5.24.14 QAL start rehearsals next week -- in London!
May 24, 2014 1:04:59 GMT -5
Post by Q3 on May 24, 2014 1:04:59 GMT -5
Q3 thought bubble: “I wonder how many rings and bracelets he will wear in Chicago for the debut concert?”
Adam’s Last Weekend in LA before Rehearsals Start
ADAM LAMBERT @adamlambert
So excited to come to London next week to begin rehearsals w @queenwillrock !!!
5.23.14 from Twitter
Miles Tougeaux @milestougeaux
@adamlambert @queenwillrock Ask them if they want to add a Free/Bad Company cover... That would totally fuck everybody up. Safe travels!
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Since this is Adam's last weekend in LA, I wonder if we will catch out doing a bit of last minute shopping?
As concert time gets closer...the excitement builds
KICKIN IN Kim @motheranimal1 41m
Thank you for sharing The Hollywood Reporter! Can't wait to attend 3 @adamlambert @queenwillrock concerts this summer pic.twitter.com/Z1auxYpm7X
mmadamimadamm @mmadamimadamm 46m
Niiiice!!! RT @motheranimal1: Billboard also knows music! @adamlambert @queenwillrock are perfect together!
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So true! RT @motheranimal1: The Washington Post speaks highly of @adamlambert in this quote... pic.twitter.com/CONkZz9U0G
KICKIN IN Kim @motheranimal1 1h
Dr. Brian May KNOWS music! The world is waiting! We're blessed to have @adamlambert @queenwillrock tour this summer! pic.twitter.com/aCZeV8C9zm
Q3 note to Dr. May: Brian, I think Freddie can see everything….and he must be smiling!
Japanese Freddie will be at Summer Sonic
Japanese Freddie (AKA Roy) is a Queen tour regular and a very dedicated Freddie fan. He attended the 2012 QAL London concerts. Looks like Japanese Freddie will be at Summer Sonic.
Check out his QAL 2014 tour apparel! He is wearing his signature Freddie Mercury yellow and black jacket over an Adam Lambert Trespassing T-shirt. All I can say is "Another one bites the dust..."
The LMD Video was filmed in Stockholm...
Adam might have been at that concert!
Avicii posted the following comment and confirmed that LMD video footage is from his huge Stockholm show.
Tim Bergling
The Lay Me Down Official Live video is finally here featuring my biggest show in my career so far - the HUGE #TRUETOUR show we did at Tele2 Arena in Stockholm! Go check it out on the link
There were two Avicii concerts at the Tele2 Arena in Stockholm earlier this year, February 28 and March 1. Adam was at the February 28, 2014 concert. So there is a chance that the LMD video was shot at the Avicii concert Adam attended got to see LMD played for 40,000 people. This moment was recorded on an Instagram video.
Adam Lambert at Avicii Concert "It's your fucking song"
February 28, 2014 Tele2 Arena, Stockholm
Adam Lambert at Avicii Concert in Sweden "It's your fucking song"
Source: instagram.com/p/k-hLQLFSel/
amandabjorkegren
Avicii!!!! @adamlambert @mattmanswe
youtu.be/FKDx3J_9Et0
February 28, 2014 Tele2 Arena, Stockholm
Adam Lambert at Avicii Concert in Sweden "It's your fucking song"
Source: instagram.com/p/k-hLQLFSel/
amandabjorkegren
Avicii!!!! @adamlambert @mattmanswe
youtu.be/FKDx3J_9Et0
Same-sex kissing loses shock value in the media
May 23, 2014 11:46 PM
By Anya Sostek / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Sometimes, a kiss is just a kiss.
And sometimes, it's a sign of swift and sweeping cultural and political change.
Over the past days and weeks, same-sex kisses have started to arrive in mainstream news media.
"We're now seeing this stuff completely across the board," said Bob Thompson, director of the Bleier Center for Television & Popular Culture at Syracuse University. "This has been evolving for a long time."
