I think watching somebody else sing it reveals that it does have limitations as a song, and reveals how much it depends on it's own history and narrative within Queen to be moving. It's a very good song, but in my view it's not a great one; not great like other things they did. It needs Freddie or Brian to create a moment, and it needs a complicit audience.
Couldn't agree more with you! I like they're appreciation for Queen, it took alot of courage for everyone that day to get up and sing songs that are very hard to sing, especially comparing the cover version to the original version.
Great playing by Nuno, not Gary's greatest moment vocally, given a great mark due to the reverence and effort. Same performance by Axl Rose may have got a lesser grade but Extreme "got" Queen, and deserves full marks for the LOML cover.
For me Extreme were the best!!! So much energy and drive!!!Amazing!!! So young pure talented guys with open hearts and true love to Queen!!! They were like children of Queen, their successors! Brian, Roger and John I think for the first time after Freddie's death felt themselves alive again on the stage!!You can see it on Hammer to fall.
It was so unbearably terribly sad without Freddie but Gary came and gave me Hope, he showed that life goes on and Freddie smiled him from heaven...
Marina K. wrote: For me Extreme were the best!!! So much energy and drive!!!Amazing!!! So young pure talented guys with open hearts and true love to Queen!!! They were like children of Queen, their successors! Brian, Roger and John I think for the first time after Freddie's death felt themselves alive again on the stage!!You can see it on Hammer to fall.
It was so unbearably terribly sad without Freddie but Gary came and gave me Hope, he showed that life goes on and Freddie smiled him from heaven...
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...........................And they did'nt even make it onto the official DVD ! -UNBELIEVABLE
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