Edmondson) Lead Guitar, Vocals
Den Dennis (Nigel Planer) Rhythm Guitar
Colin Grigson (Rik Mayall) ...
From - Bad News - "The Cash In Compilation"
Vim Fuego (Adrian Edmondson) Lead Guitar, Vocals
Den Dennis (Nigel Planer) Rhythm Guitar
Colin Grigson (Rik Mayall) Bass Guitar
Spider Webb (Peter Richardson) Drums
Brian May - Additional Guitar on "Bad News", "Pretty Woman", "Drink Till I Die", "Life with Brian", "Cashing In on Christmas"
From - Bad News - "The Cash In Compilation"
Vim Fuego (Adrian Edmondson) Lead Guitar, Vocals
Den Dennis (Nigel Planer) Rhythm Guitar
Colin Grigson (Rik Mayall) Bass Guitar
Spider Webb (Peter Richardson) Drums
Brian May - Additional Guitar on "Bad News", "Pretty Woman", "Drink Till I Die", "Life with Brian", "Cashing In on Christmas"
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Bohemian Rhapsody (Take 2) (2004 Remaster) · Bad News
Bad News
℗ 2004 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Composer: Freddie Mercury
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Bohemian Rhapsody (Take 1) (2004 Remaster) · Bad News
Bad News
℗ 2004 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Composer: Freddie Mercury
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From - Bad News - "The Cash In Compilation"
Vim Fuego (Adrian Edmondson) Lead Guitar, Vocals
Den Dennis (Nigel Planer) Rhythm Guitar
Colin Grigson (Rik Mayall) Bass Guitar
Spider Webb (Peter Richardson) Drums
Brian May - Additional Guitar on "Bad News", "Pretty Woman", "Drink Till I Die", "Life with Brian", "Cashing In on Christmas"
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