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Post by Q3 on Jun 15, 2018 22:42:49 GMT -5
Banner photo by @robgolton Translated into English with Google Translate.Concert in Cologne Queen and Adam Lambert unite the generationsFrom Rebecca Lessmann 15.06.18, 06:00 The view of the stage is blocked by a semicircular screen onto which a stone wall is projected, in white letters it says: Queen + Adam Lambert. Suddenly there are vibrations, the wall starts to wobble. On a second screen in the background of the stage is the robot Frank, who graced 1977 the album cover of "News of the World". He smashes the wall until just those behind it come to the fore, whose names are still on it. Matching the scenery sounds "Tear It Up". There Adam Lambert stands on plateau boots and with a red knee-length vest, glittering jewelery sparkles everywhere, on his nose he wears big sunglasses. He seems almost feminine, definitely diva. At the beginning of "Killer Queen" he lolls on the head of the robot Frank, who protrudes from the stage floor. He clears his throat to demand the attention he deserves and then begins to sing. He almost parodies his role already and seems to take it seriously at the same time and to fully embody it. An ambiguity that he maintains throughout the evening. Lambert's immense theatricality meets Roger Taylor and Brian May. In flared trousers, shirts and with his tower of now gray curls, May casually stands on the stage, radiating the aura of a veteran rock star as a matter of course. Somehow Freddie is thereSome visitors wear T-shirts bearing the face of Freddie Mercury. As if someone in the Cologne Lanxess Arena on Wednesday evening needed a reminder that the rock legends of Queen are not quite complete. Before he starts "Do not Stop Me Now", Lambert addresses this elephant in the room: "I know what many of you are thinking: He is not Freddie Mercury! No, I'm just like you - a fan. But promise to have Freddie Mercury tonight! "And somehow Freddie is there. He is on stage with every song. "A Kind of Magic". Some of the spectators that night may have never experienced Freddie himself during his lifetime, as they were probably born far after 1991. Queen and Adam Lambert not only unite generations on stage, but also in front of them. Even technically blurred old with new. The modern video projections and lighting effects contrast with the classic rockers, and in the audience smartphones are waved instead of lighters to the ballads. Even visitors who have aged with the musicians film the favorite songs on their smartphones. Even Brian May uses a selfie stick to take pictures of himself and his fans: "You take photos of yourself in places you love, with people you love to make the moment immortal!" Queen are immortal long ago. For songs like "Who Wants to Live Forever", "Under Pressure" or "Bohemian Rhapsody", with which they finish the evening after a good two hours, the whole arena dances and sings - whether young or old. For an encore with "We Will Rock You" and "We Are The Champions," Adam Lambert returns with a crown on his head and a golden cloak. Who would have thought that nine years ago, when he moved into the eighth season of the casting show "American Idol" with a cover of "Bohemian Rhapsody" - that he would once be celebrated like a king as front man of Queen? Link to original article: www.ksta.de/kultur/konzert-in-koeln-queen-und-adam-lambert-vereinen-die-generationen-30623860QAL Summer 2018 Setlist
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| Lisbon | Madrid | Barcelona | Cologne | 1. Tear It Up | X | X | X | X | 2. Seven Seas of Rhye | X | X | X | X | 3. Tie Your Mother Down | X | X | X | X | 4. Play the Game | X | X | X | X | 5. Fat Bottomed Girls | X | X | X | X | 6. Killer Queen | X | X | X | X | 7. Don't Stop Me Now | X | X | X | X | 8. Bicycle Race | X | X | X | X | 9. I'm in Love With My Car | X | X | X | X | 10. Another One Bites the Dust | X | X | X | X | 11. Lucy | X | X | X | X | 12. I Want It All | X | X | X | X | 13. Concierto de Aranjuez | -- | X | X | X | 14. Love of My Life | X | X | X | X | 15. Somebody to Love | X | X | X | X | 16. Crazy Little Thing Called Love | X | X | X | X | 17. Drum Battle | X | X | X | X | 18. Under Pressure | X | X | X | X | 19. I Want to Break Free | X | X | X | X | Recording: You Take My Breath Away | X | X | X | X | 20. Who Wants to Live Forever | X | X | X | X | 21. Last Horizon | X | X | X | X | 22. Guitar Solo | X | X | X | X | 23. The Show Must Go On | X | X | X | X | 24. Radio Ga Ga | X | X | X | X | 25. Bohemian Rhapsody | X | X | X | X | Encore: |
