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Post by pi on Jul 19, 2017 0:05:41 GMT -5
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Post by pi on Jul 19, 2017 0:10:10 GMT -5
The Detroit News
The former ‘American Idol’ rocker hits the Palace with the legendary British group on ThursdayYou can’t replace Freddie Mercury, which Adam Lambert knows better than anybody.
“I realized that right away,” says Lambert, on the phone from his home in Los Angeles prior to the launch of Queen + Adam Lambert’s summer tour, which hits The Palace of Auburn Hills on Thursday.
“That’s one of the things I like to communicate to the audience, because I understand where their heads might be,” says Lambert. “They’re sitting there going, ‘OK, who the (expletive) does this guy think he is?’ ”
He’s Adam Lambert, a 35-year-old vocal dynamo whose stint on “American Idol” in 2009 was one of the best in the show’s history. (He finished second on his season, behind Kris Allen.)
Lambert has released three solo albums, but he’s found his biggest success with his side gig, fronting the legendary rock band Queen through several worldwide tours. The group has been playing with Lambert in the driver’s seat for five years, and its current trek across America follows its last U.S. tour in 2014.
Lambert says he’s settled into the pocket with Queen and now feels at home on stage and with the songs, which wasn’t always the case.
“From the get-go, I was blown away by the honor and the weight of taking on this challenge,” says Lambert of singing the songs of Mercury, the iconic Queen frontman who died in 1991 from complications relating to AIDS. “In the beginning it scared the (expletive) out of me, to be honest. And I did my best getting on stage and not letting that show.”
Now he says he’s locked in with the band — guitarist Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor, percussionist Rufus Tiger Taylor and bassist Neil Fairclough — and can adapt with them live, on the fly. If something is working particularly well, “we can hold or an extend an ending, or we can vamp it out,” Lambert says, noting the band plays 100 percent live, not to a click track. “We’re at the point now where we can look at each other and we know what we’re going to do.”
Read more... www.detroitnews.com/story/entertainment/music/2017/07/18/adam-lambert-finds-spirit-passion-queens-music/103813820/
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