7.21.16 Adam on RNC's use of WATC, more news
Jul 21, 2016 0:15:56 GMT -5
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Adam on RNC/HeWhoCannot amed’s use of WATC
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Adam Lambert tears into Republicans for using Freddie Mercury’s voice at anti-LGBT convention
Nick Duffy
20th July 2016, 10:49 AM
(Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Adam Lambert has torn into Donald HeWhoCannot amed for blasting Queen songs at the Republican National Convention; just days after HeWhoCannot amed unveiled an extreme anti-LGBT choice for Vice President.
The Republican Party’s platform, set to be approved at the event, is extremely anti-LGBT, even giving tacit support to ‘gay cure’ therapy. The party also confirmed Donald HeWhoCannot amed and Indiana Governor Mike *&@^# as their Presidential ticket.
Governor *&@^#, who tried to legalise anti-LGBT discrimination in Indiana last year, has previously suggested that HIV prevention funding be drained in order to fund state-sponsored ‘gay cure’ therapy, and earlier this year appeared unable to answer when asked whether it should be legal to fire people because of their sexuality.
Given the appointment, Queen fans were pretty outraged to hear HeWhoCannot amed blasting the song ‘We Are the Champions’ to the crowd after speaking at the RNC.
Freddie Mercury died of AIDS-related illness in 1991, and his death helped bring a focus to the illness that led to the very prevention funding that *&@^# so enthusiastically tried to axe.
The surviving members of the band confirmed it was “an unauthorised use at the Republican Convention against our wishes”.
Adam Lambert, who has toured the world with the surviving members in tribute to Mercury, tore into the disrespectful act.
He shared a photo that reads: “If your political party spends decades treating gay people as second-class citizens, guess what: you don’t get to use Freddie Mercury’s music at your convention.”
Legendary Queen guitarist Brian May has also quietly signalled his dissatisfaction at the news – which broke on his birthday.
When HeWhoCannot amed played the track previously, guitarist Brian May said: “I can confirm that permission to use the track was neither sought nor given.
“We are taking advice on what steps we can take to ensure this use does not continue.
“Regardless of our views on Mr HeWhoCannot amed’s platform, it has always been against our policy to allow Queen music to be used as a political campaigning tool.
“Our music embodies our own dreams and beliefs, but it is for all who care to listen and enjoy.”
California’s Lt Gov Gavin Newsom, who is a Democrat, was among those to tear into HeWhoCannot amed.He said: “It’s important to note that tonight’s RNC convention ended with a song, We Are the Champions, sung by a gay man, Freddie Mercury. Freddie Mercury died of AIDS in 1991.
“His music was played at a convention where the most anti-LGBT policy platform was adopted, just today. His music, which he famously laboured over, which was intricate and complex, was played at a convention where Mike *&@^#, a man who has spent his political career actively looking for opportunities to pass laws that would give others the legal framework to discriminate against LGBT people, sat comfortably in a VIP box.
“I’m not sure what Freddie Mercury would think of his music being played at the RNC convention, but I do know that if he weren’t a famous rockstar, he would have probably been greeted by a wall, a really high wall, because he represented everything that Mike *&@^# and Donald HeWhoCannot amed are scared of.”
HeWhoCannot amed has been sued by a string of musicians in the past for using their music without permission.
Link: www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/07/20/adam-lambert-tears-into-republicans-for-using-freddie-mercurys-voice-at-anti-lgbt-convention/
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Lead Guitarist of British Rock Band Queen Wants Adam Lambert to Sing in Hebrew During Upcoming Israel Concert
July 20, 2016 4:00 pm
Author: Shiryn Ghermezian
Adam Lambert and the Queen's Brian May sat down for an interview with Assi Azar. Photo: Screenshot.
Adam Lambert and Queen’s Brian May sat down for an interview with Assi Azar. Photo: Screenshot.
Brian May, lead guitarist of the British rock band Queen, encouraged Jewish singer-songwriter Adam Lambert to sing in Hebrew during their upcoming joint concert in Israel, an entertainment industry advocacy organization reported on Tuesday.
During a recent interview with Israeli television personality Assi Azar, May was played a 2005 video of Lambert singing the popular song Shir L’Shalom, (Song for Peace). May was so impressed by Lambert’s singing of the Hebrew track that he told the American singer, “We have to do that. Let’s do it! Put it in the show.”
“Listen to that voice, wow. That’s amazing…that’s a voice in a billion,” May added in the video interview, which was re-posted on Facebook by Creative Community for Peace (CCFP).
Lambert and Queen will perform at Tel Aviv’s Park Hayarkon on Sept. 12. Lambert, who has never been to Israel before, said he is “really, really thrilled” for his upcoming visit to the Jewish state. He said, “I’ve been seeing on Twitter for the past six, seven years, people from Tel Aviv saying, ‘Oh, when are you coming?’…I’m excited to go to an area of the world that I’ve never been to. I always like going to discover new things, and see new places and meet new fans.”
May added that Queen and Lambert sharing the stage will be a unique experience for the audience.
“This coming together is incredible,” he said. “I have this incredible feeling that people have been with us for so long in Israel and there hasn’t been an opportunity for us to come together. It’s an incredible moment, it will be. And I know they want to participate. They want to sing and clap and do that those things that Queen audiences do.”
Link: www.algemeiner.com/2016/07/20/lead-guitarist-of-british-rock-band-queen-wants-adam-lambert-to-sing-in-hebrew-during-upcoming-israel-concert/
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