6.26.14 Adam News and Info!!

Adam Lambert – The Golden King
6.26.14 by Q4

Adam looks great in his new glamtastic coronet. It is shimmery and shiny and golden. But he did not need a crown to be King of my heart. He got that title over 5 years ago. But now that he is donning royal headgear, I think he needs a title to go with it.

Once he was called the Dark Lord Screamanova. But this Adam is golden, not dark.



And he does have a golden voice.




And he looks great in gold.

So I cast my vote for The Golden King.
The slogan of his realm, “What if it was gold?”

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Adam wearing a photoshopped flower crown. "Just cause I like it"...Q3


One Title I Want Adam to Lose!
But there is an odd twist to this one!
6.26.14 by Q3

Adam remains the only openly gay artist to have a US #1 album. I really want him to get a new title the FIRST openly gay artist to have a US #1 album. They first of many, so many that 14 years olds ask oldsters why this was ever meaningful.

This week, Sam Smith In The Lonely Hour debuts at #2. It just misses becoming the second #1 album by an openly gay artist. Adam Lambert's Trespassing was the first, in May 2012. Smith's album spent two weeks at #1 on The U.K.'s Official Albums Chart. Smith has received a tremendous amount of buzz in the past few months, has a current top 10 hit on the Hot 100 with "Stay With Me." He has also been featured on two other top 20 hits: Disclosure's current "Latch" and Naughty Boy's "La La La." There was no gap in the promotion, just the poor timing of releasing an album the same week as Lana Del Ray who dramatically beat expectations.

Note: In case you are interested, Sam Smith would have gotten a number 1 album most weeks just not this week -- Lana Del Rey Ultraviolence sold 182K. Sam Smith In The Lonely Hour sold 166K.

Now here is the odd twist!

Looking at the upcoming new release schedule, and the list of artists working on major label albums, the next openly gay artist with a great shot at having a US #1 album is....drumroll....Adam Lambert! And the odds of this just went up with the news that the album is planned for an early 2015 release. Never would have guessed that one!



Adam Lambert finds it ‘hard’ to be a LGBT role model
June 25th, 2014 by Lisa McGarry.



Adam Lambert has admitted that being an LGBT role model for millions of fans around the world is no easy task.

The American Idol star is currently on tour with Queen and has enjoyed a magnificent career since finishing in second place on the reality TV show all those years ago, however as well as singing and performing he’s found championing fundraising and awareness campaigns surrounding the LGBT community taking up more and more of his time and effort.

He’s thrown his weight behind a number of campaigns and drives and has even won awards for his philanthropic and charitable work in the area but speaking to Music Choice Play Lambert admitted that the job isn’t as easy as it seems.

He says that everyone wants something different from him and explained:

“You can’t please everybody. And everybody wants you to be a different thing for a different group.”



Adam had a hard time coming to terms with the amount of people looking up to and expecting him to represent them and added:

“It was hard for me to accept that, like it or not, I was going to be somebody that they looked at as a figure that was representing the gay community to the rest of the public.”

The For Your Entertainment star has recently been throwing his weight behind the AT&T Live Proud campaign and fans stand a chance of winning tickets to a private gig and a meet and greet with Adam if they pledge money to the cause, or submit a new meme to their Facebook page. He tweeted:



Last night Adam and Queen took to the stage in Edmonton, Rexall Place and Lambert tweeted:

“Thank you Edmonton ! You guys were pumped ”

Leave your comments below…

Link: primetime.unrealitytv.co.uk/adam-lambert-finds-hard-lgbt-role-model/



Queen Release Trailer for 'Live at The Rainbow ‘74'
Juue 25, 2014 | Music News | By Rock Square



As we reported last week, Queen will finally release Live at The Rainbow ‘74 on September 8th, forty years after deciding to shelve the live document in favor of a studio recording. Now the Queen camp has unveiled the 90-second teaser yesterday, and you can watch it below.