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| Recording: Day-Oh | X | X | X | X | 26. We Will Rock You | X | X | X | X | 27. We Are the Champions | X | X | X | X | Recording: God Save the Queen | X | X | X | X |
European Tour 2018 7-Jun | Lisbon, Portugal | Altice Arena | 9-Jun | Madrid, Spain | Wizink Arena | 10-Jun | Barcelona, Spain | Palau San Jordi | 13-Jun | Cologne, Germany | Lanxess Arena | 15-Jun | Herning, Denmark | Jyske Bank Boxen | 17-Jun | Oslo, Norway | Telenor Arena | 19-Jun | Berlin, Germany | Mercedes Benz Arena | 20-Jun | Hamburg, Germany | Atlas Arena | 25-Jun | Milan, Italy | Forum | 27-Jun | Rotterdam, Netherlands | Ahoy | 29-Jun | Antwerp, Belgium | Sportpaleis | 1-Jul | London, England | Wembley Arena | 2-Jul | London, England | O2 Arena | 4-Jul | London, England | O2 Arena | 6-Jul | Glasgow, Scotland | TRNSMT | 8-Jul | Dublin, Ireland | Marlay Park |
Las Vegas - USA 2018 1-Sep | Las Vegas, USA | Park Theater, Park MGM | 2-Sep | Las Vegas, USA | Park Theater, Park MGM | 5-Sep | Las Vegas, USA | Park Theater, Park MGM | 7-Sep | Las Vegas, USA | Park Theater, Park MGM | 8-Sep | Las Vegas, USA | Park Theater, Park MGM | 14-Sep | Las Vegas, USA | Park Theater, Park MGM | 15-Sep | Las Vegas, USA | Park Theater, Park MGM | 19-Sep | Las Vegas, USA | Park Theater, Park MGM | 21-Sep | Las Vegas, USA | Park Theater, Park MGM | 22-Sep | Las Vegas, USA | Park Theater, Park MGM |
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Post by cassie on Jun 16, 2018 0:36:18 GMT -5
Here is a scenario.
I am a life-long Queen fan. Maybe I even saw Freddie perform live. Or I have seen the videos and documentaries over the years. He was remarkable. Compelling. Larger than life. And tragically gone too soon. And with him, a bit of the music died. I grew up. Grew older. life went on. With my memories of that halcion time period amplifying in my memories of days gone by. There will never be anything like Queen and Freddie again.
Wait. What? Queen is performing again? Touring? Who knew they were still alive? And who is taking Freddie's place of honor? Not another legacy performer, but some guy half their age. And, an American. From a frickin' reality TV fake talent show. This can't be good. this can't be authentic. Why are Brian and Roger ruining their reputation? Their legacy? It's kinda pathetic, don't you think? Trying to recapture their glory days. Probably just a caricature of their former greatness.
But, who knows if I will ever have a chance to even get a glimpse of my youth again? Okay, I will go. I won't like it, but I'll just focus on Brian and Roger.
Wow! Cool! What a great opening. And the sound is fantastic. The energy off the charts. I catch myself being just a little swept away. But, I don't know. This American reality show boy is strutting around the stage like he belongs there. Like he owns it. Like "Who cares if Freddie isn't here? Who the hell was Freddie anyway?" He looks so pompous on that stage belting out that driving rock. Has he no respect? No humility? No sense of place and history?
Then, this boy pauses in the performance to show fealty to rock royalty in Brian and Roger. Says how honored and privileged he is to share the stage with them. That's right. I give him credit for recognizing their legacy. And then, he pays homage to Freddie, himself. Acknowledges that no one can replace him or be anything like him. Freddie will always have a singular place in the history of rock. Damned straight. This kid gets it. He is a fan, too. He shows humility and respect. He wants to celebrate the music of this great band with us.
