"The Last Doctor" <
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> The Other Doctor <
stephen.wils...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>
>> "Timothy Bruening" <
tsbr...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:12ba85c1-4541-450a...@googlegroups.com...
>>> On Saturday, May 19, 2018 at 2:43:41 PM UTC-7, The Doctor wrote:
>>>> In article <
5105b2af-7672-4bde...@googlegroups.com>,
>>>> Timothy Bruening <
tsbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Diana & Charles were separated but still married from 1992 to 1996.
>>>>> If
>>>>> Queen Elizabeth had died during that time (making Charles King), would
>>>>> Diana have become Queen (still being the wife of new King Charles!)?
>>>>
>>>> Yes IIRC.
>>>
>>> THAT would have been interesting!
>>
>> Queen effectively died in 1991.
>>
>>
>>
>
> I quite liked The Cosmos Rocks, though Paul Rodgers' voice is only really
> suited to the band's rockier numbers so, live, he came across a bit "pub
> singer".
>
> Adam Lambert, on the other hand, is the best "tribute frontman" that Roger
> and Brian could wish for, and I think it's a shame they felt so burned by
> the failure of Cosmos that they haven't done a studio album with him. The
> live shows are still great, and appropriately respectful to Freddie's
> memory.
I actually went to see "Queen" with Paul Rodgers live at Hyde Park. He
didn't try to be Freddie, but he clearly had directions he wanted to go in
that didn't fit in with the way the remaining half of Queen wanted to go in.
I think you hit the nail on the head when you describe Lambert as a "tribute
frontman". Queen with Adam Lambert are a tribute to the original Queen.
Lambert performs the songs adquately and even out-camps Freddie. But at the
end of the day, it's 2 old guys sleep-walking through songs that made them
famous with Lambert standing in for Freddie, and a few other session
musicians/backing tracks to fill out the sound.
The only way you'll get to see Queen live today, but there's no originality
there.