Pic Thread 5 -All the pretty you can handle (2019)
Aug 6, 2019 8:55:58 GMT -5
Post by wal on Aug 6, 2019 8:55:58 GMT -5
Sun Jul 28 - Toronto, ON - Scotiabank Arena
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torontosun.com/entertainment/music/concert-review-the-show-goes-on-for-queen-with-adam-lambert?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
CONCERT REVIEW: The show goes on for Queen with Adam Lambert
Queen + Adam Lambert
Scotiabank Arena
Sunday night
RATING: ***1/2 out of four (3.5)
KINGS OF QUEEN+ADAM LAMBERT: Concert brings royalty to Toronto
Toronto Sun
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldOru8OG14k
He’s a killer Queen.
That would be Adam Lambert, who hit all the right notes – big, high and thrilling ones at that – with veteran British rockers Queen on Sunday night at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena.
Honestly, it’s hard to imagine anyone else now other than the big-voiced American Idol 2009 runner-up following in the gigantic footsteps of the vocally gifted Freddie Mercury, who died in 1991 at the age of 45, as frontman alongside original guitarist Brian May, 72 and drummer Roger Taylor, 70.
“I’m a queen!” said Lambert gleefully before Don’t Stop Me Now followed by several costume changes – including a crown and platform boots combo at the very end of the two-hour show – and balancing on top of a piano waving a giant fan or straddling a rotating motorcycle at the front of the catwalk.
Lambert was definitely having fun as he performed with “two legends,” as he referred to May and Taylor, something that he’s been doing for almost eight years.
Queen, of course, are enjoying yet another career resurgence with the success of last year’s Bohemian Rhapsody biopic and the current tour is called the Rhapsody Tour.
As the extremely humble 37-year-old Lambert himself explained, he’s as big a Mercury and Queen fan as the audience.
“Will you help me celebrate Freddie Mercury and Queen tonight?” he said, opening the show with the appropriately titled Now I’m Here after an oversized crown raised from the ground to the rafters to reveal the ambitious stage behind it.
“Do you miss Freddie?” he asked before adding: “I’m not Freddie. I know – it sucks!”
The current production features a staircase, a catwalk, multiple and moving video screens, laser lights, white smoke, and four separate opera boxes where fans could sit and be part of the action behind the band with Taylor’s drum kit front and centre in the middle of it all.
For all his fancy dress attire – he initially appeared in a gold suit and black satin puffy shirt before moving into lots of leather, fringe and sequins – Lambert was really all about singing in the extreme.
He excelled on such Queen classics as Killer Queen, Don’t Stop Me Now, Somebody To Love, The Show Must Go On, Another One Bites The Dust, I Want It All, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, I Want To Break Free (complete with disco ball), Who Wants To Live Forever, Tie Your Mother Down, Fat Bottomed Girls, Radio Gaga, Bohemian Rhapsody (on a raised platform), and the encore one-two punch of We Will Rock You and We Are The Champions.
And even Mercury popped up now and then, whether it was just a graphic of his face during Machines (or Back To Humans) or actual vintage concert or rock video footage of him singing on songs like Love Of My Life and Bohemian Rhapsody.
Taylor took over on lead vocals for I’m In Love with My Car and May headed to the front of the catwalk to play acoustic guitar and sing Love Of My Life alongside Mercury while concertgoers lit up their cellphone lights.
Lambert and Taylor, also at the front of the catwalk, paid lovely tribute to Mercury and David Bowie with their duet on Under Pressure.
Queen and Lambert’s current North America tour, which launched on July 10 in Vancouver, sees the trio of May, Taylor and Lambert joined by long-term collaborators and touring musicians bassist Neil Fairclough, percussionist Tyler Warren and Spike Edney on keyboards.
SET LIST:
Now I’m Here
Seven Seas of Rhye
Keep Yourself Alive
Hammer to Fall
Killer Queen
Don’t Stop Me Now
In the Lap of the Gods… Revisited
Somebody to Love
The Show Must Go On
I’m in Love With My Car
Bicycle Race
Another One Bites the Dust
Machines (Or ‘Back to Humans’)
I Want It All
Love of My Life
‘39
Doing All Right
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Under Pressure
I Want to Break Free
Who Wants to Live Forever
Last Horizon
Guitar Solo
Tie Your Mother Down
Radio Ga Ga
Bohemian Rhapsody
ENCORE:
We Will Rock You
We Are the Champions
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LynnevillePF
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOxuiinEi6F2qtdfPDGdKyzNdoA3rbJBd
Scorpio Bert
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLb0NaThWyYoklOfgKvSWdi8MTuqNWf2J5
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torontosun.com/entertainment/music/concert-review-the-show-goes-on-for-queen-with-adam-lambert?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
CONCERT REVIEW: The show goes on for Queen with Adam Lambert
Queen + Adam Lambert
Scotiabank Arena
Sunday night
RATING: ***1/2 out of four (3.5)
KINGS OF QUEEN+ADAM LAMBERT: Concert brings royalty to Toronto
Toronto Sun
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldOru8OG14k
He’s a killer Queen.
