'The Show Must Go On: The Queen + Adam Lambert Story' Airs April 29 on ABC

I haven’t heard anything about a live album. Is that true?

But it only has special meaning for some Queen fans. Most folks probably have no clue it was written by Freddie, the younger ones may not even know it is a Queen song. Most people don't have your specialized knowledge. It is an old term, incorporated by Freddie into a song, but it means carrying on and that is what Brian and Roger are doing. I just don't see the big problem with it. Everything they do seems to be an issue for you as to why they did it, why did they use that term, or that gimmick. Sometimes a thing is what it is and nothing more. I am sure the average fan would think it is quite apropos.

snifflese wrote:

But it only has special meaning for some Queen fans. Most folks probably have no clue it was written by Freddie, the younger ones may not even know it is a Queen song. Most people don't have your specialized knowledge. It is an old term, incorporated by Freddie into a song, but it means carrying on and that is what Brian and Roger are doing. I just don't see the big problem with it. Everything they do seems to be an issue for you as to why they did it, why did they use that term, or that gimmick. Sometimes a thing is what it is and nothing more. I am sure the average fan would think it is quite apropos.

It's an important song, for sure, it is a shame the history of it is not known by some. It's one of the most important Queen songs, and I'd go as far as to say it's one of the most important songs from the 1990's.
First off, it wasn't written just by Freddie. ;-).
Of course you don't see a problem with it :-/.
I may or not be alone how I feel about it, but yes I wish it wouldn't be used to promote AL or even Q+AL.
I wonder if you knew more about the song, would you feel the same way about it? Genuine question.

No, it makes no difference to me at all who wrote it. If all four wrote it, then I see less of a problem using it. Honestly, Icy, the majority of people around here have no clue half of the songs that are are Queen's songs. None of my friends could pick out a Queen song other than the very basic ones and I was in schools with teenagers for quite a while and it is only us old timers who know all that much about Queen and apparently, as you well know, I know very little. So most folks know hardly anything at all based on my experiences. It isn't a problem for any of those folks and that would be the vast majority here in the US. I think it is the perfect choice myself, both relating to a band going on in spite of everything that happened to Freddie and plowing forward in the traditional sense. I guess things don't affect me nearly as much as they seem to affect you. I think I am a little more pragmatic, although I do cry easily over things, but this one doesn't get my wheels spinning. It isn't just because of Adam either. I applaud groups who can find new members and just carry on and that applies to every aspect of life, not just a band. We can't all sit and wallow in sadness and take everything so personally and this isn't a family member or a friend, so I just don't get the personal angle at all. For me the name is just about perfect. I think it is the Adam angle that has your wheels spinning as usual.

Gee, I wonder what my “dear friend” and confirmed Adam hater at QOL, Mr. JLP, thinks about THIS:

http://www.queenonline.com/news/press-release-the-show-must-go-on-the-queen-adam-lambert-story

snifflese wrote:

No, it makes no difference to me at all who wrote it. If all four wrote it, then I see less of a problem using it. Honestly, Icy, the majority of people around here have no clue half of the songs that are are Queen's songs. None of my friends could pick out a Queen song other than the very basic ones and I was in schools with teenagers for quite a while and it is only us old timers who know all that much about Queen and apparently, as you well know, I know very little. So most folks know hardly anything at all based on my experiences. It isn't a problem for any of those folks and that would be the vast majority here in the US. I think it is the perfect choice myself, both relating to a band going on in spite of everything that happened to Freddie and plowing forward in the traditional sense. I guess things don't affect me nearly as much as they seem to affect you. I think I am a little more pragmatic, although I do cry easily over things, but this one doesn't get my wheels spinning. It isn't just because of Adam either. I applaud groups who can find new members and just carry on and that applies to every aspect of life, not just a band. We can't all sit and wallow in sadness and take everything so personally and this isn't a family member or a friend, so I just don't get the personal angle at all. For me the name is just about perfect. I think it is the Adam angle that has your wheels spinning as usual.

