Keep rockin' the world BM and RT. They still rule the world without Freddie and Adam is doing an excellent job!! :-) Why stop now, when a new generation after the BR movie has connected to their fantastic music an legacy...
Keep rockin' the cosmos! ummm, whatever..................
I've never had the slightest interest in seeing Queen with any other singer. However, Roger and Brian can do as they wish. As musicians, I would have thought that they'd have wanted to continue to create new music though. After losing someone close to you, I can't imagine it could feel anything other than sad to still now, over 30 years since their last live show with all of Queen, still be playing the same old hits, and with not-Freddie singing. They must think of him very time they do it, no? He must be there, like a ghost. I would have thought when Freddie died, they'd also have feared the musically creative part of their lives may be over? But then they seem to have chosen to not be creative together anymore?
I feel like John Deacon retiring was at least partly (a large part) related to the rest of Queen's decision to continue with new singers? Surely there would have been an option to continue as a three-piece and actually make new music? Might John have been interested in continuing in that way? I've no idea. They then could have kept Queen, or chosen a new name, and say, used Roger's voice - he's a great singer and his voice suggests a different kind of music. That they didn't seems to suggest to me that there is ego in this. Instead they tried solo careers. And Queen are not just Freddie, but Queen without Freddie - as both a frontman and as a songwriter would, I presume have been unlikely to be anywhere near as successful, which would have been maybe more of an ego hit than the guys were prepared to take? If their solo careers aren't hugely successful, well at least they have full individual control and they never were massively successful, but if their music as a group without Freddie was not successful, that's more of a hit to them maybe? And maybe some would have hated this even more than Queen playing with new singers?!
For me, the mere idea of watching Queen with another singer - it gives me a skin-crawling, uncomfortable yawning in my insides. There is just something about it which to me feels wrong and sad and, I guess disrespectful. There's something about it which is definitely not about the music or about creativity. So even though I guess it's the closest chance I'd ever have to see actual Queen live, I just can't care to see it and the mere idea of it makes me feel sad and deeply uncomfortable. But if others enjoy it, fine - go for it.
I also think if another band member had died, not Freddie, that Freddie would have liked nothing worse than to still be playing the same old hits 30 years later. Whatever he had done: with the end or otherwise, I'm pretty sure he'd have continued to be creative. But yes, to imagine that scenario, it does feel hard to not imagine Queen continuing with a replacement, but writing new music... but maybe Freddie would have stepped away and worked in another area musically entirely. Maybe continuing from what he'd done with Barcelona, say. After all - had he survived to experience that at the '92 Olympics, who knows what may have followed.
