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Post by pi on Oct 11, 2023 2:46:06 GMT -5
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Post by pi on Oct 11, 2023 2:49:18 GMT -5
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Post by pi on Oct 11, 2023 3:06:20 GMT -5
twitter.com/detroitnews/status/1712038079848935832Queen + Adam Lambert deliver a kind of magic at sold-out Little Caesars Arena concertClassic rock group gave Detroit crowd a nice midweek pick-me-up on Tuesday night.And they did Tuesday night at Little Caesars Arena, as Queen + Adam Lambert rocked a sold-out Motor City crowd of 15,000 with songs from Queen's storied playbook of classic rock megahits.
The appreciative crowd, many of whom were old enough to have seen Queen with Freddie Mercury at the helm (and some of whom were boasting about the times they did), showed their love for original band members Brian May and Roger Taylor, as well as Lambert, who is celebrating his 12th year with the band. (He said on stage it's only his 10th year, but who's counting?)
Lambert hit the stage dressed like a glam rock Avenger from outer space, complete with sunglasses three times bigger than anything Bono has ever worn and a flowing cape to match his shiny silver and purple chest plate. "Radio Ga Ga" was the opener and was revisited at the end of the show, with stops in between at all the expected destinations: "Another One Bites the Dust," "Fat Bottomed Girls," "Bicycle Race," "I Want it All," "Under Pressure," "Love of My Life," "Somebody to Love."
Respect was paid to Mercury early and often, and his likeness appeared several times on the stage's video screens. Lambert, a powerhouse vocalist who showed his pizazz on the eighth season of "American Idol," paid homage to Mercury with his flamboyant performance, heavily vamping while performing directly into the video screens as if he was looking into a mirror during "Killer Queen."
Lambert, 41, is extremely reverent of his bandmates, and they are of him; May even introduced Lambert as "our very own gift from God." The three principals, augmented by three additional bandmates, did a good job of sharing the spotlight amongst themselves, with May and Taylor each getting their own solo showcases during the 135-minute show. May at one point played a solo atop a lift, surrounded by tiny replicas of planets and cosmic video screen visuals that made it look like he was on his own sci-fi celestial journey through the stars.
There was a bit of a future-leaning theme to the evening, even as the songs reached back to the '70s and '80s. "Is This the World We Created...?" was a weeping lament for the ills of our planet, as timely now as it was when it was written nearly 40 years ago, but there was no time to get misty eyed; "The Show Must Go On," as the song goes, and as the very next song went.
More + photos... www.detroitnews.com/story/entertainment/music/2023/10/11/queen-adam-lambert-deliver-hits-packed-little-caesars-arena-concert/71005934007/
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Post by pi on Oct 11, 2023 3:08:16 GMT -5
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Post by pi on Oct 11, 2023 3:29:20 GMT -5
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Post by pi on Oct 11, 2023 4:14:23 GMT -5
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Post by pi on Oct 11, 2023 4:17:03 GMT -5
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Post by pi on Oct 11, 2023 4:27:24 GMT -5
Detroit Free Press
Queen + Adam Lambert bring rock rhapsody to Little Caesars Arena in sold-out tour stop The Queen classics got a reverent and rousing workout Tuesday night in a nearly 2½-hour nostalgic adventure at a sold-out Little Caesars Arena.
Detroit was the third stop on the latest North American leg of the Rhapsody Tour, the long-running outing from the ensemble billed as Queen + Adam Lambert since 2012, when the “American Idol” alum was enlisted for the front man role made iconic by the late Freddie Mercury.
With Queen veterans Brian May (guitar) and Roger Taylor (drums) as the night’s sentimental bedrock, the well-drilled show served up a mix of emotional weight and rock sizzle.
May’s tunneling leads and flashy breaks were highlights of songs such as “I Want It All,” “Fat Bottomed Girls” and “Crazy Little Thing Called Love,” punctuated by a cosmic solo delivered late in the concert from a platform high overhead. Earlier, a hush fell over the arena and the cell phone lights came out as he performed a poignant acoustic rendition of “Love of My Life” alone.
May, 76, noted that this latest tour leg will keep him away from family back in England for six weeks. “I don’t need money. I don’t need fame. Why do I do this?” he said onstage, gesturing to the packed arena. “To see faces like this.” It was a thematically cohesive show, arranged in a series of acts, each featuring at least one of Queen’s monster hits: “Another One Bites the Dust,” “Somebody to Love,” “Crazy Little Thing Called Love,” “Under Pressure,” “We Will Rock You,” “We Are the Champions” and “Bohemian Rhapsody,” which took its rightful climactic place ahead of the encore. 1984’s “Radio Ga Ga” was a bookend piece, helping to start the evening and close it. Queen’s latest career chapter got a big boost from the 2018 smash biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody,” and that evidence seemed clear Tuesday across LCA, where a multigenerational crowd — including plenty of teens gustily singing along all night — filled the seats. The sonic grandeur was accompanied by production frills: ever-shifting video panels, splendorous lighting displays, bits of pyro and even the occasional glimpse of Mercury onscreen. Onstage, Lambert doesn't so much try to channel Mercury's spirit as tap it for inspiration, interpreting the vintage songs without going for outright mimicry. That’s a wisely chosen strategy, given the late Queen co-founder's prodigious and distinctive talents.  Lambert possesses his own set of wide-ranging vocal chops and theatrical instincts, a combination that served him well Tuesday on emotive numbers such as “A Kind of Magic,” “Don’t Stop Me Now” and “Who Wants to Live Forever.” He was the master of ceremonies for the musical drama of “The Show Must Go On” and a peacocking presence on “Killer Queen,” a set piece begun with prima donna melodramatics at a dressing-room mirror. More + photos.. www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/brian-mccollum/2023/10/11/queen-adam-lambert-detroit-little-caesars-arena-review-photos/71138918007/
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Post by pi on Oct 11, 2023 4:34:09 GMT -5
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Post by pi on Oct 11, 2023 4:37:26 GMT -5
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