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Post by skaschep on Apr 29, 2019 15:34:40 GMT -5
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Post by skaschep on Apr 29, 2019 15:35:51 GMT -5
twitter.com/UltClassicRock/status/1122857051871379457UltimateClassicRock @ultclassicrock .@adamlambert's 'American Idol' Return Marks 10 Years With Queen: ultimateclassicrock.com/adam-lambert-american-idol-return/ … Adam Lambert took time out from his regular job fronting Queen to return to his roots last night. He served as a mentor on American Idol, 10 years after a runner-up finish on the televised singing contest. Appropriately, the Top 8 finishers each performed a Queen song. Walter Burroughs sang "Crazy Little Thing Called Love," after receiving some tips on loosening up on stage from Lambert. Madison VanDenberg, who sang “The Show Must Go On,” earned particular praise from Lambert: “Your voice is nuts.” Jeremiah Lloyd Harmon also changed the arrangement on “Who Wants to Live Forever” with some encouragement from Lambert. Alejandro Aranda tackled “Under Pressure,” while Laine Hardy selected “Fat Bottomed Girls.” Lambert focused on phrasing before Laci Kaye Booth's performance of “Love of My Life.” Wade Cota updated “We Are the Champions.” Lambert praised Alyssa Raghu's “natural theatricality” during a solo performance of “Somebody to Love.” The finalists began the evening with Queen's "We Will Rock You." Burroughs and Raghu were later eliminated. You can watch a clip below. Lambert initially rose to fame – and connected with his future bandmates in Queen – on the Season 8 finale of American Idol in 2009, when Brian May and Roger Taylor joined him for a show-closing performance of "We Are the Champions." Lambert ended up coming in second to Kris Allen that night, but impressed May and Taylor enough that they recruited him to join Queen. The Show Must Go On: The Queen + Adam Lambert Story, a new documentary detailing their lengthy collaboration, premieres tonight on ABC. An already sold-out U.S. Rhapsody tour with Queen follows in July and August.
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Post by skaschep on Apr 29, 2019 15:36:45 GMT -5
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Post by skaschep on Apr 29, 2019 15:37:52 GMT -5
twitter.com/UltClassicRock/status/1122861849228271616UltimateClassicRock @ultclassicrock Watch Adam Lambert Discuss His First Full Show With @queenwillrock: ultimateclassicrock.com/adam-lambert-first-queen-show/ … Adam Lambert can be seen deconstructing his first full-length performance with Queen in a clip taken from the new documentary The Show Must Go On: The Queen + Adam Lambert Story. The ABC presentation airs tonight and follows Lambert’s history with the band over the 10 years since Brian May and Roger Taylor made what was thought to be a one-off appearance with the singer as he competed in the 2009 season of American Idol. The clip – which you can watch below – starts with an interview with Freddie Mercury as he’s asked about the pressure of performing in front of large crowds. “The bigger the better … in everything!” he replies: The narrative then moves to Lambert’s appearance in front of 300,000 people in Kiev, Ukraine, in 2012. “I had a lot of help,” Lambert says, acknowledging the support of longtime Queen collaborator Spike Edney. “Spike, who’s on keys, I kept looking at over and over again, like, ‘Am I supposed to come in here? How long is the guitar solo? Is it my turn?’” “Because of his musical training, he was quite happy to take cues," Edney adds. "He used to just check in with me.” “What I love most about being a vocalist is the adrenaline – the thrill of something that can possibly go wrong," Lambert continues. "I like the danger in that.” “For Adam to start with an audience that big takes nerve,” says radio presenter Paul Gambaccini.” Some people would be embarrassed to go to Kiev and sing in front of 300,000 people they’ve never known; but a performer like Adam could use it as an opportunity. Just as Freddie had always used these big crowds to just push that envelope: ‘Let’s see how many people we can get to respond at once.’” “Adam Lambert had to do in his first show with Queen what it took Queen and Freddie Mercury 10 years to do," journalist Lyndsey Parker notes. "He was used to having to win people over. … He’d already been selling himself for years. He knew how to do it.” Queen + Adam Lambert will tour North America from July 10 until Aug. 23; the road trip follows the success of the biopic Bohemian Rhapsody. Lambert returned to American Idol last night to mentor contestants through the performance of Queen music.