Just five years ago, CBS's "The Early Show" blurred a kiss from Adam Lambert and his boyfriend during a musical performance on the "American Music Awards," deeming it "a subject of great current controversy."
The year before, Katy Perry titillated much of the country by merely singing that she kissed a girl -- and she liked it.
How times have changed.
On Wednesday, following the opening of the Allegheny County Marriage License Bureau to same-sex couples, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette website featured a photo of two women kissing.
That same night, ABC aired a gay wedding of characters Mitchell and Cam on its hit show "Modern Family," sealed with a kiss afterward.
And earlier this month, ESPN showed Michael Sam giving his boyfriend a celebratory kiss after he became the first openly gay football player to be selected in the NFL draft.
The sports network actually aired its first gay kiss -- a celebratory smooch between a gay professional bowler and his husband -- last year.
To some extent, same-sex kisses have been prevalent in the media for some time.
There were same-sex couples on shows as far back as "Dynasty" and "Thirtysomething," said Mr. Thompson, with a then-controversial same-sex kiss on a 1994 episode of "Roseanne."
For a period of time in the 1990s, he said, same-sex kisses appeared with some regularity on network television, becoming almost trendy. "The same-sex kiss became one of those things that gave credibility to a show -- that it was serious, cutting-edge," he said, referring to television programs such as "Ally McBeal" and "Dawson's Creek."
Still, there has been a much more recent change in media showing same-sex kisses by real people, rather than fictional ones.
In some cases, those pictures have still been accompanied by controversy.
Both the Denver Post and the Fayetteville Observer newspapers ran editor's notes of explanation to readers who criticized front-page photos of gay kisses -- in Colorado, from the state House speaker and his partner after passage of a civil unions bills and in North Carolina after the first gay military wedding at Fort Bragg.
As long as the images aren't meant to shock but are a reflection of the news of the day, those are the images that the media should be using, said Al Tompkins, a senior faculty member at the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla.
"If they got married on the first day the law allowed and they didn't kiss, it would be news," he joked. "If they stood there, they got married and they kissed each other, our job is to tell what happened."
The Post-Gazette received few, if any, complaints after using an image online of a same-sex kiss Wednesday.
Given that same-sex couples have been present on mainstream network television for decades, Mr. Thompson noted that it has actually taken quite a while for same-sex kisses to regularly appear in news media.
"By the time stuff made it to network television back in the network era, it meant that the controversy was kind of over," he said. "This is taking some time but it's happening -- there's no question about it."
Read more: www.post-gazette.com/news/nation/2014/05/24/Same-sex-kissing-loses-shock-value-in-the-media/stories/201405240090#ixzz32bkZrq7m
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Queen + Adam Lambert THE ONCE IN A LIFETIME TOUR Countdown!
5.24.14 by Q3
The countdown moves on and the start of OIAL Tour gets closer. Only 26 days to go!
#26 “Bicycle Race” (1978)
Written by Freddie Mercury.
Released on Jazz November 10, 1978 and as a double A-side single with "Fat Bottomed Girls" October 13, 1978.
I think Adam can sing almost anything. But this is one song that I prefer to leave to Freddie. I really do not want to hear Adam sing, “And I don't like Star Wars. ..... I don't believe in Peter Pan.” Ya’ll know I have a thing for Peter Pan.
Freddie was inspired to write the song after the saw a stage of the 1978 Tour de France passing where the band were recording Jazz in France.
This is one of Freddie’s more complex and unusual compositions. The song begins with a chorus unaccompanied by instruments. The chorus is followed by two verses connected with a bridge, both followed by a chorus. Around the middle of the song there is a solo played with numerous bicycle bells. The song has an unusual chord progression with numerous modulations, a change of meter (from 4/4 to 6/8) in the bridge, and multi-tracked vocal and guitar harmonies.]
