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Jul 24, 2019 23:09:30 GMT -5
Post by Q3 on Jul 24, 2019 23:09:30 GMT -5
Queen + Adam Lambert fans jam Toyota Center for 'The Rhapsody Tour'
By J.R. GonzalesUpdated 9:46 pm CDT, Wednesday, July 24, 2019
Fans of all ages packed Toyota Center Wednesday night as Queen + Adam Lambert returned to Houston as part of the latest stop on "The Rhapsody Tour."
The band has seen a surge in popularity since the success of the "Bohemian Rhapsody" biopic late last year. The film, a biographical drama on the life of late Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, was a global hit, grossing more than $900 million worldwide and winning four Academy Awards. An ABC documentary on the band followed that spring.
The band has dropped a few surprises on concert goers throughout the tour. Tuesday night, the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders joined the band onstage for "Fat Bottomed Girls."
The North American leg of this tour is sold out. After Houston, the band continues on to Detroit and Toronto before the tour ends Aug. 23 in Charlotte, N.C.
Queen, which consists of founding members Brian May on guitars and drummer Roger Taylor, first teamed with "American Idol" runner-up Lambert around 2011. Queen + Adam Lambert last played Houston in 2017.
The last time Queen performed in Houston while Mercury was still alive was in 1982 at the Summit.
Link: www.chron.com/entertainment/article/Queen-Adam-Lambert-fans-jam-Toyota-Center-for-14120750.php
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“Let’s address the pink elephant in the room,” Adam Lambert exhorted the audience at American Airlines Center tonight, gathered to see the American Idol finalist and of late frontman for the band Queen. “I am not Freddie; nobody could be,” Lambert said, referring to the late lead singer (and subject last year of the Oscar winning biopic Bohemian Rhapsody). Instead, he said, we would, collectively, be celebrating Freddie Mercury and Queen together.
And for more than two hours, that is just what happened, it the best way possible.
Queen was one of the first arena rock bands, one whose showmanship and flamboyance helped define the music (and the culture) of the 1970s. But there wasn’t a song in the lineup that I could say was recorded after the 1980s — Queen was great, and it is great, not as a nostalgia act (despite the presence or original members Brian May and Roger Taylor) but for the sound that transcends generations. This stuff just doesn’t get old.
Lambert has been fronting Queen for eight years, and it’s true — he’s not Mercury… but he is Adam Lambert, himself a powerhouse singer. The concert could seem cover-bandish, merely recreating old standards, but it’s more thrilling than that. Lambert gyrates (on “Don’t Stop Me Now”), wails (on “Another One Bites the Dust”) and flounces (on “Somebody to Love”), but he’s not doing Freddie — he’s doing himself, the product of a musical landscape for which Queen was inescapable. When he struts out in a studded leather costume (one of at least five changes I counted), his version of a leatherman is less Castro District and more Greenwich Village. We all have a little Freddie in us, and Lambert lets his shine through.
The again, May and Taylor don’t need to imitate anybody — they are already one of the greatest guitarists of all time, and solid rock drummer. Taylor takes over the Bowie vocals for “Under Pressure,” and May gets the royal treatment as well, with a special introduction, plenty of guitar solos among the two-dozen or more numbers and even a solo. When May mentioned how fond the band has always been of Dallas as that the city had, in fact, been an inspiration, it felt perhaps like rock show puffery… until the band launched into “Fat Bottomed Girls” and the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders joined them, and you knew May wasn’t foolin’ when he paid homage to being inspired by Texas’ reputation for the over-sized.
Queen’s rendition of “Who Wants to Live Forever” took on a sad poignancy in the context of the late Mercury (who nevertheless made several guest appearances through video technology (the visuals — operatic and lush, with nods to the original album covers, and even films like Metropolis — were amazing), and through “Radio Ga Ga,” the much-anticpiated “Bohemian Rhapsody” and the predicted encore (“We Will Rock You/We Are the Champions”), this Queen proved, nearly 50 years later, that they can still checkmate lesser bands.
Link: dallasvoice.com/concert-review-queen-at-aac/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Watch Queen and Adam Lambert perform with Dallas Cheerleaders
Queen + Adam Lambert were joined by some special guests during their concert deep in the heart of Texas last night. The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders accompanied the group during its performance of the classic Queen song “Fat Bottom Girls.”
Earlier in the day, Queen guitarist Brian May had teased “a big surprise” for the Dallas performance.
He also noted that “the Southern Heat of Texas has inspired [Queen] for 40 years.”
You can watch the video below to see Queen + Adam Lambert perform alongside the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders.
In an interview with Mojo (as reported by Blabbermouth), May explained how gay singer Freddie Mercury was able to convincingly deliver the lyrics of “Fat Bottom Girls."
"On the face of it, it's a heterosexual song because it's called 'Fat Bottomed Girls,' but I was totally aware of Freddie's proclivities and the fact he was going to sing it,” May said while reflecting on the writing of the song. “Plus, some of the inspiration for the song came from stuff that I saw in Freddie's life as well as my own. So it's actually not so much of a heterosexual song as you might think. [Laughs] It's a sort of pansexual song. There are so many ways you can take it."
Queen + Adam Lambert are currently in the midst of their Rhapsody tour, which will see the band perform all over the U.S. through the end of August. The trek has already included several surprises. In addition to the Cowboys Cheerleaders' appearance, the group unleashed an emphatic new production while celebrating May's 72nd birthday during a recent tour performance.
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