"Is this real life? Is this just fantasy?" No rhapsody over Go Go Gorilla

This Kat has received so many emails prompting him to write about the Mercury v Go Go Gorilla saga that initially he saw no point in blogging on it at all, on the basis that everyone must have read about it at least three times already. But since the emails keep coming, he is posting this link to this blog post on Art & Artifice in which he briefly covers this unfortunate dispute, in the optimistic and likely misplaced hope that the flow of "I wonder if you saw this ..." and "I think the IPKat might have missed this .." missives can be stemmed.

In short, this was almost a suit about a suit -- a lawsuit about an alleged copyright infringement of late Queen rock star Freddie Mercury's yellow-and-white suit, which had been sprayed to cover one of 53 fully-grown model charity gorillas that had been distributed across the general area of Norwich, in England's flat but lovely East Anglia region.

Merpel says, wouldn't it be fun if anyone could come up with a good parody of Bohemian Rhapsody in which, instead of shooting a man, the man confesses to taking out a sprayed gorilla ...