Hell, yes! That I can get on board with. This is an amazing spectacle of a show, worthy of Queen's legend. And, damn! That boy can sing his face off. The music engulfs me and I let it, willingly. For a moment, I am back in my days of youth. Sharing an extraordinary experience with 15,000 other folks. What a fantastic night!
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Post by pi on Jun 16, 2018 2:07:28 GMT -5
GAFFA Review - TranslatedQueen + Adam Lambert, Jyske Bank Boxes, Herning NOTIFICATION: That's what the music can do!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reviewed by Troels Frøkjær | GAFFA In 1995, more than three years after Freddie Mercury died of Aids, just 45 years old, Queen chose to broadcast an album entitled "Made In Heaven", where the three remaining members of the Queen finish demos that Freddy Mercury inserted from his crib . They do so in a hugely moving and respectful way, so you still realize that there are sketches, but the album gives the listener a shine - in the good way - because you really feel that Freddie has helped make the plate straight from heaven. This is achieved by using long, deep keyboard audio scanners. It is the same sounds we meet as the audience is waiting for the show to start in the Box in Herning. The scene is wrapped in some sort of huge metal list. The music starts 20 minutes before the band starts, and the light in the hall flashes occasionally, while the entire metal list, just before the first number passes through, shakes both crosswise and crosswise. Very effective. But why now that it's about a singer who has been dead for 27 years and for the same good reason was not physically present last night? For the simple reason that Freddie Mercury is the closest we come to the world's best songs ever. At the same time, at the same time, he was the all-pervasive main character in Queen, to such an extent that all Queen fans would have claimed that Queen could ever resurrect live after the farmer's premature death in 1991. But here it's infinitely beautiful: that's what the music can do! The music can collect things that can not be collected, and Queen + Adam Lambert does this evening in the Box in Herning. Open Up Your MindAfter the first six songs, where young Adam Lambert proves his outstanding songs, he stops the music and talks to the audience. And he does so in such a charming and respectful way that we all surrender us on the spot. "I'm not Freddie," he said after highlighting the two remaining musical legends from the original Queen (bassist John Deacon retired after Mercury's death): drummer Roger Taylor and guitarist Brian May ... there is only ONE Freddie Mercury, and I miss him too .. but let's celebrate him and queen together! We do so, with all that is required of musical abundance and showmanship for a wonderful party, where all boundaries for a while are broken down between dead and alive and old and young. The only 35-year-old Adam Lambert really takes on the task and we are "Open up our minds and easy him step inside," as he sings earlier in the evening in the song "Play The Game". It's becoming an evening in the community that makes much of it a party we make together. The audience and the band and Brian May of 70 show with all the desirable clarity that in music the age is completely indifferent. Overground guitar gameThe evening starts with the song "Tear It Up" from Queens album The Works , and immediately you are delighted with the massive sound pressure and realize from the first moment that we are here with world-class musicians and that it will be Brian Mays supernatural guitar game which will carry the evening. So far, 70-year-old Brian May, and all the talk of the audience - which is still a problem at the moment - are exuberantly exaggerated by a violent sound pressure throughout the concert. Here we are present. Here is the music that applies. Of course, of course, we get lots of classic Queen hits in the two-hour concert, but luckily it's not just a hit parade. This is a live concert and it is heard that Adam Lambert and the band have played together for six years. They have found the balance in every way and it is pure play fun that has brought them back to the stage. We get backtracks in appropriate amounts, apparently under the opera part of "Bohemian Rhapsody", but in many places you also notice that the songs are rearranged to make them live and that the band not only wants to try to copy the recordings as much as possible. The band consists of a total of seven musicians - two drummers, a bass player and a keyboard player - but it's the two original members and the farmer who literally spot. Later in the show, however, the four other musicians are highlighted and, as the audience, they feel the importance of the overall sound image, which is massive at one time, but also filled with beautiful details like Queens music. Made In HeavenIn the middle of the concert, we get "I Want It All", where the sound pressure gets full spectacle, after which Brian May will be turned down alone with the audience on stage with his acoustic guitar and the song "Love of My Life". A song where Freddie very beautifully tunes and sings the latest verse to us on a big screen, then he blinks at us and shows the ass before he goes back to the dark where he is right at home. The underlying English humor looks back and forth. "Who Wants To Live Forever" is another of the many highlights of the evening. A song that Adam Lambert really makes for his. Yes, the music is truly "Made In Heaven" and survives all of us. When the music is best, it collects all that can not be collected. It did it last night. Set List:Tear It Up Seven Seas of Rhye Tie Your Mother Down Play the Game Fat Bottomed Girls Killer Queen Do not Stop Me Now Bicycle Race I'm In Love With My Car Another One Bites the Dust Lucy I Want It All Love of My Life Somebody to Love Crazy Little Thing Called Love Drum Battle Under Pressure I Want To Break Free Who Wants To Live Forever Last Horizon guitar solo The Show Must Go On Radio Go Go Bohemian Rhapsody Additional: We Will Rock You We Are the Champions gaffa.dk/anmeldelse/129496/anmeldelse-det-er-det-musikken-kan/
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Post by pi on Jun 16, 2018 2:08:36 GMT -5
Hmm 5 or 6 stars out of how many..?
