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6th Feb 2015 from TwitLonger
Q AL HAMBURG (HH) - translated
06.02.2015 08:42 o'clock - reading time: approx. 4 min. Queen: Big rock show with new Frontman
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http://www.ndr.de/unterhaltung/events/Queen-fette-Rockshow-mit-neuem-Frontmann,queenlambert100.html
Queen without Freddie Mercury, this can function? This is the question which floats before the
concert of queen and Adam Lambert in the Hamburg O2 World felt above all. The fact that guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor of the qualities of the 33-year-old winner of "American-Idol" and from her plan are persuaded, one can already read with the choice of her first song. With "One of vision" they loudly open the concert - just with the song, in 1985 as the first queen's hit together from Freddie und Co. every concert of her Magic tour was written and with the queen in 1986 opened. The old rockers credit young Lambert to kick Mercurys in the big footprints, well knowingly that he will never completely fill them. However, will they also be able to persuade the hamburgers of it?
Lambert: Extrovert and, nevertheless, reverentially
Adam Lambert puts down an appearance rehearsed it in this evening. In leather things with golden rivets, ostentatious golden chain and golden sunglasses gestyled, he presents himself in the almost sold off hall. He fills the big stage formally with his hip-swing and his washbasin which he pushes to "Another One Bites The Dust" rhythmically and lasciviously forwards. Still he tries to imitate neither by gesture nor vocally Freddie Mercury. Almost reverentially he welcomes the Hamburg audience - "Thank you for giving me a chance tonight" - and begins singing the hit "killer queen".
Ingenious stage show
Both queen-old rockers Brian May and Roger Taylor on no account, nevertheless, set beside the golden boy and his impulsive show with songs like "I shrouds To break Free". Thanks to the ingenious arranged stage both appear alternately larger-than-life on a gigantic videocanvas which rises in the form Q above the stage. Full-bearded Taylor is observed in his percussion of several cameras at the same time. Guitarist May has fastened a camera to the neck of his guitar. With his grey lock mane he runs over and over again a narrow footbridge up and down, to the small second, perfectly circular stage in the middle of the audience. The fans are glad about so much nearness.
Reunions with Freddie
For the emotional song "Love Of My Life", May sits down there on a bar stool. After some lump German - "Moin, Moin Hamburg. Want you to sing with me?" - he catches in on his acoustic guitar to play. "This is a song for a special friend", he adds. The light goes out, only the floodlight is directed upon the curly hairstyle. The audience joins in the singing every line, however, then May becomes quite quiet. Behind him on the canvas appears all of a sudden Freddie Mercury in a videosequence how he sings exactly the same song with a concert in the eighties. In an authentic style with moustache and half a microphone stand in the hand, he holds the mike in the direction of audience. The Hamburg fans join in the singing from full throat. A miraculous staging for which at the end not only the whole hall, but also May must applaud obviously moved.
Beside him drummer Taylor also sings one of the big queen's hits in this evening. The 65-year-old meets the high passages in "It's A Kind Of Magic" easily. It is he also who puts down on the stage island just Percussion-solo which lasts far longer than five minutes. Only Brian May can excel this with Guitar-solo from more than ten minutes. By the end of the 2,5-hour show the rock giants deliver a classic after the other: "I shrouds It all", "Radio Gaga", "Crazy Thing Called Love" and "The Show Must Go On". Brian asks the amount: "What do you think of the new man?" and indicates at young Adam. The hall rejoices and raves.
Bittersweet flavour
Queen and Adam Lambert get to go back in this evening musically to the old times. Lambert knows certainly, when he must take back himself and his staging. With "Who of shroud To live Forever" he stands in the dark on the stage. Now Freddies lines and the momentous words are in the foreground. Lambert bows internally to this wonderful song and artist. And there he is also: The bittersweet flavour which is to be felt the evening about again. Even if queen with this immense show prove that they also function without Freddie, he is still absent.