The lyrics are topical for the time and contain social, political and pop-culture references, such as religion, Watergate, drugs, fictional heroes (Peter Pan, Frankenstein and Superman), and the films Jaws and Star Wars.
The song is also intertwined with “Fat Bottomed Girls” lyrically, (with the line "fat bottom girls they'll be riding today") and visually, featuring on the single artwork and the video. It is appropriate that these two songs were released as the same single.
Queen’s Jazz album came with a poster from the Bicycle Race packaged inside the album
A bicycle race with nude women was held to promote the Jazz album, the single and the "Fat Bottomed Girls" single. This photo was included as a fold-out poster with the album Jazz. It was also included as an alternate single cover.
Single promo poster that was too racy for the US
Personnel
Musicians:
Freddie Mercury - lead and backing vocals, piano, bicycle bells
Brian May - guitars, backing vocals, bicycle bells
John Deacon - bass guitar, bicycle bells
Roger Taylor - drums, backing vocals, bicycle bells
Produced by: Queen and Roy Thomas Baker
Releases
Albums:
Jazz, 1978
Greatest Hits, 1981
Live Killers, 1979
Greatest Hits, 1992 USA
Singles:
Bicycle Race, 1978 Double A-side
Let Me Live, 1996 B-side
Alternate Versions:
12" Columbia Extended
Karaoke Instrumental - Japan Toshiba EMI TOLW - 3249.50
1991 Junior Vasquez Remix - Jazz: US 1991 Hollywood HR-61062-2
“Bicycle Race” Album Track (2011 remaster)
youtu.be/jrpZT0YCTls
“Bicycle Race” Live Killers
youtu.be/Cbr-jGV805E
“Bicycle Race” Music Video
The song is notable for its video featuring a bicycle race with 65 nude women at Wimbledon Greyhound Stadium, which was edited or even banned in several countries. The women were all professional models. The music video was filmed by Dennis de Vallance.
On the same day as they shot the video for Fat Bottomed Girls, Queen and Dennis De Vallance also recorded performance footage for inclusion in the video to Bicycle Race, at the Convention Center, in Dallas, Texas. Upon reviewing the footage, however, the band decided it was unsuitable and shelved it, choosing instead to create a collage of images to pad around footage of their very own staged Bicycle Race... between 65 naked women!
Queen rented the stadium and several dozen bikes for one day for filming the scene. When Halfords, the company that provided the bicycles became aware of the way their bikes were used, they demanded that the band pay to replace all of the bicycle seats.
The race was staged on September 17, 1978 at Wimbledon Greyhound Stadium, London, as part of the promotional campaign for the then forthcoming Jazz album. The models raced around the stadium for a very eager audience of film crew and photographers (though the band could not make it to the event) and the footage was incorporated into the video.
The original video uses special effects to hide the nudity. The video was heavily distorted with various multicolour blocking effects.
The original collage video became widely available thanks to its inclusion on Greatest Flix.
While sourcing the Greatest Video Hits 1 DVD in 2002, the complete and long-lost footage from that infamous Bicycle Race was rediscovered, premiering in Channel Four's Killer Queen documentary in summer 2002, before being intercut uncensored with the Dallas based performance footage to present buyers of the DVD the first chance to see a new video closer to the band's original vision.
Video releases
Collage Version - Greatest Flix VHS, Queen Collection - 15 Of The Best VHS, Box Of Flix VHS, Classic Queen VHS, Greatest Hits VHS
GVH1 Version - Greatest Video Hits 1 DVD
Bicycle Race (Official Video)
youtu.be/GugsCdLHm-Q
Queen - The Making Of the Bicycle Race video
youtu.be/NEhHdIFvoaw
“Bicycle Race” Live
At the November 17, 1978 concert in Madison Square Garden, New York, Queen re-created the video by having women with very little clothing ride bicycles around the stage.
