Hi just wondering what you thought of Seal's performance of Who Wants To Live Forever at the Freddie Mercury Tribute concert?
He is a judge on the t.v show The Voice in Australia and a guy sang We Are The Champions which I thought was pretty good but he didn't get selected to the next round. Seal said if you are going to sing a Queen song you have to be good or something along those lines.
I thought he did 'OK'. Which, if I'm remembering correctly, is pretty much how he described his own performance that day.
He was light-hearted about it actually - saying, when he first attempted to sing like Freddie, he felt "I can't do this, it will ruin my career" because no one could come close to Freddie, etc.
I remember the interview with him... it was pretty funny how he put it.
Most of the Tribute Concert's vocals were re-recorded for the official releases I think. For example, Brian's vocal on Too Much Love on the official versions is pretty much flawless, if a bit shaky, while on the audience recording you can hear that he's way off key at the start (can't blame him, among the first times he'd sung lead vocals live)
Any links to the original audience/live feed versions?
I just have the 4hr VHS and pretty lame (considering the time allotment and two discs) DVD version which omits the entire first act.
He was crap.
I swear people watched a different Tribute Concert than the one I saw. I keep seeing morons going on about how great Axl Rose was. Christ on a Cracker.
People only clap for George Michael because they were expecting Wham and what they got was a competent, decent rendition. Measured against the rest of the crap that day, it must've seemed pretty amazing at the time.