Listeners to the commercial radio network Greatest Hits Radio, which transmits nationwide in the UK on various platforms, have voted the epic rock opera song Bohemian Rhapsody, penned by bisexual Asian hero Freddie Mercury, to be the best ever single ever released. The countdown took place over the New Year period, and culminated just before five o'clock on Friday 2nd January. Roger Taylor and Brian May, who are surviving members of the rock group Queen, headed by Freddie between 1969 and 1991, recorded special greetings to the people who had voted in their thousands for the track. Bohemian Rhapsody was released in November 1975 and become that year's Christmas number 1. It was re-released as a fundraising single for the HIV charity Terrence Higgins Trust in November 1991 following the sad passing of Freddie from an AIDS related condition. Again, it became Christmas number 1, making it the only recording to have been Christmas number 1 on two occasions.