Brian May comments about Lambert/Freddie.

From Classic Rock magazine.....

Guitarist says Lambert's vocal range would have impressed late singer
Queen's Brian May says singer Adam Lambert can hit high notes that even Freddie Mercury struggled with.

The guitarist once again heaps praise on former American Idol contestant Lambert, who has been on vocal duties with Queen on their world tour which hits the UK next month.

May tells Universal Music: "We didn't look for this guy, suddenly he's there, and he can sing all of those lines. See, they’re difficult songs to sing, Queen songs. There's too much range. So many people can't sing them in the original key — even if they are good singers.

"Adam comes along, and he can do it easy. He can do it in his sleep. He can sing higher than even Freddie could in a live situation. So I think Freddie would look at this guy and think, 'Hmm, yeah. Okay.' There would be a kind of, 'Hmm, you bastard, you can do this.'

"And Adam also has this presentation, I think. He is a showman. He doesn't have to try. He is a natural, in the same way that Freddie was.

"Adam is so much like Freddie in many ways. But Adam doesn't have to try to be like Freddie, which is the nice thing. He doesn't imitate – he just does his own thing."


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Bollocks!!! What does BM know?

I've been the hardest North-Eastern avid Queen fan in the history of the world. All my town knows I am. I was in the cities 'rag' and my friend...oops, read my neighbours dog once took a shit near to Wayne Sleeps lap-dog peed.so I was in the papers about how I directed Queens decisions!

I am Ardent (and I don't think I mean Rod Argent either!!!) Queen fan for 68 years.

Yous all know it and Bri and Rog will announce me as stalwart on the next Gay album that they choose to record (even though they still don't know it yet cause I'm a true Queen fan!!!! What the fuck would they know???)

I reckon If they listened to me they would have a chance to have Duck Soup on cd and some other rarities like.....Live at the Rainbow. Ya know.....really obscure stuff....cause I'm a fan of 89 years!! My mum once watched Biggins on the tele so I'm like, related to Fred!

^^^ applauds.
just one more question:
why just you and your little old laptop...how come you don't have a scanner?

^^^^

Good one! All those rare recordings and not one scanner or even mobile phone.


oops.....why ay in the attic in boxes.....divnee nah.

Yous a bully, Yous is

Yous lot berra wotch oot....I'm a canny fella who divnee naa, why eye man..... Fog on the Tyne......

Again Brian peaise AL over Freddie.
Freddie didnt squeel like a girl he was powerhouse ana Adam would never have power in his pipes like Freddie!!!
He forgot lots of thing about his late "friend"
Was he a friend??
Now I think only and real friend was John.

Of course Adam can sing higher than Freddie! At least on a live situation! All the smoking and partying didn't help Freddie on the matter. And running around the stage is not easy to handle! In the studio Freddie could do those high notes of course. But onde thing Adam just can't get is Freddie's power! He could fill the songs entirely!

Man, Brian is acting like a cheap whore of late...what a waste of a once-great guitarist.

Wouldn't it be great if some people could just read and understand instead of reading but making up their own version. BM has never once said the Lambert is a better than Freddie, or a more lalanted performer.

BM and RT have found someone they enjoy working with, and someone they believe brings something to what they do. They are both in a better position than any of us to judge the difference between Freddie and anyone else they work with.

The plain simple fact is that Lambert can sing, he is possibly better suited to the role than Paul Rodgers, who is a great singer but sounded and looked out of place singing IWTBF etc and was not willing to sing a wider range of songs from the Queen catalog. I know a number of people who saw Queen in the 70's and 80's and again with Rodgers. They've all said that this tour is the closest thing to what the band used to be like.

Those who are putting Lambert down, for the most part, haven't been to or are not going to a show. If you dig out old bootlegs, not official tampered with releases, and listen to a few then compare them to what's available from the current tour you'll find a better singer, but a singer who sometimes has to drop notes and is not consistent in the way Lambert is.

Try suspending the expectation of what your listening too. We've had 40 plus years of hearing and expecting that amazing voice, just because the voice is now different it doesn't mean it's bad and can't do the job it's doing.

In none of BM's interviews and in none of the shows has BM been disrespectful to Freddie In anywhere. Yes he's heaping praise on Lambert, but I think praise where praise is due, they are out there on a worked tour selling out stadiums which they haven't done since the early 80's. If Lambert wasn't on board that would never have happened and I'm sure that some of the guys moaning about Lambert now, would be moaning that Queen haven't toured since 2009 and everyone eles has so why not? If your not happy about what they're doing or saying why don't you lock yourself indoor and stick live at the Rainbow on.

Why is it that you can't conceive of people not giving a damn about Adam Lambert regardless of his technical capacities? Why is it that you can't understand I find it sad how Brian is pretty desperately trying to plug AL any way he can, and that he can't think of a way to do so without including Freddie Mercury in the 'argument'? Why is it that you can't accept that some people think rockers in their late 60s simply re-hashing the stuff they've been playing for decades are just a little bit sad? Why can't you accept that some people who don't like this Q+AL crap don't want Freddie back, but would just like BM/RT to make some NEW music rather than rehashing all the old stuff that's been played to death?

^^^ yes I can understand people not giving a damn about Lambert's technical achievement, but I don't understand the bitterness that, (some) show towards him. He is not a bad singer, sings in tune and in the case of a song like WWTLF sings it as well if not, in some ways better, better than Freddie ever did live. Also from show to show his voice is more consistent than Freddie's.

Yes I would love to hear RT and BM work on something new, hopefully they will, but that might include Lambert so the prospect of anything new being accepted, by some, is minimal. Queen were huge and those songs are still loved. Music is a living changing art and as such should be performed, why should age be a barrier, if this was classical or even jazz would you have the opinion that it shouldn't be played by anyone over the age of 60.

I think BM has mentioned Freddie because since this started in 2012, or before people have asked what would Freddie think, how is this different to Freddie. I think Freddie is still very much part of Queen. I also think BM nd RT feel the need to defend what Lambert does because of some of the negative comments by some fans.

Lambert can sing a little higher than Freddie sure, but he sounds like somebody strangling a cat when he does it. Freddie had a full, rich voice even at the top end of his ability.

That's not a knock on AL's ability, he sounds fine singing generally, and I look forward to seeing the band in January.

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but would just like BM/RT to make some NEW music rather than rehashing all the old stuff that's been played to death?[/QUOTE]


I thoroughly enjoy seeing the old stuff rehashed myself........but yeah I WOULD like to see them making some new music! With or without Adam.....I am sure you would not agree, but personally I'm hoping we get a Q+AL studio album......

(I'm kinda wondering if Brian's creativity has dried up lately btw, or if he just has no great desire to write songs over the past decade or so.....only 3 songs for TCR while Roger wrote 5 for it, and oh yeah, a whole solo album last year........)

personally, i think the problem with AL's voice isn't that he's sh*t - far from it. In many respects he's perfect.
The problem is about his "vocal type".
Some people hate opera singers, others hate country singers, in fact - you name it - for every single vocal category out there, there'll be as many that dislike the style as those that like it.
AL's vocals sit somewhere in the musical theatre genre...and for many (myself included) that style really grates