“Bicycle Race” Live at Budokan, Tokyo, Japan, April 24, 1979
Queen performing Bicycle Race live at the Budokan in Tokyo, Japan on April 24, 1979. This was taken from a Japanese TV broadcast. This is the only live video of Queen performing this song.
Jazz (Deluxe Edition) [Remastered 2011] (iTunes LP)
youtu.be/wjxWUmG9RGI
“Bicycle Race” Montreal, December 1, 1978
Audio only.
youtu.be/yiSm8rBUIKU
“Bicycle Race” Lyrics
youtu.be/Ltimsp0yuL8
“Bicycle Race” Lyrics with Kinetic Typography
Only the first 30 second, but really beautiful.
youtu.be/TXpivKE5iZY
Bicycle Race
Bicycle bicycle bicycle
I want to ride my bicycle bicycle bicycle
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride my bike
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride it where I like
You say black I say white
You say bark I say bite
You say shark I say hey man
Jaws was never my scene
And I don't like Star Wars
You say Rolls I say Royce
You say God give me a choice
You say Lord I say Christ
I don't believe in Peter Pan
Frankenstein or Superman
All I wanna do is
Bicycle bicycle bicycle
I want to ride my bicycle bicycle bicycle
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride my bike
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride my –
Bicycle races are coming your way
So forget all your duties oh yeah!
Fat bottomed girls
They'll be riding today
So look out for those beauties oh yeah
On your marks get set go
Bicycle race bicycle race bicycle race
Bicycle bicycle bicycle
I want to ride my bicycle
Bicycle bicycle bicycle bicycle
Bicycle race
You say coke I say caine
You say John I say Wayne
Hot dog I say cool it man
I don't wanna be the President of America
You say smile I say cheese
Cartier I say please
Income tax I say Jesus
I don't wanna be a candidate for
Vietnam or Watergate
Because all I wanna do is
Bicycle bicycle bicycle
I want to ride my bicycle bicycle bicycle
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride my bike
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride it where I like
Queen - Bicyle Race (William Breakspear Remix)
Produced for the Ghetto Funk Icons 3 compilation - available from ghettofunk.co.uk/?p=11176 from 22/12/12.
youtu.be/ERhIOKvAT5g
TCU Horned Frog Marching Band - "Bicycle Race" by Queen
Q3 note: There are a ton of marching band performances of Queen songs but this one has some interesting formations.
September 28, 2013 vs. SMU. TCU wins 48-17. GO FROGS.
youtu.be/h56pqGe4KQA
No reason for this but I thought it fit the song.
The Naked Women were a big hit in 1978…and shocking if you were a Mom or 10!
This song was released 36 years ago, in a totally different world. Here is a story I found posted online that capture one encounter with “Bicycle Race”.
Hard Rock Music Time Machine – 1978: Queen – “Fat Bottomed Girls”
Posted by AW
Around the time that I turned ten, Queen released their classic album, Jazz. I knew nothing about the band yet, but as soon as my friend, Mike, showed me the cover of the “Fat Bottomed Girls” single on 45, I had to have it. Ultimately, the song ended up being one of my all-time favorite Queen songs, but I only discovered it because of the picture on the cover. By today’s standards it is a relatively tame image, even for a 10-year old, but back then the extent of my exposure to naked girls was strictly limited to National Geographic Magazine. Of course, the fact that I felt like I was getting away with something didn’t hurt either.
Anyone who bought Queen Jazz knows that the image on the “Fat Bottomed Girls” single was nothing compared the “Bicycle Race” poster that came inside the album (see below)…
When I found out about the “Bicycle Race” poster, not surprisingly, Queen Jazz was the next album that I bought. As soon as the weekend came, I had my parents take me to the local record store, my favorite place to hang out in my youth. Tucked away in the corner of a shopping center next to a department store that would change names several times over the years, the long and narrow record store was a little slice of paradise for me. Sadly, like most other record stores, my little slice of paradise no longer exists, but the memories remain.
