George Michael - suitable frontman?

George Michael did a fine job with STL. He also sang it a half tone lower, in G instead of Ab. That made a very difficult song much easier, and he still couldn't hit the "love" part after the solo and handed it over to the audience. I'd love to see him rip into a song like It's Late in a live setting. The Queen catalogue would destroy George Michael (my favourite pop singer, with the best phrasing since Freddie) if he performed it live.

george would be the best choice right now, he could be great front man and he is, who says other hasn't seen his shows! his voice is the best! as someone said before he can't sing like hammer to fall... well i am sure he can but even if he can't then queen chooses other songs to the list, just like with paul, because paul just can't sing many songs as they said, the voice that paul has doesn't suite to many songs, same is probably with george, but bellive me, songs that he can sing will sound amazing! george michael is the only singer right now to fit with freddies performance, he ain't as good as freddie, but he would do it amazingly.

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isnt he going through some hard times with smoking too much weed any how. he cant get his act together right now. he is throughing his career away. thats what i heard. but i think he wouldve been a good frontman. he gave me goose bumps at the tribute concert. freddie wouldve been proud!

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]kudilja wrote: [/QUOTENAME]George is primarily pop singer, he has his own persona....although STL on tribute conert was fabulous....[/QUOTE]

I agree and as someone already wrote above, as for heavy stuff I doubt he can do well, although he was fantastic on STL. And I doubt he can produce a crazy mood like Freddie often did.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]wembley86 wrote: [/QUOTENAME]isnt he going through some hard times with smoking too much weed any how. he cant get his act together right now. he is throughing his career away. thats what i heard. but i think he wouldve been a good frontman. he gave me goose bumps at the tribute concert. freddie wouldve been proud![/QUOTE]

george michael is touring right now, he said he will stop some years ago but now he is touring again :) and the voice is still 10+

George Michael might be touring again but its his first tour for years. he is a pot head and his life has become a joke. last month he was caught yet again (yawn yawn) in some london park with a 50 plus guy. as for his voice being still great, well yeah he sounds ok but he changes songs now to sing them slower and lower. he only does his songs one way and thats true. i like his older stuff but now he dont sing them like he did then. he does sing them slower and so its easier to sing.

George Michael is the suitable frontman now for queen,he would bring some respect back for what PR didnt do,and it would be interesting to see him sing songs like CLTCL,miracle,breakthru,anyway, anybody heard Ray Lamontagne's new song 'trouble' it sounds like freddie hitting the high notes in the song.

George Michael is a far too limited vocalist to even come close to attempting replacing Freddie. He has very limited skills and hardly any variety in the way he can use his voice. He did "Somebody to Love" wonderful at the Tribute, but he is absolutly uncapable to sing the other stuff that Freddie sang so well good too. NO. George is NOT the best replacement. I would rather see Jeff Scott Soto or Mirko Beumer (MayQueen) replace him for live shows. George Michael is not 1 % of the entertainer Freddie was, but these two gents are stage-animals with bigger and greater charisma and stage-personality than George Michael. And they both have no ego too. They are better replacements than George Michael in every imaginable way you can possibly think off. He is simply too simple and too limited. Even i can sing better than George Michael....He has only 1 little voice-using trick, that he uses over and over and over and over again, untill every new song bores me before i even have heared it completely....he is too predictable.....and sings everything exactly the same way with the same voice. Boring to death he is. Not surprising or entertaining at all.

Frankly,
I have no idea why people seem to think that Brian and Roger need a "queen," to front Queen. I think the naming of the group was a half joke/half serious thought. The only way that Freddie's lifestyle had an impact on the group was his songwriting and stage persona. It's totally irrelevant to think that someone like George Michael could front Queen. Yes, he gave a good rendition of "Somebody to love;" However he sang the song in G instead of the songs original key of A flat. Obviously Freddie is irreplaceble, that's something that's a waste of time debating. Paul Rodgers, Brian, and Roger are trying something different here...they in no way have an intention of monopolizing on Freddie's tragic death. There are only two people aside from Paul Rodgers that I think would be suitable frontmen for Queen; Jeff Scott Soto (he's singing for Journey now...), or Gary Cherone (Extreme). Paul was their best choice for a frontman...and I know they'll make great music together.

Bottom line people, there is no REPLACEMENT for freddie. you cant REPLACE him! you can have a different singer sing with the band that he played in but it is literally impossible to replace freddie mercury! all this new frontman business is making me depressed. i say we just have a tour like the tribute where many different singers sing with the band so he isnt forgotten. Q+PR was great. im mainly saying this because i was not old enough to attend a queen concert when freddie was alive so this was my first chance to see whats left of queen. Just one front person makes it seem i dunno, wierd. like even tho they arent trying to replace him, someone is taking his place.

I think Gary Cherone it's perfect, but his character must be incompatible with Brian and Roger's character. Remember Van Halen.


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Gary Cherone, good God no!!!!!!

I saw him front Van Halen, yikes with his lame Freddie impersonation

I love George, and would love to see him do something with Brian and Roger, but he's now too far from what they represent.

Actually, Gary Cherone was great singing the old VH stuff live, including singing Roth era stuff, which Hagar wouldn't do. Unfortunately for Gary, the new VH sucked musically, it was worse than anything they'd ever done. Further, I doubt that he'd want to do it from a career POV. He's still writing and recording new music, and after the way the VH gig ended, I'd doubt that he'd want to be known as a replacement singer for huge acts.