What astounding reviews... Yes time for Adam Lambert's name to be in much bigger letters on the trucks and elsewhere..Some Queen fans are beyond rude and hateful not only to Adam but to Queen.. Their fear of Adam's incredible voice overtaking Mercury's legacy is so ill conceived. Adam is helping Freddie's legacy ,by bringing the music alive.
Agree completely. And, I don't know how many ways Brian and Adam can say the exact same thing. I just ignore the rude and hateful comments. They seem to miss the point completely. Obviously, they are not interested in keeping Freddie's musical vision alive.
Does anyone know the story behind Save Me? Obviously about a break up, maybe? It surprises me that they chose to sing this due to it's personal nature. I so wanted to hear White Queen but figured we never would because of it being too personal. Save Me shoots that theory down (I think).
Sorry, not a One Vision fan. Although, I'll wait for them to get a few concerts under their belt.
This concert seemed very fast tempo wise. I couldn't believe how fast Adam was singing in SCC! At some points some of the songs seemed a little too hectic (for me).
The reviews are amazing!
Hoping for kilts!
Written by: Brian May
Musicians:
Freddie Mercury - lead and backing vocals
Brian May - acoustic and electric guitars, piano, backing vocals, synthesizer
John Deacon - bass guitar
Roger Taylor - drums, backing vocals
- Not released in the US but it was released in a few countries as a single - Ireland #8, Italy #10, Germany #42, Japan #96, Netherlands #5, Norway #7, and the UK #11. I don't understand how it didn't get a release in the US but I digress.
- Played live from 1979-1982 and then dropped. Brian recorded a version with Kerry Ellis for her
Anthems album and played it on that tour as well.
- A perfect power ballad whereupon in concert Brian would open on piano and then in the middle section Freddie would jump on piano while Brian played the Old Lady.
QUOTES:
- "We actually wrote very separately in those days and we never really talked about what the songs meant. I think we were quite shy about what we were trying to say in them. We tend to talk about things more now…I wrote
Save Me to cut a long story short – I wrote it about a friend, someone who was going through a bad time, and I imagined myself in their shoes, kind of telling the story. Someone
whose relationship is totally fucked up and how sad that person was.” – Brian May – In the Studio
ALTERNATE VERSIONS:
SINGLE VERSION- NOT essential. Released 6 months prior to the album the mix was somewhat different with some different phasings in the vocals.
BRIAN MAY + KERRY ELLIS - Interesting rearrangement. A bit more polished...which is not quite a good thing. It is a great version, but it lacks the soul of Freddie imo.
OFFICIALLY RELEASED LIVE VERSIONS:
ROCK MONTREAL VERSIONON FIRE AT THE BOWL VERSIONNO YT VIDS
- BOTH are phenenomenal live performances. Freddie, I miss you.
UNRELEASED LIVE VERSIONS:
QUEEN LIVE IN HAMMERSMITH - 1979- ESSENTIAL
- Despite Brian's minor fuck up during the last solo, I think this is my favorite live performance of the song.
QUEEN LIVE IN ARGENTINA - 1981- Interesting as Freddie's mic short circuits and Freddie has to use John's and then the piano mic only and he doesn't miss a beat...
QUEEN LIVE IN STOCKHOLM - 1982- AUDIO only
- ESSENTIAL ESSENTIAL! If just for the comedy. Freddie banters with the audience, and then starts singing, but Brian doesn't start the piano..it's...amusing
BRIAN MAY + KERRY ELLIS - BBC 2010- LOVE the intro! Better than Kerry's studio version I believe.
PERSONAL NOTES:
- One of my favorite Queen songs of ALL time. It is up there with
White Queen in my rotating top 5. Just so emotive and powerful. This was my biggest disappointment with the QAL set list. I thought Adam would have handled this track brilliantly!
That ends
The Game but we have a B-Side and Demo here still so we move on that B-Side, Roger's
A Human Body