The double-CD version of Live at The Rainbow ‘74 will include audio recorded at The Rainbow in March and November of 1974, while DVD and Blu-ray editions will contain the November show (presumably that was the only Rainbow gig that was filmed).

A Super Deluxe Box Set version of the release will bundle the CD, DVD and Blu-ray iterations of Live at the Rainbow ‘74, along with a 60-page hardback book and assorted memorabilia reproductions (tickets, buttons, brochures, posters).

All configurations of the “new” album are available for pre-order at Queen’s online shop. queen.shop.bravadousa.com/Dept.aspx?cp=39831_47752#

Queen are currently on a North American tour with Freddie Mercury ringer Adam Lambert, who obviously has some big shoes to fill. We wish him luck--doing Mercury’s brand of magic justice on a nightly basis must be immensely taxing. But if Brian May and Roger Taylor have faith in him, then so do we.

youtu.be/5bQlyDygns8

Link: www.rocksquare.com/community/musicnews/4323



An odd review, filled with snark and errors
6.26.14 by Q3

This is a minor publication, and this reviewer specializes in snarky reviews. I think he thinks it is clever. I think he is not.

I gather he was not impressed by Adam but it also appears he may have not watched the entire concert since in seems to have missed several songs that Adam sung – ummm about 10 songs by my count. And mixed up the song order.

Derik Owen: "Queen could have kept hits coming, one after another, but following Somebody To Love, Lambert left the stage, and with the exception of a couple songs, wasn’t seen much for the next hour."

Actually, after STL, Adam sang lead vocals on "I Want It All". Then he left the stage.

He then returned to sing three songs on the B Stage...

15. Under Pressure (Adam and Roger duet)
16. Love Kills
17. Who Wants To Live Forever

And then sang lead vocals on 8 songs.

20. Tie Your Mother Down
21. Radio Ga Ga
22. Don't Stop Me Now
23. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
24. The Show Must Go On
25. Bohemian Rhapsody
26. We Will Rock You
27. We Are The Champions

By my count, and rough timing – Adam sang 12 songs after STL, and around 10 within the hour! Not "a couple".

Setting apart Derik Owen’s inability to count, some parts of this review are pretty funny -- mostly unintended.

Derik had to show he was super-smart and knew that Metallica covered “Stone Cold Crazy” – but any Queen fan would know that Queen has performed this song twice as often as Metallica and it is an important Queen live performance song. Why mention Metallica? To show he “knows” rock music. Woooo I am so impressed! Not.

He provided women with a new excuse for having a "fat bottom" – all you need to say is "I’m big boned."
Derik wrote: “Lambert referred to big boned women in the audience who may or may not have glandular problems as ‘fat ass bitches.’ “
Derik, when Adam says, “All you fat ass bitches are gonna get out your seat and ride!” he is using "bitches" in a gender neutral 2014 way. It is a way of saying get up and dance!

The “Clock Paradox”: This one made me laugh out loud!!
Derik wrote: “….‘39, a strange tale of something called the clock paradox,…”

Finally, my favorite!
Derik wrote: “Soon came the over-the-top Killer Queen, featuring Lambert camped out in an outlandish costume, splayed out on this exotic couch trying to outvamp Frank-N-Furter minus the makeup.” Yep, I think he got something right! Adam was doing an OTT performance of an OTT song! And I think he did outvamp Dr. Frank-N-Furter – even with a “lip sofa”!



Here is the review in its entirety so you do not have to give him any clicks. And so I have a copy of the original when he sneaks back in to fix all the errors!

REVIEW: Killer Queen defies the cynics
Posted on June 25, 2014 By Derek Owen

When you get as big as Queen – all 250 million or so records sold – you can do whatever you want. And that includes hiring a new lead singer from one of the most popular television shows in the world – and then defying all cynical expectations that they’re just doing this for the money.

Two already extremely wealthy (and eccentric) Englishmen named Brian May and Roger Taylor – Queen’s remaining two original members after Freddie Mercury’s death in 1991 and John Deacon’s retirement from music six years afterwards – had other ideas for this new Queen + Adam Lambert tour. For a packed house at Rexall Place Tuesday night, they played music the fans wanted for half the night, and for the other half, they did whatever the hell they wanted. And it worked.



