5.27.14 Playlist: The Very Best of Adam Lambert onsale TODAY

Playlist: The Very Best of Adam Lambert is released TODAY!

Amazon has the CD for $7.00. If you purchase the CD and live in the US you can auto-rip the disc and get MP3’s of the track. Instructions are here: www.amazon.com/gp/promotions/details/popup/A190HLXHHE3QVJ

The Amazon MP3 and iTunes album are both priced at $7.99.

Tracklist
1. Mad World (American Idol Performance) [album only]
2. One (American Idol Performance) [album only]
3. Tracks of My Tears (American Idol Performance) [album only]
4. Time for Miracles
5. For Your Entertainment
6. Whataya Want from Me
7. If I Had You (Radio Mix)
8. Aftermath
9. Can't Let You Go
10. Trespassing (Radio Edit)
11. Never Close Our Eyes
12. Better Than I Know Myself
13. Runnin'
14. Marry the Night (Glee Cast Version feat. Adam Lambert)

Note: Tracks 1, 2 and 3, the American Idol Performance tracks are only available on the album. The rest are available as digital tracks.


Rumor: 2015 European Tour – Shoshanna say “nah”
5.27.14 by Q3

There has been a persistent rumor that Queen + Adam Lambert will play a few dates in Europe. Austria, Germany, France and the UK get mentioned a lot. This may just be wishful thinking but I have consistently believed that this tour will end in the UK with a concert in London.

Yesterday a short new article from Austria about the Australian dates of the Queen + Adam Lambert tour appeared and the last sentence of the article says there will also be a European tour at the beginning of 2015.

www.wegotit.at/queen-gehen-auf-australien-tour/

Fans tweeted Adam’s publicist about it and she responded with a simple, “nah”.

Margarita◢◤ ‏@irita4ka89
@shoshannastone we saw an article .. They say that after successful tour in Australia guys decided to do new shows in Europe earlier 2015

shoshanna stone ‏@shoshannastone
@irita4ka89 nah
1:59 PM - 26 May 2014

I do not care what Shoshanna tweets, I do not believe this tour will end in Australia. It may be paused so that Adam can release and promote his new album, but this adventure will end in the UK with a concert in London.



Nice Tweet from Nile!

'Nile RodgersVerified account
@nilerodgers
@lb895 @adamlambert @avicii I really like working with them a lot! We're very natural together.'

twitter.com/nilerodgers/status/470344358387265536




Queen + Adam Lambert THE ONCE IN A LIFETIME TOUR Countdown!
5.27.14 by Q3

The countdown moves on and the start of OIAL Tour gets closer. Only 23 days to go!

I skipped the countdown yesterday – so today I have two songs for you.

#24 “Fat Bottom Girls” (1978)
Written by guitarist Brian May.
Released as a Double A single with “Bicycle Race” October 13, 1978 and on Jazz November 10, 1978.

This is not my favorite Queen song, but it is a crowd favorite and Queen and Adam really seems to have a good time performing it. And it was actually a surprisingly influential song, although like with many things, it took a while for the world to catch up.

The first homage to FBG that I know of was done with a tongue in the check and turned into a surprise cult hit. In 1984, This Is Spinal Tap, the rock music mockumentary written, scored by, and starring Rob Reiner, Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer, introduced the world to one of the most famous homages to FBG, “Big Bottom”. The “fat bottom” genre really picked up steam in 1992 with Sir Mix-a-Lot’s "Baby Got Back" –the second biggest selling song of 1992. There are literally over a dozen hit songs about big butts, including: “Big Ole Butt” by LL Cool J, “Dazzey Duks” by Duice, “Honky Tonk Badonkadonk” by Trace Adkins, and lastly the horrific "Wiggle" by Jason Derulo

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The lead vocals shared by Mercury and May, who sings lead on the chorus. On stage Mercury sang the entire song, with Roger Taylor and May doing harmonies.

The song is formed around an open bluesy, metallic guitar tuning, with the tune opening with its chorus. It was one of the few Queen songs using a drop D tuning for lead guitar and bass guitar.


