Freddy Mercury - Google Doodle

The Google Doodles are usually fun and interesting but every so often they out do themselves. Today's falls into the "above and beyond" category: an animated video of Queen's Don't Stop Me Now to commemorate Freddy Mercury's birthday.

I suppose it will eventual turn up in the Doodle Archive, but here's a YouTube video in case you are unlucky enough to live in America (where it will not be shown until tomorrow):

Not interactive like the Les Paul Doodle but still great fun. Thank you Google.

The day the music revived

Back in March I wrote about about how YouTube had blocked music videos (YouTube and PRS Fall Out). Today, the ban was lifted and PRS and Google seem to have come to some agreement. You can read about it in the BBC News report: YouTube Lifts Music Video Block.

It's not clear who the winner was but now music fans can enjoy music videos legally on YouTube... like this one from Parlophone Records. Enjoy!