Lambert, a 2009 American Idol runner-up, is gayest blade Zorro ever wielded. While his voice had none of the edge that Mercury’s had, sounding way too clean to be convincing, his performance style fit the material. The singer interpreted the theatrical components of these classic songs exactly the way they were written, regardless of the goofball outfits he was wearing at the moment.


Queen with Freddie Mercury

The night started with bevy of old 70′s standards, from the Metallica-covered rifftastic Stone Cold Crazy, with Lambert spitting out the rapid fire lyrics like the old Mercury machine gun pumped out on their 1974 album Sheer Heart Attack. Soon came the over-the-top Killer Queen, featuring Lambert camped out in an outlandish costume, splayed out on this exotic couch trying to outvamp Frank-N-Furter minus the makeup. He sang pedestrian and plodding versions of Another One Bites The Dust and I Want It All, where both lacked the feeling of the original, and brought torch-song theatrical flair to Somebody To Love.

Fat Bottomed Girls was shocking for reasons you wouldn’t expect: Lambert referred to big boned women in the audience who may or may not have glandular problems as “fat ass bitches.” I think most fans thought he was too charming to care.

If there is one thing Queen did not do wrong at any moment this night it was staging, including an extensive, expensive lighting rig and a camera crew to catch all the action. May’s guitar even had cameras looking up and down the fretboard. The effects on the state-of-the-art video display were so intricate and coordinated they had to have been directed. The main video screen was circular, flanked by swooping catwalk and all lit with LED to make a giant “Q.”

Queen could have kept hits coming, one after another, but following Somebody To Love, Lambert left the stage, and with the exception of a couple songs, wasn’t seen much for the next hour.

It was our eccentric Englishmen’s turn to shine.


Roger Taylor

The interlude began with May performing an acoustic version of Love of My Life, complete with an archival Freddie Mercury recording providing the vocal track at the tail end of the song, and going into ‘39, a strange tale of something called the clock paradox, to which May namechecks Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. When was the last time you heard those names in the entertainment world outside of an episode of Big Bang Theory? Remember that May holds a PhD in astrophysics and once served as the chancellor of John Moores University in Liverpool.

The show continued to unfold in a delightfully unpredictable way. Raspy-throated Roger Taylor took over vocals on Those Were the Days, and carried the sentiment of the song – largely dedicated to Mercury in the video montage – without becoming maudlin.

With Lambert back – in more outrageous getups – May did his own homage to the 1970s Rock Gods by letting himself solo. For the next 10 minutes. No endless widdly-widdly here, but the emotive style of his playing took the forefront in a clear tip of the hat to best of David Gilmour. A patchwork quilt of tightly knit red laser beams framed May in the middle of the Q, almost as if he was stuck there in a web, before he worked his way out and lit into Tie Your Mother Down, a much more of energetic romp than the evening’s previous rockers.

From here Queen veered back onto the right side of the road – for the North Americans amongst us – to hammer away at the remainder of the greatest hits collection: Radio Ga Ga, Don’t Stop Me Now, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, and Bohemian Rhapsody, all played with a lively spirit not present in the first half of the show. As for the encores, they need not even be mentioned, being so culturally ubiquitous as to be almost cliche. But highly entertaining they were, with ample footstomping and hand clapping within the arena.

From an unexpectedly lacklustre start, to a rip-roaring middle section full of soloing and rock star excess, to a final suite of the band’s uber anthems performed balls out, the way this show unfolded was wonderfully, underhandedly, quintessentially British: Full of wit, piss, vinegar, all wrapped around so many irresistible pop confections. Queen reminded us that once they got going, they were going do as they wished, and that they had the ability to make us like what they were doing, even if we’ve heard it 20,000 times before – without Adam Lambert.

PHOTOS: From Queen’s Facebook Page

Link: www.gigcity.ca/2014/06/25/review-killer-queen-defies-the-cynics/



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