Personnel

Musicians:
Freddie Mercury - lead and backing vocals
Brian May - guitars, lead, backing, and intro chorus vocals
John Deacon - bass guitar
Roger Taylor – drums

Produced by: Queen and Roy Thomas Baker


Releases

Albums:
Jazz, 1978
Greatest Hits, 1981
Greatest Hits, 1992 USA
Queen Rocks, 1997
Queen On Fire: Live At The Bowl, 2004
Return Of The Champions, 2005

Singles:
Fat Bottomed Girls, 1978 Double A-side
We Are The Champions, 1988 3" CD Single
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


“Fat Bottom Girls” Official video

The song's music video was filmed at the Dallas Convention Center in Texas in October 1978.

youtu.be/VMnjF1O4eH0


“Fat Bottom Girls” Live

Queen performed "Fat Bottomed Girls" in concert from 1978 to 1982. Vocal arrangements are quite different between the studio version and the live version. In live performances, the lead vocals during the chorus were sung by Freddie and harmonized with an upper voice (Roger) and a lower voice (Brian). In the studio version, there is no higher harmony. The lead vocals on the verses are sung by Freddie Mercury, while Brian sings lead on the chorus.

“Fat Bottomed Girls”, Live At The Bowl (1982)

June 5, 1982. Queen took the stage at England's Milton Keynes Bowl, as part of the Hot Space Tour. Magic ensues.

In 1982, played more than 60 sell-out concerts in the world's biggest arenas. One of the most famous was the concert in this giant outdoor venue, as captured on Queen On Fire: Live At The Bowl.

youtu.be/axbSd_stLb0


Fat Bottom Girls - Adam Lambert Queen Kiev Ukraine 6/30/12

youtu.be/P9Jfno3n1cA


Queen, Adam Lambert & Nate Ruess - Fat Bottomed Girls at iHeartRadio Music Festival 2013

youtu.be/cRK2MCOrLH0


“Fat Bottom Girls” Lyrics

youtu.be/OUwauaE0zEE

Fat Bottom Girls

Are you gonna take me home tonight
Ah down beside that red firelight
Are you gonna let it all hang out
Fat bottomed girls
You make the rocking world go round

Hey I was just a skinny lad
Never knew no good from bad
But I knew life before I left my nursery
Left alone with big fat Fanny
She was such a naughty nanny
Heap big woman you made a bad boy out of me
Hey hey!

I've been singing with my band
Across the wire across the land
I seen every blue eyed floozy on the way
But their beauty and their style
Went kind of smooth after a while
Take me to them dirty ladies every time

Oh won't you take me home tonight?
Oh down beside your red firelight
Oh and you give it all you got
Fat bottomed girls you make the rocking world go round
Fat bottomed girls you make the rocking world go round

Hey listen here
Now your mortgages and homes
I got stiffness in the bones
Ain't no beauty queens in this locality (I tell you)
Oh but I still get my pleasure
Still got my greatest treasure
Heap big woman you gonna make a big man out of me
Now get this

Oh you gonna take me home tonight (please)
Oh down beside your red firelight
Oh you gonna let it all hang out
Fat bottomed girls you make the rocking world go round
Fat bottomed girls you make the rocking world go round
Get on your bikes and ride

Oooh yeah them fat bottomed girls
Fat bottomed girls
Yeah yeah yeah
Fat bottomed girls
Yes yes




#23 "These Are the Days of Our Lives" (1991)
Although credited to Queen, it was written largely by their drummer Roger.
Released on Innuendo on February 4, 1991 and as a single on September 5, 1991 (First Issue) December 9, 1991 (Second Issue).

It was issued as a single in the United States on Freddie Mercury's 45th birthday, 5 September 1991, and as double A-side single in the UK three months later on 9 December, in the wake of Mercury's death, with the seminal Queen track "Bohemian Rhapsody". The single debuted at #1 on the UK Singles Chart, and remained at the top for five weeks. The song was awarded a BRIT Award for "Best Single" in 1992.

"These Are the Days of Our Lives" hearkens back to similarly themed 1975 Queen song "Love of My Life", twice using the line "I still love you". At the end of the song, Mercury simply speaks those words, as he would often do in live versions of "Love of My Life."

"I was very pleased with that. That's the first take I recorded, and Roger said, 'Well...' And I said, 'Just leave it there for a while and let it sit. See if it grows on you.' I had a feeling about it. I really prefer it. We could've done a cut-and-dried solo which, on the face of it, would've been more dramatic, but that was where I wanted to go."
Brian May - August 1991, Guitar World


Personnel

Musicians:
Freddie Mercury - lead and backing vocals
Brian May - guitars
John Deacon - bass guitar
Roger Taylor - drums, percussion, keyboards
David Richards - keyboards

Keyboards were programmed by the four band members in the studio, and conga percussion (a synthesised conga) was recorded by their producer David Richards (although it was mimed in the video by Roger).

