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Post by pi on Oct 2, 2020 4:43:08 GMT -5
New long interview from Portugal..
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Post by pi on Oct 2, 2020 4:49:34 GMT -5
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Post by pi on Oct 2, 2020 4:59:20 GMT -5
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Post by katycake on Oct 2, 2020 5:25:45 GMT -5
"What a tonic he is" Is that something people say, or just Lorraine?
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Post by pi on Oct 2, 2020 5:39:07 GMT -5
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Post by pi on Oct 2, 2020 5:41:40 GMT -5
Translated from Spanish 88.3K followers The album 'Live around the world' compiles the most outstanding concerts of @queenwillrock for the past six years. We have already heard it and this is all it contains. twitter.com/Los40Classic/status/1311963945809440769
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Post by pi on Oct 2, 2020 5:44:59 GMT -5
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Post by pi on Oct 2, 2020 6:03:45 GMT -5
Udiscovermusic A Kind Of Magic: How Adam Lambert Revived Queen’s Fortunes As their live album, ‘Live Around The World’ reveals, Adam Lambert has brought a depth and freshness to Queen’s iconic catalog.When Freddie Mercury died in November 1991, most people naturally assumed Queen would be laid to rest with him. In fact, his bandmates certainly believed that would be the case while they tried to come to terms with the loss of their friend.“With Freddie’s death, we just thought it was all over, you know”, drummer Roger Taylor stated in the 2019 documentary, The Show Must Go On: The Queen + Adam Lambert Story.“We were a little bit concussed by the whole thing and we hadn’t planned to ever play again.”However, after several months of private mourning, Taylor, guitarist Brian May and bassist John Deacon gave their singular frontman a suitably extravagant send-off when they took to the stage at London’s Wembley Stadium on April 20, 1992. For what they assumed was the last time, they performed Queen’s greatest hits with a string of stellar guest vocalists including Elton John, David Bowie, and George Michael, raising over £20 million for AIDS charities into the bargain.A kindred spirit “We were proud of what we’d done, but we didn’t want to go out there and be Queen again without Freddie”, Brian May mused in The Show Must Go On. “We’d talked about it and decided if one of us goes, we should just stop – and we did stop for a very long time.”Yet Queen’s presence in music’s mainstream grew exponentially after Freddie Mercury’s death. After its indelible appearance in the 1992 comedy, Wayne’s World, the band’s signature hit, “Bohemian Rhapsody” was reissued and peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, introducing Queen to a whole new generation.Discovering the song for the first time had a profound impact on one aspiring young singer in San Diego, California.“Hearing ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ in its entirety was such a moment for me”, Adam Lambert tells uDiscover Music.“My father later showed me one of their record sleeves and they looked really styled and interesting, but I didn’t really dive into their catalog until I was 19 or 20. The first live footage I saw of Freddie was him onstage with Queen in Montreal. He was wearing this pair of tiny white shorts and he was both hilarious and fabulous. After that, I just had to know more. That was where my love affair with the band began.”www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6VT2UHcAWE&feature=emb_logoAlso revealing that “Freddie’s theatricality was very similar to what I was doing myself,” Lambert became a confirmed Queen devotee, yet his circuitous route to joining the band initially began in the theater. Deciding against university, the young singer first accepted a 10-month gig singing on a cruise ship at age 19 and then appeared in stage productions such as Ten Commandments: The Musical, where he played opposite Val Kilmer.Brian May and Roger Taylor, meanwhile, adjusted to life outside of Queen by returning to solo projects and outside interests during the 90s. Joined by Elton John and Switzerland’s Béjart Ballet, they gave one final performance of “The Show Must Go On” with John Deacon before the bassist officially retired from music in 1997.Deacon declined an offer to return in 2004, when Queen became one of the inaugural inductees at the UK Music Hall Of Fame. At the event, they were fronted by former Free/Bad Company frontman Paul Rodgers, and he continued to front a new version of the band – as Queen + Paul Rodgers – for a world tour in 2005 and a studio album, The Cosmos Rocks.A lasting impression
However, while Taylor and May always expressed their admiration for Rodgers’ abilities, they parted company in 2009. Ironically, the Queen duo had almost convinced themselves Queen existed purely in the past when Adam Lambert suddenly entered the picture.
It’s well-documented how Queen hooked up with their new frontman when they performed together during the finale of 2009’s American Idol. Yet it’s not so widely known that they only heard Lambert because their touring keyboard player, Spike Edney, just happened to tune into the program.
“Adam was on TV and I immediately got a chill from what I was hearing”, Edney recalls in The Show Must Go On. “He was singing Led Zeppelin’s ‘Whole Lotta Love’ and I thought, wow, this kid’s special. I could see that he had charisma and he looked fantastic. So, I sent an email to Roger.”
Suitably impressed, Queen performed “We Are The Champions” with both Lambert and Kris Allen, his fellow finalist on American Idol. Though Allen won on the night, it was Lambert who left the more lasting impression on Brian May and Roger Taylor.
“There was already some kind of chemistry between us and Adam, it was just instant,” May said in The Show Must Go On. “There was this feeling with Adam that this does work.”
Yet at this stage, Lambert joining Queen full-time was by no means a done deal. Through his association with American Idol, Lambert launched a solo career in 2009. The first of his four solo albums to date, For Your Entertainment, peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard 200, while one of its singles, “Whataya Want from Me” received a Grammy nomination.
The subsequent tour occupied the young singer’s time for the next 12 months and it was only after their paths crossed again at the MTV European Music Awards in Belfast in 2011, that the two parties hooked up on a more permanent basis.
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More... www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/queen-adam-lambert-album/
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Post by pi on Oct 2, 2020 6:16:01 GMT -5
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Post by pi on Oct 2, 2020 6:17:26 GMT -5
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