STUTTGART REVIEW (partial): Steuttgarter-Zeitung
Filed Under () by broddybounce on Saturday, February 14, 2015
Posted at : Saturday, February 14, 2015
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Steuttgarter-Zeitung: The Big Hits Celebrated
by "juw" (?)
via Google Translate
"I want to break free", "A kind of magic", "Who wants to live forever": This list of hits from Queen makes impressive reading, and so impressive got the very playful, with many solos studded show in Stuttgart.
Stuttgart - "I want to break free", "A kind of magic", "Who wants to live forever", "I want it all", "Another one bites the dust", "Radio Ga Ga", "Bohemian Rhapsody" and adding, "We will rock you" and "We are the Champions": an incredible bag of hits, the British rock band Queen for her guest appearance on Friday night at the sold-out long-Schleyer hall in Stuttgart in the luggage. And all her whole great success she has not ever played. This makes impressive reading, and so impressive got the very playful, with many solos studded show.
Pompous, as befits this band, they staged a very sprawling, lush two-hour program. Seven years after their last tour in Germany, then still with Paul Rodgers as a replacement for Freddy Mercury, now sings Adam Lambert, who is half as old as the two remaining band members Brian May and Roger Taylor. He's doing better than Rodgers - but of course he also arrived not come close to Mercury. As difficult as this makes the evening? More on this on Saturday stuttgarter-zeitung.de.
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Some rather apt but strangely worded insights, not making fun; they're rather refreshing.
From posted featured story...that Adam makes the oldie Queen songs "look not too museum".
Also, Queen frontmen are endearingly called their "spare men" Mmm Adam is their latest spare man! Very cute, Adam seems pretty unattached and "spare" at the moment and that's why he keeps singing, Find Me Somebody To Love. lwl!
And Queen "to manage their own heritage" tops it!
Adam has certainly made a fierce and instant bounce-back; a clear sign of a strong immune system.
Adam 'spare man'
Queen's latest frontman
Brian always asks: What do you think of our new man?
To which an uproar of fans lend their hands
Yea people know when they hear his voice
There's just not much choice
But applaud with full-credit poise
While Adam looks on coy enjoying all the noise lwl!
"...but of course he also arrived not come close to Mercury."
I think the writer has no clue about Adam's singing capabilities and power; or he could be a staunch Freddie fan.
Still waiting for "More about this at Saturday on stuttgarterzeitung.de" because the(second)article about Adam was published on Friday.
Now the complete review is published. But it is just a continuation of the earlier newspaper article. Therefore I think that the author did not write a mere review of the concert itself instead of leveling criticism at the way Brain May and Roger Taylor handle their legacy of Freddie Mercury and Queen during the last decades. Unfortunately some critics, like this one, use this tour to animate this endless and in my opinion tedious discussion, instead of being happy that these great songs are still alive and can be enjoyed by so many people around the world.
Furthermore segments like“… during the high parts of “Under pressure” Adams´ voice cracked several times” were meant as an indication that he, in general, is not able to sing as good as Freddie Mercury shows that the author was not well informed about Adams´ state of health during last week.
For those who still want to read the "review", here is the link:
http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.queen-in-stuttgart-die-krone-gebuehrt-nur-einem.48049bd9-863f-4948-9482-394467777834.html
Oh, I should have better posted this great review:
http://www.stimme.de/heilbronn/kultur/Lang-lebe-die-Koenigin;art11930,3305379
As I am still not able to translate reviews via google, I hope someone else will do this.
@ 12:07pm - I'm not sure what the author of the review was talking about - Adam's voice "cracked several times" during Under Pressure?!? Unless things are lost in translation, and I'm misunderstanding what he is saying, Adam's voice DID NOT crack during that song in Stuttgart! I went back to the video (several threads back where it started with the drum battle and ended the guitar solo) - Adam's voice was strong and clear. If his voice cracked with a song like Under Pressure, surely he would have collapsed/croaked with Save Me and WWTLF that he sang right after?!? The article was snarky toned and I'm giving the author the benefit of the doubt in case he's trying to be humorous and tongue in cheek and that's not coming through with the translations...
@3:48
I totally agree with you and that is what I was trying to say. (Maybe my English has to be improved.) As I listened to the live stream of this concert I could not hear anything like this as well. The whole show Adam´s voice was better than in Frankfurt where you could hear sometimes that he had health problems because of his bronchitis. But as German is my native tongue I have to say the author doubts Adams vocal abilities, which I cannot understand either, and unfortunately he meant it quite seriously. As a consequence of his review he had to read some enraged comments by the readers of this newspaper, mine included.
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