10.2.20 Lots of Goodies Today
Oct 1, 2020 22:49:39 GMT -5
Post by tinafea on Oct 1, 2020 22:49:39 GMT -5
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Q&A for 'Live Around The World' with Brian May, Roger Taylor, Adam Lambert
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Show must go on as Queen and Adam Lambert release first live album
LONDON (Reuters) - Grounded by the coronavirus pandemic, rock band Queen release a live album on Friday to cheer up "stuck at home" fans that showcases highlights of concerts from Rio to Sydney over the past seven years.
It will be the first live offering to feature singer Adam Lambert, the former "American Idol" contestant who tours with the band as a replacement for flamboyant frontman Freddie Mercury, who died in 1991.
The band's planned European tour was cancelled this summer due to the pandemic.
"Hopefully it will give people a substitute for the real thing while they are stuck at home," said Lambert.
"Live Around The World" includes their entire 22-minute set from the Fire Fight Australia charity concert in Sydney in February, where they performed Queen's original 1985 Live Aid set in full including "Bohemian Rhapsody","We are the Champions" and the show-stopping "Radio Ga Ga".
The band have played to 4 million people since Lambert came onboard.
More..https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/show-must-queen-adam-lambert-183701248.html
Show must go on as Queen and Adam Lambert release first live album
LONDON (Reuters) - Grounded by the coronavirus pandemic, rock band Queen release a live album on Friday to cheer up "stuck at home" fans that showcases highlights of concerts from Rio to Sydney over the past seven years.
It will be the first live offering to feature singer Adam Lambert, the former "American Idol" contestant who tours with the band as a replacement for flamboyant frontman Freddie Mercury, who died in 1991.
The band's planned European tour was cancelled this summer due to the pandemic.
"Hopefully it will give people a substitute for the real thing while they are stuck at home," said Lambert.
"Live Around The World" includes their entire 22-minute set from the Fire Fight Australia charity concert in Sydney in February, where they performed Queen's original 1985 Live Aid set in full including "Bohemian Rhapsody","We are the Champions" and the show-stopping "Radio Ga Ga".
The band have played to 4 million people since Lambert came onboard.
More..https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/show-must-queen-adam-lambert-183701248.html
Queen found it 'difficult to choose' 20 best performances for live album with Adam Lambert
Much of the world is in lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic but Queen and Adam Lambert aren't sitting still.
A new album, "Queen + Adam Live Around the World," arrives Friday, featuring 20 recordings from live performances around the globe. Tracks include hits such as "We Will Rock You," "Radio Ga Ga," “Don’t Stop Me Now” and “I Want to Break Free.”
Lambert, a former "American Idol" runner-up, has been touring with Queen's Brian May and Roger Taylor for seven years. Together, they've performed more than 200 shows.
The trio chatted with fans Thursday in a live-stream Q&A, offering a glimpse of what to expect from the album.
"It was difficult to choose," May said. "We had to make some tough choices. We're going to need another album after this for all the stuff that isn't on this album."
Queen's first live album:Queen and Adam Lambert will feature fan favorites 'We Will Rock You' and 'Radio Ga Ga'
One of the performances featured is from Fire Fight Australia. Held Feb. 16, the concert raised funds for those affected by this year's devastating bushfires in Australia.
"We performed a re-creation of our Live Aid set from 1985," Taylor said. "The feeling of electricity in the stadium was incredible."
"The audience was wild," May added. "They were so energized."
Putting together an album that's a compilation of live performances isn't as easy you might think, May said. He says the group looked to The Who's "Live at Leeds," James Brown's "Live at the Apollo" and Jimi Hendrix's "Live at Monterey" for inspiration.
"So much depends on the audiences," he said. "There's a good feeling, a good vibe. It's not about perfection, it's about some kind of magic."
Lambert says getting to perform with Queen has been a dream.
"The music this band has put out is woven into pop culture," he said. "I knew Queen songs before I knew who Queen were. I've learned so much from Brian and Roger. Just being around (them) and chatting about the world and life. I feel like I'm a better musician and person for it."
