5.23.16 QAL Barcelona and RIRL Reviews
May 22, 2016 23:30:55 GMT -5
Post by Q3 on May 22, 2016 23:30:55 GMT -5
Queen + Adam Lambert in Barcelona, Spain – in front of a huge crowd with the close to sold out show.
Caution: The following two articles translated via Google Translate.
Queen revives with the powerful voice of Adam Lambert
The rock band presented their repertoire in Barcelona
Sunday, May 22, 2016 - 6:09 PM By EFE Agency
Guitarist Brian May (d) and singer and American actor Adam Lambert during the concert of the British group Queen at Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona. (EFE)
Barcelona - The legendary rock band Queen has offered a rejuvenated version of its repertoire tonight at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona (northeast) in the only concert of their European tour in Spain, where the public has hailed the young and powerful Adam Lambert voice, substitute Freddie Mercury.
Although the voices are noticeably different, Queen still sounds like Queen, not in vain continue on stage two of its founding members Brian May and Roger Taylor, who have maintained the commitment to continue with the band in the post-Mercury was not always successfully, as when they hired Paul Rogers exBad Company.
Lambert, emerged from the contest "American Idol," the US equivalent of "American Idol" has appeared on Sant Jordi as a version 3.0 of Mercury with a neat look neorromántico and know-how on stage, as so well knew how to do the ill-fated singer of Queen.
The British group has landed in Barcelona after the first concert of the European tour last Friday 19 at Rock & River in Lisbon.
It was not the first time they played in Barcelona, because today the evening was preceded five concerts: 1974, 1979, 1986, 2005 and 2008, the latter two already without Mercury.
The concert started about 21.30 hours in Palau Sant Jordi almost full and with a different song that opened pr
Instead of "One vision", the curtain opened with "The Hero", a song from the soundtrack of the movie "Flash Gordon", which have continued strong tracks of pure rock as "Hammer to Fall" "Seven Seas of Rhye", "Stone Cold Crazy" which has combined with quieter songs like "Play the Game", first time playing on this tour since November 1982; a 'Killer Queen "with great Lambert of black drag queen on a throne.
Lambert has won the audience with classical greetings to Barcelona, but even more so when proclaimed his love for Freddie Mercury and has made clear that the respectable "Freddie Mercury only be one" just before singing the first two greatest hits night, "I Want to Break Free" and "Somebody to Love".
Bryan May, which has become a collective autofoto with the public, has played with the help of the choir delivered "Love of My Life", and then the emotional moment when the screen background theme Mercury has finished.
Other images of Mercury have been backdrop of the song "These Are the Days of Our Lives" now sung by another veteran of the group, Roger Taylor.
In concert Ecuador has seen the rarity of a battle of two batteries, whose precedent in the recent history of rock would have to look at those duels that Phil Collins and Chester Thompson starred with Genesis.
"Under Pressure", now dominated by the image of the late David Bowie, has given way to elvisiano rock and roll "Crazy Little Thing Called Love".
In the second part of the evening have been falling one by one those hymns that the 'Queen' left while he was alive Freddie Mercury, songs like "Do not Stop Me Now", "Another One Bites the Dust", "I Want It All "," Who Wants to Live Forever "," the Show Must Go on "," Bohemian Rhapsody "and already in the encores" Radio Ga Ga "," We Will Rock You "and" We Are the Champions ".
Link to original article: www.elnuevodia.com/entretenimiento/musica/nota/queenreverdececonlapotentevozdeadamlambert-2201844/
Queen + Adam Lambert: a blind love and sometimes deaf
22/05/2016 - 13:03 | MUSIC
by Nuno Bento
Photo Inês Monteiro Costa
The Queen + Adam Lambert concert on the second day of Rock in Rio 2016
In the early days of the internet when he devoured all online information about the Queen, I read a Brian May concert review in Dramatic Cascais in 1993, where the chronicler was shown surprised by the amount of kids who had gone to see the guitarist in a band defunct for more than two years and who knew all the letters from back to front.
Twenty-three years later, I am writing the chronicle of a Brian concert and I can say is that I was amazed at the amount of kids (and girls) at the Bela Vista Park, who shouted at maximum volume all successes the Queen.
But what's the surprise? With their age, I also knew it by heart. The difference is that my generation, without having lived the golden age of the Queen, lived the death of Freddie Mercury - an event that shook the world - and the subsequent fever by Queen. The new generation did not live any of it, are a product completely after Freddie and still are crazy for music. How to explain, then, this phenomenon The explanation is easy: there is no band that pass both the generalist radio in Portugal, as the Queen.
How many successes of the Queen is who can enumerate head? If you have tuned in a Portuguese radio, can easily reach at least 20. It is easy to understand that no "classical" band has levels of popularity in the younger generation as the Queen.
