| Mr.Mouth 03.12.2014 14:26 |
What do you think my dear friends that this song never been on the list of Magic Tour? |
| akan 03.12.2014 14:41 |
it doesn't fit at all with the Magic Tour songs setlist. Magic Tour was a hard rock show, "Somebody to love" is not heavy enough to be in that songs setlist. |
| MERQRY 03.12.2014 15:11 |
Hard Rock Show?? O.o Oh, yeah, yeah... of course... Who Wants to Live Forever is a piece of Heavy Metal (?) Queen was Hard Rock in Early and mid 70's |
| pestgrid 03.12.2014 16:18 |
Melina Mercouri only sang it dears when he was looking for it........up until he found true love..x |
| akan 03.12.2014 16:26 |
MERQRY wrote: Hard Rock Show?? O.o Oh, yeah, yeah... of course... Who Wants to Live Forever is a piece of Heavy Metal (?) Queen was Hard Rock in Early and mid 70'sMetal is no strange to the symphonic music, listen to the bilions of metal bands who use symphonic lines in their music. It's not a coincidence that Who Wants To Live Forever is taken from an album that has a lot of hard rock moments (one vision, princes of the universe, gimme the prize) |
| The Real Wizard 03.12.2014 16:31 |
pestgrid wrote: Melina Mercouri only sang it dears when he was looking for it........up until he found true love..xThere actually may be some truth to that. Only he knows.. Or maybe he just got tired of singing it. Listen to Killer Queen by December 1980 - he wasn't even singing the verses anymore because he was so bored of it. |
| Oscar J 03.12.2014 16:31 |
akan... are you kidding? Queen were never more poppy than on the Magic Tour. Their late 70's gigs had a far heavier aura to them, and yet they included STL. |
| Oscar J 03.12.2014 16:32 |
The Works tour versions sounded quite bad with all that grit too. Maybe they realised that themselves. |
| Marknow 03.12.2014 17:13 |
akan wrote: it doesn't fit at all with the Magic Tour songs setlist.I think you are right there. You could also add the fact Freddie hated playing piano live by 1986 especially in a stadium show. |
| winterspelt 03.12.2014 23:01 |
They had lots of albums at the time, it was impossible to play everyone's favorites in a 2 hour show. |
| MercurialFreddie 04.12.2014 03:21 |
Wasn't it played only as an intro to Bohemian Rhapsody at some point during the Magic Tour ? |
| Supersonic_Man89 04.12.2014 04:56 |
I think a few things contributed, lack of time, hard song to sing with limited range, he know longer 'felt' the song as strongly after finding Jim and the fact he didn't like playing piano too much, especially in stadiums. |
| e-man 04.12.2014 05:18 |
they were waiting for adam lambert to be born |
| tomchristie22 04.12.2014 06:15 |
pestgrid wrote: Melina Mercouri only sang it dears when he was looking for it........up until he found true love..x Supersonic_Man89 wrote: he know longer 'felt' the song as strongly after finding JimPerhaps, but then again he sang Love of My Life every show from late 1977 to 1986, and it's not like he would've still been feeling the pain of separating with Mary by the end of that. EDIT: Point is, you don't have to still emotionally identify with it for it to be worth playing. |
| Nitroboy 04.12.2014 08:03 |
I'm glad they dropped the song after The Works Tour, the song just felt dead by that tour :/ |
| The Real Wizard 04.12.2014 10:51 |
MercurialFreddie wrote: Wasn't it played only as an intro to Bohemian Rhapsody at some point during the Magic Tour ?Nope. But it was a couple times in 1982. |
| The Real Wizard 04.12.2014 10:57 |
tomchristie22 wrote: Perhaps, but then again he sang Love of My Life every show from late 1977 to 1986, and it's not like he would've still been feeling the pain of separating with Mary by the end of that. EDIT: Point is, you don't have to still emotionally identify with it for it to be worth playing.I dunno - ask Billy Joel why he doesn't play She's Got a Way anymore. Some people can go through the motions but others can't. Case by case basis, person to person, song to song. Where his mind was in 86 only he knows, but where his mind was in 91 everyone knows (unless they're in extreme denial). Look who got his house. |
