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Post by funinspace81 on Apr 22, 2020 0:25:20 GMT
Here you can hear the Queen + CT reharsing it:
If you listen carefully at 52:30, you will spot the intro before it’s abruptally aborted:
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Post by funinspace81 on Apr 22, 2020 0:38:59 GMT
From Ferdy's Facebook: I'd wish Seal or Lisa Stanfield to have left their spot free in favor of AKOM. Plus, I consider it a very selfish attitud by Brian to have went ahead with TMLWK. He "had to" have his moment that also served as promotion from his forthcoming single and album. It was about Freddie & Queen, not about him. AKOM deserved better to be there.
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Post by florians on May 6, 2020 13:35:02 GMT
Would be interesting to know how they came to the decision to cancel AKOM instead of on of the other songs. Maybe because CT was a "smaller" star than the other performers? AKOM would have been so much better for the show than las Palabras de Amor...or they could have skipped Heroes, what would have made sense at that song does not really has to do something with Queen.
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Post by pg on May 8, 2020 18:02:16 GMT
According to the above, CT was only to sing BVs on AKOM - RT is on lead.
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Post by The Real Wizard on May 9, 2020 9:11:19 GMT
Plus, I consider it a very selfish attitud by Brian to have went ahead with TMLWK. He "had to" have his moment that also served as promotion from his forthcoming single and album. It was about Freddie & Queen, not about him. AKOM deserved better to be there. The song could've been dropped for any number of reasons - not necessarily time constraints.
But if that's the case, then I could've done without Metallica and Guns N' Roses. Now there's suddenly room for AKOM plus side black of Queen II.
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Post by scallyuk on May 9, 2020 11:16:12 GMT
I was there and would happily have done with out U2, Spinal Tap, Liz Taylor and Liza with a Z as well as Planty
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Post by georg on May 13, 2020 20:26:09 GMT
From Ferdy's Facebook: I'd wish Seal or Lisa Stanfield to have left their spot free in favor of AKOM. Plus, I consider it a very selfish attitud by Brian to have went ahead with TMLWK. He "had to" have his moment that also served as promotion from his forthcoming single and album. It was about Freddie & Queen, not about him. AKOM deserved better to be there. I dunno, doesn't seem like proof to me...
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Post by funinspace81 on May 13, 2020 20:29:10 GMT
From Ferdy's Facebook: I'd wish Seal or Lisa Stanfield to have left their spot free in favor of AKOM. Plus, I consider it a very selfish attitud by Brian to have went ahead with TMLWK. He "had to" have his moment that also served as promotion from his forthcoming single and album. It was about Freddie & Queen, not about him. AKOM deserved better to be there. I dunno, doesn't seem like proof to me... LOL. That printing is second to “Property Of Quern Productions”
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Post by Rick on May 23, 2020 17:19:44 GMT
This concert has always felt like a Brian May tribute concert to me.
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Post by The Real Wizard on May 30, 2020 8:34:49 GMT
This concert has always felt like a Brian May tribute concert to me. Deacon didn't have many friends in the biz, and Brian was the most active of the three. It makes sense that his friends showed up, as well as many of the more popular artists of the day. That said, the highlights of the show were Extreme, George Michael, Heroes, the Mott The Hoople reunion, and Bowie singing Under Pressure live for the first time - all of which had little to do with Brian.
Who knows why Montserrat Caballe and Aretha Franklin weren't there, but Elton and Liza Minnelli were - Elton was one of Mercury's closest friends, and Liza was probably his single biggest influence.
Regardless, there's not much point in making sweeping generalizations about Brian's character when none of us were there.
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Post by Rick on May 30, 2020 9:12:48 GMT
This concert has always felt like a Brian May tribute concert to me. Deacon didn't have many friends in the biz, and Brian was the most active of the three. It makes sense that his friends showed up, as well as many of the more popular artists of the day. That said, the highlights of the show were Extreme, George Michael, Heroes, the Mott The Hoople reunion, and Bowie singing Under Pressure live for the first time - all of which had little to do with Brian.
Who knows why Montserrat Caballe and Aretha Franklin weren't there, but Elton and Liza Minnelli were - Elton was one of Mercury's closest friends, and Liza was probably his single biggest influence.