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Post by kryptoman68 on Jun 16, 2018 2:25:00 GMT -5
Here is a scenario. ..... Then, this boy pauses in the performance to show fealty to rock royalty in Brian and Roger. Says how honored and privileged he is to share the stage with them. That's right. I give him credit for recognizing their legacy. And then, he pays homage to Freddie, himself. Acknowledges that no one can replace him or be anything like him. Freddie will always have a singular place in the history of rock. Damned straight. This kid gets it. He is a fan, too. He shows humility and respect. He wants to celebrate the music of this great band with us. After the first six songs, where young Adam Lambert proves his outstanding songs, he stops the music and talks to the audience. And he does so in such a charming and respectful way that we all surrender us on the spot. "I'm not Freddie," he said after highlighting the two remaining musical legends from the original Queen (bassist John Deacon retired after Mercury's death): drummer Roger Taylor and guitarist Brian May ... there is only ONE Freddie Mercury, and I miss him too .. but let's celebrate him and queen together! We do so, with all that is required of musical abundance and showmanship for a wonderful party, where all boundaries for a while are broken down between dead and alive and old and young. Cassie, you NAILED IT!
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Post by pi on Jun 16, 2018 2:41:10 GMT -5
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Post by pi on Jun 16, 2018 3:41:03 GMT -5
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Post by pi on Jun 16, 2018 3:45:10 GMT -5
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Post by blackqueen65 on Jun 16, 2018 5:04:05 GMT -5
Here is a scenario. ..... Then, this boy pauses in the performance to show fealty to rock royalty in Brian and Freddie. Says how honored and privileged he is to share the stage with them. That's right. I give him credit for recognizing their legacy. And then, he pays homage to Freddie, himself. Acknowledges that no one can replace him or be anything like him. Freddie will always have a singular place in the history of rock. Damned straight. This kid gets it. He is a fan, too. He shows humility and respect. He wants to celebrate the music of this great band with us. After the first six songs, where young Adam Lambert proves his outstanding songs, he stops the music and talks to the audience. And he does so in such a charming and respectful way that we all surrender us on the spot. "I'm not Freddie," he said after highlighting the two remaining musical legends from the original Queen (bassist John Deacon retired after Mercury's death): drummer Roger Taylor and guitarist Brian May ... there is only ONE Freddie Mercury, and I miss him too .. but let's celebrate him and queen together! We do so, with all that is required of musical abundance and showmanship for a wonderful party, where all boundaries for a while are broken down between dead and alive and old and young. Cassie, you NAILED IT! That's absolutely why I think he needs to do the speech, much as I wish he didn't, but without it that first part of the scenario would carry on for some people. Those who don't know anything about Adam could well think he's strutting around owning the stage and thinks he's the new Freddie, he has that stage presence, pompous look down to a T and not everyone will get him. The other thing I always do is imagine if Adam had formed a band straight after Idol and thirty years later god forbid something happened to him, how would his fans feel having someone take his place, especially if the reviews were as stellar as the QAL one's have been.
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Post by metislight on Jun 16, 2018 5:21:08 GMT -5
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