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Brian May plays "Beautiful you are, my forest", cries together with 14,000 for Freddie
Adam Lambert were the little Azis, but in combination with the two from Queen "could pass". I stumbled across at least a few comments in this mellow "authoritative" spirit on Facebook after the concert of Queen. From the pictures taken in daylight at the "Gerena" (
note: the old name of the stadium), is is obvious that these particularly "enlightened" authors exercised their populist game of analogies after One Vision which opened the night. In the next nearly two hours their stock of lean jokes and oily wit attempts surely melted not only from the heat, but also from the simple truth - the hits of this group are epic, great and they swirl you in the musical cosmos, and Adam Lambert is not Freddie. But he opens his whole soul in the music of Queen and this can be sensed with the naked ear. Rather than stepping into the quicksands of the game "Look at me what a frontman I am", he shows that he is only a guest of their Majesties and is damn grateful for the chance. Indeed, the former Starbucks clerk and finalist on American Idol has the incredible luck to be touring the world at 34 in front of full stadiums alongside the aristocratic Brian May and Roger Taylor.
"I'm not Freddie, I know. And you know it.
I'm not here to replace him, but to say how great he was and how much we loved him. Is here anyone who loves Freddie as much as I do? " asked Lambert after the brilliant hat-trick with Another One Bites the Dust, Fat Bottomed Girls and Play the Game.
His fans responded with a mighty roar and then followed Killer Queen, which the singer spent on a symbolic throne in black, demonstrating good high heels and ironic gestures of a coquette dive. "It is very hot here. Do you want some more?" asked Labmart while toasting with a black chalice, and clearly hearing the English "Yes" spilled with aplomb the rest of the fluid onto the first rows. "That's right, we want to make you wet!" said the singer and his victorious smile flashed on the titanic LED screen with spherical shape behind his back. Directed so that the emphasis throughout would be on the giving his all behind the drums Taylor, the charismatic May and the sprinting across the stage Lambert, the show took your breath away with its lavish lighting design.
Brian May won the hearts of the audience with "Beautiful you are, my forest".
"Hello, Bulgaria! How are you!" said in clear Bulgarian Brian May."My Bulgarian is not that good, but I'd bet that you feel how excited I am to be here." said the guitarist and in his hand instead of a guitar's neck flashed a huge selfie stick. "This thing does a perfect job for photos, do you want to use it together?", he asked, and did a full circle with the lens, and the frames with excited faces and a kilometer-long Bulgarian flag in the front row appeared on the screen. "Let's sing the next song together. For Freddie!" called the master of the thin string and the first chords of Love of My Life sounded into the nigh. The combination of May's voice, his acoustic guitar, the throats of 14,000 and the inclusion of Mercury in an improvised duet via video plunged the stadium into a sea of mobile phone lights, and at the end the musician wiped a tear in tune with quite many in the crowd.
The pace accelerated again when Roger Taylor entrusted the drums to his son Rufus, to perform It's a Kind of Magic. The drum battle between the two was the perfect prelude to Under Pressure, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, and then some fans of the flied took out imaginary vacuum cleaners to honor I Want to Break Free. Nobody guessed that the most emotional moment of the evening is closer to the finale - rising on a small platform on the background of his favorite nebulae and constellations, May started playing his Last Horizon, which flowed seamlessly into "Beautiful you are, my forest". This, it turns out, is the first stop of Queen's European tour in which May affords such a gesture, but his cosmic performance was not the only declaration of love to the fans. After Tie Your Mother Down, Bohemian Rhapsody and Radio Gaga, the band came out for an encore, and while Lambert glowed in a golden jacket and crown, May bet on a T-shirt with the text "Sofia" and the Bulgarian flag. From its standard duration of 90 minutes Queen extended the gig with another 20 minutes, which was also unprecedented. As expected, We Will Rock You and We are the Champions overflowed into encore, after which the group presented its "shadow" members - bassist Neil Fairclough, keyboardist Spike Edney and their second drummer Rufus Taylor. Without unnecessary fanfare and shooting with plectrums or drumsticks into the audience, the sextet bowed down repeatedly and scurried silently, defeating the expectations that they would come out for another encore with the desired by all Show Must Go On.
