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[	Current Music	|	Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody	]

Brian May, Mercury and Roger Taylor sang their parts for ten to twelve hours a day, resulting in 200 separate overdubs. Since studios of the time only offered 24-track analogue tape, it was necessary for May, Mercury and Taylor to overdub themselves many times, and bounce these down to successive sub-mixes. In the end, eighth-generation tapes were used. The tapes had passed over the recording heads so many times the normally opaque tapes could be seen through, the oxide layer beginning to wear off. The various sections of tape containing the desired sub mixes would have to be cut with razor blades and spliced together in the correct sequence using adhesive tape (splicing tape).