My older sister, my younger brother, and I watched this movie for the first time on Showtime in 1981 or so.
Get this - we didn't have Showtime - we watched the entire thing through screen snow and flickers - LOL. The sound was good, though.
I saw it unobscured a few years later - a classic in my mine (even though people hated it when it first came out).
Queen did the theme song! What more can you ask for?!