More.. https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2020/10/01/queen-adam-lambert-made-tough-choices-first-live-album-together/5883007002/
Adam Lambert & Gender-Affirming Care in his hometown of San Diego - Adam Lambert
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Donation page for Rady Children's Hospital - San Diego
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Miracle Makers
Adam Lambert x The Center for Gender-Affirming Care
Feel Something Foundation
$1,385 Raised / $30,000 Goal
I’m joining forces with the Center for Gender-Affirming Care, based in my hometown of San Diego, to raise funds towards its mission to provide comprehensive, compassionate, evidence based care and support to transgender and non-binary youth and their families.
Transgender, non-binary and gender non-conforming youth are frequently discriminated against and may not get support and understanding from peers, friends, and family. Finding care providers that are knowledgeable and familiar with the treatment can be challenging. Together, we can help change that for children today and generations to come.
The Center for Gender-Affirming Care creates a safe medical home for young people to get all aspects of their care addressed, in a space that understands how gender dysphoria impacts one’s feeling of safety and comfort in a medical environment.
Be sure to follow me on Twitter & Instagram (@adamlambert) for campaign updates and patient stories! I will be giving away prizes and the winners will be announced on November 2. Winners will also be emailed directly with the email they used to make a donation.
Your donation helps provide:
Pubertal suppression
Gender-affirming hormone therapy
Referrals to reproductive health specialists
Referrals to surgical specialists
Referrals to other relevant specialists (dermatology, hematology)
Assistance with legal name change
Resources for transgender youth and their families
Ongoing mental health support through the clinic
Voice therapy and coaching at Rady Children’s Hospital
Ongoing education for the community, medical and mental health providers
This campaign will be live until October 31 - thank you for your generosity in reaching our goal to support transgender and non-binary youth!
__________________________________________________________________________
Feel Something Foundation (FSF) was founded in 2019 by musician, actor, and activist Adam Lambert after traveling the world globally and having the opportunity to hear the stories of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people all over the world and seeing firsthand the difficulties these communities are facing. A member of the LGBTQ community himself, Adam wrote and recorded the song Feel Something to highlight his frustrations with the treatment of LGBTQ people around the world and his desire to feel something – if not society’s love for his community, something at all that was positive, inclusive, and inspired action. After reaching a certain a level of success, Adam knew he had the means and the influence to develop that feeling for all members of his community himself and decided to institutionalize his activism and philanthropy by creating the Feel Something Foundation.
Our mission is to support LGBTQ organizations that are moving the needle for the communities they serve and are focused on building a fully inclusive society where LGBTQ people of all ages and backgrounds enjoy full human rights and are supported through the myriad of issues that disproportionately affect them.
Twitter: @fsfoundation_
Instagram: @feelsomethingfoundation
Facebook: www.facebook.com/feelsomethingfoundation
Questions on how to further support the Center for Gender-Affirming Care? Please contact Casey Birkdale at cbirkdale@rchsd.org.
Adam Lambert x The Center for Gender-Affirming Care
Feel Something Foundation
$1,385 Raised / $30,000 Goal
I’m joining forces with the Center for Gender-Affirming Care, based in my hometown of San Diego, to raise funds towards its mission to provide comprehensive, compassionate, evidence based care and support to transgender and non-binary youth and their families.
Transgender, non-binary and gender non-conforming youth are frequently discriminated against and may not get support and understanding from peers, friends, and family. Finding care providers that are knowledgeable and familiar with the treatment can be challenging. Together, we can help change that for children today and generations to come.
The Center for Gender-Affirming Care creates a safe medical home for young people to get all aspects of their care addressed, in a space that understands how gender dysphoria impacts one’s feeling of safety and comfort in a medical environment.
Be sure to follow me on Twitter & Instagram (@adamlambert) for campaign updates and patient stories! I will be giving away prizes and the winners will be announced on November 2. Winners will also be emailed directly with the email they used to make a donation.
Your donation helps provide:
Pubertal suppression
Gender-affirming hormone therapy
Referrals to reproductive health specialists
Referrals to surgical specialists
Referrals to other relevant specialists (dermatology, hematology)
Assistance with legal name change
Resources for transgender youth and their families
Ongoing mental health support through the clinic
Voice therapy and coaching at Rady Children’s Hospital
Ongoing education for the community, medical and mental health providers
This campaign will be live until October 31 - thank you for your generosity in reaching our goal to support transgender and non-binary youth!
__________________________________________________________________________
Feel Something Foundation (FSF) was founded in 2019 by musician, actor, and activist Adam Lambert after traveling the world globally and having the opportunity to hear the stories of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people all over the world and seeing firsthand the difficulties these communities are facing. A member of the LGBTQ community himself, Adam wrote and recorded the song Feel Something to highlight his frustrations with the treatment of LGBTQ people around the world and his desire to feel something – if not society’s love for his community, something at all that was positive, inclusive, and inspired action. After reaching a certain a level of success, Adam knew he had the means and the influence to develop that feeling for all members of his community himself and decided to institutionalize his activism and philanthropy by creating the Feel Something Foundation.
Our mission is to support LGBTQ organizations that are moving the needle for the communities they serve and are focused on building a fully inclusive society where LGBTQ people of all ages and backgrounds enjoy full human rights and are supported through the myriad of issues that disproportionately affect them.
Twitter: @fsfoundation_
Instagram: @feelsomethingfoundation
Facebook: www.facebook.com/feelsomethingfoundation
Questions on how to further support the Center for Gender-Affirming Care? Please contact Casey Birkdale at cbirkdale@rchsd.org.
Adam Lambert: ‘I’m really hard on myself, I pick everything apart’
It seems like a lifetime ago, but 2020 started with Queen and Adam Lambert filling and thrilling stadiums across the country.
By their last Australian show in late February they’d dealt with heat and torrential rain in their outdoor shows.
By March, COVID-19 shut down the world, putting their entire global tour on hold.
“We had a great tour of Australia, came back and everything went to s---,” Lambert laughs.
He’d planned to balance his lucrative work with Queen with promoting and touring his fourth solo album Velvet, including a Vegas run.
“I was going full steam, put Velvet out in March and a week later everything was cancelled,” Lambert says.
“I had to mourn the loss of those opportunities. Once I got over that I thought ‘OK, let me just chill, sit on the couch, watch some shows’. I tried to look on the bright side, this is a time to reflect and create. I did some writing, Zoom sessions with songwriters …”
During lockdown Lambert and Queen’s Roger Taylor and Brian May sat down and compiled a concert album (on CD, DVD, Blu-ray and DVD) – Live Around the World – as a thank you to fans who missed out on seeing them on tour.
While they recorded a COVID WHO charity single (You Are the Champions) this year, the live album is the first major Queen release featuring Lambert.
“This is the best scrapbook I could ever make, a retrospective of the last seven years of working together. It’s very exciting to have something to show for it and to sum it all up.”
They selected different performances (“we wanted to capture the magic of a live show”) by watching hours of concerts.
“I got a kick out of remembering what I wore. I’m always changing up costumes for different songs and tours, so it was fun trip down memory lane.
“But I’m really hard on myself, I pick everything apart, I’ll watch it and think ‘That doesn’t sound great’. But I’ve gotten better at understanding that not everyone’s sitting there analysing every note I sing, it’s not that technical for a viewer. The important thing is that the energy, the intention and the spirit of right.”
As well as their take on solo Mercury material Love Kills and I Was Born To Love You, the album includes their entire performance from this year’s Fire Fight Australia concert, where they recreated Queen’s legendary 22 minute Live Aid set.
Lambert and Queen had sat down and re-watched the original show in New Zealand, but kept it a surprise until the night.
“The superfans picked up on it, that was exciting,” Lambert remembers.
“It was our nod to Live Aid, the movie (Bohemian Rhapsody) recreated that so well, we knew it was fresh in everybody’s mind, it’s become so iconic.”
More..;https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/adam-lambert-im-really-hard-on-myself-i-pick-everything-apart/news-story/04544f4ca44e16329a6a2f501dfc3025
SPIN
Adam Lambert on His First Live Album With Queen, Being Part of Band’s Legacy
Singer also shares his perspective on concerts after COVID
Adam Lambert, Brian May and Roger Taylor have touched down just about everywhere. So it’s only fair that their latest stop — into the homes of fans who saw the super collaboration postpone this summer’s European tour — reminds the world just how much of it they’ve really seen.