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Post by skaschep on Apr 29, 2019 15:40:32 GMT -5
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Post by skaschep on Apr 29, 2019 15:41:49 GMT -5
Daily Express @daily_Express Queen’s Roger Taylor ‘We were DONE after Freddie Mercury died, Adam Lambert was fate unfolding’ www.express.co.uk/entertainment/music/1120461/Bohemian-Rhapsody-Roger-Taylor-Freddie-Mercury-Queen-documentary-Adam-Lambert-Brian-May … #BohemianRhapsody #Queen #FreddieMercury QUEEN drummer Roger Taylor has revealed how he and Brian May thought the band was over after Freddie Mercury died, but then Adam Lambert was “fate unfolding”. Bohemian Rhapsody is being followed up by a new documentary called The Show Must Go On: The Queen + Adam Lambert Story. Airing tonight in the US, the film tells of the story of how Taylor and May teamed up with singer Lambert resulting in a partnership that’s seen Queen continue to tour the world. In an interview with Good Morning America today, Taylor revealed how it felt like Queen was done after Freddie Mercury died in 1991. Taylor said: “We thought it was all over. And I think Brian and I, well we kinda thought that was the end of that chapter.” Of course, Queen continued in different forms with another stint as the band’s predecessor Smile in 1992 and then in 1995 they released their last album with Mercury called Made in Heaven. But by 1997 bassist John Deacon decided to retire and Queen continued on until collaborating with singer Paul Rodgers from 2004-2009. Then in 2011, they initiated their current partnership with Lambert. Taylor mentioned that despite Mercury’s death Queen’s continuation had been “fate unfolding”, especially in the case of Lambert. The drummer said: “And everything that’s happened, especially since we met Adam has just been fate unfolding.” The Show Must Go On: The Queen + Adam Lambert Story airs on ABC in the US this evening at 8/7c. However, a UK release date for the Bohemian Rhapsody follow-up is yet to be announced. Meanwhile, Lambert has spoken of Freddie Mercury’s loneliness ahead of the documentary. Appearing on GMA too, Lambert said: “There’s a few of them [songs] that really hit home from me. “In learning more about Freddie over the years and learning that there was definitely a loneliness there, I feel like I have enough in common with some of the things Freddie was going through.” Brian May said of Lambert’s arrival into the fold: “It wasn’t until this young man appeared - I’d call him a gift from God. Adam. “We didn’t ask for him, we didn’t look for him - he just turned up. And he could do everything.”
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Post by skaschep on Apr 29, 2019 15:43:22 GMT -5
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Post by skaschep on Apr 29, 2019 15:44:36 GMT -5
twitter.com/UltClassicRock/status/1122867381645266944UltimateClassicRock @ultclassicrock Watch Adam Lambert Harmonizing With Queen Backstage: ultimateclassicrock.com/adam-lambert-queen-backstage/ … Adam Lambert can be seen singing harmonies with Queen icons Brian May and Roger Taylor before a concert in a clip taken from the new documentary The Show Must Go On: The Queen + Adam Lambert Story. It airs tonight on ABC and follows Lambert’s history with the band over the 10 years since May and Taylor made what was thought to be a one-off appearance with the singer as he competed in the 2009 season of American Idol. The clip – which you can watch below – starts with archive footage of Freddie Mercury warming up while Taylor jokingly overdoes a vocal delivery. It’s followed by a recent recording with Lambert, during which Taylor behaves in a similar fashion. “It’s very much like in the old days,” guitarist May says. “We get together in the band room and we do harmonies – that’s what we do before a show. It oils up your vocal cords and it locks you in. You hear the other people and you rediscover how your voice fits into that structure; and I think it’s quite valuable for us to do that.” “Our harmonies are real," drummer Taylor adds. "Some [bleeped] in The New York Times said, ‘Their harmonies were suspiciously accurate.’ … What a [bleeped] thing to say!” Queen + Adam Lambert will tour North America from July 10 until Aug. 23; the road trip follows the success of Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody. Lambert returned to American Idol last night to mentor contestants through the performance of Queen music.
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Post by skaschep on Apr 29, 2019 15:45:51 GMT -5
twitter.com/thrstyle/status/1122868902927765504Hollywood Reporter Style @thrstyle Jaimie King, @ditavonteese, @marilynmanson, @adamlambert, @fergie and @malinakerman sat front row to view #Libertine designer Johnson Hartig’s glam fall-winter 2019 collection – the first showing in Los Angeles thr.cm/u23QdtDita Von Teese, Marilyn Manson, Jaimie King, Adam Lambert and Liz Goldwyn also sat front row to view designer Johnson Hartig’s glam fall-winter 2019 collection, the first showing in Los Angeles. Known for his flashy maximalist aesthetic, L.A.-based fashion designer Johnson Hartig showed a decidedly glamorous fall-winter 2019 collection at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Hancock Park on Friday evening, styled by B Akerlund (known for her work with Madonna). Dita Von Teese, Malin Akerman, Marilyn Manson, Fergie, Adam Lambert, Jaimie King, Sofia Boutella, Liz Goldwyn and florist-to-the-stars Eric Buterbaugh were among the front-row guests, who viewed the parade of male and female models wearing the latest take on the label’s signature mash-up of vibrant prints and dazzling crystal decoration. ... “You know I love sparkly things, so Libertine is like a fashion wet dream for me,” Lambert said.
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Post by skaschep on Apr 29, 2019 15:46:51 GMT -5
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