| gerry 04.12.2014 11:01 |
Queen always discarded songs every tour, like "Father to Son" got the chop after a certain amount of time and "Sweet Lady" so not surprised " Somebody to Love" got booted off the set list! They made way for the fresh sounds, "Friends will be Friends" etc............. |
| Oscar J 04.12.2014 11:51 |
Friends Will Be Friends... that might just be the least fresh sounding song in Queens entire catalogue. |
| gerry 04.12.2014 12:16 |
"Friends" was very fresh on the Magic tour in 86 and a refreshing change to "somebody to love" i may add! |
| Thistle 04.12.2014 13:15 |
Bob, I wish Billy Joel would play She's Got A Way. He's in a proper "deep cuts" mood these days, and still won't play it. Anyway...back on topic: I agree that STL had lost it's edge by the end of The Works tour, and that's all. Nothing to do with how it would fit. |
| mike hunt 04.12.2014 15:59 |
He couldn't sing it anymore, and like Killer Queen, he probably got bored of it. |
| MercurialFreddie 04.12.2014 16:06 |
Well if they would perform it at the beginning of the show, e. g. the Leiden gig then he could pull it off. It would be nice hear how would the band re-arrange it for the Magic Tour. I'm curious if it was rehearsed before one of the Magic shows or if it was mentioned when they were making the set-list for the tour. |
| The Real Wizard 04.12.2014 20:31 |
I'd say it didn't even make the short list. What I'd like to know is what 10-15 other songs were rehearsed for the Works tour and dropped. |
| Rick 05.12.2014 02:23 |
gerry wrote: "Friends" was very fresh on the Magic tour in 86 and a refreshing change to "somebody to love" i may add!Especially its place in the setlist: between WWRY and WATC. The Wembley version is really nice because of the audience participation. |
| inu-liger 05.12.2014 03:04 |
gerry wrote:"Friends" was very fresh on the Magic tour in 86 and a refreshing change to "somebody to love" i may add!For once I can agree with you on something (stop the presses!) Except for at least one of the first few, RARE full performances where they had no idea when to end the song! That was a mess. |
| gerry 05.12.2014 04:16 |
yes audience participation is something Queen and its audiences love, whether its Radio ga ga or love of my life its brilliant to see band and audience in unison. |
| miraclesteinway 05.12.2014 07:34 |
By the way I think Freddie could have sang somebody to love quite easily on the magic tour. It strikes me as strange that on some parts of the Wembley concert he was sounding forced and tired, but when they did Impromptu, he sounded fantastic. |
| Nitroboy 05.12.2014 07:37 |
miraclesteinway wrote: By the way I think Freddie could have sang somebody to love quite easily on the magic tour. It strikes me as strange that on some parts of the Wembley concert he was sounding forced and tired, but when they did Impromptu, he sounded fantastic. That's because his falsetto was always in fantastic shape, even on his worst gigs. |
| The King Of Rhye 05.12.2014 07:51 |
gerry wrote: yes audience participation is something Queen and its audiences love, whether its Radio ga ga or love of my life its brilliant to see band and audience in unison.True that...........some of my favorite Queen bootlegs to listen to are ones where you can really hear that the audience is into it..........as in Leeds 82.......or actually BEING in an audience like that is quite an experience...............(like in both "Queen+" shows I saw!) One thing that I always loved, too...........when listening to a live album of someone..............the band or artist plays just a few notes of a hit song and the crowd ERUPTS...........(like when Freddie sings "can..." at the start of Somebody To Love!)........I was always kinda envious of that..............its like.........thats power........lol |
| The King Of Rhye 05.12.2014 07:54 |
they might have dropped Somebody to Love........but they did add In The Lap of The gods Revisited and an acoustic rock n roll medley, by the way! |
