Librarians rock out to Queen in this quirky “Bohemian Rhapsody” parody

Despite the propaganda being spread by movies like It’s A Wonderful Life and The Music Man, not all librarians are frumpy, bespectacled scolds who work in dour silence and wouldn’t know what “fun” was if they looked it up in the dictionary. Okay, the “bespectacled” part is true, but the rest is unfair. The plucky staffers of Australia’s Shoalhaven Library have proven that with their parody of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” entitled “Librarian Rhapsody.” The librarians of Shoalhaven are understandably proud of their institution, with its free wi-fi and well-stocked children’s section, and they wanted to highlight some of its recent accomplishments in a fun way. So they decided to rock out, Wayne’s World style, to the music of Freddie Mercury, Brian May, John Deacon, and Roger Taylor. It’s a perfectly understandable reaction. The original song lends itself easily to the new topic. “Is this non-fiction? Is this just fantasy?” go the opening lines. The rest basically writes itself.