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Did you know? Bohemian Rhapsody, originally recorded by British rock band Queen in 1975, doesn’t have a chorus. It is instead split into three distinct parts. Freddie Mercury, who wrote the song, apparently wanted it to sound like a mock opera.

A viral video featuring a drunken Alberta man belting out an impassioned rendition of the lengthy song “Bohemian Rhapsody” while sitting in the back of an RCMP cruiser has fallen victim to copyright rules.

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Most versions of the video posted on YouTube have now been removed at the request of EMI Music Publishing, which owns the rights to the song, although it’s still possible to find copies of the video elsewhere online.

After proclaiming through slurred speech in the video that he is not intoxicated, 29-year-old Robert Wilkinson from Edson, Alta., launches into the song originally recorded by Queen in 1975.

Wilkinson, with shaggy hair and a scraggly beard, manages to make it thorough almost the entire song before who appears to be an RCMP officer tells the man to calm down.