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Speculating about the set list as well as talking personally, I think the one-two punch of Now I'm Here and Stone Cold Crazy is the perfect opener - I really hope that doesn't change.
Since Queen Forever has just been released, they may very well be considering Let me in Your Heart Again - being a brand 'new' Queen track and mid-paced. It is definitely within Adam's wheelhouse.
We will know very soon .....
Agree about NIH & SCC. Plus, it seems Queen fans love it because they are more obscure songs true fans know and love. Adam loves AOBTD so I don't think that is going anywhere either. Actually, I think the whole opening up thru STL will remain untouched.
I have a feeling that something will change in the with the beginning of the setlist. Adam IGed part of the setlist cut into strips which seems to indicate they were working on the order but this part is the same and the 2014 tour.
instagram.com/p/xnNQ3XONCF/?modal=trueI would be shocked if they changed the intro, Procession and NIH.
But I think there is a real chance that SCC gets replaced with a hard rock song.
1. "Agree about NIH & SCC. Plus, it seems Queen fans love it because they are more obscure songs true fans know and love." -- What is this based on? Yes, Queen fans love these two songs but the Q+AL performance is not widely loved or appreciated. (This is not a critique of Adam, but of the total performance, tempo and arrangement, lack of edge/menace.) Making it really loud does not make it like it used to be. My impression is that SCC performance in particular in not loved.
SCC Live at the Rainbow 1974
youtu.be/T8Rfb1JtmicEven the 1984 Tour version of SCC was heavier than the Q+AL version:
youtu.be/xcAqMW9hAwk2. "more obscure songs". These two songs are not obscure to rock, metal. punk or Queen fans -- only obscure to pop fans who only know the Queen single hits. NIH is the most performed Queen song.
SCC is one of the most widely covered rock/metal/proto-punk songs ever. Every Metallica fan on the planet knows it. It was played by Queen almost every Queen concert through 1978 and the 1984 tour, and a cover of SCC won the Grammy in 1991.
3. The easy one -- AOBTD will be on the setlist but it
might be moved to the later part of the setlist in the UK because it was not a hit there and many UK Queen fans detest it (along with all the Queen funk-inspired dance music.)
They could move it down around Radio Ga Ga like they did for Q+AL 2012.
They could move it down and add in "Hammer to Fall" and put AOBTD after it like they did in 1984.
They could move it to the beginning of the encore like they did in 1982.
There are lots of possibilities.
And, of course, they could just leave it there.
4. So while we speculate about what gets added, I also wonder what will go?
My likely songs not to hear are DSMN and LKs. And maybe SCC. They won't cut the big hits.
These songs seem definite or highly probable to me:
1 Another One Bites the Dust
2 Bass Solo
3 Bohemian Rhapsody
4 Crazy Little Thing Called Love
5 Dragon Attack
6 Drum Solo
7 Fat Bottomed Girls
8 God Save the Queen (recorded)
9 Guitar Solo
10 I Want It All
11 I Want to Break Free
12 In the Lap of the Gods... Revisited
13 Killer Queen
14 Love of My Life
15 Now I'm Here
16 Radio Ga Ga
17 Seven Seas of Rhye
18 Somebody to Love
19 The Show Must Go On (they could drop this but I am being optimistic!)
20 Those Were The Days
21 Under Pressure
22 Vocal Solo
23 We Are the Champions
24 We Will Rock You
25 Who Wants To Live Forever
26 Brian song - '39 or something new. I expect a change here.
27 Roger song - A Kind of Magic or something new. I expect a change here
28 Procession (recorded)
Possible to reappear: Don't Stop Me Now, I Want To Break Free, SCC, Love Kills
Adam has been performing about 20 songs. There are 19 "Adam" songs on the list of 28 above. If SONGS means 2 songs, that puts him at 21 songs. So something has to go. I think it will be SCC. I am hoping it is not TSMGO.