| tomchristie22 05.12.2014 08:31 |
Nitroboy wrote:I wouldn't say always - it was often fairly weak on the early tours.miraclesteinway wrote: By the way I think Freddie could have sang somebody to love quite easily on the magic tour. It strikes me as strange that on some parts of the Wembley concert he was sounding forced and tired, but when they did Impromptu, he sounded fantastic.That's because his falsetto was always in fantastic shape, even on his worst gigs. |
| tomchristie22 05.12.2014 08:32 |
The King Of Rhye wrote: they might have dropped Somebody to Love........but they did add In The Lap of The gods Revisited and an acoustic rock n roll medley, by the way!Indeed. The latter was really fresh. Tutti Frutti was an awesome inclusion and always sounded top notch with those three part harmonies. |
| Oscar J 05.12.2014 11:44 |
miraclesteinway wrote: By the way I think Freddie could have sang somebody to love quite easily on the magic tour. It strikes me as strange that on some parts of the Wembley concert he was sounding forced and tired, but when they did Impromptu, he sounded fantastic.The falsetto isn't really the hard part. His falsetto was great all through the Works tour as well, but those versions of STL are not very good. No, what's hard is singing those Ab4's and Bb4's with the light tenor voice he still possessed in the late 70's and, to an extent, the early 80's. It's a tribute to Aretha Franklin remember, not Joe Cocker. |
| The Real Wizard 05.12.2014 17:08 |
inu-liger wrote:Well, even a broken clock is still right twice a day..gerry wrote:"Friends" was very fresh on the Magic tour in 86 and a refreshing change to "somebody to love" i may add!For once I can agree with you on something (stop the presses!) |
| The Ghost of Lester Burnham 05.12.2014 18:10 |
The King Of Rhye wrote: they might have dropped Somebody to Love........but they did add In The Lap of The gods Revisited and an acoustic rock n roll medley, by the way!Honestly, I'd rather they'd've played Somebody to Love over the acoustic medley. Except not play STL as part of the medley, as they did on the Works tour, but as a full song, like at the Bowl. |
| LucasDiego 05.12.2014 20:28 |
Posted: 04 Dec 14, 15:59 Edit this post Reply to this post Reply with Quote He couldn't sing it anymore, and like Killer Queen, he probably got bored of it. I don't believe that Freddie bored of sing STL, he said that this song is better than bohemian, why dropped!! I believe in vocal problems. |
| tomchristie22 05.12.2014 22:57 |
As others have said, Freddie was getting sick of Killer Queen by 1981, and that's a brilliant song too. Even if a song is a masterpiece, its writer can surely get tired of it after playing it at every show for eight years. |
| Snackpot 15.12.2014 11:42 |
There was staples they couldn't drop: Bohemian Rhapsody, We Will Rock You, Champions, AOBTD and by that time Radio Ga Ga. By the time you've got those plus the recent tracks, plus some of the lesser-known lesser-stuff and got the quota of hard rock/lighter pop in there, they'd get to a stage where they'd have to pick. STL was a huge hit but in terms of the 'hits' played on the Magic tour, which one would you replace? You can't really without the running order of the concert seeming a bit odd or taking out one of the newer songs. Only time Freddie sat at the piano until Bohemian Rhapsody was the last little bit of In the Lap of the Gods and the Seven Seas of Rhye intro. You couldn't really have put it there as it'd seem odd and if immediately before or after Bohemian Rhaposdy wouldn't have worked either. There was just no place for it on the set-list |
| *goodco* 15.12.2014 21:39 |
Since they knew Wembley was being filmed and recorded, I could certainly see STL following UP. WWTLF could easily have been dropped. That's the tracklisting on my personal disk. |
| GERRYISADICK 15.12.2014 21:50 |
EVERYONE RUN ROCKNROLLLOVER IS BACK! |
| Jefffabiano 15.12.2014 21:51 |
GERRYISADICK wrote: EVERYONE RUN ROCKNROLLLOVER IS BACK!Hahahahaha I told you that im not that guy! |