The arrival of Queen + Adam Lambert was why a bet wins the match for Rock in Rio. Or was it? The concert with Paul Rodgers in 2005 was not very well received and early skeptics were quick to recall this disillusionment. But yesterday off the Bela Vista, it was difficult to find unfavorable reviews. This apparent unanimity left me, I confess, confused.
Do not get me wrong, I liked the concert. Love songs and love is blind and sometimes deaf (only this explains the insistence on putting strangled cats singing the "Somebody To Love" at karaoke stage). I also liked Adam Lambert. It is impossible not to like him. The kid has a big voice, known to move on stage and see if it has a biblical respect for the music of Queen and the own Freddie Mercury, stating at the outset that there is only one Freddie and he's just doing his interpretation the sacred writings. But here's my problem begins with Adam: he either tries to emulate Freddie Idols that record, that its interpretation sometimes becomes exaggerated, laughable, almost bordering on parody.
Especially when you press the treble, times when more seems to provide evidence for a musical or a karaoke bar. The kid is good, but suffers from the lack of própria.Curiosamente personality, this was the main sin of Paul Rodgers with Queen: overstaffing imprint on the songs that everyone knew. It sounded strange. Q + PR was a bizarre entity but had a separate and independent soul.
What we saw at Rock In Rio with Q + AL is nothing more than a tribute band to Queen with two original band members (plus Spike Edney, accompanying the Queen since 1984). And yet, the public loved it.
This is what you need to understand: more than Adam, more than Brian and Roger and even more than Freddie, people love the songs of Queen. It's a huge legacy, opulent and diverse 18 years (between 73 and 91), that in 2016, 25 years after the end, remains as strong as ever. Listen madness of new people in "Do not Stop Me Now" (injected by the use in advertising) is to realize that there is no (not one!) International hit in recent years with the same impact on Portuguese soil that a theme of a obscure album of 1978 Queen with the misleading title "Jazz" (at a time when the band began to lose the power of fire, forcing himself to a reinvention of his sound on the next album "the Game"). That's incredible. Love is indeed blind.
For me, I learned a little. I wanted to have heard the "'39" on acoustic set, wanted a "Too Much Love Will Kill You" Brian's voice (the subject was originally a successful solo for Brian) and more than anything, wanted the "I'm In love with My Car "with Roger Taylor on drums and voice at the same time as the 2005 concerts I wanted more and more Brian Roger.
However, the greatest crime of the night was even unforgivable Brian May solo choke in "Crazy Little Thing Called Love," the album point of the legendary concert Wembley and - why be afraid of words? - The humanity of history in general.
In short, it was good, it was respectful to Freddie, the fans liked, Roberta won the bet to bring the Q + AL, but was little bold, had little personality and could have been much better. Unlike the legendary performance of Queen in the first Rock in Rio in 1985, this will not be for history, but in the end, I enjoyed myself and the other 74,000, too. It was what was asked.
Link to original article: www.nit.pt/article/05-22-2016-queen-adam-lambert-um-amor-cego-e-por-vezes-surdo
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Queen + Adam Lambert Summer Festival Tour
Sunday, May 22, 2016 Queen + Adam Lambert @ Palau Sant Jordi Barcelona, Spain
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 Queen + Adam Lambert @ Stadion Linz Linz, Austria
Friday, May 27, 2016 Queen + Adam Lambert @ Rhein Energie Stadion Cologne, Germany
Sunday, May 29, 2016 Queen + Adam Lambert @ Jelling Music Festival Jelling, Denmark
Friday, June 3, 2016 Queen + Adam Lambert @ Kaisaniemi Park Helsinki, Finland
Sunday, June 5, 2016 Queen + Adam Lambert @ Tallinna Lauluväljak Tallinn, Estonia
Thursday, June 9, 2016 Queen + Adam Lambert @ Sweden Rock Festival Solvesborg, Sweden
Sunday, June 12, 2016 Queen + Adam Lambert @ Isle of Wight Festival Newport, United Kingdom
Wednesday, June 15, 2016 Queen + Adam Lambert @ Palais 12 Brussels, Belgium
Friday, June 17, 2016 Queen + Adam Lambert @ Rock The Ring Hinwil, Switzerland
Sunday, June 19, 2016 Queen + Adam Lambert @ Life Festival Oświęcim 2016, MOSiR Stadium in Oświęcim, Poland
Tuesday, June 21, 2016 Queen + Adam Lambert @ Bucharest Constitutiei Square Bucharest, Romania
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Saturday, June 25, 2016 Queen + Adam Lambert @ Anfiteatro Camerini Piazzola Sul Brenta, Italy
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