6.9.14 iHR Concert Preview will be STREAMED LIVE!

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iHeartRadio Concert Preview will be
streamed and broadcast LIVE!!

Queen Official ‏@queenwillrock
Press Release: @queenwillrock + @adamlambert Lambert Exclusive Show at The iHeartRadio Theater - www.queenonline.com/en/news-archive/press-release--2/ …



9th June 2014
Press Release: Queen + Adam Lambert Exclusive Show at The iHeartRadio Theater

CLEAR CHANNEL PRESENTS EXCLUSIVE PERFORMANCE WITH QUEEN + ADAM LAMBERT AS PART OF THE IHEARTRADIO LIVE SERIES AT THE IHEARTRADIO THEATER LOS ANGELES

WHAT: Clear Channel will host an exclusive performance featuring Queen + Adam Lambert as part of the iHeartRadio Live series, a Clear Channel entertainment production that features performances from today's top artists. The event will feature a live performance by Queen + Adam Lambert as well as an intimate Q&A, discussing their highly anticipated 24-date North American summer tour which will kickoff later that week. Queen + Adam Lambert received glowing reviews for their performance together at the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas last September.

The event will broadcast live on-air as a 60-minute special on Clear Channel Classic Rock stations and streamed online across Classic Rock, Classic Hits and Oldies station websites as well as www.iHeartRadio.com.

WHEN: Monday, June 16, 2014, Show: 6:00 p.m. PST

WHERE: iHeartRadio Theater Los Angeles, 3000 W. Alameda Avenue, Burbank, CA 91523



All Quiet in LA
6.9.14 by Q3

Rehearsals for the upcoming Queen + Adam Lambert Tour are slated to begin this week. These rehearsals will include finalizing the details of lighting and effects. The setlist is almost certainly locked down. Adam probably has his wardrobe plan set. Wouldn’t it be great if someone gave us a few clues?



Will there be GLOWSTICKS at a Queen concert?
6.9.14 by Q3

Are we headed for a scene like this?



When Queen + Adam Lambert played Europe in 2012, it was definitely a Queen-fan dominated crowd. But there were a lot of Adam fans everywhere they went.


QAL 2012 Wroclaw, Poland

But the upcoming 2014 Tour look like they will have a larger representation of Adam fans include a large number of fanatics very dedicated fans.

Both fan groups have there own customs and rituals. The Queen rituals are well known and based on a combination of music video imitation and sporting event crowd behavior. Even the most casual Queen fans know now to clap to "Radio Ga Ga", can stomp to WWRY, and can sing along with the big Queen hits and stadium anthems. Seriously, is there a high school band in the US or Canada that doesn't at least play a clip of a Queen cheer song?

But when I saw Queen in the 1970's I do not remember a bunch of people screaming out "I love you Freddie!" {Queen was not known as the sexiest lot.} I have yet to attend an Adam concert, including iHeart Radio Music Festival, where someone didn't scream out "I love you Adam". {No one did this at the QAL 2012 Hammersmith Shows.}

But will Adam fans bring Glambert style to the QAL concerts?

I am expecting to see a bit more glitter and feathers, and more than a few glowsticks popping up at these concerts.

Why? Because when it comes to passion, Adam fans at beyond anything I have ever seen. Seriously, the word Glambert is even in the Urban Dictionary. And there isn't even a name for Queen fans, well except for "Queen fans".


Yes, there is Japanese Freddie, and very famous Freddie impersonator who attends many Queen concerts. But over the past 5 years I have seen literally dozens of people wearing a look totally inspired by Adam -- a few impersonator, many homages, aged 6 to 80, male, female and "I'm not sure".

So what's your guess? What will happen when these two slightly overlapping but very different fan groups meet for a "once in a lifetime" concert experience?


2014 Queen + Adam Lambert Tour Dates

7 days to the concert preview!!!






2014 Queen + Adam Lambert Tour countdown….
6.9.14 by Q3

Yipes!!! --- there are only 10 days to go!!

#10 “Radio Ga Ga” (1984)
Written by Roger Taylor.
Released as a single February 4, 1984 (UK), February 18, 1984 (US) and on The Works February 27, 1984 (UK), February 28, 1984 (US).

The single was a worldwide success, reaching #1 in Europe and 19 countries #2 in the UK Singles Chart, and #16 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States.

This song has the bittersweet distinction of being Queen's last Top 20 new single in North America. It is also one of the many Queen songs that has far more cultural significance than just chart placements – even in North America. It is one of the big Queen hits that will be played at every QAL 2014 concert.


Recorded in 1983 and released in January 1984, the song is a commentary on television overtaking radio's popularity and how one would listen to radio in the past for a favorite comedy, drama, or science fiction program. More specifically the song referred to the advent of the music video and MTV, which was now competing with radio as an important medium for promoting records. Ironically, Queen had done much to popularize the music video with "Bohemian Rhapsody" in 1975 and the video for "Radio Ga Ga" would become a regular staple on MTV in 1984. It was nominated for an MTV Video Music Award that year.



