Tuesday, April 5, 2011

רפסודיה של בוהמה**

**[Transl. literally "The Rhapsody of the Bohemians"]

The posthumous induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
 Probably.

The tribute bands?  
Maybe.

The screenprinted t-shirts bearing his likeness being sold at Hot Topic for $29.99?    
Anything's possible

But the likelihood that Freddy Mercury would ever, in his wildest, cocaine-addled dreams foresee the day that  lyrics to one of his most enduring hit songs would be printed by Eric Cohen Publishing Ltd. in the "Sports" chapter of an English language textbook geared at eight year-old Israeli schoolchildren?

Incomprehensible.

And yet.

Behold:





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