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A Loooong and very interesting interview with Spike Edney for Rollingstone  in 2019. The focus is on Spike and his journey with playing for Queen. 


www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/queen-keyboardist-spike-edney-interview-freddie-mercury-live-aid-bohemian-rhapsody-875956/

Two exerts....and there's a lot more for your reading pleasure 
How he wound up playing with Queen
I don’t know what happened, but they needed someone. It’s really about being in the right place at the right time. I was playing in London at a bar and a member of Queen’s crew came in, someone I had known 10 years before. It was, “What are you doing here?” and yada, yada, yada. I said, “What are you doing?” He said, “I’m working for Roger Taylor. Queen needs a keyboard player. Do you want the job?” I went, “Yeah, of course.”



Of course, that is not how these things are done. You usually show up somewhere and sit down near 200 other keyboard players, wait your turn and then go home and then wait for the phone to tell you that you haven’t got it. This was different. I turned up to where I was told to go, I walked in and got interviewed by the legendary Gerry Stickells. He is one of the great men of rock & roll. Sadly, he passed away this year.



He said to me, “Do you have a passport?” I said I did. He said, “Are you available to go to on a world tour?” I said, “Yeah.” He said, “OK, on Monday, you fly out to Munich and start rehearsals.” I said, “What? That’s ludicrous! What happens if they don’t like me?” He said, “Then on Tuesday, you’ll fly back.” And here we are 35 years later.


Tell me your first memory of hearing him sing. (ADAM)
My wife was the first person who heard him. We were in Joshua Tree and I sat outside our little cabin that we have there, our love shack and she said, “You better come in and watch this.” I said, “Watch what?” And she said, “American Idol.” I said, “I don’t need to watch that. There’s nothing for me there.” But she said, “No, come in.”



I went in to refill my martini and I just caught the last minute of him singing “Whole Lotta Love.” When he got to the very end I thought, “Here we go. Here’s where it counts.” He sang the final cadence and just flew through it. It was effortless. I thought, “Wow. That takes some singing chops to be able to sing it with that kind of confidence.” Then I googled him and the first thing I saw was him singing “Bohemian Rhapsody” a cappella at his audition. I sent off an e-mail saying, “I found a live one.”

Adam with friends


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My favorite hair color on Adam!

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