Sealion wrote:
Most musicians don‘t start again, when they messed up. I can’t see Queen ever doing that. There are several reasons:
1. When exactly is the mistake that big, that it would be better to start over? Who decides that?
2. They are a band. If they started over every time one of them has a problem/fails, they would need to start over on a regular basis. (Just imagine RiR 2015! With all the issues they had, they would have needed to play every second song twice.)
3. The result would be, that everyone in the audience recognized the mistakes. The band would be considered unprofessional.
4. Especially concerning lyric fails: You said, that Lambert got BoRhap 3 nights wrong. Do I remember it correctly, that it was always in the same verse? If it was at the same moment each time, then it weren’t the monitors. It‘s a typical memory fail. The melody is the same and the brain has the wrong connection. Had they started over without Lambert being able to read the lyrics, he would have certainly had the same problem again at the same moment. It was the same with TSMGO: he had the same problems the nights before. But thanks to a teleporter on stage he had been able to save it earlier. The nights later, he stayed in front of that screen for the whole song. ;-)
Problem: During BoRhap he was on a little lift without the possibility to look at his little helper.
So starting over wouldn‘t help in most cases.
As long as the singer is able to go on, even though he is singing wrong lyrics, most people really don‘t recognize it. And for fans it’s usually rather amusing. I still remember Freddie’s „Lalala“, when he couldn’t remember one of the verses. And Roger’s face, when Lambert made up some strange lyrics at RIR was priceless as well. As Brian says: Live shows are dangerous.
Yeah and I wouldn't take his lyric flubs on Queen songs personally either, he messes up the lyrics to his own songs as well. His song Two Fux mentions ADD and judging from what his mum & dad said about him as a child it's possible he does have that, hence his concentration lapses. Who knows, but at the end of the day he's far from the only singer who forgets lyrics.