Friday, August 16, 2013

Fridays with Freddie: Epic Crowd Control Edition

I'm back! Scott sucks! In other news, it's Friday, and that means (most of the time) I've got your weekly dose of Queen. And what a dose it is. You can digest this post in two ways:

1. Skip to 22:38 and watch Freddie Mercury prove that he's one of the greatest frontmen in music history.

2. Watch the full 2 hour 1986 concert Live At Wembley Stadium and watch Freddie Mercury prove that he's one of the greatest frontmen in music history.

Let me focus on timestamp 22:38 While the last few editions have been slightly more obscure and maybe even new to some, this one is a standard in any Queen playlist. Set the scene, it's July 12th, 1986, you're in a massive sea of people at Wembley Stadium holding a ticket to one of Queen's greatest and final tours, the "A Kind of Magic" tour. At the 22:38 mark Mercury interacts with the crowd before launching into "Under Pressure".

Seriously, just watch and then tell me that you're not at all sad that you'll never get to experience that live. When Scott builds a time machine, this is one of the first points in history that I'm going to make him take me. Long Live Queen!




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