My hard rock music obsession was in full effect by the time that I bought Jazz. The plaid wallpaper in my room could hardly be seen through the posters and pictures of my favorite bands that were plastered on the walls, courtesy of hard rock magazines like Hit Parader, Circus and Creem. Only a narrow space above my window remained bare (so to speak).
The “Bicycle Race” poster fit perfectly in the available space, but I feared that it would be taken down immediately once it was discovered by my mother. Several months went by, and I thought that I was in the clear, but then it happened. On a beautiful spring day, with the breeze blowing through the window, my mother finally looked up, saw the poster and angrily asked me why it was hanging in my room. My walls were so overwhelmingly cluttered that she never really looked at what was on them, so I was able to get away with it for longer than expected.
As I pleaded my case, I pointed out that the poster had been hanging there for a long time, and that I should be allowed to keep it because it came with an album that I bought. Needless to say, this was a battle that I wasn’t going to win, but on the bright side, I was allowed to keep the poster as long as it wasn’t on display for the world to see. I can’t say for sure, but I may still have the poster packed away somewhere inside one of my music nostalgia boxes.
Link: hardrockdaddy.wordpress.com/2013/03/06/hard-rock-music-time-machine-1978-queen-fat-bottomed-girls/
This song was released 36 years ago, in a totally different world. Here is a story I found posted online that capture one encounter with “Bicycle Race”.
Hard Rock Music Time Machine – 1978: Queen – “Fat Bottomed Girls”
Posted by AW
Around the time that I turned ten, Queen released their classic album, Jazz. I knew nothing about the band yet, but as soon as my friend, Mike, showed me the cover of the “Fat Bottomed Girls” single on 45, I had to have it. Ultimately, the song ended up being one of my all-time favorite Queen songs, but I only discovered it because of the picture on the cover. By today’s standards it is a relatively tame image, even for a 10-year old, but back then the extent of my exposure to naked girls was strictly limited to National Geographic Magazine. Of course, the fact that I felt like I was getting away with something didn’t hurt either.
Anyone who bought Queen Jazz knows that the image on the “Fat Bottomed Girls” single was nothing compared the “Bicycle Race” poster that came inside the album (see below)…
When I found out about the “Bicycle Race” poster, not surprisingly, Queen Jazz was the next album that I bought. As soon as the weekend came, I had my parents take me to the local record store, my favorite place to hang out in my youth. Tucked away in the corner of a shopping center next to a department store that would change names several times over the years, the long and narrow record store was a little slice of paradise for me. Sadly, like most other record stores, my little slice of paradise no longer exists, but the memories remain.
My hard rock music obsession was in full effect by the time that I bought Jazz. The plaid wallpaper in my room could hardly be seen through the posters and pictures of my favorite bands that were plastered on the walls, courtesy of hard rock magazines like Hit Parader, Circus and Creem. Only a narrow space above my window remained bare (so to speak).
The “Bicycle Race” poster fit perfectly in the available space, but I feared that it would be taken down immediately once it was discovered by my mother. Several months went by, and I thought that I was in the clear, but then it happened. On a beautiful spring day, with the breeze blowing through the window, my mother finally looked up, saw the poster and angrily asked me why it was hanging in my room. My walls were so overwhelmingly cluttered that she never really looked at what was on them, so I was able to get away with it for longer than expected.
As I pleaded my case, I pointed out that the poster had been hanging there for a long time, and that I should be allowed to keep it because it came with an album that I bought. Needless to say, this was a battle that I wasn’t going to win, but on the bright side, I was allowed to keep the poster as long as it wasn’t on display for the world to see. I can’t say for sure, but I may still have the poster packed away somewhere inside one of my music nostalgia boxes.
Link: hardrockdaddy.wordpress.com/2013/03/06/hard-rock-music-time-machine-1978-queen-fat-bottomed-girls/
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sandado, sunlight and sunshine!!!!
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