6.12.14 QAL Peak of the set, 7 days and all is revealed!!

Just for an idea of the epicness that is only 8 days away!!! QAL 2012.



Adam: "I was pretty nervous"

More from Sunday Night, Australia

SNEAK PEEK: Adam Lambert talks to Sunday Night about filling Freddie's shoes and how he got the opportunity of a lifetime - touring with Queen.

www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=813942188616697&set=vb.198416696835919&type=3&theater

Adam Lambert Sunday Night Sneak Peak 2
via lilybop2010

youtu.be/C4BH5L9-org



Nile Rodgers Says He’s Recording A Song With “Almost Everybody That’s Ever Sung With Me”
By Christina Lee
Jun 11th, 2014

For most of this year so far, Nile Rodgers has been working on a new Chic album. So far he’s confirmed that the record will feature present-day superstars, like David Guetta and Avicii. He’s also using old demos, from when he was working with David Bowie in 1983, as the record’s basis — what he calls the “Lost Chic Tapes.”

But as revealed today, the resurgent producer and guitarist also plans to have his past and present collide on one song. “I’m just finishing up a new song for CHIC that’s going to feature almost everybody that’s ever sung with me,” he said on Twitter. “I can’t wait to do that session.”

If production credits count, then “everybody” would include Michael Jackson, Paul Simon and Bob Dylan. Diana Ross, Duran Duran and INXS. It would include Madonna and Grace Jones. Pharrell and Daft Punk, certainly. Disclosure and Sam Smith. Adam Lambert. The mere thought of hearing everybody who’s sung with Rodgers, ever, on one song – it’s almost too much greatness to handle.

Keep your fingers crossed.

Link: www.idolator.com/7522284/nile-rodgers-chic-new-album-2014



Strange Billboard 200 Album Chart Trivia…

Miranda Lambert is the second artist with that surname to reach #1. Adam Lambert topped the chart in May 2012 with Trespassing.

Link: music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart-watch/chart-watch-hers-1s-blake-miranda-201941068.html


2014 Queen + Adam Lambert Tour Dates

4 days to the concert preview!!!




2014 Queen + Adam Lambert Tour News


Photos from LA Rehearsals

@jackhenryjames This rehearsal space really is massive instagram.com/p/pF1YvrIeIN/







This appears to be one of Roger Meddows Taylor's (RMT) equipment cases.

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nicolekehl1
Just watching #AdamLambert soundcheck with #Queen dead ringer for #freddiemercury if you ask me -- unbelievable!

Nicole Kehl also posted the image of the set shown below. It shows two round lighting rigs and maybe a third one. The lower lighting rig appears to rotate. Hard to tell if the high one moves but I expect it will. Looks like the lighting effects will be pretty spectacular. And it is massive just as Brian and Adam said -- you can tell the scale by the size of the person on the stage.




nicolekehl1-- Nicole Kehl was a background vocalist on the Diamonds World Tour 2013 (Rhianna)



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

OMG!!! --- there are only 7 days to go!!     

#7 “’39” (1975)
Written by Brian May.
Released on A Night at the Opera November 21, 1975 and also as the B-Side of “You're My Best Friend” May 18, 1976.

Someone had to have counted this! (I’m thinking it was Brian.) For every Queen song before "'39" in album order, "'39" was the 39th Queen song.

This song is brilliant -- one of my favorite Queen songs. – It is Queen at their mostly unplugged best.

For starters, I am a massive science fiction fan, so any song that is based on space travel and Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, that is, time dilation (as speed increases time expands) has a place in my heart. Add in inspiration from Herman Hesse’s The River and Brian’s guitar and the awesomeness that is Queen, and your are on the way to my inner soul.

The song does leave a few mysteries – Is ’39, 2039, 2139, 2339? And has he met his granddaughter? But that just gives fans something to speculate about.


"'39" relates the tale of a group of space explorers who embark on what is, from their perspective, a year-long voyage. Upon their return, however, they realize that a hundred years have passed, and the loved ones they left behind are now all dead.