Regardless, there's not much point in making sweeping generalizations about Brian's character when none of us were there.
My remark wasn't meant to emphasise Brian's ego (we all know he has one...quite a big one in fact ). I don't think the large majority of the artists would have been Freddie's choice, even though most of them delivered.
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Post by NathanH on Aug 28, 2020 23:03:39 GMT
You can hear it for two minutes here:
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Post by oreno on Aug 29, 2020 13:50:19 GMT
This concert has always felt like a Brian May tribute concert to me. Deacon didn't have many friends in the biz, and Brian was the most active of the three. It makes sense that his friends showed up, as well as many of the more popular artists of the day. That said, the highlights of the show were Extreme, George Michael, Heroes, the Mott The Hoople reunion, and Bowie singing Under Pressure live for the first time - all of which had little to do with Brian.
Who knows why Montserrat Caballe and Aretha Franklin weren't there, but Elton and Liza Minnelli were - Elton was one of Mercury's closest friends, and Liza was probably his single biggest influence.
Regardless, there's not much point in making sweeping generalizations about Brian's character when none of us were there.
Hmm I don't know. Extreme were definitely a "via Brian" inclusion. What makes you think George Michael (attendee at the 1990 post BPI party and mixing freely with the group), had "little to do with Brian"? As for Mott, who knows, though it was an inspired idea. Heroes I would guess was Bowie's suggestion, but his doing Under Pressure was a no brainer. Again, why little to do with Brian? Maybe Roger was close enough to ask him personally, but I think Bowie was keen on the event anyway for its AIDS awareness impact. Montse.. I cannot seriously imagine her doing "Barcelona" backed by Queen at a stadium, even if George Michael or someone had been bribed/blackmailed into to doing the Freddie parts. And Aretha Franklin was notoriously difficult/impossible to get out of America, especially for a one off gig singing someone else's song, with a group she probably had little interest in. She'd not even played the UK since 1970. (Although for all I know, they were both asked.)
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Post by The Real Wizard on Aug 29, 2020 16:18:31 GMT
Of course I meant "little to do with Brian" as per the suggestions that someone was exclusively his pick because he was friends with them. People have criticized him (almost to the point of character assassination) without knowing the facts.
But even if it's true to some extent - somebody had to drive the bus, and there's nothing wrong with that. Can we picture John Deacon organizing this show and calling up all of his friends to sing a song or two? It would've been about 20 minutes long.
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Post by Setzer on Aug 31, 2020 18:19:55 GMT
The show was also about raising awareness - Metallica and Guns N' Roses were some of the biggest rock bands touring at the time, so it makes perfect sense that they were invited to play. I can't speak for the members of Metallica, but we all know Freddie Mercury (and Queen in general) was a big idol and inspiration for Axl Rose.
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Post by georg on Sept 9, 2020 14:36:36 GMT
Yes, that's important to remember, it was a Concert for Life – so while it was for Freddie, it was also to raise awareness for AIDS, so you're gonna get the biggest artists singing the biggest songs at the biggest stadium in London. And I'm sure Freddie would have loved it – who would have wanted to have heard Peter Straker sing Seaside Rendezvous? Yeah there were some notable omissions, but it did the trick: it raised awareness for AIDS, and it gave Freddie a massive send-off.
That being said, Spinal Tap probably wasn't necessary, as much as I love them. I think the Folksmen would have been more my speed...
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Post by Dimitris on Sept 16, 2020 8:49:33 GMT
Apart from Queen members involvement to call some friends, there was a huge involvement by the record companies. So that's may explain why some artist didn't appear and some others did.
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Post by cmsdrums on Sept 16, 2020 19:22:25 GMT
I’d have loved to see John on acoustic guitar on Las Palabras De Amor - what a shame. Pity they couldn’t swap out songs for artists that had multiple tracks.
On the subject of it being a ‘Brian-centric’ gig, don’t forget that Roger was the main driving force and did a lot of the phoning around and talking to people about it.
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Post by NathanH on Sept 16, 2020 21:55:52 GMT
Perhaps Roger didn't want to sing A Kind Of Magic in the end. He's never mentioned it in an interview so he mustn't be bothered that Brian had his song to sing but he didn't. Roger tends to voice his opinions on such matters and he hasn't on this.
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