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That was very cool to watch. :)
ReplyDeleteI've never watched Queen perform live before. I heard them on the radio when I was a teenager, and I've watched some videos since then, much more recently, but I'm not really a music person and although I love some of their songs, I don't generally go looking for music.
I'm sure I'm behind the crowd by several decades :P but I get the Freddy Mercury thing now. I mean, yeah, he's a great singer. (Not so much with the guitar playing. [cough] I was thinking that probably the main reason they gave him a guitar about 12 minutes in was to give him an excuse to park in front of one of the stationary mikes for a bit and rest after bouncing around the stage up to that point. Not that he sucked, but the bushy-haired guitarist (that's Brian May, right? I think...?) who completely rocked it certainly had nothing to worry about.)
Anyway, yeah, Freddy was a great singer, but I think what made him awesome was the way he played the crowd. The guy had enough charisma for ten people, and he was a master at pulling the crowd into the performance. He was an awesome showman, aside from being a great singer, and I'm thinking that's what pumped Queen up into the stratosphere, and kept them there for so incredibly long.
Good stuff, thanks for posting it. :)
Angie