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The Show Must Go On: The Queen + Adam Lambert Story, a documentary about life after Freddie Mercury

Jay & Sean's movie review today is of a documentary on Netflix about how legendary band Queen continue to tour after the loss of band mate Freddie Mercury, of AIDS in 1991. Remaining members Brian May & Roger Taylor found Adam Lambert on American Idol, had instant chemistry & adopted him as a guest star in their live shows ever since. Queen has struck lightning twice & directors Christopher Bird & Simon Lupton take us through the amazing story of how a young man had his wildest dreams come true & some aging rockers got a second lease on life. Includes archival footage of: Anastacia, David Bowie, Roger Daltrey, Lady Gaga, Guns N' Roses, Elton John, Nelson Mandela, Liza Minnelli, George Michael, Lyndsey Parker, Seal, Kris Allen, Paul Rodgers Appearances by: Joe Jonas, Taylor Hawkins, Simon Cowell, Jared Braverman, Spike Edney, Joe Elliott, Rami Malek, Robert Plant, Katy Perry Ice Ice Baby is a hip hop song by American rapper Vanilla Ice (Robert Van Winkle), K. Kennedy & DJ Earthquake based on the bassline of Under Pressure by Queen & David Bowie, who did not receive songwriting credit or royalties until after it was a hit. After representatives for Queen & Bowie threatened a copyright infringement suit, the matter settled out of court, with Van Winkle required to pay financial recompense to the original artists. Bowie & all members of Queen were given songwriting credit for the sample. Bohemian Rhapsody was written by Mercury for the band's 1975 album A Night at the Opera. It is a 6-minute suite, consisting of several sections without a chorus: an intro, a ballad segment, operatic passage, a hard rock part and a reflective coda. In 2004, it was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Mercury's vocal performance was chosen as the greatest in rock history by readers of Rolling Stone. In 2018, it became the most streamed song from the 20th century, downloaded or streamed over 1.6 billion times. In 1992, the song enjoyed renewed popularity after being in Wayne's World. Director Penelope Spheeri was hesitant to use it & the studio begged for Guns N Roses, but Myers insisted. Myers was horrified they mixed clips from Wayne's World with Queen's original video, fearing this would upset them. He said, "they've just whizzed on a Picasso." He asked them to tell Queen it was not his idea & he apologised. The band sent a reply saying "Thank you for using our song." This astonished Myers, who responded, "Thank you for even letting me touch the hem of your garments!" Mercury saw the head banging scene before his death & found it hilarious, approving the song for the film’s use. The Wayne's World video version of Bohemian Rhapsody won an MTV Video Music Award for Best Video from a Film. When Brian May & Roger Taylor accepted the award, May was overcome with emotion, "Freddie would be tickled." In the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, Myers has a cameo as a record exec who pans the song & refuses to release it, claiming it is too long for radio & not a song "teenagers can crank up the volume in their car and bang their heads to." By the early 80s, Queen was one of the biggest stadium rock bands in the world. Their set at the 1985 Live Aid concert is basically the most significant live performance of all time. In April 1992, the remaining Queen members put on a benefit, The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, to which 1.2 billion viewers tuned in (they made the Guinness Book of Records!). Performers including Robert Plant, Elton John, Annie Lennox, George Michael & David Bowie performed with them, raising £20M for AIDS charities. This would prove a prophetic move: Queen never tried to replace the irreplaceable Freddie Mercury. When they toured again, they performed as Queen + ________. John Deacon retired in 1997, but a new Greatest Hits (III) album was released in 1999, Queen + Wyclef Jean on Another One Bites the Dust, George Michael on Somebody to Love, and Elton John on The Show Must Go On (among others). Beginning in 2005 they toured + Paul Rodgers. In 2011, they played with American Idol loser, Adam Lambert (that year’s winner, Kris Allen, has long since been forgotten – the show has a pretty crummy record: out of 17 seasons, only 2 winners had lasting success, Kelly Clarkson & Carrie Underwood). This documentary covers a lot of ground. This iconic band see in Lambert a little bit of their old friend. Adam Lambert is himself a flamboyant showman, but he doesn’t invite comparison to Mercury, which is what makes this union work. He is a confident performer in his own right, and May and Taylor seem re-energized in rediscovering their old hits with him, hits that Lambert has grown up with. Most of all, it’s just cool to see how things have changed, from Freddie Mercury’s deathbed confession of AIDS, to Lambert being able to perform as an openly gay man. Many great bands continue to tour long past their prime, eventually becoming a sort of cover band of themselves. Queen, however, has lasted because it’s been open to change.