Like many other Brian May compositions, this song seems to have a dual narrative; a third person perspective telling the tale of the voyage and their return underlying a first person conversation. "Can't you hear me calling you, though you're many years away?" is an imaginary conversation between one of the volunteers and presumably his wife, speaking to her through space and time. "write your letters in the sand", to me, seems to suggest leaving him a message etched in the earth he will see when he returns, perhaps a tree or stone. "for the day I take your hand in the land that our grandchildren knew." is simply a longing to return to the time and place with his loved ones. A land he knows his grandchildren will inhabit in his absence.

I think the line "your mother's eyes from your eyes cry to me." suggest the voyager has met one of his children. After so long it has to be assumed his child is now a centenarian. And he is still a young man.

"For my life's still ahead, pity me." means he is now alone and will live out the rest of his life displaced in time with no one.

Lyrically the song does not give you all the information you would need to assemble the events or meaning of those events. It only gives you enough to put together a long voyage and it's effects physically and psychologically. What I love is the way it's intentionally framed as a sea voyage to a new land, not as a journey into space. Unless you knew "though I'm older but a year" meant a very specific phenomena of intergalactic travel, you would be confused by that. But that is precisely what it is, and Mays knew enough about astrophysics to use it as the basis for a sad tale of loss.

Note: I used of the interpretation by DouglasNCon posted January 30, 2010 part of the above song meaning info. The link to his original comment is now dead.

Brian sings the song on the album, backing vocals by Freddie as well as very high and fairly low harmonies and some falsettos by Roger. Freddie usually performed the vocals on it when '39 was performed live in concert. May had asked bassist John Deacon to play double bass as a joke but a couple of days later he found Deacon in the studio with the instrument, and he had already learned to play it.



Personnel

Musicians:
Brian May - lead and backing vocals, acoustic and electric guitars
Freddie Mercury - backing vocals
John Deacon - double bass
Roger Taylor - bass drum, tambourine, backing vocals

Produced by: Queen and Roy Thomas Baker


Releases


Albums:
A Night At The Opera, 1975
Live Killers, 1979
Return Of The Champions, 2005



Singles:
You're My Best Friend, 1975 B-side

Solo Versions:
Live At The Brixton Academy, 1994




“'39” Album Track

youtu.be/BjuyXR5by2s


“'39” Live

“39” Live At Earls Court 1977

youtu.be/mD36Yd4xM_g


“'39” Live Killers, 1979

Record at Festhalle, Frankfurt on February 2, 1979.

youtu.be/wJ6aNvK4a0s


Queen and George Michael “'39” 1992

George Michael performed "'39" at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert in April 1992. He said this was his favorite Queen song and said he used to busk it on the London Underground.

youtu.be/P7zUKT7qtkw


Brian May “’39”, Solo Acoustic Performance, 2006

youtu.be/CqOdu2xjlBA


Brain May and Roger Taylor, “’39” Hammersmith Apollo, 2012

The July 14, 2012 Queen + Adam Lambert concert.

youtu.be/v6ZQ185e7ew


“’39” Lyrics

youtu.be/exEeS19Mzq4

'39

'In the year of thirty-nine'
Assembled here the volunteers
In the days when lands were few
Here the ship sailed out into the blue and sunny morn
The sweetest sight ever seen
And the night followed day
And the story tellers say
That the score brave souls inside
For many a lonely day
Sailed across the milky seas
Never looked back never feared never cried

Don't you hear my call
Though you're many years away
Don't you hear me calling you
Write your letters in the sand
For the day I'll take your hand
In the land that our grand-children knew

'In the year of thirty-nine'
Came a ship from the blue
The volunteers came home that day
And they bring good news
Of a world so newly born
Though their hearts so heavily weigh
For the earth is old and grey
Little darling we'll away
But my love this cannot be
Oh so many years have gone
Though I'm older than a year
Your mothers eyes from your eyes cry to me

Don't you hear my call
Though you're many years away
Don't you hear me calling you
Write your letters in the sand
For the day I'll take your hand
In the land that our grand-children knew

Don't you hear my call
Though you're many years away
Don't you hear me calling you
All your letters in the sand
Cannot heal me like your hand
For my life still ahead pity me



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