Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert.

It occurred to me watching The Freddie Mercury tribute concert on Dvd what the hell some artist's where there for like Lisa Stansfield, Paul Young, Def Leppard, Axl Rose, Slash, i mean those people were not in Freddie's circle of friends.
The likes of Cliff Richard, Dave Clark , Montserrat & Peter Straker had more in common with Freddie and should have been there,
It seems to me Brian got his favourite mates over for that concert and he did not honour Freddie properly. The Royal Ballet would also have been a nice touch too to Freddie's day too.
Selfish Brian all over again in my opinion.
What do you all think?

refreshing to see a topic which has hardly been discussed before :) :)

sarcasm aside - there are most likely several LONG threads on the forum already if you do a quick search

Yeah I've said this many times. It was very hair pop metal heavy which I just didn't associate with Queen. But also tickets innit. Luckily the mixture of artists doing the collabs later on was better.

That said, the line up of bands I would've liked to have seen was exactly zero.

It was broadcast worldwide, of course they had to bring musicians with worldwide appeal.

Most of the artists claimed, that they were influenced by Queen. Like Def Leppard, Guns and Roses, Metallica etc. The Concert was a Tribute to Freddie and never labeled as "Freddies Friends on stage". You would hardly get one Billion people watching the show on TV with Peter Straker and Montserrat. Allthough I personally would have loved to see Billy Squire on the stage on that day.

It kinda was The Freddie Mercury Tribute concert by Brian May and friends. The setlist was also quite heavily influenced by that fact.

You've got to remember availability or whether wanted to perform at all. The songs chosen were by the artists for most of them.

I honestly think more people would have wanted a more personal approach to this concert i.e real friends of Freddie's
sure we had Elton John but were was Rod Stewart?
Barbara Valentin would have been a joy to watch too and also not even a speech from Mary Austin but errr she would take Fred's mansion and the money.
Sadly the show was more about Brian's heavy rock mates than Freddie's.
Freddie would have been shocked that Axel Rose appeared as he detested him.

Well one thing we do know, Paul Rodgers wasn't asked because he wasn't Freddies favorite singer yet.

What would be your fav setlist for that night with only Freddie songs

emrabt wrote:

Well one thing we do know, Paul Rodgers wasn't asked because he wasn't Freddies favorite singer yet.

I think he was busy making Sidekicks that year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidekicks_(1992_film)

A lot of people were there simply because they'd had a big hit in the previous year and were in vogue e.g. Seal, Zucchero, Annie Lennox.

I agree it looked like a Brian May party at certain points. When he was jamming with Slash and Tomi Ionni, John, on the other side of the stage, looked like the new boy at school forced to eat his sandwiches in the corner on his own. Also, the bit where the guy from Extreme forced John to dance during Hammer to Fall was excruciating.

With the exception of Spinal Tap, I like how it's a mix of rock and pop artists.

I thought it was very generous of the "near legendary" Spinal Tap to cut their set by 35 songs, Cause "Freddie would have wanted it this way."

Jazz+ wrote:


Freddie would have been shocked that Axel Rose appeared as he detested him.

Source?