Magic Tour 86' Somebody To Love?!

they might have dropped Somebody to Love........but they did add In The Lap of The gods Revisited and an acoustic rock n roll medley, by the way!

[QUOTE] [b]Nitroboy wrote:[/b]

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[b]miraclesteinway wrote: [/b] By the way I think Freddie could have sang somebody to love quite easily on the magic tour. It strikes me as strange that on some parts of the Wembley concert he was sounding forced and tired, but when they did Impromptu, he sounded fantastic.[/QUOTE]

That's because his falsetto was always in fantastic shape, even on his worst gigs.[/QUOTE]

I wouldn't say always - it was often fairly weak on the early tours.

[QUOTE] [b]The King Of Rhye wrote:[/b]

they might have dropped Somebody to Love........but they did add In The Lap of The gods Revisited and an acoustic rock n roll medley, by the way![/QUOTE]

Indeed. The latter was really fresh. Tutti Frutti was an awesome inclusion and always sounded top notch with those three part harmonies.

[QUOTE] [b]miraclesteinway wrote:[/b]

By the way I think Freddie could have sang somebody to love quite easily on the magic tour. It strikes me as strange that on some parts of the Wembley concert he was sounding forced and tired, but when they did Impromptu, he sounded fantastic.[/QUOTE]

The falsetto isn't really the hard part. His falsetto was great all through the Works tour as well, but those versions of STL are not very good.

No, what's hard is singing those Ab4's and Bb4's with the light tenor voice he still possessed in the late 70's and, to an extent, the early 80's. It's a tribute to Aretha Franklin remember, not Joe Cocker.

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[QUOTE] [b]gerry wrote:[/b]"Friends" was very fresh on the Magic tour in 86 and a refreshing change to "somebody to love" i may add![/QUOTE]

For once I can agree with you on something (stop the presses!)[/QUOTE]

Well, even a broken clock is still right twice a day..

[QUOTE] [b]The King Of Rhye wrote:[/b]

they might have dropped Somebody to Love........but they did add In The Lap of The gods Revisited and an acoustic rock n roll medley, by the way![/QUOTE]

Honestly, I'd rather they'd've played Somebody to Love over the acoustic medley. Except not play STL as part of the medley, as they did on the Works tour, but as a full song, like at the Bowl.

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He couldn't sing it anymore, and like Killer Queen, he probably got bored of it.


I don´t believe that Freddie bored of sing STL, he said that this song is better than bohemian, why dropped!! I believe in vocal problems.

As others have said, Freddie was getting sick of Killer Queen by 1981, and that's a brilliant song too. Even if a song is a masterpiece, its writer can surely get tired of it after playing it at every show for eight years.

There was staples they couldn't drop: Bohemian Rhapsody, We Will Rock You, Champions, AOBTD and by that time Radio Ga Ga. By the time you've got those plus the recent tracks, plus some of the lesser-known lesser-stuff and got the quota of hard rock/lighter pop in there, they'd get to a stage where they'd have to pick.

STL was a huge hit but in terms of the 'hits' played on the Magic tour, which one would you replace? You can't really without the running order of the concert seeming a bit odd or taking out one of the newer songs.

Only time Freddie sat at the piano until Bohemian Rhapsody was the last little bit of In the Lap of the Gods and the Seven Seas of Rhye intro. You couldn't really have put it there as it'd seem odd and if immediately before or after Bohemian Rhaposdy wouldn't have worked either. There was just no place for it on the set-list

Since they knew Wembley was being filmed and recorded, I could certainly see STL following UP. WWTLF could easily have been dropped. That's the tracklisting on my personal disk.

EVERYONE RUN ROCKNROLLLOVER IS BACK!

[QUOTE] [b]GERRYISADICK wrote:[/b]

EVERYONE RUN ROCKNROLLLOVER IS BACK![/QUOTE]

Hahahahaha I told you that im not that guy!