[QUOTE] [b]ixtapa wrote:[/b]
http://youtu.be/LRt2jX1kaYo
im not too keen on it...does freddy start singing in the wrong key when he is handed the microphone/gets up from piano) ... its at 2:16. ???? [/QUOTE]
No, he is not.
He is just improvising in a way that less musical trained ears may think he is off-key.
The Earls court has to be my fav, one of their first time live performances of the song. Along with all of the 77 performances it was a huge step into the unknown for a band who wrote the complicated Bohem Rhap and as of that day at the races tour, they had just found a technique that would allowed them to play the complete song and that difficult opera middle section. I guess they were thinking about how the three of them were going to pull of this performance with the multi layered harmonies, as a result John was needed to give it that thickness which was one of the first definite time you could clearly hear his voice and funnily enough ended up after this tour with his mic being permanently turned down barring an odd mistake by the roddies
Quote from that Queen live website..
The band initially thought Somebody To Love would be difficult to perform live, with the absence of the dozens of voices on the record. In a March 1977 interview, Roger Taylor stated, "Somebody To Love was hard to do because there are so many voices on the record that I didn't know if we'd be able to do it. I enjoy playing it now, but when we first started the tour, we were dreading it when it came round in the set."