Most fans know the story about the origin of this song's title. The inspiration for this song came when Roger Taylor heard his son utter the words "radio ca-ca" while listening to a bad song on the radio while they were in Los Angeles. After hearing the phrase, Taylor began writing the song. Roger locked himself in a room with a Roland Jupiter-8 and a drum machine and wrote what became “Radio Ga Ga”.

Roger thought it would fit his solo album, but when the band heard it, John Deacon wrote a bassline and Freddie Mercury reconstructed the track, thinking it could be a big hit. Taylor then took a skiing holiday and let Mercury polish the lyrics, harmony, and arrangements of the song. Recording sessions began at Record Plant Studios and included Canadian session keyboardist Fred Mandel, who later on would work with Supertramp and Elton John. Mandel programmed the Jupiter's arpeggiated synth-bass parts. The recording features prominent use of the Roland VP330+ vocoder. The bassline was produced by a Roland Jupiter-8, using the built-in arpeggiator.

The song makes reference to two important radio events of the 20th century; Orson Welles' 1938 broadcast of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds in the lyric "through wars of worlds/invaded by Mars", and Winston Churchill's 18 June 1940 "This was their finest hour" speech from the House of Commons, in the lyric "You've yet to have your finest hour".


Personnel


"Radio Ga Ga" is a pop rock and synthpop song which features stadium rock elements such as hand claps. Taylor sings all backing vocals on this recording.

Musicians:
Freddie Mercury - lead vocals, sampler
Brian May - guitars
John Deacon - bass guitar
Roger Taylor - drums, drum machine, sampler, Vocoder, backing vocals
Fred Mandel - synthesizer, sampler

Produced by: Queen and Mack


Releases

Albums:
The Works, 1984
Greatest Hits II, 1991
Classic Queen, 1992 USA
Live Magic, 1986
Live At Wembley '86, 1992
Return Of The Champions, 2005

Singles:
Radio Ga Ga, 1984
Radio Ga Ga, 1988 3" CD Single

Compilations:
De Pré Historie - 1984 - Volume 3, CD, Holland, 2000, 74321 75234 2

Alternate Versions:
Greatest Hits II Edit - Greatest Hits II: Parlophone CDP 79 7971 2
Karaoke Instrumental - Japan Toshiba EMI TOLW - 3249.50
12" Extended Remix - Works: US 1991 Hollywood HR-61233-2
12" Instrumental - EMI 12 Queen 1
1984 US DJ 12" Loreti Mani 8:06 Dance Edit - Hot Tracks Series 3 Issue 3 SA 3-3
1992 Re-Cut 9:52 - In Memories Of Freddie Mercury: RM-CD 01
1996 EC Dance Traxx Queen & DJ Bobo Mix - Queen Dance Trax I: Electrola LC 4951
US 12" 4:24 Promo Edit - Capitol SPRO-9064
Japan 7" Promo Edit - Toshiba EMI EMS 17425



“Radio Ga Ga” Music Video

This is one of Queen’s most famous music videos. This is actually one of the most significant music videos ever released. In large part thanks to Freddie's brilliant idea to pair this song with Metropolis.

David Mallet directed this music video for the song which features scenes from Fritz Lang's 1927 German expressionist science fiction film Metropolis and was filmed at Carlton TV Studios and Shepperton Studios, London, in November 1983. It features the band in a car flying over the title city, and later performing the song in front of the city's working class. Freddie Mercury's solo song "Love Kills" was used in Giorgio Moroder's restored version of the film, and in exchange Queen were granted the rights to use footage from it in their "Radio Ga Ga" video. However, Queen had to buy performance rights to the film from the communist East German government, which was the copyright holder at the time. At the end of the music video, the words "Thanks To Metropolis" appear.

The video also features footage from earlier Queen promotional videos (such as "Bohemian Rhapsody", "We Are the Champions", "Don't Stop Me Now" and "Flash") in a photo album. A different version of "Bohemian Rhapsody" is also shown.

youtu.be/t63_HRwdAgk

An alternate version with previously unseen camera angles, out-takes and backstage footage from the original video shoot appears on Queen: Days of Our Lives DVD and Blu-Ray releases.

youtu.be/HonPRHVEH-U

The making of the music video


The people in the white suits were 1,000 fans who showed up for the shoot.

I recommend this interview. The VH1 interview with David Mallet about the making of this video.

youtu.be/GRQ3R_DeFW4

****


Wembley July 12, 1986

“Radio Ga Ga” Live

Radio Ga Ga" is a live favorite thanks largely to the audience participation potential of the clapping sequence prompted by the rhythm of the chorus (copied from the music video). The band performed the song at every concert from 1984 to their last with Freddie in 1986. The most notable performance was at Live Aid in 1985.