Produced by: Queen and David Richards


Releases

Albums:
Innuendo, 1991
Classic Queen, 1992 USA
Return Of The Champions, 2005

Singles:
Bohemian Rhapsody / These Are The Days Of Our Lives, 1991 Double A-side
Five Live EP, 1993

Alternate Versions:
LP Vinyl Edit (4:00 Cut Drum Intro) - Innuendo: Parlophone PCSD 115
1991 US CD Radio Edit (3:59 Edited Outro) - Promo Hollywood PRCD-10061-2
2004 Karaoke Instrumental - DVD Japan Parlophone TOBW 3174


“These Are the Days of Our Lives” Music Video

The music video was the last to feature frontman Freddie Mercury as he was in the final stages of his battle with AIDS. The majority of the footage used in the video was filmed by Rudi Dolezal and Hannes Rossacher of DoRo Productions on 30 May 1991.

For the promotional video, Freddie Mercury, Roger Taylor and John Deacon were present at the shoot, with additional footage of guitarist Brian May filmed some weeks later and edited into the footage, as he was out of the country on a radio promotional tour at the time of the principal film shoot. The video was shot in black and white to hide the full extent of Mercury's faltering condition from AIDS (following rumors about his health that had been at the center of much media and public speculation for over a year) following on from its use in the video for "I'm Going Slightly Mad" earlier in 1991.

Color footage of the band filming the video later emerged, showing just how frail Mercury really looked, and justifying the band's decision to film in black and white out of respect for him. In this music video, Mercury is wearing a waistcoat with pictures of cats that was made for him by a close friend, and which he loved. With his knowing farewell look straight at the camera, Mercury whispers "I still love you" as the song ends, which are his last words on camera.

The version of the finished video serviced to the U.S. market also featured some animated footage produced by animators for the Walt Disney Studios, as Queen's North American record label, Hollywood Records, is a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. In Europe, a different, 'clean' version of the video without the animated sequences was released. Then another video version was released in 1992 to promote the Classic Queen compilation album in the US, combining old footage of the band from 1973 to 1991 plus the performances of the band from the US aired video.


These Are The Days Of Our Lives (Official Video)

From the 1999 'Greatest Flix III' compilation.

youtu.be/oB4K0scMysc


“These Are the Days of Our Lives” Live

Queen never performed this song live with Freddie.

The song was played live in April 1992 at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, sung by George Michael and Lisa Stansfield. This live version was later included in the 1993 "Five Live (EP)", credited to 'George Michael with Queen & Lisa Stansfield', but mostly featuring George Michael live songs plus Dear Friends, a short track sung by Freddie Mercury taken from the 1974 Sheer Heart Attack album, closing the EP.

The song was played on the 2005/06 Queen + Paul Rodgers tours with vocals by Roger Taylor. On stage the song was accompanied by a video of the band in their early days in Japan, including many shots focusing on ex-band members Mercury and Deacon.

The song was used on 1 July 2007 at the Concert for Diana. It was a concert held at the new Wembley Stadium in London, England, United Kingdom in honor of Diana, Princess of Wales, who had died 10 years earlier. At the end of the performances, a video montage of Diana as a child was presented and this song was playing in the background.

A cover version by Petula Clark is included on her 2008 compilation album Then & Now.

In 2012, Queen performed this song for in Kiev, Ukraine.

Queen + Adam Lambert “These Are The Days Of Our Lives” (Kiev 2012)

Vocals: Roger Taylor
Drums: Rufus Taylor
Bass: Neil Fairclough
Guitar: Brian May

youtu.be/pK5TuEI_d_4


“These Are the Days of Our Lives” Lyrics

youtu.be/vgo6Q3rFXwU

These Are the Days of Our Lives

Sometimes I get to feeling
I was back in the old days, long ago
When we were kids when we were young
Thing seemed so perfect, you know
The days were endless we were crazy we were young
The sun was always shining, we just lived for fun
Sometimes it seems like lately, I just don't know
The rest of my life's been just a show

Those were the days of our lives
The bad things in life were so few
Those days are all gone now but one thing is true
When I look and I find I still love you

You can't turn back the clock you can't turn back the tide
Ain't that a shame
I'd like to go back one time on a roller coaster ride
When life was just a game
No use in sitting and thinking on what you did
When you can lay back and enjoy it through your kids
Sometimes it seems like lately, I just don't know
Better sit back and go with the flow

Because these are the days of our lives
They've flown in the swiftness of time
These days are all gone now but some things remain
When I look and I find no change

Those were the days of our lives, yeah
The bad things in life were so few
Those days are all gone now but one thing's still true
When I look and I find
I still love you

I still love you




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