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Here is another Milan review for you on the website Outune.net.

Outune.net: Queen + Adam Lambert, the report of the concert in Milan on February 10, 2015
by Jacopo Casati
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I had never seen him live out the remainder of the Queen. The ability to listen to Adam Lambert in concert with the old rock hearts Brian May and Roger Taylor was sensational, than not to be missed. Lacuna filled and abundant satisfaction. Entertainment egregious, ladder scream, setting world-class performance of the musicians unassailable, participating audience beyond measure.

This absolute synthesis in what I take away from the Forum of Assago. The evening from veterans, the presence of the stands of basketball suggests that it is minded to seat as many people as possible, because after a while 'your back hurts (and I know it well, unfortunately). Geriatric considerations aside, the parterre fills enough only a few minutes before the start of the show. You are beautiful wide, although the sides of the platforms that reach almost half hall there tightens even willingly. Sold-out yes, but comfortable in short.

It starts with ultra precise One Vision. Lighting system and exaggerated production by Top rated (now you understand why the pigeon cost 50 cards). Audio ranging settling quickly (although in the stands the beat we imagine for a while ', which is struggling to feel decently snare guys ...) and comes just before the bomb: Stone Cold Crazy seems that the covers of Metallica much higher the level of the volumes. Roger Taylor plays it in cinnamon, Adam Lambert slowly begins to carburetor with voice and on Fat Bottomed Girls begins to make the public see what he is made of Italian. Leaving aside its theatricality, the costume changes, the grimaces and the like, the former American Idol singer proves to have a mastery of the stage crazy. In addition to resemble Mauro Icardi but oh well.

Remains a doubt: how the hell did he recover so quickly from illness which forced the band to cancel the concert in Brussels just two days ago? Miracles of medicine and herbal teas for voice. The first hour is a succession of emotions absurd. Seven Seas of Rhye, Killer Queen, I Want to Break Free and Somebody to Love come one after the other. The Forum goes into raptures, sings, cries and does not stop for a moment. Adam says, "You are exceptional, the best." Shortly after you want even more well by all present: "Thanks for giving me the opportunity to be here and to try to sing these songs next to these legends. We are all here to remember and pay tribute Freddie Mercury. "

Chills down my spine and tears on the cheeks when Brian wields a twelve-string, sits at the center of the building using the length of the central and attacks pedanone Love Of My Life. The guitarist before you take a round of applause that never seems to end. The audience cheered him and really loves, he is really touched. So are we. Awesome silence that reigns during the first few notes of the piece. When he appears on the screens Freddie singing a verse emotion is too strong for many. Roger reaches colleague, part These Are the Days of Our Lives, other archival footage is accented frames of that John Deacon (acclaimed) who has always called out concerts of Two thousand years of "Queen something more." We applaud Spike Edney, keyboardist and leader in many areas this evening. Carves out its own space even Rufus, son of Roger Taylor.

The pace is useless to deny it, slows heavily. True, A Kind of Magic and Under Pressure are too good, but unfortunately we find ourselves immersed in the midst of a magma of solos, drum battle, bass lines that, after a while ', we break the Maronites enough. Different speech for only Brian May. Thanks to laser and effettistiche assorted, one of the most important guitarists in rock history, gives vibration prog high intensity to the whole audience, prolonging Last Horizon in a crescendo of riffs and virtuosity.

Adam proves to be a top player on Who Wants to Live Forever, while the fireworks come on an incredible sequence featuring Tie Your Mother Down, I Want It All, Radio Ga Ga, Crazy Little Thing Called Love and Bohemian Rhapsody. To be honest it is time to raise Freddie on this last piece. The video tribute to the immortal singer have already been enough: to sing the first verse to Lambert, the second to Freddie and interspersed the final likewise has no sense frankly.

Ia are the obvious We Will Rock You and We Are the Champions. Thus ends an absolute event, an evening of celebration and celebration that will surely remain in the minds of those present, earning a privileged position in the year-end rankings. Clear: both craft, so much intelligence in managing the pauses to catch his breath and Lambert and Taylor (appeared really tried last half hour) and a total duration of two hours and twenty minutes, which, net of various solos and breaks, could get serenely around an hour and a half. But it would be unfair to the critics at all costs in front of a group that, like it or not, this evening again proved to be in great shape. As we have said in the post-Monaco of Bavaria, the new incarnation of the Queen works pretty darn well. It would be quite useless to deny that this show deserves to be seen by all those who think seriously about love music. The other controversy scoliamocele front of a beer, not after a "thing" like that tonight.


Note: In the above piece, the writer compares Adam's looks to that of Argentine football (soccer) player, Mauro Icardi.  Here's a photo of Icardi:


While I appreciate the sentiment, I think that's stretching it a bit ... but to each his/her own.