There is another review, but sometimes you wonder if people have really been there. They totally forgot about Freddie during Love of My Life.
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Queen in de @ziggodome: zonder Freddie Mercury maar even bombastisch en over de top als toen (***), schrijft @vanbrummelen
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Queen as bombastic and over the top as back then (***)
Queen without Freddie Mercury, but with Adam Lambert, is that really Queen? Of course not. But Lambert also knows how sensitive his position is and those tactics work in the Ziggo Dome.
BY: PETER VAN BRUMMELEN 14 NOVEMBER 2017, 10:25
Guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor tour around the world every so often. Nowadays they do that with Adam Lambert, who became known as a participant in American Idol. The music meanwhile sounds as bombastic, over the top and entertaining as in the seventies and eighties.
Usually the security people at the entrance to the Ziggo Dome only check if no weapons or drugs are smuggled in. Tonight the range of duties has been expanded. 'No bicycle bells allowed', reports an A4 paper next to the door.
You do not have to be a very devoted fan of Queen to understand: this has to do with the song Bicycle Race.
Freddie MercuryAnd the men and women of security understand their work. During the concert, only one bicycle bell sounds at the end of the number.
A bicycle rises from the catwalk, a three-wheeled case and executed in bright pink. The at that time also dressed in a pink outfit Adam Lambert gets up and there he goes: tingelingelingeling!
Queen without Freddie Mercury, is that really Queen? Of course not. But blame the remaining members who still like doing that old work.
Freddie Mercury, who died in 1991, was allowed to have the biggest mouth in the group in every aspect, but Queen's music was and is just as much of the other three.
And so guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor tour around the world every so often (bassist John Deacon said goodbye years ago).
First they did that with compatriot Paul Rodgers, from Free and Bad Company. Nowadays they do it with the much younger American Adam Lambert, who became known as a participant in American Idol.
TacticsThe flamboyant Lambert has a lot more in common with Freddie Mercury than the macho Rodgers. Also musical: where Rodgers is in the first place a blues rock singer, Lambert is the pop version of an opera singer. So it fits exactly.
But Adam Lambert also knows how sensitive his position is. He says he feels what many people in the Ziggo think: "He's no Freddie."
And indeed, he admits: he is not Freddie. "But we can make a nice tribute to Mercury and Queen's music tonight."
That tactic works. And that you can laugh with Lambert, also helps. When he during Killer Queen rises on the head of the science fiction figure from the cover of the Queen album News of the World, he says: "He gives very good head."
BombasticThe music of Queen meanwhile sounds as bombastic, over the top and entertaining as in the seventies and eighties.
Roger Taylor remarkably has a second drummer sitting next to him (he did not need it in the old days?), But Brian May still slips agile across the neck of his guitar.
Bohemian Rhapsody, the inevitable closing act, is impossible to perform completely live and so we hear in the choir section (now all sing along: "Bismillah! No, we will not let you go.") The original recording from 1975. Including Freddie Mercury , which can now also be seen on the video screen for the first time in the evening.
The applause that it elicits is difficult to describe otherwise than as devote.