Thanks to Wayne’s World, Bohemian Rhapsody experienced a renaissance in the charts, and in 1992 – 17 years after its initial release – it peaked at #2 on Billboard’s Hot 100! But perhaps the biggest musical winner in Wayne’s World’ was Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody, which had originally been released in 1975 and peaked at #9 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart in 1976. Wayne’s World featured appearances by the recently (and dearly) departed Meat Loaf (that would be Michael Lee Aday, who was born in 1947 and passed away on January 20, 2022) and Alice Cooper (that would be Vincent Damon Furnier, born 1948, who only looks as if he has recently left us). Then again, neither has Mike Myers nor yours truly. Sadly, it did not go well, as the movie has not aged well. With my own fond memories of the film, I played Wayne’s World last year for my then 12- and 14-year-old kids. (The list of such other SNL-inspired flicks includes The Blues Brothers, Coneheads, It’s Pat, Stuart Saves his Family and A Night at the Roxbury. (For our information, number one that year was Disney’s Aladdin, which brought in a most respectable $504,050,219 at the box office that’s over half-a-billion 1992 dollars!) To this day, Wayne’s World remains the highest-grossing film based on a sketch from Saturday Night Live.
It became the tenth highest grossing film of 1992, raking in $183,097,323 at the box office. It was both a critical and commercial success. On Febru– an even 30 years ago today – the Paramount Pictures movie Wayne’s World was released in the United States.
Wayne’s World starring Mike Myers (born 1963, left) and Dana Carvey (born 1955)
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