That would be Adam Lambert, who hit all the right notes – big, high and thrilling ones at that – with veteran British rockers Queen on Sunday night at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena.
Honestly, it’s hard to imagine anyone else now other than the big-voiced American Idol 2009 runner-up following in the gigantic footsteps of the vocally gifted Freddie Mercury, who died in 1991 at the age of 45, as frontman alongside original guitarist Brian May, 72 and drummer Roger Taylor, 70.
“I’m a queen!” said Lambert gleefully before Don’t Stop Me Now followed by several costume changes – including a crown and platform boots combo at the very end of the two-hour show – and balancing on top of a piano waving a giant fan or straddling a rotating motorcycle at the front of the catwalk.
Lambert was definitely having fun as he performed with “two legends,” as he referred to May and Taylor, something that he’s been doing for almost eight years.
Queen, of course, are enjoying yet another career resurgence with the success of last year’s Bohemian Rhapsody biopic and the current tour is called the Rhapsody Tour.
As the extremely humble 37-year-old Lambert himself explained, he’s as big a Mercury and Queen fan as the audience.
“Will you help me celebrate Freddie Mercury and Queen tonight?” he said, opening the show with the appropriately titled Now I’m Here after an oversized crown raised from the ground to the rafters to reveal the ambitious stage behind it.
“Do you miss Freddie?” he asked before adding: “I’m not Freddie. I know – it sucks!”
The current production features a staircase, a catwalk, multiple and moving video screens, laser lights, white smoke, and four separate opera boxes where fans could sit and be part of the action behind the band with Taylor’s drum kit front and centre in the middle of it all.
For all his fancy dress attire – he initially appeared in a gold suit and black satin puffy shirt before moving into lots of leather, fringe and sequins – Lambert was really all about singing in the extreme.
He excelled on such Queen classics as Killer Queen, Don’t Stop Me Now, Somebody To Love, The Show Must Go On, Another One Bites The Dust, I Want It All, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, I Want To Break Free (complete with disco ball), Who Wants To Live Forever, Tie Your Mother Down, Fat Bottomed Girls, Radio Gaga, Bohemian Rhapsody (on a raised platform), and the encore one-two punch of We Will Rock You and We Are The Champions.
And even Mercury popped up now and then, whether it was just a graphic of his face during Machines (or Back To Humans) or actual vintage concert or rock video footage of him singing on songs like Love Of My Life and Bohemian Rhapsody.
Taylor took over on lead vocals for I’m In Love with My Car and May headed to the front of the catwalk to play acoustic guitar and sing Love Of My Life alongside Mercury while concertgoers lit up their cellphone lights.
Lambert and Taylor, also at the front of the catwalk, paid lovely tribute to Mercury and David Bowie with their duet on Under Pressure.
Queen and Lambert’s current North America tour, which launched on July 10 in Vancouver, sees the trio of May, Taylor and Lambert joined by long-term collaborators and touring musicians bassist Neil Fairclough, percussionist Tyler Warren and Spike Edney on keyboards.
SET LIST:
Now I’m Here
Seven Seas of Rhye
Keep Yourself Alive
Hammer to Fall
Killer Queen
Don’t Stop Me Now
In the Lap of the Gods… Revisited
Somebody to Love
The Show Must Go On
I’m in Love With My Car
Bicycle Race
Another One Bites the Dust
Machines (Or ‘Back to Humans’)
I Want It All
Love of My Life
‘39
Doing All Right
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Under Pressure
I Want to Break Free
Who Wants to Live Forever
Last Horizon
Guitar Solo
Tie Your Mother Down
Radio Ga Ga
Bohemian Rhapsody
ENCORE:
We Will Rock You
We Are the Champions
twitter.com/JamieBester
LynnevillePF
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOxuiinEi6F2qtdfPDGdKyzNdoA3rbJBd
Scorpio Bert
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLb0NaThWyYoklOfgKvSWdi8MTuqNWf2J5
