Translated from Spanish
Queen Adam Lambert, the ultimate show
Chronicle of @rodrigarcinuno
twitter.com/RockFM_ES/status/1546555845818859526Queen + Adam Lambert, the ultimate show
Queen and Adam Lambert shone last week with two full houses at the Wizink Center in Madrid, a show that won over a dedicated audience
I am not going to deny that I have always defended that Queen died when Freddie Mercury left us orphans, under that premise, it is necessary to make many parentheses. I didn't have the fortune to see the original band, but I did go to two concerts in Madrid with Paul Rodgers, I was going to see Brian May and Roger Taylor, things as they are, I was going to listen to the songs that have moved me throughout my life and, although I adore Rodgers' voice, it drove me crazy to hear Free and Bad Company songs at shows. Nor did I want to listen to the second concert, in 2008, songs from the album they released together, 'The Cosmos Rock' , a very weak piece of work that never gave me anything. Still I really enjoyed both concerts.
A few months ago, when I found out that they were going back to Spain with Adam Lambert, I decided to immerse myself in the project and put on the documentary with which they wanted to justify this union. So I created an image of a singer who seemed to show in each song all the vocal techniques he knew, I hated the cooing he did and I couldn't understand the strange fusion, I understood more than ever John Deacon's decision not to be part of this project .
But he did not want to miss the opportunity to see May and Taylor on stage again and, this time, with a repertoire that he knew could not fail. I arrived at the show with low expectations, but the crown that adorned the stage was raised and I thought that it was not going to be what I expected, of course, that they started with a cannon, “Now I'm Here”, a fear that He made it clear that Lambert was not the same as the documentary, that after years with Queen he had decided that showing all the vocal techniques is fine, but only for certain moments and that's when he conquered me.
With that change in my head I began to enjoy it more than I imagined, the medley of “Tear It Up”, “Seven Seas of Rhye” and “Hammer to Fall” made me vibrate, but the first moment I was It was with “Somebody to Love”, Lambert was full and May wasted emotion , although there was something that worried me, since it seemed to me that Roger Taylor was weaker than usual, maybe that's why they had a backup percussionist , the years weigh.
The magic did not disappear, all complemented by a series of visual effects of the first order, so real that it was not until the second theme when I realized that, in what seemed like theater boxes at the back of the stage, there were real people, who seemed more overwrought than myself. “Killer Queen” sounded like a shot and an unexpected “Don't Stop Me Now” that didn't used to be part of the original Queen's repertoire.
The visuals changed and a new act opened with Taylor singing “I'm in Love With My Car”, but Lambert had gotten on a motorcycle that appeared in the center of the track to perform “Bicycle Race” on her and resurface with classics like “Fat Bottomed Girls”, “Another One Bites the Dust” and “I Want It All”.
The darkness took over the Wizink Center to illuminate a Brian May who was heading to the end of the runway with an acoustic to give us one of the most special moments of the night: "Love of My Life", a brilliant song that ended with Freddie Mercury singing on the screen with May, I think the whole pavilion shed some tears, the same as Brian when the performance ended . The acoustic set continued with “'39” and “These Are the Days of Our Lives” which Taylor joined to sing close to May, surrounded by an audience that appreciated the sensitivity of the song. Lambert joined the set with "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" and "Under Pressure" with Taylor doing Bowie duties.
Thus ended this new act that gave way to a new stage that recovered the spirit of “A Kind of Magic”, “I Want to Break Free” and a “Who Wants to Live Forever” that made us think of that last stage of Freddie .
Although I have never understood very well Brian May's solo guitar solo, this seemed to me more than successful, precisely because it is not part of a technical highlight, but rather fills a sound space that was completed with a dance of planets around him, standing on a platform about 10 meters above the ground. “Tie Your Mother Down” appeared as an appetizer to the final fireworks, which began with “The Show Must Go On”, to which they printed enormous force, but the time had come to encourage the public to participate in “Radio Ga Ga”, perhaps the most exciting moment of the show, precisely because they are all one with the band . I couldn't finish the pre-encore act without “Bohemian Rhapsody” that broke our hearts , splendid May, in his suit of lights.
Two classics were still missing, but suddenly, before the long-awaited encores, Freddie made us sing his already mythical “Ay-Oh”, I keep this for eternal memory, so after Mercury's “ Fuck you ” the drums of “We Will Rock You” supported by the palms and stomps of the entire Wizink , May's Red Special wasted energy and a Lambert, who wore a crown, doing what he wanted with his voice. We needed everything to sing the last song that made us world champions, "We Are the Champions" closed a show that left me speechless and changed my mind about what I thought I was going to see, next time I'm not going to see to May and Taylor, I'm going to see Queen + Adam Lambert.
Here you can see the complete concert
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CddTqamtuWg
