One of Queen's goals in Bohemian Rhapsody was to make a piece that was as large and epic as it could be. This much, at least, was allowed to be known by the band members. Even if the band had wanted to keep this information private, the immense amount of money and effort they put into the piece makes it quite obvious. The members of the band used methods considered practically ludicrous at the time to make the piece, resulting it in being a more complicated piece than almost any other pop culture song to date.
Considering the massive amount of energy put into it, it seems extremely unlikely that Queen just wrote the song for fun. There are many theories; my personal favorite is one where a perfidious gangster wrongs the main character in some way, which results in the main character killing him, saying goodbye to his mother before running away from the rest of the gang, getting caught by them before he can escape, and killing them all before returning to say goodbye to his mother again. Though I couldn't find that exact story online, I found this similar story which takes the lyrics even more literally.
So, was there really a point to Queen's masterpiece? It seems we'll only know if the band itself lets the information slip, and I personally highly doubt that will happen anytime soon, but people will argue about it until the end of time anyway because this is the internet. In any case, it's still objectively one of the best songs ever made, and you'll still get strange looks if you don't like it.
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