Great review of Italy here:
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Live of Freddie Mercury orphans in Piazzola. Ten thousand fans into a frenzy. Among the timeless atmosphere of Who wants to live forever and Lambert "gay power" from the crystalline talent
PITCH ON BRENTA Long live the Queen. After the concert of Queen Queen + Adam Lambert does not think about anything else. Two hours of a show that few bands in the world can give for strength, quality, excitement and involvement, sweep away any possible prejudice to why, a group that has made the history of rock, has yet to perform despite the frontaman, singer, leaders that matches the name of Freddie Mercury, it is now gone for 25 years. The answer is simple: the Queen is, again, the history of rock.
Saturday night Amphitheatre Camerini Piazzola sul Brenta, the British band and Lambert have closed their world tour, inaugurating the Sound Postepay 2016, giving the public the only Italian summer tour performances. Another point to note: the audience. The historic band from crossing myth band as measured seeing the age of the faces of the 10 thousand who are arrived in Padua: many who were not even born in 1991 were added to those who grew up with that music. Because the Queen songs they know them all, you know the words by heart, the choirs to do, know deadlifts and even the right choreography. Something like this happens rarely, with the Beatles for example: the popular that becomes universal, traditional and indispensable.
The stage is really huge, with a cloth over, giant, the "Queen crest", the coat of arms designed by Mercury in 1973, it mounted the wait, grow expectancy. Purple lights illuminate while the transmit amplifiers for twenty minutes the intro to "Flash". The show begins suddenly, the curtain disappears suddenly and discovers an immense stage, crowned by a huge circular screen surrounded by lights and lasers, under which start hitting drummer Roger Taylor, bushy white beard, Brian May, the heart the band began to perform the magic that is capable with his guitar, while Adam Lambert earns the stage with Lady Gaga style visor, a jacket all studs and the leash that hangs from the neck.
It begins with "The Hero" from "Flash," but there is time just to hold your breath away with "One vision", "Hammer to fall," "Seven Seas of Rhye". The gem of heavy "Stone Cold Crazy", "Another one bites the dust", the bluesy "Fat bottomed girls" that launches the raid on the platform of May who, with the chamber on top of the guitar, the strings frames before then fans show.
First change of clothes for the frontman wearing a great jacket of black feathers for "Play the game." Lambert, thank God, is not an imitator, not aping anyone, is not a parrot who studied Freddie Mercury: is a stage animal as there are few in the world, a pure talent, crystalline, a universal voice. Its curtain, gay power, which makes interpreting 'Killer Queen', sitting on the throne appeared at the tip of the platform, is simply irresistible, as well as the right quid of irony that puts us in the performance (for example, when running mocks the hen stressing the excess of the dress feathers). "Good evening, how are you Italian? What a beautiful, beautiful people here tonight! - Says Lambert - I want to thank you for being here and for the fact that you let me sing. This is our last day, we break up the tour. You love Freddie Mercury and also I love him; for this I ask you to celebrate with Freddie and Queen. "
The ride, "Do not stop me now" it is one that will not soon forget. "Which of you is in love? Not me ... - question the singer doing pretended to cry - I ask you one last favor, find me someone to love, "Lambert launches a triumphant" Somebody to Love. "
The word then passes to Brian May, who was alone on the stage comes before the public. "You are a sensational public, thanks a lot, I'm very happy," she says beaming May asking permission to take a selfie stereoscopic the audience. Then he invited to "sing with me that this is dedicated to Freddie": "Love of My Life," with Mercury that appears on the screen, ten thousand who sing every word on the acoustic guitar of May and, in the end, tears of emotion guitarist , it is the closest thing to pure emotion that you can try.
Although it is a time that you would want to last forever, the show must go on. And now the fortress Taylor singing "Kind of Magic" and then sit at the second battery on top of the platform and perform in a "battery challenge" with his son Rufus Tiger, drummer added the concert. "This is for a friend that we lost," he says Taylor singing "Under pressure" and recreating the duet David Bowie - Freddie Mercury along with Lambert.
The concert does not have a second's pause, run like those who lived so many to know what is best for the public. Rock and roll Elvis of "Crazy Little Thing Called Love," "I want to break free," "I want it all."
Lambert also has the rest of the band, Neil Fairclough on bass (John Deacon retired in 1997), and Spike Edney on keyboards, on tour with Queen since 1984. The timeless atmosphere of "Who want to live forever," and then the right space in May that projects with a motorized column in the middle circular screen for long instrumental "Last horizon" in which he also finds room "O sole mio", homage to Italy.
Now the scene is a riot of color laser, with the grit of Lambert makes her also "Tie Your Mother Down '. There is room in the lineup for the single anti-single most famous in the history of music, "Bohemian Rhapsody", in which Freddie's voice returns to sing a duet with the stage friends. The party, before the encores, closes with "Radio Ga Ga": see twenty thousand hands above the head flying time recreating an unforgettable choreography, is alone worth the price of admission. As well as the two would be enough bis: 'We Will Rock You "and" We are the champions. "
No other word, only applause for the myth, more alive than ever, the Queen.