Queen finished their sets before the encores on The Works Tour with "Radio Ga Ga" and Mercury would normally sing "you had your time" in a lower octave and modify the deliveries of "you had the power, you've yet to have your finest hour" while Roger Taylor sang the pre-chorus in the high octave. Live versions from the 1984/85 tour were recorded and filmed on the concert films Queen Rock in Rio 1985, and Final Live in Japan 1985.

“Radio Ga Ga” at Live Aid (1985)

Queen played a shorter, up-tempo version of "Radio Ga Ga" during the Live Aid concert in July 1985 at Wembley Stadium, where Queen's "show-stealing performance" had 72,000 people clapping in unison. It was the second song the band performed at Live Aid after opening with "Bohemian Rhapsody".

youtu.be/0omja1ivpx0

“Radio Ga Ga” The Magic Tour (1986)

The song was played for the Magic Tour including two more times at Wembley Stadium; it was recorded for the live album Live at Wembley '86, the July 12, 1986 performance.

youtu.be/Tp8psbolcro

Freddie’s Last Concert: Knebworth Park
August 9, 1986 Stevenage,England

The audio is a combination of the official album "Live Magic", an audience recording taken from the bootleg "Thank You All", and the video source. The video is a combination of the audience video, the official Rare Live VHS, and various official documentaries. The intro comes from a slideshow of pictures from this concert.

youtu.be/pSrF95IpM0M


Notable Performances after 1986

Paul Young, Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert

Of all the performances of "Radio Ga Ga" the Queen + Paul Young performace at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert again at Wembley Stadium on April 20, 1992 may be the most amazing. This is a must watch video!

youtu.be/GtwdBh9rCno


Roger Taylor, Party at the Palace

At the "Party at the Palace" concert, celebrating Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee in 2002, "Radio Ga Ga" opened up Queen's set with Roger Taylor on vocals and Phil Collins on the drums.

This is a heartfelt performance, but not Roger's best vocal effort and the back-up vocalists are not so good.

youtu.be/VgmxiDTJUf0


Queen + Paul Rodgers “Radio Ga Ga”

This song was played on the Queen + Paul Rodgers Tour in 2005–2006 and sung by Roger Taylor and Paul Rodgers. It was recorded officially at the Hallam FM Arena in Sheffield on May 5, 2005. The result, Return of the Champions, was released on CD and DVD on September 19, 2005 and October 17, 2005, respectively.

It was also played on the Rock the Cosmos Tour during late 2008, this time with only Rodgers on lead vocals. The concert album Live in Ukraine came as a result of this tour, yet the song is not available on the CD or DVD versions released June 15, 2009. This performance of "Radio Ga Ga" is only available as a digital download from iTunes.

Queen + Paul Rodgers - Radio Ga Ga (Live in Chile) November 19, 2008

Paul sang the vocals on this one and made it a sing-alone. JMHO I think this song is better as a clap-along vs. a sing-along.

youtu.be/er21N6AH1hs


Queen + Adam Lambert “Radio Ga Ga”

The song was performed at all 6 Queen + Adam Lambert concerts on their 2012 European Mini-Tour. It was not performed at the EMAs or at the iHeart Radio Music Festival (2013).

This is Adam debut performance of this song but also the performance with the large crowd. My expectation is that we will be a more authoritative, commanding version of this song in the upcoming tour.

Radio Gaga - Adam Lambert Queen Kiev Ukraine (2012)

youtu.be/4H6FIOXGJIg



“Radio Ga Ga” Lyrics

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Radio Ga Ga

Radio I'd sit alone and watch your light
My only friend through teenage nights
And everything I had to know
I heard it on my radio

You gave them all those old time stars
Through wars of worlds - invaded by Mars
You made 'em laugh - you made 'em cry
You made us feel like we could fly
Radio

So don't become some background noise
A backdrop for the girls and boys
Who just don't know or just don't care
And just complain when you're not there
You had your time you had the power
You've yet to have your finest hour
Radio

All we hear is Radio ga-ga
Radio goo-goo
Radio ga-ga
All we hear is Radio ga-ga
Radio blah blah
Radio what's new?
Radio someone still loves you

We watch the shows - we watch the stars
On videos for hours and hours
We hardly need to use our ears
How music changes through the years

Let's hope you never leave old friend
Like all good things on you we depend
So stick around because we might miss you
When we grow tired of all this visual
You had your time you had the power
You've yet to have your finest hour
Radio

All we hear is Radio ga-ga
Radio goo-goo
Radio ga-ga
All we hear is Radio ga-ga
Radio goo-goo
Radio ga-ga
All we hear is Radio ga-ga
Radio blah blah
Radio what's new?
Someone still loves you

Radio ga-ga
Radio ga-ga
Radio ga-ga
Radio

You had your time you had the power
You've yet to have your finest hour
Radio



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