What do you think my dear friends that this song never been on the list of Magic Tour?
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it doesn't fit at all with the Magic Tour songs setlist.
Magic Tour was a hard rock show, "Somebody to love" is not heavy enough to be in that songs setlist.
Magic Tour was a hard rock show, "Somebody to love" is not heavy enough to be in that songs setlist.
Hard Rock Show?? O.o Oh, yeah, yeah... of course... Who Wants to Live Forever is a piece of Heavy Metal (?) Queen was Hard Rock in Early and mid 70`s
Melina Mercouri only sang it dears when he was looking for it........up until he found true love..x
MERQRY wrote:
Hard Rock Show?? O.o Oh, yeah, yeah... of course... Who Wants to Live Forever is a piece of Heavy Metal (?) Queen was Hard Rock in Early and mid 70`s
Metal is no strange to the symphonic music, listen to the bilions of metal bands who use symphonic lines in their music.
It's not a coincidence that Who Wants To Live Forever is taken from an album that has a lot of hard rock moments (one vision, princes of the universe, gimme the prize)
pestgrid wrote:
Melina Mercouri only sang it dears when he was looking for it........up until he found true love..x
There actually may be some truth to that. Only he knows..
Or maybe he just got tired of singing it. Listen to Killer Queen by December 1980 - he wasn't even singing the verses anymore because he was so bored of it.
akan... are you kidding? Queen were never more poppy than on the Magic Tour. Their late 70's gigs had a far heavier aura to them, and yet they included STL.
The Works tour versions sounded quite bad with all that grit too. Maybe they realised that themselves.
akan wrote:
it doesn't fit at all with the Magic Tour songs setlist.
I think you are right there. You could also add the fact Freddie hated playing piano live by 1986 especially in a stadium show.
They had lots of albums at the time, it was impossible to play everyone's favorites in a 2 hour show.
Wasn't it played only as an intro to Bohemian Rhapsody at some point during the Magic Tour ?
I think a few things contributed, lack of time, hard song to sing with limited range, he know longer 'felt' the song as strongly after finding Jim and the fact he didn't like playing piano too much, especially in stadiums.
they were waiting for adam lambert to be born
pestgrid wrote:
Melina Mercouri only sang it dears when he was looking for it........up until he found true love..x
Supersonic_Man89 wrote:
he know longer 'felt' the song as strongly after finding Jim
Perhaps, but then again he sang Love of My Life every show from late 1977 to 1986, and it's not like he would've still been feeling the pain of separating with Mary by the end of that.
EDIT: Point is, you don't have to still emotionally identify with it for it to be worth playing.
I'm glad they dropped the song after The Works Tour, the song just felt dead by that tour :/