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Post by nonotme on Jul 3, 2018 16:51:26 GMT -5
For some reason this photo makes me think, hmmm ... What was it Kara D said at a long ago audition... "You know what, theatrical, yes, but you've got a good voice and for right now that's what were looking at." As if theatrical was not a plus... LOL
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Post by skaschep on Jul 3, 2018 16:51:30 GMT -5
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Post by skaschep on Jul 3, 2018 16:55:50 GMT -5
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Post by skaschep on Jul 3, 2018 16:56:10 GMT -5
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Post by adamrocks on Jul 3, 2018 17:00:19 GMT -5
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Post by adamrocks on Jul 3, 2018 17:07:05 GMT -5
Memory lane. Opening night for Idol Tour July 6, 2009. Video by seattletimesdotcom.
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Post by skaschep on Jul 3, 2018 17:12:16 GMT -5
Congrats @adamlambert with over 78 million views for #WhatayaWantfromMe [Official Music Video]! 🎉 Now 78,022,196 views! 🎧 #NowPlaying (3 July 2018) youtu.be/X1Fqn9du7xo via @youtube
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Post by adamrocks on Jul 3, 2018 17:21:20 GMT -5
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Post by adamrocks on Jul 3, 2018 17:30:57 GMT -5
Adam Lambert and Brian May 4 / 6
The pop singer rocked a sleeveless red leather trench coat and black, fingerless gloves as he performed on stage, alongside Queen guitarist and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Brian May, at the O2 Arena in London, England, on July 1. Photo: Jo Hale/Redferns
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Post by crazyoldgal on Jul 3, 2018 17:35:38 GMT -5
Review 5/5!
I see
Queen and Adam Lambert channel the spirit of Freddie Mercury at London's O2 Arena - review
Freddie Mercury's memory lives on as Lambert rips through Queen's classics. 2018-07-03
The latest Queen + Adam Lambert show is one that Freddie Mercury would surely have loved.
They've taken the visuals into the stratosphere, with stunning lighting, cannons firing confetti into the audience, giant projections of the robot from the News Of The World album cover, said robot's head ascending from under the stage with Adam Lambert perched on top of it, likewise a flower-adorned bike ascending for Lambert to ride around the catwalk on.
It's a surprise they haven't ripped the sinks out of the backstage kitchen and thrown those into the mix too.
As spectacles go, this is as good as live shows get. Then there's the music, which plunders the back catalogue of one of the greatest-ever rock bands, with original Queen members Brian May, 70, and Roger Taylor, 68, playing the hell out of it with the energy of musicians a third of their age.
Saving the best for last, they start with the older stuff like 'Seven Seas Of Rye' and 'Tie Your Mother Down' and end with 'We Will Rock You' and 'We Are The Champions'.
We also get everything from 'Love Of My Life' done as a loving tribute to Freddie and 'Bohemian Rhapsody' (which the capacity crowd at The O2 turned into an epic singalong) to 'Another One Bites The Dust' and 'Killer Queen' via 'Crazy Little Thing Called Love' and 'Under Pressure' with Taylor filling in very well for David Bowie.
Which brings us to Adam Lambert, the American Idol runner-up who has become a winner with Queen fans for breathing new life into the band whilst never, ever doing a Freddie impression.
Like Mercury, he's a showman and a show-off but he's doing the songs his way, going much higher into the falsetto of 'Who Wants To Live Forever' and tearing into songs like 'Don't Stop Me Now' with gay abandon.
And gay's the word with Lambert, who shouts his sexuality from the rooftops and wears it on his tattoo sleeves and golden cloaks, in his high heels and guyliner, in his red leather jacket and sparkly crown. Freddie never hid his gayness but he butched it up in blue jeans and white vests, whereas Adam is an androgynous peacock who struts around making cracks about how far up his ass that robot's head is.
All this would be to hollow avail if he wasn't such an awesome singer: Lambert's got the pipes to tear the roof off rockers like 'Fat Bottomed Girls' and to tear into the heart of anthems like 'The Show Must Go On', not to mention the charisma to coax every single member of the crowd to do the 'Radio Ga Ga' hand claps.
Singing 'I Want It All', he leaves you wondering what more any Queen fan could possibly want.
Rating: 5/5
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