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Adam Lambert stuns in X Factor pictures
Author Newsdesk Date 1st July 2016

Adam Lambert has shared the first pictures from his time as a judge on the Australian version of X FACTOR.



Adam Lambert looks stunning in pictures he’s published from his first days as a judge on the Australian version of the talent show X FACTOR.

http://instagr.am/p/BHQoaFKDQnX

He’s already being hailed as the perfect judge, having come from a similar show, American Idol, and having managed to carve a successful career after the show’s end, selling millions of records around the world.

http://instagr.am/p/BHQYaN0jfEb

The openly gay 34-year-old “Never Close Our Eyes” singer looks relaxed and happy in the candid photos as he poses with co-judge Iggy Azalea and returning judge Guy Sebastian.

http://instagr.am/p/BHPij2Dj7XX

This isn’t the first time Adam has judged on a talent show he sat in as a guest judge with Jennifer Lopez and Harry Connick Jr. on American Idol

Link: www.thegayuk.com/adam-lambert-stuns-in-x-factor-pictures/



45 Years Ago: Queen Play Their First Show With Classic Lineup
By Dave Lifton July 1, 2016 11:45 AM

Barely a year after making their live debut, Queen found the foursome that would propel them to international stardom. The group showed off their new bassist, John Deacon, at Surrey College on July 2, 1971.

Prior to Deacon’s arrival, Freddie Mercury, Brian May and Roger Taylor had difficulty holding on to bass players. Mike Grose played with the group at its first concert on June 27, 1970, but by August he’d been replaced by Barry Mitchell, who left after seven months. “Their music wasn’t what I wanted to do,” Mitchell told PopMatters years later. “I wanted something more bluesy and soulful, something with a brass section.”

His replacement, a teenager named Doug Bogie (often referred to as “Doug Ewood” or “Doug X”), lasted only two concerts after joining in January 1971. Contrary to the stereotype of the bass player who stands still during the performance, Bogie bounced about the stage, much to the dismay of the other members. But rather than straight-up fire him, they parted ways by letting him think the band was breaking up following a gig opening for Yes at Kingston Polytechnic on Feb. 21.

“Freddie was having a conversation along the lines of ‘That was a terrible gig, the world is against me and I’ve had enough. … I don’t want to do this anymore,'” Bogie later recalled. “I guess he was being nice to me, being the youngster and the new boy, while letting the others know that he was the leading light and needed to be consoled and massaged.”

John Deacon had seen Queen play the previous October during Mitchell’s tenure, but they struck him as being no different from the many Led Zeppelin-influenced bands that were popping up all over London at the time. Still, mutual friends introduced him to May and Taylor, who invited him to audition a couple of days later at Imperial College.

“We thought he was great,” Taylor said in Mark Hodkinson’s book Queen: The Early Years. “We were all so used to each other, and were so over the top. We thought that because he was quiet he would fit in with us without too much upheaval. He was a great bass player too — and the fact that he was a wizard with electronics was definitely a deciding factor.”

Even though Deacon’s onstage demeanor was what they were looking for, the fact that it extended into his sense of style caused a slight conflict before their debut performance with him. Hodkinson notes that Deacon and Mercury had a disagreement when Mercury had a specific shirt he wanted Deacon to wear. The bassist, who had arrived at the gig in jeans and a T-shirt, eventually gave in.

The lineup stayed intact until Mercury’s death in 1991. In 1997, two years after Deacon contributed overdubs to the unfinished Queen songs that comprised Made in Heaven, Deacon officially retired. He has not taken part in the band’s mid-’00s reunion with Paul Rodgers, which resulted in the ill-fated The Cosmos Rocks, or the recent tours with Adam Lambert fronting the group.

Read More: 45 Years Ago: Queen Play Their First Show With Classic Lineup | ultimateclassicrock.com/queen-first-concert-classic-lineup/?trackback=blogroll_widget-latest-articles&trackback=tsmclip



Queen + Adam Lambert Fall Asia Tour

Q3 note: I think that there may be one more date added to this tour, plus they have time to add another show in Tokyo if these two sell out.

September 12, 2016 Queen + Adam Lambert, Tel Aviv, Israel First Queen concert in Israel.

September 17, 2016 Queen + Adam Lambert, Grand Prix, Singapore First Queen concert in Singapore. This concert is part of the 2016 Formula 1 Singapore Airlines Singapore Grand Prix.

September 22 and 23, 2016 Queen + Adam Lambert, Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, Japan This is the original site of Queen’s historic first concert in Japan in April 1975.

September 26, 2016 Queen + Adam Lambert, Mercedes Benz Arena, Shanghai, China This will be Queen’s first concert in mainland China.

September 28, 2016 Queen + Adam Lambert, AsiaWorld-Expo, Hong Kong First Queen concert in Hong Kong or China.

September 30, 2016 Queen + Adam Lambert, Impact Arena, Muang Thong Thani, Bangkok, ThailandFirst Queen concert in Thailand.

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