Queen + Adam Lambert’s Live Around the World will be the singer’s first live record in nearly a decade and Queen’s first since 1986’s Live Magic. And after nine years of touring with the monumental rock group, Lambert knows that May and Taylor determine the band’s legacy.
“When we do get into diplomatic decisions that we have to make, at the end of the day, they are Queen,” Lambert tells SPIN. “I usually sort of say what I have to say, and if I’m overruled, I don’t put up a fight. I have a lot of respect for Brian and Roger, and I think that they have a lot of love for their legacy. And that’s really important. [They’re] the legend that is Queen. I find myself always keeping that in the back of my mind.”
For the first time in his nearly decade-long run with the duo, Lambert is finally becoming a part of that legacy on wax. Live Around the World — a 20-track live album documenting shows played everywhere from Portugal to Japan over the last six years — is out Oct. 2 in multiple formats. The record features classics like “Under Pressure” and “Radio Gaga,” along with deeper cuts and rarities, including a reimagined take on Freddie Mercury’s solo track “Love Kills.” For May, Taylor and Lambert (bassist John Deacon retired from the music industry in 1997), it was quite a task collectively deciding what made the track list.
“At the end of the day, you can break apart all the technical stuff that we do,” Lambert says. “But I think we reached the conclusion that it needs to be just the best vibe and just needs to kind of somehow translate the feeling that our audience may have by watching the show and the magic that does happen.”
SPIN caught up with the singer about his hopes for future Queen shows — and jokingly getting larger sizes of his stage attire after gaining the “quarantine 15″ — and what the album curation process meant for the band’s now-familial relationship.
SPIN: With both of your discographies in mind, this is the most recently recorded Queen live album since 1986 and this is your first since 2011’s Glam Nation Live. As three guys who have all recorded live albums many years apart, what have you been able to learn from each other in its curation process?
Lambert: It’s exciting to boil down all these performances over the years and try to pick the definitive version of each song. And we’re all going to be focused on different aspects of it. I’m going to be picking apart my vocal, and I would have assumed that Brian and Roger would both be focused on their respective instruments, but we’re also looking at it as a big picture thing and getting into conversations. We were kind of going back into a business logic sort of memory lane thing, the three of us, and trying to boil down which performances [met] a number of different criteria.
What was the most important criteria?
Queen has this huge list of amazing hits. And we know that first and foremost, fans come and they want to sing along with their favorite Queen song. We’ve always made sure that we include the big hits in every set we do. I think we approached the album the same way: This is the sort of boiled-down dream set, if we had to cut down our concert into an hour-long experience. And so we have the big hits; we have a couple more obscure things on there that we felt were very special … [There] are records that Freddie made on his own when he was solo, for example, like “Love Kills.” And it’s a very different sound. We really reinterpreted it into a ballad — a sort of a heartfelt song, as opposed to a dance track. So it does sound fresh … One of the other songs that we have is “Show Must Go On,” which they recorded right at the end of Freddie’s life. The lyrics are on the nose for what he may have been experiencing at the time. Brian’s told me that they never actually got to perform it live. That’s been a really interesting song for us to do — sort of to honor Freddie and also as a way to continue things. I always think in the back of my mind, “Is this something he would get a kick out of? Would he appreciate this interpretation, or, you know, the shoes that I’m wearing?”
Artists sometimes isolate the vocals on live records and turn crowd volume down a little bit. But of course, that would be impossible for a Queen show, and it’s pretty obvious when you hear “The Show Must Go On” that you opted not to. Was this a decision that the three of you were adamant about?
We really wanted the album to feel representative of the experience. We wanted it to feel like a concert, and I think knowing now that we’ve been all around the world as many times as we have and have done as many shows as we have, anybody that’s seen a performance will hopefully get a chance to listen to this and feel like, “Oh, yeah, that’s what it was like.” And then anybody that hasn’t been to one of the shows, maybe there’s some sort of preview into what that may feel like or sound like. And hopefully, if everything gets sorted with COVID-19 this next year, we’ll be back on the road again.
More.. www.spin.com/2020/10/adam-lambert-on-his-first-live-album-with-queen-being-part-of-bands-legacy/