"QUEEN: ROCK IN HEISSEN HÖSCHEN" - Hammersmith Odeon 1975 concert review
Mar 3, 2023 17:07:44 GMT
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Post by fabiogminero on Mar 3, 2023 17:07:44 GMT
Hi everyone.
Below an article entitled QUEEN: ROCK IN HEISSEN HÖSCHEN (translated as QUEEN: ROCK IN HOT PANTIES) taken from the German music magazine BRAVO; this is the review of one of Queen's concerts at Hammersmith Odeon in London in December 1975.
Enjoy the reading!
QUEEN: ROCK IN HOT PANTIES
After a year, Queen are back with a bang. With the No. 1 hit "Bohemian Rhapsody" and a super stage show. BRAVO was there in London...
The stage at the Hammersmith Odeon in London is dark. Nothing can be seen. The operatic part of the hit single "Bohemian Rhapsody" sounds softly from the loudspeakers, then increasing in intensity.
When a bright light comes on, the group stands already on stage. Queen blast off with their old song "Ogre Battle". The fans couldn't keep their seats, they rushed to the stage and cheered Freddie Mercury, who was elegantly sexy in a breathtaking, skin-tight white silk suit with dancing movements jumps to the front edge of the stage. With a casual hand movement, he ensures silence. The fans listen almost devoutly to "White Queen" and "Sweet Lady".
Only with the wild rock number "Flick of the Wrist" does the fever break out again. A girl climbs onto the stage and tries to hug Freddie. In vain. Freddie disappears backstage. Then Brian May proves with "Brighton Rock" and "Killer Queen" that he is rightly regarded as one of the most ingenious rock guitarists.
On "March of the Black Queen" Freddie comes back crammed into a black silk suit. The Queen's signature tune, "Lap of the Gods Revisited," sounds, accompanied by smoke and thunder. The fans sway to the beat and sing along enthusiastically. Then they applaud for minutes after an encore. And suddenly Freddie is back on stage. This time in a kimono. To "Big Spender" he performs the "best rock striptease" of the year very slowly and very sexy. The kimono sash flies into the audience, is caught and torn into small pieces. The kimono slowly slides off his shoulders until he is on stage with silk panties. The fans are furious, they agree: despite Elton John or Alice Cooper, that was the best show of 1975...
Only with the wild rock number "Flick of the Wrist" does the fever break out again. A girl climbs onto the stage and tries to hug Freddie. In vain. Freddie disappears backstage. Then Brian May proves with "Brighton Rock" and "Killer Queen" that he is rightly regarded as one of the most ingenious rock guitarists.
On "March of the Black Queen" Freddie comes back crammed into a black silk suit. The Queen's signature tune, "Lap of the Gods Revisited," sounds, accompanied by smoke and thunder. The fans sway to the beat and sing along enthusiastically. Then they applaud for minutes after an encore. And suddenly Freddie is back on stage. This time in a kimono. To "Big Spender" he performs the "best rock striptease" of the year very slowly and very sexy. The kimono sash flies into the audience, is caught and torn into small pieces. The kimono slowly slides off his shoulders until he is on stage with silk panties. The fans are furious, they agree: despite Elton John or Alice Cooper, that was the best show of 1975...
Margit Riem