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An Oral History of the Famous “Bohemian Rhapsody” Scene in Wayne’s World

Everyone remember this scene from Wayne’s World.

But how did it come about? It would have never, ever happened if Mike Myers hadn’t grown up in Scarborough, Ontario. Rolling Stone has an oral history of the whole thing.

Mike Myers (writer, “Wayne Campbell”): I grew up in Scarborough, Ontario of British parents. I’d gone to England in ’75 with my family and heard “Bohemian Rhapsody” on the radio. We were obsessed with it. Me and my brother, our friends’ car was a powder blue Dodge Dart Swinger that had a vomit stain on the side of it that someone chiseled in the shape of Elvis Presley. We’d drive down the Don Valley Parkway, listening to Bohemian Rhapsody. We would time it to enter the Toronto city limits when the rocking part would kick in. I was “Galileo!” three of five. If I took somebody else’s “Galileo!” or somebody took mine, a fight would ensue. It’s just something that I always back-pocketed. Wayne’s World was my childhood. I knew only to write what I knew.

Read on.

Alan Cross

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