It's am important for dozens of reasons, not just because of who wrote it. Heck, I don't think you truly understand why the song is so important.
Even my niece and nephew can pick out a few Queen songs, they are less than years old. Right now, Queen is extremely popular, and that's in huge part because of the biopic. I do think it's a shame Brian and Roger want to promote AL and Q+AL instead of working on Queen music that may be left in the vaults.
You don't have to have a go at me because you think this is affecting me. I'm going my POVs about using the title, and what I feel could be the documentary angle. I'm a Queen fan first and foremost, doesn't mean I can't state how I feel about this as well. I haven't been offensive, in my views at all here. Don't know why you are trying to get personal with me again.

SweetCaroline wrote:

Gee, I wonder what my “dear friend” and confirmed Adam hater at QOL, Mr. JLP, thinks about THIS:

http://www.queenonline.com/news/press-release-the-show-must-go-on-the-queen-adam-lambert-story

Why would you want to know what he thinks?

Icy, I am not having a go at you, honestly, but you find offense with everything that QAL does. That sons shouldn't be sung by Adam if it was a certain Freddie song or from a Certain album and the list is endless. Your relatives know Queen because they are learning it from you. The average kid in America doesn't have a clue for the most part unless they have parents who love Queen. That is the honest truth from all the kids I have seen in my time (and it is a lot). Yea, Queen is popular now, but it is still overwhelmingly older Queen fans and Adam fans. There is a huge universe out there that is not at all familiar with Queen. For me I would like to see more of what Queen is doing now as QAL. The vaults are great, but they don't mean to me what they do to you. I want a QAL DVD and I would love to hear a song or two written by QAL. I guess I live for the now and you live for the past, both different acceptable POV's.

You don't have to spend much time on that one, Caroline. He probably doesn't think much about it at all and would prefer not to ever have to think about it. Things change and we can't all stay stuck in the past. He is welcome to his opinion, but he is rather a curmudgeon to any Adam fans and I don't find that appropriate as the mod in the QAL part of the forum as one can't be fair when they are that biased. The less he appears in the postings, the better.

Iron Butterfly wrote:



Thanks for understanding. Obviously, it's lost on some people who think it was written for what would happen after Freddie passed away.
It's one of my favorite songs ever. A heck of a song, great lyrics and vocals, it's a stunning, powerful message really.
I do think it's a shame and a pretty big one that it is used to promote Q+AL, and it will be heavy on the AL focus, I expect.

Glamtarts dont get Queen so dont expect them to get the meaning of the song. Just another shameful action by Maylor. QAL/The movie----what comes next???

snifflese wrote:

But it only has special meaning for some Queen fans. Most folks probably have no clue it was written by Freddie,

It was mainly written by Brian you stupid fuckwhit

snifflese wrote:

I guess I live for the now and you live for the past, both different acceptable POV's.

SO QAL are not living in the past by playing songs that are mainly more than 30 plus years old and doing endless nostalgia shows? get the irony or as usual too dumb ?

You are a disgusting piece of crap. I just wish I could flush you and your idiotic, nasty comments down the toilet into the sewer, where you apparently dwell. I would love to get a glimpse of you in real life, as I bet you don't say, Boo to anyone. Those are the people who post all the crap on the internet as they don't have to be afraid of any repercussions since they hide behind their keyboard. Does it make you feel big and powerful to write dirty, condescending remarks to women? I imagine there isn't much in your own life to make you feel good about or you wouldn't behave in the appalling way you do. Shame on you!

Sometimes i love how this all devolves into ppl bitching about QOL and bitching about not being understood and flouting common knowledge about the band... at the least, it gets laughably entertaining.

If they make a QAL movie ... who will play the fat singer with the girdle?

This is from grammy.com ???

http://www.grammy.com/grammys/news/queen-adam-lambert-show-must-go-documentary-coming-april