Queen'southward Maverick Rhapsody is the souvenir that never stops giving. The release of the Freddy Mercury biopic this twelvemonth led to many tribute videos, from parodies to cover versions, i of which was performed in the styles of 42 dissimilar musicians and music groups.

But the aureate standard remains a 2007 alive performance past 1 Rick Miller, singing it in the way of "25 of the most annoying voices in the music industry".

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While Miller is consistently adept as he segues from one celebrity rocker to another, his send-up of Mick Jagger is clearly the pièce de résistance, with "any annoying lead guitarist" coming a close second. Since the song begins with Bob Dylan, the 2016 Nobel laureate for literature, information technology is the perfect peg to plug and share yet another jewel I rediscovered recently on YouTube. And that is John Lennon reading a newspaper article while strumming on an audio-visual guitar, one of his three Dylan parodies – "satires" – released posthumously.

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Later he'due south washed reading the article, with minor interjections, Lennon advertizing-libs some silly rhymes and concludes with typical Lennon jibes – and they are conspicuously aimed non just at Dylan's Memphis Blues.

"...a postage system that never fails
to state me in jail
And look through my mail service
Maybe take a garage sale
And yous know, become save the whale
and, you know, get a boat and get for a canvass
and, and, oh, oh, oh, oh, how practice you get out of this hell?
Stuck inside of a lexicon with the Roget'due south thesaurus blues again
Sometimes I wish I was merely George Harrison –
you know all the answers, oh my god, oh my god."

The luggage betwixt Lennon and Dylan goes back to Norwegian Woods and Fourth Time Around, nigh which Lennon is on record, saying:

"I was very paranoid about that. I remember he played it to me when he was in London. He said, what exercise you think? I said, I don't like it. I didn't like it. I was very paranoid. I but didn't like what I felt I was feeling – I thought information technology was an out and out skit, you lot know, but it wasn't. It was bully. I mean he wasn't playing whatsoever tricks on me. I was only going through the flake."

There is plenty documentation online nigh their relationship, correct upto Whorl on John in 2012, but the real interested readers would have to look up the Lennon anthology At Abode or the four-CD Box-Set Anthology for his memorable Lord, Accept This Make Upwardly Off of Me, an excerpt from which is included in this video.

"Lord, accept this makeup off of me.
I said, "Lordy, lordy, lordy, accept this makeup offa me."
Information technology's bad plenty on the beach,
But it'south worse in the sea.

Because i'1000 knockin' on sky's door.
Because i'm lookin' for my ma."

Lennon's tertiary "satire", Serve Yourself, was a response to Dylan'due south "You gotta serve somebody" during his born-again Christian period, and non one of my favourites, but talking of Dylan parodies, perhaps nothing attracted as much attention equally the whole "Dylan Hears A Who" saga in 2007 when Kevin Ryan, a Houston-based music producer, did a retro mashup of sorts, taking text from seven Dr Seuss classics and singing them in the style of vintage Dylan. While the songs went viral, the Seuss estate was not tickled and threatened to sue.

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And if that is not reason enough to put a smile on your face up, perchance nosotros should terminate with "Weird Al" Yankovic's brilliant parody of Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Dejection, washed entirely in palindromes, starting with the title, Bob:

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"I, man, am regal – a German am I

Never odd or even
If I had a hello-fi
Madam, I'k Adam
Also hot to hoot
No lemons, no melon
Also bad I hid a boot
Lisa Bonet ate no basil
Warsaw was raw
Was it a car or a cat I saw?"