Press clippings

The Cincinnati Enquirer, February 16, 1976.

"Group Mediocre Musically". " Without all the lighting and thunder and histrionics, Queen is a conglomeration of musical paupers".

 It seems that the journalist did not like the concert.

©Newspapers.com

"Queen is" should be "Queen are". The Journalist was clearly deaf!!!

[QUOTE] [b]stevelondon20 wrote:[/b]

"Queen is" should be "Queen are". The Journalist was clearly deaf!!![/QUOTE]

The house style at many American publications is refer to groups in the singular.

Ouch! Least they liked Deacon.

Wait let me get this straight, does he think Queen are too campy?

http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2014/03/22/enquirers-cliff-radel-wins-journalism-honor-uc/6763689/

"For someone who has never taken a course in journalism, Cliff Radel has led quite a 38-year career at The Enquirer, a career for which Radel's alma mater, the University of Cincinnati, plans to induct him into its Journalism Hall of Fame."

He should have checked out the Boston show one month earlier...

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[b]kosimodo wrote: [/b] http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2014/03/22/enquirers-cliff-radel-wins-journalism-honor-uc/6763689/

"For someone who has never taken a course in journalism, Cliff Radel has led quite a 38-year career at The Enquirer, a career for which Radel's alma mater, the University of Cincinnati, plans to induct him into its Journalism Hall of Fame."[/QUOTE]

So? It was a fair enough recension IMO. I don't necessarily agree with it, but it's witty and one can definitely argue that both Freddie and Brian are definitely not as good musically live, as in the studio.

just BS

That made me seek out No Deposit No Return. It's a 4/10 but I enjoyed it.

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http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2014/03/22/enquirers-cliff-radel-wins-journalism-honor-uc/6763689/

"For someone who has never taken a course in journalism, Cliff Radel has led quite a 38-year career at The Enquirer, a career for which Radel's alma mater, the University of Cincinnati, plans to induct him into its Journalism Hall of Fame."
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Hilarious.

But it goes on to say how he's actually done some pretty good things.

Review of concert at Civic Centre, in Lakeland.
November 4, 1978.
"Canned Queen is disappointing"

Review of the concert at Civic Centre in Ottawa, Canada.
November 30, 1978.
"Show only lacked nudes on bikes".

Thanks for posting these.

Starting to see a trend? Most newspapers didn't send journalists who liked rock music to concerts. Most of them had no idea what they were talking about. All of the great bands got slagged 90% of the time.

The Ottawa review has nice moments, but then it calls Brian May "functional". I guess this is what happens when Eddie van Halen burst onto the scene earlier that year. Suddenly the older rock guys weren't as exciting anymore, because faster became better.

In contrast to the Cincinnati 76 review seen here, here's an overwhelmingly positive one from a couple weeks later in Madison: