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[cheering and applause]
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[audience] ♪ Love of my life
You've hurt me ♪
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♪ Broken my heart and now you leave me ♪
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♪ Love of my life, can't you see? ♪
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♪ Bring it back... ♪
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[Freddie Mercury]
Through anything, we will just carry on.
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It's a survival instinct
that I think the whole group has.
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I mean, if I suddenly left,
they'd just replace me, you know.
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Not easy to replace me, huh?
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[cheering and applause]
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[Simon] Whoever was going
to fill those shoes
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arguably were the toughest shoes
possibly in the world to fill.
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[tech] Go, house lights. Go, house lights.
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[man] Okay, let's do it! Have a good one.
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[woman] Justine to Andy,
the band are walking.
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[man] Band are walking. Band are walking.
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[cheering]
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[Roger Taylor] It's just pure chance
that we came by Adam Lambert.
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[Brian May] Suddenly you think we could do
the old arenas we used to do
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and we now have somebody
who can act as a focus and a channel.
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[man] For them to have found
a way to do it without Freddie...
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it seems like something super human,
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but it was right there
just as riveting as it ever was.
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[music: "We Will Rock You"]
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♪ Buddy, you're a boy
Make a big noise playing in the street ♪
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♪ Gonna be a big man someday
You got mud on your face ♪
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♪ You big disgrace ♪
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♪ Kicking your can all over the place
Singing we will ♪
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♪ We will rock you... ♪
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Listen, we made a film about a gay man,
an immigrant,
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who lived his life
just unapologetically himself.
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We're longing for stories like this.
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There is just a pure majesty
to their music
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that hits you right at your core
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and it means so much to each person
in the most unique way.
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[man] There's no other band like them.
They're the soundtrack to my life.
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I think this day and age, they're such
an important band to listen to.
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I still think they're the best
rock 'n' roll band of all time.
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I don't think there's a better band.
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[cheering and applause]
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They're up there as one
of the greatest bands in the world.
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♪ She keeps a Moet et Chandon
In her pretty cabinet ♪
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♪ "Let them eat cake," she says
Just like Marie Antoinette... ♪
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Queen covered more ground than anyone.
They just did.
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♪ I want it all ♪
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♪ Yeah, yeah... ♪
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They can play hard rock.
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♪ I want it all ♪
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♪ And I want it now... ♪
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They can play weird opera songs.
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♪ Thunderbolts of lightning
Very, very frightening... ♪
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They can do gospel.
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♪ Can anybody find me
Somebody to love... ♪
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They can do sort of disco funk songs.
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♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, sing it! ♪
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♪ Another one bites the dust ♪
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Sing out!
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[Lyndsey] In the '80s,
Queen were the hottest ticket in town.
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The peak was "Another One Bites The Dust",
which was their biggest hit in America.
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♪ Hey, he's gonna get you too ♪
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♪ Another one bites the dust ♪
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Live, they're just unbeatable.
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[cheering and applause]
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I would say the proof was Live Aid.
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Everyone stopped what they were doing
to watch Live Aid.
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We were not leaving the room.
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It was the youth culture event
of the 1980s.
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I think there are only so few that knew
how to play to an audience of millions
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and, in that moment, billions.
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On that day in Wembley in '85,
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everyone got to see
what they could do collectively.
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♪ Keep on fighting till the end ♪
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♪ We are the champions ♪
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♪ We are the champions ♪
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♪ No time for losers ♪
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♪ 'Cause we are the champions ♪
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♪ We are the champions, my friend... ♪
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You never hear anybody say: "Gee,
wouldn't it be great if Queen did a club?"
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No!
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You would miss that ensemble feeling
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that you have,
being part of this living force.
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♪ No time for losers ♪
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♪ We are the champions... ♪
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[Hawkins] You have to remember
one thing about Queen.
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They were always swinging
for a home run every time.
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♪ Of the world ♪
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That was probably one of the all-time
great performances ever, I would say.
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It was quite unbelievable.
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I mean, they kicked everyone's ass.
They kicked Led Zeppelin's ass.
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They kicked Phil Collins' ass.
Sorry, Phil, I love you.
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They kicked The Who's ass.
Sorry. Love The Who.
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They kicked everyone's ass.
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♪ Ey-oh! ♪
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[audience] ♪ Ey-oh! ♪
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♪ Ey-oh! ♪
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[audience] ♪ Ey-oh! ♪
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♪ Ey-ey-ey-ey-oh! ♪
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That was really one of the most
impressive shows of the command
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that a lead vocalist can have
on an audience.
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♪ Ey-oh! ♪
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[audience] ♪ Ey... ♪
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They're a great fucking band, period.
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♪ Dee-do, dee-do, dee-do
Dee-do, dee-do, day-do ♪
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[audience] ♪ Dee-do, dee-do, dee-do
Dee-do, dee-do, day-do ♪
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-♪ Day-doh, day-doh ♪
-♪ Day-doh, day-doh ♪
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-All right!
-All right!
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[cheering and applause]
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[Joe] After Live Aid,
there was nothing going to stop 'em.
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The world was theirs and they really
could have gone anywhere with it,
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had it not been for the fact that
it kind of coincided with Fred's illness.
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[newsreader 1]
Freddie Mercury died last night of AIDS.
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There have been tributes to his talent
and his courage
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from friends and from fans.
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[newsreader 2] He only admitted publicly
that he had AIDS the day before he died,
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when he also appealed to his fans
to help combat the disease.
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[Malek] I can only imagine
how difficult it was for Freddie,
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in a time where having AIDS
was looked at as something almost evil.
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[Elliott] When you lose
one of your heroes,
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somebody of such magnitude as Fred,
it rips you to the core.
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It was heartbreaking,
absolutely heartbreaking.
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[Parker] I remember when Freddie died,
a lot of people being like:
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"You're not going to be able
to overcome this tragedy.
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You're not going to be able
to recapture any of the old magic.
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You're not going to find someone
who can front a band like Queen."
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The idea that Queen could have continued
without Freddie Mercury?
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No way. No way.
You'd say, knee-jerk, no way.
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And yet here we are.
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[music: "One Vision"]
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[Brian May] It wasn't until
this young man appeared...
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I call him, the gift from God, Adam.
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We didn't ask for him.
We didn't look for him.
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We didn't have a recipe book or whatever,
with bullet points.
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He just turned up
and he could do everything.
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♪ One man ♪
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♪ One goal ♪
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♪ One mission ♪
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♪ One heart ♪
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♪ One soul ♪
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♪ Just one solution ♪
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♪ One flash of light, yeah... ♪
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I can't imagine what it would be like
to go through what they went through
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and lose a band member,
but his story needed to carry on
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and they needed to carry on Queen
to honor Freddie.
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♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa ♪
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♪ Give me one vision ♪
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♪ No wrong ♪
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♪ No right ♪
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♪ I'm gonna tell you
There's no black and no white ♪
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♪ No blood ♪
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♪ No stain ♪
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♪ All we need is one worldwide vision ♪
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♪ One flesh, one bone, one true religion ♪
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♪ One voice, one hope, one real decision ♪
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♪ Give me one night! Give me one hope ♪
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♪ Just give me ♪
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♪ One man, one day, one night, hey, hey ♪
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♪ Just give me, give me
Give me fried chicken ♪
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[Parker] The fact that Queen are having
such a whole new resurgence
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because of both Adam and the movie,
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it's like... it's one of the greatest
comeback stories of all time.
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[cheering]
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Every time I walk to the stage
with these guys, I have to pinch myself.
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I'm like: "Oh, my God, is this real life?
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Or is it just fantasy?"
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[cheering]
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The biggest trip that I was going through
was the fact that I knew
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that by singing these songs
as the lead singer in this moment
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that I was going to inevitably
be compared to Freddie.
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I know what some of you out there
are probably thinking...
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A few of you are probably like...
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[snorts]
"He's no Freddie Mercury, though."
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[laughter and cheering]
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No shit.
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[laughter]
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People know the songs
because of the recordings.
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I learned the songs
because of the recordings.
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Freddie's unbelievable.
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His voice was one in a million...
zillion, trillion.
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There will only be, for all of time,
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one rock god, Freddie Mercury.
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I'm filling in for this god
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and I'm not him
and I knew that I wasn't Freddie.
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Thank you for giving me a chance.
Thank you.
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[Roger] We're not trying to recreate
our dear Freddie.
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So, if people do think that,
I have no patience with them.
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Please don't come.
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But if you want to just enjoy our music
done really well,
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you know, please do come.
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We want our music to be alive
and dangerous and still open to change.
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You know, Freddie particularly
would hate to have things
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kind of reproduced the way they were.
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There are
a lot of Fred impersonators around,
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and they put on this fake mustache,
or something, and a yellow jacket,
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and it's... well, good luck, you know.
Good luck on the cruise ship.
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♪ Tonight I'm gonna have myself ♪
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♪ A real good time ♪
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♪ I feel alive... ♪
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[Roger] Comparisons with Freddie
are wasting time.
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He's had to cope with it because
people are so fucking unimaginative.
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I mean, you know, Fred's dead
and he's not going to be there,
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so if you come to see us,
you're not going to see him.
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[Jonas] He does it in his own way
and I think that's what's really amazing.
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You're not going to go see a cover band.
You're seeing Queen.
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♪ So, don't stop me now ♪
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♪ Don't stop me ♪
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♪ 'Cause I'm having a good time
Having a good time ♪
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♪ I'm a shooting star
Leaping through the sky like a tiger ♪
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♪ Defying the laws of gravity ♪
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♪ I'm a racing car passing by
Like Lady Godiva ♪
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♪ I'm gonna go, go, go
There's no stopping me ♪
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♪ I'm burnin' through the sky, yeah ♪
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♪ Two hundred degrees
That's why they call me Mr. Fahrenheit ♪
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♪ I'm traveling
Across the speed of light ♪
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♪ I want to make a supersonic man
Out of you... ♪
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Once I got over my own head trip about:
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"Are they going to compare me to Freddie?
Am I good enough?"
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I realized this is
this once-in-a-lifetime experience
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to sort of be a vessel and just perform.
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♪ Don't stop me now ♪
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♪ Don't stop me
'Cause I'm having a good time ♪
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♪ I don't want to stop at all... ♪
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[cheering]
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[Adam] When these early performances
were so well received,
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it was a sense of victory,
because the stakes were so high for me.
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♪ La, la, la, la, la... ♪
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This is all a bonus.
We could have all disappeared
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and... gone back
to different kinds of jobs, you know,
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if it weren't for the fact
that we had Adam.
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It's astonishing to me to look back on it
and realize we thought it was the end
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and in a sense it was.
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[cheering]
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We are here tonight to celebrate
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the life and work and dreams
of one Freddie Mercury.
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[cheering]
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We're going to give him
the biggest send-off in history!
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[cheering]
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We, over a long period,
accustomed ourselves to the idea
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that we were going to do a tribute
to Freddie and it did take a while.
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It was Roger who pressed the button
and said:
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"We're ringing these people up
to see if they come."
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Okay, today's for Freddie. It's for you.
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It's to tell everybody round the world
that AIDS affects us all.
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So, we were ringing up
a lot of our heroes.
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So, everybody who was
kind of in the same river as Freddie.
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So suddenly we're performing
with David Bowie and Robert Plant.
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You look around: "Who is this?"
Tony Iommi's beside me.
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He's a lifelong friend, you know.
The most amazing artists of our lives.
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♪ You're such a dirty louse
Go get out of my house ♪
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♪ That's all I ever get from you ♪
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♪ Oh, your family ties... ♪
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I was the first person to sing with Queen
after Fred died.
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♪ But I don't give a light
I'm gonna make out all right... ♪
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Doing it on stage in front of 80,000
people and a billion people on TV.
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Holy shit.
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♪ Tie your mother down
Tie your mother down... ♪
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You'd never think it'd be possible to get
one person to stand in Fred's shoes,
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because there's no way I could have done
anything other than, say, the rock stuff.
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With the Freddie Mercury Tribute show,
you needed 20 characters
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to even come close
to pulling on his coattails.
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[Brian] Finding one person
who could do everything
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that Freddie could do
would've been pretty much impossible.
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♪ Are you ready? ♪
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The whole range of Queen songs
is considerable.
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♪ All we hear is... ♪
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It's a very, very colorful catalog
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with all kinds of different
sort of vocal approaches needed.
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♪ God knows ♪
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♪ God knows I want to break free... ♪
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[Roger] It did bring home the fact
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that Freddie was so incredibly talented
on so many levels
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and how hard it was for anybody to cover
as much ground as Freddie covered.
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♪ Can anybody find me
Somebody to love... ♪
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I don't think anyone thought they'd be the
next Freddie Mercury. It ain't easy, man.
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♪ Any way the wind blows ♪
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We get to the end. It's done...
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and Joe Elliott was next to me,
as we walked off,
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and he just grabbed my arm and he said:
"Brian, look at that."
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I said:
"You need to stand here and look at this,
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because you will never,
ever see this again.
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If this is the end, what a way to go."
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And for the first time I looked out
and I thought: "Ah, how amazing.
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This amount of love
got poured out to our friend."
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Good night, Freddie. We love you.
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[Roger] We felt that would be
probably the last time
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we would play our songs together.
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It was a very strange era,
a very strange period for us,
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'cause we'd lost Fred.
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We were a little bit sort of concussed
by the whole thing.
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I did leave Wembley feeling:
"That's it, now I've seen the last one."
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'Cause you couldn't imagine there being
anything else. What else could there be?
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Everyone who was around us, we just
all cried. It was extremely emotional.
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It was the end of part of my life.
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When Freddie died, Queen died.
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And I thought
the interest has got to dwindle.
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When something's not there, not touring,
not recording, physically, it will die.
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[man] Do you think
you're going to get to heaven?
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-No, I don't want to.
-You don't want to?
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No, hell's much better.
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Look at the interesting people
that you're going to meet down there.
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I don't think really about: "My God, when
I'm dead, are they going to remember me?"
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I don't really think about it.
It's up to them.
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When I'm dead, who cares? I don't.
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♪ Love of my life, don't leave me ♪
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♪ You've stolen my love
You now desert me ♪
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[audience] ♪ Love of my life
Can't you see? ♪
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♪ Bring it back, bring it back... ♪
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[Roger] With Freddie's death,
we just thought it was all over, you know.
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We hadn't planned on ever playing again.
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[Brian] We talked about it.
If one of us goes, we should just stop.
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So, yeah,
we did stop for a very long time.
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We didn't have the desire to go on
without Freddie.
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[cheering]
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♪ Oh, hurry back, hurry back ♪
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♪ Don't take it away from me ♪
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♪ Because you don't know ♪
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♪ What it means to me ♪
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[audience] ♪ Love of my life ♪
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♪ Love of my life ♪
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♪ Oh, yeah ♪
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[cheering and applause]
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[fans chanting]
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[Brian] I missed Freddie dreadfully.
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I knew it was coming,
but it was still awful.
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[woman] The most important thing
in your life?
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The most important thing in my life?
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Love.
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That's it.
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And something to everyone
who would like to be Brian May?
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Oh, don't try and be me whatever you do.
That's what I would say.
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Don't follow me, mate,
'cause it's not easy.
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It was a grieving process, I think.
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We don't want
to talk about Queen, or be Queen.
333
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We've done that.
We want to be ourselves now.
334
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Now we go off and do our separate things,
which perhaps we've all been dreaming of.
335
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Roger has always done
lots of solo projects,
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so he went straight back into that.
337
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I hadn't done a lot of solo stuff,
but I went out and sang.
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♪ I don't believe in ♪
339
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♪ Being Queen anymore ♪
340
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♪ I just believe in me ♪
341
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After Freddie died, it took me a year
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to even want to start about thinking
of doing things.
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I just thought, oh, just settle down
and try and, you know,
344
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like, live with the present now
and see how you feel.
345
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John sort of freaked out
and decided he really couldn't deal
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with being in the music business
anymore, you know.
347
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So it was an odd period that.
348
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Really the band was over.
349
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[music: "Seaside Rendezvous"]
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♪ Seaside ♪
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♪ Whenever you stroll along with me ♪
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♪ I'm merely contemplating
What you feel inside... ♪
353
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We were living in San Diego.
It was a nice place to raise kids.
354
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When Adam was younger,
he didn't quite fit in,
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didn't like sports very much.
356
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We tried soccer, we tried tee-ball
and it just wasn't his thing.
357
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And he would do a lot of acting out,
fantasy things.
358
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He would ask me to film him
and take pictures
359
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while he was dancing or singing,
360
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and we thought
there's got to be another outlet.
361
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[Adam] They put me in a theater group
that rehearsed on the weekends.
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It was a big children's theater
and I remember the first Saturday I went,
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I was instantly, like:
"I've found my people."
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It's exciting to be in children's theater
'cause you just get...
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I mean, it's just really exciting
going out on stage
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in front of a lot of people
and performing.
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We ended up taking him for voice lessons
and he got on stage one day and sang
368
00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:47,600
and we had absolutely no idea
that he had that voice.
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It was in Fiddler on the Roof.
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I think into my teenage years,
it started becoming clear
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that I was getting attention for it
more than the other kids, which I loved.
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And as a strange kid who was kind
of ashamed of his body and in the closet
373
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and a whole list of other insecurities,
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having something that I was good at
and that got me a lot of attention
375
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became sort of medicine for me, in a way.
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Being just a human on this earth,
I encountered Queen.
377
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I definitely had heard
songs of theirs around.
378
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But the first time I really asked:
"Who is this band?"
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was after seeing Wayne's World.
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[Eber] This is actually the theater
we used to come to fairly regularly.
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It's only a few miles from our house
I'm pretty sure we saw Wayne's World here.
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♪ Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me ♪
383
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♪ For me, for me... ♪
384
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It was so much fun, that scene,
385
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and I left the movie theater
with my father and my little brother.
386
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I asked my dad: "What song was that?"
He was like: "That's Queen."
387
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When we got home that night, he showed me
some albums that he had of Queen.
388
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[Eber] There was always music
in the house.
389
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Both Leila and I,
we have a pretty big record collection
390
00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:09,080
and he would go into the record collection
every once and a while
391
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and pull out things
that caught his eye, you know,
392
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on the David Bowie albums,
the Queen albums,
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you know, some of the Led Zeppelin albums,
so he would just explore.
394
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I really fell in love with rock 'n' roll
and everything that was the '70s
395
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and that's when I really got to dive
into Queen and their catalog.
396
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♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
397
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♪ Come tonight! Come to the... ♪
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[Leila] Adam would watch Freddie Mercury.
He would watch videos.
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He would just try to get a feel for how
he performed and what he did on stage.
400
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[Adam] I was just delighted
to see this guy running around stage
401
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in these strange, outlandish outfits,
you know,
402
00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:53,640
his harlequin jumpsuit,
or his PVC leather daddy look,
403
00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:56,560
or his little itty-bitty white shorts
and no shoes.
404
00:23:56,920 --> 00:24:02,120
For me, seeing somebody that got on stage,
which is a place that I knew very well,
405
00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:05,360
and acted the way he did and sang
and performed the way he did,
406
00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:10,400
I was instantly inspired and I felt like
there was some sort of kinship.
407
00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:16,720
I was just, like, this guy was fearless.
408
00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:23,560
It definitely inspired me.
409
00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:27,760
I wasn't there yet, though.
I was fearful at that point in my life.
410
00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:30,400
Erm, you know, I was auditioning,
always terrified:
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"God, what will they think of me?
Will they like me?
412
00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:34,880
Am I good enough? I don't know."
Very doubtful.
413
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He did things on and off.
414
00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:40,720
He got a gig doing the musical Hair
in Europe and did the cruise ship
415
00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:43,400
and so he was starting
to make a living as a singer.
416
00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:46,400
That was the path that I was on
that I thought I would probably stay on.
417
00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:48,680
I was in California, not New York,
418
00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:52,120
and I kept kind of saying:
"I'll move to New York soon."
419
00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:53,600
I was terrified, actually.
420
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I knew that I would have been
a very, very small fish in a big pond.
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I didn't feel like I was ready yet.
422
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[music: "We Will Rock You"]
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[Gambaccini] I've lived long enough to see
gigantic stars fade into nothingness.
424
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It is possible to fade.
425
00:25:11,360 --> 00:25:17,520
So, the crucial decision was when
Jim Beach, their manager, he said to me:
426
00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:22,440
"Queen are going to be a current band.
They're not going to be an oldies group."
427
00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:24,800
[Malek] Some of Freddie's last words were,
428
00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:27,040
"Do what you want.
Just never make me boring."
429
00:25:27,120 --> 00:25:30,680
It took us five years
to get over the shock of losing Freddie,
430
00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:33,680
but Brian and I were still close
and still friends
431
00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:36,400
and still running
what you'd call the brand,
432
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the business of a band like Queen.
433
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[Brian] The musical We Will Rock You
softened the blow, in a sense,
434
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'cause you have something
you can pour your creativity in.
435
00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:47,920
It was a chance to take our music
to a different place
436
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:49,600
and develop it with new artists,
437
00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:52,680
young artists who had fantastic voices
and fantastic ability.
438
00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:55,080
I loved the whole We Will Rock You thing.
439
00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:57,520
I think Roger had misgivings
about the whole thing.
440
00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:01,680
I hate the medium of musical theater.
I absolutely hate it.
441
00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:04,000
For the first two years
when it was on at the Dominion,
442
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I was in there almost every night,
443
00:26:06,120 --> 00:26:09,440
just learning and tweaking
and trying things out,
444
00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:14,760
and it was like having Queen there,
I suppose, you know, outside ourselves.
445
00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:18,000
It was great. It filled the gap.
446
00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:23,800
That musical reignited the Queen flame
447
00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:26,880
and people started talking about Queen.
448
00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:29,640
But it's not being a performer on stage.
Now, you do miss that.
449
00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:31,880
If you've been a performer
all your life, you do.
450
00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:35,280
And those moments
when I would come up through the trap door
451
00:26:35,360 --> 00:26:37,920
in We Will Rock You in clouds of smoke
452
00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:41,000
and be the guitar hero
with all the white spotlights...
453
00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:44,080
[plays "Bohemian Rhapsody" melody]
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Suddenly I was part of this lovely baby
that we had created,
455
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I was part of the creation.
I was in there.
456
00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:01,000
I loved doing that.
It was such a fulfilling moment.
457
00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:02,560
[cheering and applause]
458
00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:06,720
[Jenkins] When Brian and Roger played
at the musical, the place erupted.
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People wanted to see them live.
460
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[Gambaccini]
You know the audience is there,
461
00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:17,280
therefore it's just a question
of coming to peace with oneself.
462
00:27:17,360 --> 00:27:21,880
How do we reengage
with this existing audience?
463
00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:24,600
Totally different challenge
from when they were a new group.
464
00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:26,080
How do we grow an audience?
465
00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:29,640
This is, how do you engage
with the existing audience?
466
00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:37,800
To benefit Nelson Mandela's
AIDS charities,
467
00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:41,280
they organized a huge concert
in Cape Town.
468
00:27:41,360 --> 00:27:43,480
[Brian] We answered the call to Madiba.
469
00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:47,520
Nelson Mandela is suddenly on the phone
saying: "Can you rescue my concert?"
470
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And we produced it for him
and we went out there
471
00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:54,280
and we really didn't imagine
that the byproduct
472
00:27:54,360 --> 00:27:57,600
would be that we would be reengaging
with an audience.
473
00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:00,240
[cheering]
474
00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:07,960
[Brian] Something to tell
your grandchildren, I think.
475
00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:11,800
To be in the presence of such greatness
and to be a part of this whole venture,
476
00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:13,600
I just feel incredibly privileged.
477
00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:19,800
♪ We are the champions, my friends... ♪
478
00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:25,760
[Gambaccini] A moment like that Cape Town
episode can't help but remind you...
479
00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:30,600
this is the biggest
audience participation act of all time.
480
00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:33,320
[Freddie] Everybody wants to play
to the biggest audiences ever.
481
00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:37,080
I want to play to as many people as I can
and the more the merrier.
482
00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:40,200
'Cause my music is for everybody.
Music is limitless.
483
00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:44,600
Queen have this intimate relationship
484
00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:47,760
with tens of thousands of people
at one time.
485
00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:51,840
You can't turn your back on it
without feeling guilty.
486
00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:55,520
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
487
00:28:56,800 --> 00:29:01,080
[Brian] It dawned on me that I was being
rather silly, you know, in denying Queen,
488
00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:03,760
because we'd spent
a major portion of our lives
489
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:06,560
building up this edifice and this catalog
490
00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:10,440
and this whole universe which is Queen,
the content of the lyrics,
491
00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:12,960
content of the music
and the spirit that goes with it.
492
00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:15,880
Why would I be denying it?
493
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:18,200
[cheering and applause]
494
00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:23,720
If I didn't do this,
I don't have anything to do, you know.
495
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:27,240
I can't cook.
I'm not very good at being a housewife.
496
00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:28,360
[interviewer laughs]
497
00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:33,400
I always held out hope,
because... Brian and Roger,
498
00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:36,640
you don't want to keep that Lamborghini
in the garage, you know.
499
00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:38,920
You got to drive that fucking car
every once in a while.
500
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:41,240
So I was hoping
that they would find someone.
501
00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:45,000
We've done odd gigs, you know,
as Queen, in a sense,
502
00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:47,600
you know, using guest artists.
It was just...
503
00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:50,560
I remember saying not many months ago,
when somebody said:
504
00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:53,040
"Can you do a Queen tour?
Can you call it Queen?"
505
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:56,360
And I said: "Well, no, not really,
not barring a miracle."
506
00:29:56,440 --> 00:30:00,200
If there's a miracle that we find
the right person to sing, then yes.
507
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:05,880
♪ Lately I've been hard to reach ♪
508
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:07,840
♪ I've been too long... ♪
509
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:10,000
[Brian] Even though we were proud
of what we'd done,
510
00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:13,520
we didn't want to go out there
and be Queen again without Freddie.
511
00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:15,600
And it happened almost by accident
512
00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:19,120
at an award show I played with
Paul Rodgers, who was a hero of ours,
513
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:22,240
and I remember coming off stage,
and Paul's lady said:
514
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:25,760
"You guys seem to have a great chemistry.
All you need is a drummer."
515
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:28,160
And I went:
"Well, I think I know a drummer."
516
00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:30,240
[laughs]
517
00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:35,480
[Roger] Brian and I find
that we still have the magic on stage,
518
00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:38,120
so, it's great to be doing this
with a different singer,
519
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:41,720
but the magic of Queen
is absolutely still there.
520
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:46,600
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
521
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:49,040
[music: "Tie Your Mother Down"]
522
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:58,000
♪ Get your party gown
Let your pigtail down ♪
523
00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:00,280
♪ Get your heart beating, baby ♪
524
00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:05,080
♪ I got my timing right
Got my act all tight ♪
525
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:07,920
♪ It's got to be tonight
My little school babe ♪
526
00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:11,400
♪ Your mama says you don't
And your daddy says you won't ♪
527
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:13,240
♪ And I'm boiling up inside ♪
528
00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:16,160
♪ Ain't no way
I'm gonna lose out this time ♪
529
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:18,800
♪ Ooh ♪
530
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:25,160
♪ Tie your mother down
Tie your mother down ♪
531
00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:28,720
♪ Lock your daddy out the door
I don't need him nosing around ♪
532
00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:31,920
♪ Tie your mother down
Tie your mother down ♪
533
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:37,920
♪ Give me all your love tonight... ♪
534
00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:41,600
In retrospect, I think perhaps
Queen were maybe thinking:
535
00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:44,960
"We're not going to ever find someone
who can be the next Freddie,
536
00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:48,040
so let's go the opposite direction
and just do something completely different
537
00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:49,680
with someone who's just not...
538
00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:52,840
doesn't sound like Freddie, doesn't look
like Freddie, is just his own thing."
539
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:55,600
He enjoyed playing
a lot of the Queen stuff,
540
00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:59,520
not all of it suited him,
but it was a good combination for a while.
541
00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:03,680
We ended up going all around
the world a couple of times with Paul.
542
00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:06,720
I would still go to shows and think:
"Well, we used to do that.
543
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:08,760
We used to play in arenas or whatever."
544
00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:13,360
Suddenly, out of the blue,
we are in the same arena again
545
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:16,200
and how incredible
that we can still do that,
546
00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:18,320
people still want to come
and fill those arenas
547
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:21,400
and we can still rock the hell out of 'em.
548
00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:26,720
♪ Until one day they call your name ♪
549
00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:33,520
♪ You know it's time
For the hammer to fall... ♪
550
00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:38,280
He was his own man and he belonged
in the sort of blues, soul feel,
551
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:40,720
which there is no better.
552
00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:44,320
Our stuff
is a little bit too eclectic, probably,
553
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:47,840
so. I think that's why
that came to an end.
554
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:52,400
After that, I figured that was it.
I really thought there's no way that...
555
00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:54,600
You can't replace Freddie Mercury.
556
00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:57,520
You can't replace an icon. You just can't.
557
00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:01,440
And, again, I think Roger and I thought:
"Okay, that's it, you know?
558
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:04,160
We've done that, we've done this
and there is nobody out there."
559
00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:07,040
We don't want to employ someone
to copy Freddie.
560
00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:09,240
Why would we do that?
It just wouldn't make sense.
561
00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:12,400
[Roger] There was no sort of thought
of flogging a dead horse,
562
00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:14,120
you know, keeping it all going.
563
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:19,240
In fact, the horse wasn't actually dead,
but it was still a runner in some ways.
564
00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:21,640
First of all,
you've got to find a charisma.
565
00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:24,280
Then you've got to find someone
with a vocal range.
566
00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:26,920
'Cause Freddie's vocal range
was off the chart.
567
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:29,360
I mean, he could sing classical,
rock, pop.
568
00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:33,240
Uh, so, there weren't many of those people
who ticked all those boxes.
569
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:35,760
-[man] Yeah.
-[woman] Hi.
570
00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:38,080
-[man] Don't be scared.
-I'm not scared.
571
00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:42,200
[Adam] At that point,
I had said goodbye to a lot of my fear
572
00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:46,200
and found who I was as a performer, truly.
573
00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:48,600
Are you our next Idol?
574
00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:50,080
-I think so.
-Really?
575
00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:53,400
-He's been in the cast of Wicked.
-For the past year and a half.
576
00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:57,080
He actually called me and he said:
"I'm going to quit my job at Wicked."
577
00:33:57,160 --> 00:34:00,440
I'm like: "You're going to quit your job
at Wicked? That's a great job!"
578
00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:02,920
I'm like: "Okay, well, how much
is American Idol going to pay?"
579
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:06,520
He's like: "They don't pay."
I'm like: "I can see where this is going."
580
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:09,800
-What are you going to sing for us?
-"Bohemian Rhapsody". So, rock.
581
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:13,120
-Oh, it's his favorite.
-Is that cool? Do you like that? Okay.
582
00:34:13,199 --> 00:34:14,960
It just said everything about Adam,
583
00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:18,040
which was, yeah, let's make
life even harder for yourself
584
00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:20,480
and sing probably
the biggest rock track of all time.
585
00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:25,280
♪ Mama, just killed a man ♪
586
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:28,080
♪ Put a gun against his head ♪
587
00:34:28,159 --> 00:34:32,280
♪ Pulled my trigger, now he's dead ♪
588
00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:37,560
♪ Mama, life has just begun ♪
589
00:34:37,639 --> 00:34:39,400
♪ But now I've gone ♪
590
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:42,560
-♪ And thrown it all away ♪
-[Cowell] Okay.
591
00:34:42,639 --> 00:34:45,280
-Okay, you're a really good singer.
-Thank you.
592
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:48,480
I think you're one of the most diverse
singers we've heard.
593
00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:50,800
-Thank you.
-I'm going to give you my opinion.
594
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:53,639
I think you are theatrical.
595
00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:55,639
I wasn't in a great mood that day.
596
00:34:56,480 --> 00:34:57,560
Is he a good singer, though?
597
00:34:57,640 --> 00:35:01,280
We'd started early. It was awful.
So, I wasn't jumping out of my chair.
598
00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:04,520
If he's a good singer,
do we put him through at this point?
599
00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:07,480
That'd be up to you.
We each have our own individual votes.
600
00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:09,680
But he's one
of my favorite contestants ever.
601
00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:11,960
Theatrical, yes,
but you've got a good voice
602
00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:13,920
and right now
that's what we're looking at.
603
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:18,040
-Okay, well, you've got three yeses.
-You have four yeses. You're brilliant.
604
00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:21,680
I remember watching his audition
when he sang "Bohemian Rhapsody"...
605
00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:25,560
and the coaches trying to decide
whether or not they want him on the show.
606
00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:28,040
I'm like: "This guy needs a record deal.
What are you doing?"
607
00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:30,600
It was only when we got to the live shows
608
00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:34,840
where we all started to suddenly see
this star emerge.
609
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:42,080
There were a few times on the show
where he had what I call a moment.
610
00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:46,280
It's a moment that will change your career
and he did that more than once.
611
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:49,360
♪ Stars when you shine ♪
612
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:52,720
♪ You know how I feel ♪
613
00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:56,160
♪ Scent of the pine ♪
614
00:35:56,240 --> 00:35:58,400
♪ You know how I feel ♪
615
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:01,960
♪ Oh, freedom is mine ♪
616
00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:05,120
♪ And you know how I feel ♪
617
00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:10,160
♪ It's a new dawn
It's a new day, it's a new life ♪
618
00:36:10,240 --> 00:36:14,680
♪ Oh, for me ♪
619
00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:17,560
♪ For me ♪
620
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:20,640
♪ Yeah, yeah... ♪
621
00:36:20,720 --> 00:36:23,600
I thought: "This guy is obviously
the most talented of this group
622
00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:26,400
and will go the farthest,
but he's not going to win."
623
00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:29,080
The reason he's not going to win
is 'cause he's obviously gay.
624
00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:31,280
♪ Ah... ♪
625
00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:35,160
It was the Myspace era
and a lot of the TMZ type blogs
626
00:36:35,240 --> 00:36:40,680
had uncovered a lot of old photos
of Adam Lambert kissing his then boyfriend
627
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:43,320
and acted like it was some big scandal.
628
00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:45,760
So he was on the cover
of Entertainment Weekly
629
00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:49,440
that said something like:
"Adam Lambert is probably gay."
630
00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:52,000
[Adam] By the time I got to Idol, I was 27
631
00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:55,000
and I had been going through
most of my 20s in LA
632
00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:58,440
very openly and proudly gay.
633
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:01,360
So I figured: "Oh, it's already
out of the bag. Yeah, that's me.
634
00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:03,640
Like, they know, I know, yeah."
635
00:37:03,720 --> 00:37:05,760
I never said the words: "I am gay."
636
00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:10,400
And I didn't really realize that I had
to make that type of literal statement.
637
00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:13,800
Adam Lambert wanted the focus
to be on him as a singer,
638
00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:16,200
not on any aspect of his personal life,
639
00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:21,360
and so he chose
not to publicly address these photographs
640
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:25,040
and so that swirl of intrigue, I guess,
continued along with him
641
00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:30,120
as he performed phenomenally
week after week on American Idol
642
00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:33,400
and became one of the most popular
contestants on that show ever.
643
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:36,480
[music: "Whole Lotta Love"]
644
00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:41,640
[Parker] Towards the end of American Idol
Season Eight,
645
00:37:41,720 --> 00:37:44,080
Adam Lambert did "Whole Lotta Love".
646
00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:47,200
♪ You need cooling, baby ♪
647
00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:49,600
[Parker] Led Zeppelin had never cleared
a song
648
00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:52,720
for American Idol and I imagine
that Led Zeppelin said:
649
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:55,640
"Well, yeah, this guy's
not going to mess up our song."
650
00:37:55,720 --> 00:38:01,440
♪ Way down inside, honey, you need ♪
651
00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:03,600
♪ I'm gonna give you my love ♪
652
00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:06,520
♪ I'm gonna give you my love ♪
653
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:11,840
♪ Oh! Want a whole lotta love... ♪
654
00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:16,280
I wrote at that time that it was the best
American Idol performance of all time.
655
00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:18,480
Adam Lambert owned that stage that night.
656
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:21,040
♪ You've been learning ♪
657
00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:23,560
♪ And, baby, I been learning ♪
658
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:29,400
♪ All those good times
Baby, baby, baby, I've been misusing ♪
659
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:35,040
♪ Way, way down inside
Honey, you need... ♪
660
00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:39,640
[Roger] It was really by pure chance
that we ran into Adam.
661
00:38:39,720 --> 00:38:41,560
It was Spike, our keyboard player,
662
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:44,720
who saw Adam singing
"Whole Lotta Love" on American Idol.
663
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:51,120
Adam was on TV and I immediately
got a chill from what I was hearing.
664
00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:53,600
♪ Keep it cooling, baby ♪
665
00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:54,960
♪ Keep it cooling, baby ♪
666
00:38:55,040 --> 00:38:58,600
I thought: "Wow, this kid's special
and he's got something."
667
00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:01,360
He had a great set of pipes
and I could see that he had charisma
668
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:02,880
and he looked fantastic.
669
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:04,880
♪ Oh ♪
670
00:39:05,720 --> 00:39:08,960
When he got to the end,
when he sings "Woman you need love",
671
00:39:09,040 --> 00:39:12,600
which is the big moment,
the money shot of the song,
672
00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:15,040
and he just sang it effortlessly.
673
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:19,280
♪ Woman ♪
674
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:23,120
♪ You need ♪
675
00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:32,520
♪ Love ♪
676
00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:38,840
I thought: "Oh, this is great."
So, I sent an email to Roger.
677
00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:45,440
Adam, you're more than a rock star.
You're a rock god.
678
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:48,280
-That's what you are, okay?
-Thank you, Kara.
679
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:52,040
It was actually one of my favorite
performances you've ever done.
680
00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:56,280
The only problem is
nobody can top that now.
681
00:39:57,560 --> 00:40:02,360
My first thought was that:
"Oh, this guy, amazing voice."
682
00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:05,440
And, for me, he's camp Elvis.
683
00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:09,760
Well, I have one criticism. I thought
the performance was a little understated.
684
00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:10,920
[laughter]
685
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:16,400
He's got this magnetism about him,
coupled with this amazing voice.
686
00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:20,880
Countless people sent me emails
and rang me up and said:
687
00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:22,840
"You've got to see this guy.
He's your next guy.
688
00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:25,120
He's the guy
you need to be on stage with."
689
00:40:25,200 --> 00:40:27,080
So we looked and thought, hm.
690
00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:32,360
[cheering and applause]
691
00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:35,040
Welcome back to the show.
In a few short minutes,
692
00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:40,880
either Kris Allen or Adam Lambert
will walk away with the title.
693
00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:43,720
The American Idol people
asked us to come in and play
694
00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:46,440
on the final competition night,
695
00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:49,320
so, it was between Adam
and this other guy.
696
00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:52,800
And we played "We Are The Champions"
with both of them as front men.
697
00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:55,840
They are the type of guys
who still love performing.
698
00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:57,640
They put their egos to one side,
699
00:40:57,720 --> 00:41:01,560
because they actually like
working with new stars.
700
00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:12,640
♪ We are the champions, my friends ♪
701
00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:20,200
♪ And we'll keep on fighting
Till the end... ♪
702
00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:23,240
[Adam] Just meeting them
for the first time, it was so surreal.
703
00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:27,680
I don't even think I realized the weight
of that moment until after the fact,
704
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:31,040
'cause you're preparing
for the finale of a big show like that
705
00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:34,600
and the week of rehearsals
is a whirlwind and your head's spinning.
706
00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:39,440
♪ 'Cause we are the champions ♪
707
00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:47,440
♪ Of the world ♪
708
00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:50,600
It was quite odd,
'cause they're both really good singers,
709
00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:53,880
but there's some kind of chemistry
already between us and Adam.
710
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:57,400
It was just instant, so it was so easy
to just play off Adam.
711
00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:02,320
I think we consciously made an effort
so we wouldn't kind of favorite anyone,
712
00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:05,840
but there was that feeling with Adam,
like, this kind of does work.
713
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:10,000
♪ But it's been no bed of roses ♪
714
00:42:10,080 --> 00:42:14,040
♪ No pleasure cruise ♪
715
00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:18,280
♪ I consider it a challenge
Before the whole human race ♪
716
00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:24,960
-♪ And I ain't gonna lose ♪
-♪ And I need to go on and on and on... ♪
717
00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:27,840
[Jared] When Brian and Roger
came on the finale and played with Adam,
718
00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:32,200
it was the closest thing to the energy
of what Queen was as a band
719
00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:34,440
that you had seen probably since Freddie.
720
00:42:34,520 --> 00:42:40,520
♪ And we'll keep on fighting
Till the end ♪
721
00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:47,200
♪ We are the champions ♪
722
00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:51,680
♪ We are the champions ♪
723
00:42:51,760 --> 00:42:55,720
♪ No time for losers ♪
724
00:42:55,800 --> 00:43:00,640
♪ 'Cause we are the champions ♪
725
00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:09,680
♪ Of the world ♪
726
00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:14,120
When Adam was on stage,
right after they announced the winner,
727
00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:15,760
he was not announced as the winner.
728
00:43:16,520 --> 00:43:19,920
I was sitting in the front row
and he looked me in the eye and he said:
729
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:21,760
"I really wanted to win."
730
00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:23,840
And I mouthed to him: "You did."
731
00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:27,440
I remember realizing:
"Okay, now my life has changed.
732
00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:29,320
Oh, my God,
I just sang on stage with Queen."
733
00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:33,080
So, I was thrilled, even though
I didn't win, I was the runner-up,
734
00:43:33,160 --> 00:43:36,000
I knew that in my way I had won.
735
00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:39,040
I had won for myself, for my life.
736
00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:41,200
His life was kind of booked
for the next year or so,
737
00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:44,360
so, there was no question of us
going off with him at that moment.
738
00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:45,920
That couldn't have happened.
739
00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:48,480
Nevertheless, we kept loosely in touch.
740
00:43:49,720 --> 00:43:52,880
[Carter] American Idol would have sent him
on a very different trajectory.
741
00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:56,280
He wasn't going to put an album out
that was going to be hand-picked producers
742
00:43:56,360 --> 00:43:58,960
and writers from the American Idol stable.
743
00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:02,440
The fact that he didn't win was probably
the best thing that ever happened to him.
744
00:44:02,520 --> 00:44:05,880
♪ So hot, out the box
Can we pick up the pace? ♪
745
00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:09,480
♪ Turn it up, heat it up
I need to be entertained... ♪
746
00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:12,280
[Connelly] After Idol was done,
he does interviews
747
00:44:12,360 --> 00:44:16,800
with Rolling Stone and with ABC News
where he says: "Yes, I'm gay."
748
00:44:16,880 --> 00:44:18,240
This isn't some big secret.
749
00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:23,320
He wasn't coming out in the sense
that his life had been hidden in any way.
750
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:26,000
He was just acknowledging
a truth about his life.
751
00:44:26,080 --> 00:44:30,440
It was a relief. I've been open about
my sexuality since I've been an adult.
752
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:32,040
You know, there were people
753
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:36,160
who felt that you should have
kept your sexuality a mystery.
754
00:44:36,240 --> 00:44:40,920
I know. I'm a very open book.
I kind of wear myself on my sleeve.
755
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:44,400
Yes, I am a homosexual. Deal with it.
756
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:45,800
Yeah, yeah, I'm gay. What?
757
00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:48,400
And? You didn't know?
758
00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:49,680
[laughs]
759
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:51,120
You couldn't tell?
760
00:44:51,720 --> 00:44:53,160
[announcer] Ladies and gentlemen,
761
00:44:53,240 --> 00:44:57,840
making his debut performance
with his first single, Adam Lambert.
762
00:44:58,160 --> 00:45:02,040
[Connelly] There was great anticipation.
"What will Adam do as a solo artist?"
763
00:45:02,120 --> 00:45:05,320
And he comes out and he does
"For Your Entertainment."
764
00:45:06,160 --> 00:45:07,720
If you were looking for a performance
765
00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:13,120
that would reunite Adam Lambert's
American Idol fan base, this wasn't it.
766
00:45:13,200 --> 00:45:14,600
[Carter] The thing starts off
767
00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:19,040
and he's got a really sexy female dancer
and he's pulling her around by her leg.
768
00:45:19,120 --> 00:45:22,560
And then he's got the guy on all fours
and he's got him on a leash.
769
00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:25,960
[Connelly] But then he did something
in live performance
770
00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:29,400
that he hadn't told anybody
he was going to do.
771
00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:34,120
That on live television is a no-no.
772
00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:37,600
You know, he simulated fellatio
with one of his dancers.
773
00:45:38,400 --> 00:45:41,120
I didn't plan it. It just happened,
774
00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:43,160
which is why I think the network
got mad at me
775
00:45:43,240 --> 00:45:45,600
because they were, like:
"We didn't know that was coming."
776
00:45:45,680 --> 00:45:47,160
I didn't either!
777
00:45:47,240 --> 00:45:52,200
And then takes the back of Tommy
the keyboardist's head and kisses him.
778
00:45:54,320 --> 00:45:56,480
[Adam] A lot of people were like:
"That's not for me."
779
00:45:56,560 --> 00:45:59,720
It sort of alienated
a portion of my new audience
780
00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:02,040
that I had gained on American Idol.
781
00:46:02,120 --> 00:46:03,880
A lot of Adam Lambert's appearances
782
00:46:03,960 --> 00:46:06,240
that were supposed to happen on TV
got canceled.
783
00:46:06,320 --> 00:46:08,320
Everyone's like: "His career is over."
784
00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:10,040
[music: "Whataya Want From Me?"]
785
00:46:14,720 --> 00:46:17,960
[Adam]
I think I felt everyone pull back a bit.
786
00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:21,680
I felt something shift
after that performance
787
00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:24,120
and after that single
sort of didn't connect.
788
00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:27,640
So, from a business end point,
I was, like: "Ooh, okay, got it."
789
00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:32,880
♪ Hey, slow it down ♪
790
00:46:33,520 --> 00:46:35,920
♪ What do you want from me? ♪
791
00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:37,800
♪ What do you want from me? ♪
792
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:41,160
Thankfully we had a song
that we came with as the second single,
793
00:46:41,240 --> 00:46:44,160
which actually kind of asked the question
794
00:46:44,240 --> 00:46:47,600
to all the people that were upset
about what I had done and said:
795
00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:50,240
"What do you want from me?
I'm just trying to figure it out, man."
796
00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:53,640
♪ Been a time
When I would give myself away ♪
797
00:46:53,720 --> 00:46:56,640
♪ Oh, once upon a time... ♪
798
00:46:56,720 --> 00:47:00,280
Fans, radio, all around the world,
really connected with it,
799
00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:02,560
so, I was really thankful that I was able
800
00:47:02,640 --> 00:47:05,160
to kind of move past
the little scandal that we'd created
801
00:47:05,240 --> 00:47:09,280
and have a real moment with a great song,
with a great message.
802
00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:10,560
♪ What do you want from me? ♪
803
00:47:10,640 --> 00:47:12,720
♪ Just don't give up ♪
804
00:47:13,240 --> 00:47:15,200
♪ I'm working it out ♪
805
00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:17,840
♪ Please don't give in... ♪
806
00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:19,760
And then I put the album out,
807
00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:23,120
and did the whole promo run
on the back of that,
808
00:47:23,200 --> 00:47:24,720
and then did my own solo tour.
809
00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:28,600
♪ To breathe just keep coming around... ♪
810
00:47:29,360 --> 00:47:32,320
My management at the time said:
"Hey, there's interest here.
811
00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:34,440
Queen really loved
performing with you on the finale
812
00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:36,640
and they're wondering
if we could do something."
813
00:47:36,720 --> 00:47:39,960
♪ What do you want from me? ♪
814
00:47:40,480 --> 00:47:43,640
So once the dust all settled,
or the glitter all settled from that,
815
00:47:43,720 --> 00:47:46,520
and there was a lot of glitter,
Queen came a-calling.
816
00:47:46,600 --> 00:47:51,760
Please be upstanding for Brian May
and Roger Taylor of Queen!
817
00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:52,840
[cheering]
818
00:47:52,920 --> 00:47:56,320
Worthy recipients
of MTV's Global Icon Award.
819
00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:58,200
Thank you so much.
820
00:47:58,280 --> 00:48:01,880
You don't know how much... It means
so much to us to be here in Belfast.
821
00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:04,280
Thank you. Thank you.
822
00:48:05,560 --> 00:48:08,840
They had an opportunity
to perform at the EMAs
823
00:48:08,920 --> 00:48:13,120
and when they asked me,
I immediately said yes.
824
00:48:13,200 --> 00:48:15,520
It was like a knee-jerk reaction:
"Yes, of course."
825
00:48:15,600 --> 00:48:17,800
Hung up the phone
and then started panicking and going:
826
00:48:17,880 --> 00:48:20,320
"Oh, my God, this crazy,
'cause this is a big deal."
827
00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:22,760
♪ Empty spaces ♪
828
00:48:22,840 --> 00:48:26,200
♪ What are we living for? ♪
829
00:48:26,280 --> 00:48:28,400
♪ Abandoned places ♪
830
00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:31,880
♪ I guess we know the score... ♪
831
00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:36,960
It was obvious that he had everything
you would want in a front man.
832
00:48:37,720 --> 00:48:40,880
He had confidence, and he knew
what he was capable of.
833
00:48:40,960 --> 00:48:45,000
♪ The show must go on ♪
834
00:48:45,080 --> 00:48:47,000
♪ Yeah, yeah ♪
835
00:48:47,080 --> 00:48:49,760
♪ The show must go on ♪
836
00:48:53,880 --> 00:48:56,600
♪ I'll face it with a grin ♪
837
00:48:56,680 --> 00:48:58,840
♪ I'm never giving in ♪
838
00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:04,160
♪ On with the show ♪
839
00:49:04,240 --> 00:49:06,000
♪ Yeah ♪
840
00:49:06,080 --> 00:49:08,080
[guitar solo]
841
00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:17,720
♪ I'll top the bill, I'll overkill ♪
842
00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:19,760
♪ I have to find the will... ♪
843
00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:22,920
[Braverman] There was a fan base
both for Adam and for Queen
844
00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:26,520
that wanted to see the two combine again.
845
00:49:26,840 --> 00:49:29,960
♪ The show... ♪
846
00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:33,080
♪ The show must go on ♪
847
00:49:37,800 --> 00:49:41,480
There was an excitement that
there could be another phase of Queen.
848
00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:45,920
-Woo!
-[cheering and applause]
849
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:48,360
[Hawkins] He's flamboyant,
he's a great, wild front man
850
00:49:48,440 --> 00:49:51,400
and that's what you need
if you're going to be in Queen.
851
00:49:51,480 --> 00:49:54,480
Outrageous, but you've got to be able
to hit the notes too.
852
00:49:55,240 --> 00:49:58,520
You know, you can't have one.
You got to have both.
853
00:50:02,080 --> 00:50:04,040
[Adam] All of us sat down
and we had a drink.
854
00:50:04,120 --> 00:50:07,040
There was a sense of camaraderie
in that moment about:
855
00:50:07,120 --> 00:50:11,520
"Look what we just did. This feels good.
I like you, I like you, you like me."
856
00:50:11,600 --> 00:50:16,120
It was an instant sense of sort of comfort
and ease that we all had with each other.
857
00:50:16,200 --> 00:50:18,720
We all sort of got a kick
out of each other.
858
00:50:18,800 --> 00:50:20,400
It felt like the right fit. It felt good.
859
00:50:20,480 --> 00:50:23,960
With Adam, by the time we got together,
we kind of knew, yeah,
860
00:50:24,040 --> 00:50:26,800
because we'd seen enough of him
and we thought: "This is going to work."
861
00:50:26,880 --> 00:50:29,080
Adam comes
with a certain amount of pedigree,
862
00:50:29,160 --> 00:50:31,680
because he's sung his solo stuff
with a lot of success.
863
00:50:32,240 --> 00:50:34,400
So then we sat down together and said:
"What could we do?
864
00:50:34,480 --> 00:50:37,520
We could do a little bit of a tour.
We could try something here."
865
00:50:37,600 --> 00:50:41,720
And it gradually took shape
and before... before we knew it,
866
00:50:41,800 --> 00:50:44,440
we were, you know, operating with Adam.
867
00:50:44,520 --> 00:50:46,360
[drum beats]
868
00:50:46,440 --> 00:50:48,280
[man] One, two. Check, check, check.
869
00:50:48,360 --> 00:50:52,200
We had some shows,
about six shows, I think, in Europe,
870
00:50:52,280 --> 00:50:55,160
starting with a massive show in Kiev.
871
00:50:57,400 --> 00:50:59,960
[Brian] It must have been
the most terrifying moment for Adam.
872
00:51:00,040 --> 00:51:03,760
He didn't look like he was terrified.
He looked like he did this every day.
873
00:51:05,640 --> 00:51:10,920
[Adam] I definitely was intimidated by
the idea of singing somebody else's songs,
874
00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:13,120
especially from such a beloved band.
875
00:51:15,040 --> 00:51:18,200
In the back of my head I was like:
"Oh, God, I hope this is the right idea.
876
00:51:18,280 --> 00:51:20,080
I'm so excited to sing these songs,
877
00:51:20,160 --> 00:51:22,280
but I don't know how
it's going to be received."
878
00:51:22,360 --> 00:51:24,360
[cheering]
879
00:51:28,320 --> 00:51:30,480
[Brian] It was a tall order
and I think we all knew it
880
00:51:30,560 --> 00:51:34,960
and that gig was put in at the front
of the tour to enormous numbers of people.
881
00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:39,320
I think it was more than 350,000
and it was live TV as well.
882
00:51:40,680 --> 00:51:44,680
Well, it was free, wasn't it? [laughs]
Let's say it was a million.
883
00:51:47,120 --> 00:51:48,520
Elton John was on before us
884
00:51:48,600 --> 00:51:52,680
and I remember as Elton
was rolling out hit after hit after hit,
885
00:51:52,760 --> 00:51:57,200
I remember thinking:
"Oh. Hope we're up to this."
886
00:51:57,280 --> 00:52:01,120
[interviewer] When you face an audience
of some 300,000 people...
887
00:52:01,200 --> 00:52:02,480
[Freddie] Mm.
888
00:52:02,560 --> 00:52:04,960
...do you get intimidated
by the size of that crowd?
889
00:52:05,040 --> 00:52:07,800
No, the bigger the better, in everything.
890
00:52:09,280 --> 00:52:11,120
[laughs] Love that.
891
00:52:11,200 --> 00:52:13,360
Adam had to do
in his first show with Queen
892
00:52:13,440 --> 00:52:17,080
what it took Queen and Freddie Mercury
ten years to do.
893
00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:23,840
For Adam to start
with an audience that big takes nerve.
894
00:52:23,920 --> 00:52:26,160
-♪ Hey ♪
-♪ Hey ♪
895
00:52:26,240 --> 00:52:28,440
-♪ Hey ♪
-♪ Hey ♪
896
00:52:28,520 --> 00:52:30,720
-♪ Hey, hey, hey ♪
-♪ Hey, hey, hey ♪
897
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:32,720
-♪ Hey, hey, hey ♪
-♪ Hey, hey, hey ♪
898
00:52:32,800 --> 00:52:36,040
[Gambaccini] Some people
would be embarrassed to go to Kiev
899
00:52:36,120 --> 00:52:40,080
and sing in front of 300,000 people
they've never known.
900
00:52:40,160 --> 00:52:43,360
But a performer like Adam
could use it as an opportunity,
901
00:52:44,360 --> 00:52:47,360
just as Freddie
had always used these big crowds,
902
00:52:47,440 --> 00:52:50,800
just push that envelope, let's see how
many people we can get to respond at once.
903
00:52:50,880 --> 00:52:53,240
[vocalizes]
904
00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:59,800
[Parker] He did have experience
performing for large crowds on TV.
905
00:52:59,880 --> 00:53:02,040
He had experience performing for doubters.
906
00:53:02,600 --> 00:53:06,920
He was used to having to win people over
and all that was a perfect storm.
907
00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:09,800
Then when he got in front
of hundreds of thousands of people
908
00:53:09,880 --> 00:53:13,440
in Kiev, he'd already been selling himself
for years, he knew how to do it.
909
00:53:15,920 --> 00:53:18,560
I had a lot of help.
Spike, who was on keys,
910
00:53:18,640 --> 00:53:21,840
I kept looking at over and over again:
"Am I supposed to come in here?
911
00:53:21,920 --> 00:53:24,480
How long is the guitar solo?
Is it my turn?"
912
00:53:24,560 --> 00:53:26,000
[music: "Radio Ga Ga"]
913
00:53:26,080 --> 00:53:32,080
[Spike] Because of his stage training,
he was quite happy to take cues.
914
00:53:32,160 --> 00:53:34,800
He used to just check in with me
and I'd give him a yes
915
00:53:34,880 --> 00:53:37,240
and no if it was wrong, meaning wait.
916
00:53:37,320 --> 00:53:38,760
Just a lot of me being, like...
917
00:53:39,400 --> 00:53:40,600
He looked at me. I went:
918
00:53:40,680 --> 00:53:42,960
-"No, not that. Don't sing that bit."
-Okay.
919
00:53:43,040 --> 00:53:47,360
♪ I'd sit alone and watch your light ♪
920
00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:52,080
♪ My only friend through teenage nights ♪
921
00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:56,440
♪ And everything I had to know ♪
922
00:53:56,760 --> 00:54:01,000
♪ I heard it on my radio... ♪
923
00:54:02,760 --> 00:54:04,680
[Adam] It was fun and it was thrilling
924
00:54:04,760 --> 00:54:09,480
and it was what I loved the most
about being a vocalist, is the adrenaline.
925
00:54:09,560 --> 00:54:12,560
It's the thrill of something
that could possibly go wrong.
926
00:54:13,120 --> 00:54:15,160
I like that. I like the danger in that.
927
00:54:15,240 --> 00:54:16,320
♪ Just don't care ♪
928
00:54:16,840 --> 00:54:21,280
♪ And just complain when you're not there
You had... ♪
929
00:54:21,360 --> 00:54:23,840
[Roger] I had no doubts he could do it.
930
00:54:23,920 --> 00:54:26,080
It was good.
You know, the feeling was good.
931
00:54:26,360 --> 00:54:28,960
He was out there,
putting it out there, you know,
932
00:54:29,040 --> 00:54:32,520
and he sang great and interacted great
and it was a big success.
933
00:54:32,600 --> 00:54:33,880
Here we go!
934
00:54:33,960 --> 00:54:37,720
♪ All we hear is radio ga ga ♪
935
00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:42,240
♪ Radio goo goo! Radio ga ga ♪
936
00:54:42,600 --> 00:54:46,920
♪ All we hear is radio ga ga ♪
937
00:54:47,000 --> 00:54:49,120
♪ Radio blah blah ♪
938
00:54:49,200 --> 00:54:52,760
♪ Radio, what's new? ♪
939
00:54:53,520 --> 00:54:55,400
♪ Radio ♪
940
00:54:55,760 --> 00:55:01,920
♪ Someone still loves you... ♪
941
00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:04,920
[Brian] An incredible thing for
a new member of a group to step on stage
942
00:55:05,000 --> 00:55:08,640
and do that...
I took my hat off to him at the time.
943
00:55:08,720 --> 00:55:11,400
Ladies and gentlemen, Adam Lambert!
944
00:55:11,920 --> 00:55:15,240
[announcer translates into Ukrainian]
945
00:55:15,320 --> 00:55:18,520
-[Adam] No. Queen!
-[announcer translates into Ukrainian]
946
00:55:19,240 --> 00:55:21,200
[laughs]
947
00:55:21,280 --> 00:55:23,600
And, of course,
the rest was easy after that.
948
00:55:28,680 --> 00:55:30,320
Queen is huge everywhere.
949
00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:34,120
The UK in particular,
they're huge, huge, huge.
950
00:55:34,800 --> 00:55:37,120
In the States,
it's a bit different of a relationship.
951
00:55:37,200 --> 00:55:39,560
So, I felt like
it was maybe even a harder sell.
952
00:55:39,640 --> 00:55:42,640
There is that perception
that something hasn't happened
953
00:55:42,720 --> 00:55:44,640
until it's actually happened
here in America.
954
00:55:45,240 --> 00:55:48,400
I don't think anyone thought that
Adam Lambert and Queen coming together
955
00:55:48,480 --> 00:55:49,880
was a slam dunk.
956
00:55:50,560 --> 00:55:54,680
[Braverman] They were viewed in America
as a heritage rock act that had hits,
957
00:55:54,760 --> 00:55:58,960
but they didn't have that young audience
that expected to hear new music from them,
958
00:55:59,040 --> 00:56:00,440
or be able to see them live.
959
00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:03,440
[Parker] The first public performance
Queen did in America
960
00:56:03,520 --> 00:56:05,960
was at the iHeart Radio Music Festival
in Las Vegas.
961
00:56:06,520 --> 00:56:12,040
I knew it was a big deal to come to Vegas
and prove ourselves as a collaboration.
962
00:56:12,120 --> 00:56:17,360
iHeart Radio, are you ready
for another "I can't believe it" moment?
963
00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:19,400
[cheering]
964
00:56:19,480 --> 00:56:23,960
Please welcome Queen,
featuring Adam Lambert!
965
00:56:24,920 --> 00:56:27,040
[music: "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"]
966
00:56:30,400 --> 00:56:33,040
♪ This thing called love ♪
967
00:56:33,680 --> 00:56:37,120
♪ I just can't handle it ♪
968
00:56:37,200 --> 00:56:39,680
♪ This thing called love ♪
969
00:56:40,240 --> 00:56:43,440
♪ I must get round to it ♪
970
00:56:43,520 --> 00:56:45,080
♪ I ain't ready ♪
971
00:56:45,680 --> 00:56:47,880
♪ This crazy little thing called love ♪
972
00:56:49,280 --> 00:56:50,160
♪ Oh! ♪
973
00:56:50,240 --> 00:56:51,600
-♪ This thing ♪
-♪ This thing ♪
974
00:56:51,680 --> 00:56:53,400
-♪ Called love ♪
-♪ Called love ♪
975
00:56:53,480 --> 00:56:55,120
-♪ It cries ♪
-♪ Like a baby ♪
976
00:56:55,200 --> 00:56:56,800
♪ Like a baby all night ♪
977
00:56:56,880 --> 00:56:58,200
-♪ It swings ♪
-♪ Ooh, ooh ♪
978
00:56:58,280 --> 00:57:00,200
-♪ It jives ♪
-♪ Ooh, ooh ♪
979
00:57:00,280 --> 00:57:03,160
♪ It shakes all over like a jelly fish ♪
980
00:57:03,240 --> 00:57:04,840
♪ I kind of like it ♪
981
00:57:05,360 --> 00:57:07,880
♪ This crazy little thing called love... ♪
982
00:57:09,080 --> 00:57:12,040
It went really well and suddenly
there was a bit of magic.
983
00:57:12,120 --> 00:57:14,120
[guitar solo]
984
00:57:14,200 --> 00:57:19,400
[Brian] iHeart did for us in America
what Belfast had done for us in Europe
985
00:57:19,480 --> 00:57:22,000
and it was live TV, of course,
which is a big deal.
986
00:57:22,080 --> 00:57:25,120
There's no way of getting to a country
quicker than live TV.
987
00:57:25,200 --> 00:57:26,880
And again it just clicked.
988
00:57:26,960 --> 00:57:31,480
♪ This thing called love, I just... ♪
989
00:57:31,560 --> 00:57:33,080
I can't handle it ♪
990
00:57:33,160 --> 00:57:36,120
♪ This thing called love ♪
991
00:57:36,560 --> 00:57:39,720
♪ I must get round to it ♪
992
00:57:39,800 --> 00:57:43,800
♪ I ain't ready
This crazy little thing called love ♪
993
00:57:45,160 --> 00:57:47,800
♪ This crazy little thing called love ♪
994
00:57:48,480 --> 00:57:51,480
♪ Oh, this crazy little thing
Called love ♪
995
00:57:51,560 --> 00:57:53,760
♪ All right, yeah ♪
996
00:58:02,480 --> 00:58:05,600
♪ Oh, yeah, this crazy little thing ♪
997
00:58:05,680 --> 00:58:11,200
♪ This crazy, crazy, crazy
Little thing called love ♪
998
00:58:11,280 --> 00:58:14,160
♪ Yeah ♪
999
00:58:14,800 --> 00:58:16,760
♪ All right! ♪
1000
00:58:21,720 --> 00:58:23,360
[Brian] iHeart made a massive difference
1001
00:58:23,440 --> 00:58:25,200
to the way we were perceived
in this country.
1002
00:58:28,680 --> 00:58:31,040
I think we had to pinch ourselves
to make ourselves realize
1003
00:58:31,120 --> 00:58:36,440
that we were back at that level, a level
which we had really forgotten about.
1004
00:58:36,520 --> 00:58:39,200
He gave us a blood transfusion,
if you like.
1005
00:58:39,680 --> 00:58:41,400
Young blood, nothing like it.
1006
00:58:41,480 --> 00:58:42,480
Thank you!
1007
00:58:43,280 --> 00:58:45,480
[Braverman] The iHeart reaction was great.
1008
00:58:45,560 --> 00:58:50,200
There was immediately buzz and talk
about could Queen go on tour?
1009
00:58:50,680 --> 00:58:54,240
Some people said: "No one is going to pay
to see the band without Freddie."
1010
00:58:54,320 --> 00:58:57,560
Other people thought there was a demand
from this audience
1011
00:58:57,640 --> 00:58:59,640
that wants to hear these songs live.
1012
00:59:00,160 --> 00:59:04,760
We actually had Adam and Queen
at Madison Square Garden to announce it
1013
00:59:04,840 --> 00:59:07,400
and it felt like this very big moment,
1014
00:59:07,480 --> 00:59:11,680
the band touring America for the first
time in I don't know how many years
1015
00:59:11,760 --> 00:59:13,920
and the press went crazy.
1016
00:59:14,000 --> 00:59:17,960
We're delighted to be announcing
a tour of North America.
1017
00:59:18,040 --> 00:59:20,080
It's just such a delight for us.
1018
00:59:20,160 --> 00:59:22,360
We're very excited, I have to say.
1019
00:59:23,240 --> 00:59:24,720
It's been a while,
1020
00:59:24,800 --> 00:59:28,120
but this is a combination
which we believe really works very well.
1021
00:59:28,200 --> 00:59:31,960
It'll be great to do this one more time
and this is the man to do it with.
1022
00:59:32,520 --> 00:59:34,720
I'm like: "Whoa! Really?
1023
00:59:34,800 --> 00:59:38,280
I'm so excited to be asked by these two
gentlemen to share the stage with them.
1024
00:59:38,760 --> 00:59:40,000
It feels incredible.
1025
00:59:40,360 --> 00:59:43,080
We put together a pretty ambitious tour,
1026
00:59:43,160 --> 00:59:46,320
playing 15 to 20 arenas
around North America.
1027
00:59:47,200 --> 00:59:50,040
[Brian] People are going to say:
"Is this really Queen without Freddie?"
1028
00:59:50,120 --> 00:59:52,280
Well, I have no idea.
1029
00:59:52,360 --> 00:59:55,800
But people want to hear Queen music,
they want to hear it done great,
1030
00:59:55,880 --> 00:59:58,000
so, having this opportunity is great.
1031
00:59:58,080 --> 00:59:59,440
[music: "Under Pressure"]
1032
01:00:01,160 --> 01:00:03,440
[Braverman] We looked at where were venues
1033
01:00:03,520 --> 01:00:06,280
where they had
these iconic performances in the past,
1034
01:00:06,840 --> 01:00:09,480
and let's go back
and build the profile of this band up
1035
01:00:09,560 --> 01:00:11,400
so that they can go
and sell out these venues
1036
01:00:11,480 --> 01:00:13,680
the same way they did
at the peak of their career.
1037
01:00:13,760 --> 01:00:15,040
♪ Under pressure... ♪
1038
01:00:15,120 --> 01:00:17,240
It's good to be home in Los Angeles!
1039
01:00:17,320 --> 01:00:18,280
[cheering]
1040
01:00:18,360 --> 01:00:19,960
Oh, hello, Houston!
1041
01:00:20,040 --> 01:00:21,120
Hello, Chicago!
1042
01:00:22,960 --> 01:00:26,160
This is like a bucket list moment for me,
I got to tell you.
1043
01:00:26,240 --> 01:00:27,240
[cheering]
1044
01:00:27,320 --> 01:00:30,560
Thank you for making it happen.
Thank you for being here.
1045
01:00:30,640 --> 01:00:34,160
♪ It's the terror of knowing
What this world is about ♪
1046
01:00:34,600 --> 01:00:38,920
♪ Watching some good friends screaming
Let me out! ♪
1047
01:00:39,000 --> 01:00:42,560
♪ Pray tomorrow gets me higher ♪
1048
01:00:42,640 --> 01:00:46,800
♪ Pressure on people
People on streets... ♪
1049
01:00:48,120 --> 01:00:51,480
Can I just ask you a very simple question?
What do you think of the new guy?
1050
01:00:51,560 --> 01:00:53,960
[cheering]
1051
01:00:54,040 --> 01:00:57,280
♪ Can't we give ourselves
One more chance? ♪
1052
01:00:57,360 --> 01:01:01,200
♪ Why can't we give love
That one more chance? ♪
1053
01:01:01,280 --> 01:01:02,360
♪ Why can't we... ♪
1054
01:01:02,440 --> 01:01:04,480
I guess he's not really
the new boy anymore.
1055
01:01:04,560 --> 01:01:08,120
-But what do you think of the other guy?
-[cheering]
1056
01:01:13,440 --> 01:01:15,400
I guess he's all right, yeah?
1057
01:01:15,480 --> 01:01:16,680
Is he a keeper?
1058
01:01:16,760 --> 01:01:21,560
♪ The people on the edge of the night ♪
1059
01:01:21,640 --> 01:01:24,240
♪ And love dares you ♪
1060
01:01:24,320 --> 01:01:31,120
♪ To change our way
Of caring about ourselves ♪
1061
01:01:31,200 --> 01:01:34,800
♪ This is our last dance ♪
1062
01:01:34,880 --> 01:01:39,160
♪ This is our last dance ♪
1063
01:01:39,240 --> 01:01:42,320
♪ This is ourselves ♪
1064
01:01:42,880 --> 01:01:44,160
♪ Under pressure ♪
1065
01:01:47,040 --> 01:01:48,280
♪ Under pressure ♪
1066
01:01:54,440 --> 01:01:55,440
♪ Pressure ♪
1067
01:01:56,320 --> 01:01:57,800
[cheering]
1068
01:01:57,880 --> 01:02:00,440
[Braverman] The success in America
meant we should be able
1069
01:02:00,520 --> 01:02:03,240
to take this around the world,
and it kind of took off.
1070
01:02:03,320 --> 01:02:04,840
They really focused a lot of time
1071
01:02:04,920 --> 01:02:08,520
on building Australia, Europe,
Latin America up
1072
01:02:08,600 --> 01:02:10,800
and really starting from scratch,
1073
01:02:10,880 --> 01:02:14,560
so that people could see what Queen
and Adam Lambert were together.
1074
01:02:14,640 --> 01:02:17,880
[cheering]
1075
01:02:25,840 --> 01:02:29,480
[Adam] It's the most brilliant
symbiotic relationship you could dream of,
1076
01:02:29,560 --> 01:02:31,080
because, you know, one might say:
1077
01:02:31,160 --> 01:02:32,840
"Oh, Adam, you know,
if it weren't for you,
1078
01:02:32,920 --> 01:02:35,240
they wouldn't be doing these venues
or these countries."
1079
01:02:35,320 --> 01:02:37,880
But it's the same for me.
If it weren't for them,
1080
01:02:37,960 --> 01:02:40,360
I wouldn't be playing arenas
all around the world either.
1081
01:02:41,600 --> 01:02:45,200
I felt more so a sense of magic.
1082
01:02:45,280 --> 01:02:47,720
It's cool that they're back
doing this again.
1083
01:02:47,800 --> 01:02:49,240
♪ Now I'm here... ♪
1084
01:02:50,920 --> 01:02:54,640
Japan was fantastic last time we went.
It was absolutely magical.
1085
01:02:54,720 --> 01:02:56,280
♪ Now I'm there ♪
1086
01:02:56,360 --> 01:02:58,000
♪ Now I'm there... ♪
1087
01:02:58,560 --> 01:03:01,680
That, I think, more than anywhere else,
felt like the old days.
1088
01:03:01,760 --> 01:03:02,800
♪ I'm just a... ♪
1089
01:03:09,760 --> 01:03:12,280
That brought back
the memories in particular
1090
01:03:12,360 --> 01:03:16,200
of first going to Japan
and the fantastic reaction.
1091
01:03:25,800 --> 01:03:29,080
♪ A baby I was when you took my hand ♪
1092
01:03:29,160 --> 01:03:31,960
♪ And the light of the night
Burned bright... ♪
1093
01:03:32,440 --> 01:03:36,560
[Adam] What meant a lot to me about going
back to some of these famous venues
1094
01:03:36,640 --> 01:03:38,440
that Queen has stamped their mark on
1095
01:03:38,520 --> 01:03:41,080
was seeing Brian and Roger
be nostalgic about it.
1096
01:03:41,160 --> 01:03:42,240
That meant a lot to me.
1097
01:03:42,320 --> 01:03:44,960
That was really cool to be
a part of those moments,
1098
01:03:45,040 --> 01:03:49,760
of them recalling the first time
they were there and what it was like
1099
01:03:49,840 --> 01:03:52,080
and knowing also that there were members
of the audience
1100
01:03:52,160 --> 01:03:53,760
that were probably there the first time.
1101
01:03:53,840 --> 01:03:56,960
♪ A thin moon me in a smoke-screen sky ♪
1102
01:03:57,040 --> 01:03:59,840
♪ Where beams of your love light chase ♪
1103
01:03:59,920 --> 01:04:03,400
♪ Don't move, don't speak
Don't feel no pain ♪
1104
01:04:03,480 --> 01:04:06,600
♪ With the rain running down my face ♪
1105
01:04:07,360 --> 01:04:10,600
♪ Your matches still light up the sky ♪
1106
01:04:10,680 --> 01:04:17,120
♪ Many a tear lives on in my eye... ♪
1107
01:04:17,200 --> 01:04:20,120
Adam is the kind of performer
that they love there as well,
1108
01:04:20,200 --> 01:04:24,520
because he's flamboyant,
costume, lots of dressing up.
1109
01:04:25,120 --> 01:04:28,160
One thing he knew better than we did
was how to use a camera,
1110
01:04:28,240 --> 01:04:29,320
how to work to a camera.
1111
01:04:29,720 --> 01:04:31,880
♪ Now I'm here... ♪
1112
01:04:31,960 --> 01:04:35,320
He's the sort of male Beyoncé
of using the camera.
1113
01:04:35,400 --> 01:04:36,840
♪ Tokyo... ♪
1114
01:04:36,920 --> 01:04:38,880
[cheering]
1115
01:04:40,080 --> 01:04:42,240
One of the great things
about being on stage with Queen
1116
01:04:42,320 --> 01:04:44,080
is that I've challenged myself
1117
01:04:44,160 --> 01:04:48,080
to try to find my own personal connection
to the lyrics of their songs,
1118
01:04:48,160 --> 01:04:51,720
'cause I feel like without that
connection, whether I wrote it or not,
1119
01:04:51,800 --> 01:04:54,360
uh, it doesn't really come alive
for the audience.
1120
01:04:54,440 --> 01:04:56,840
That's part of the magic,
is like believing it.
1121
01:04:56,920 --> 01:05:01,000
♪ I work hard every day of my life ♪
1122
01:05:01,080 --> 01:05:04,560
♪ I work till I ache my bones ♪
1123
01:05:04,640 --> 01:05:05,840
♪ At the end ♪
1124
01:05:07,200 --> 01:05:10,560
♪ I take home
All my hard-earned pay all... ♪
1125
01:05:10,640 --> 01:05:14,200
[Adam] There's a few of 'em
that just really hit home for me.
1126
01:05:14,280 --> 01:05:16,280
In learning more about Freddie
over the years,
1127
01:05:16,360 --> 01:05:19,280
and learning that there was definitely
a loneliness there,
1128
01:05:19,840 --> 01:05:21,600
I feel like I have enough in common
1129
01:05:21,680 --> 01:05:24,480
with some of the things
that Freddie was going through.
1130
01:05:25,160 --> 01:05:29,000
I can draw upon my own experiences
and make that a real moment.
1131
01:05:29,120 --> 01:05:35,800
♪ Somebody to love ♪
1132
01:05:36,640 --> 01:05:38,520
-♪ He works hard ♪
-♪ Every day ♪
1133
01:05:38,600 --> 01:05:39,640
♪ Every day ♪
1134
01:05:39,720 --> 01:05:43,720
♪ I try and I try and I try ♪
1135
01:05:43,800 --> 01:05:46,640
♪ But everybody always breaks me down ♪
1136
01:05:46,720 --> 01:05:50,680
♪ They say I'm going crazy ♪
1137
01:05:50,760 --> 01:05:53,760
♪ They say I got
A lot of water in my brain ♪
1138
01:05:53,840 --> 01:05:55,040
♪ I got no common sense ♪
1139
01:05:55,120 --> 01:05:59,000
♪ I got nobody left to believe in ♪
1140
01:05:59,080 --> 01:06:02,840
-♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
-♪ Oh, yeah! ♪
1141
01:06:02,920 --> 01:06:05,400
[man] Being a world-famous rock star,
1142
01:06:05,480 --> 01:06:10,560
does this make it more difficult for you
to actually keep a friendship going?
1143
01:06:11,840 --> 01:06:16,120
Yes, yes, because I think
it's harder for other people
1144
01:06:16,200 --> 01:06:18,400
to try and understand me
as a normal person.
1145
01:06:18,480 --> 01:06:20,240
'Cause basically, in terms of a...
1146
01:06:20,320 --> 01:06:22,480
'Cause you're talking
about relationships, which is good.
1147
01:06:22,560 --> 01:06:24,360
So, basically,
when it comes to a relationship,
1148
01:06:24,440 --> 01:06:28,160
it's hard to approach somebody and say:
"Look, you are normal underneath it."
1149
01:06:28,240 --> 01:06:30,920
You have to sort of...
And so I think you are handicapped.
1150
01:06:31,000 --> 01:06:33,560
Freddie lived in a time where, you know,
1151
01:06:33,640 --> 01:06:38,120
only years prior
it was illegal to be homosexual,
1152
01:06:38,200 --> 01:06:43,360
and I can only think of the stigma
that he must have had to live with.
1153
01:06:43,800 --> 01:06:45,640
[Parker] Adam Lambert lives
in a different time.
1154
01:06:45,720 --> 01:06:48,240
He's able to take advantage
of some of the doors
1155
01:06:48,320 --> 01:06:49,480
that Freddie opened for him.
1156
01:06:49,560 --> 01:06:51,920
♪ Love... ♪
1157
01:06:52,000 --> 01:06:52,960
Hit it!
1158
01:06:57,600 --> 01:07:01,600
When Trespassing, Adam's sophomore album,
debuted at number one,
1159
01:07:01,680 --> 01:07:07,440
it was the first time that an openly gay
musician had debuted at number one.
1160
01:07:07,520 --> 01:07:09,360
Freddie Mercury paved that road for him.
1161
01:07:09,920 --> 01:07:11,480
[Adam] I was told this is the first time
1162
01:07:11,560 --> 01:07:13,920
that somebody that's been out
since they got signed
1163
01:07:14,000 --> 01:07:17,800
that this has happened to
and it made me really proud.
1164
01:07:17,880 --> 01:07:22,000
It made me proud
just to be able to, like... you know,
1165
01:07:22,080 --> 01:07:24,160
tell my grandkids one day
or whatever, you know.
1166
01:07:24,240 --> 01:07:30,720
♪ Love ♪
1167
01:07:35,120 --> 01:07:37,120
[cheering and applause]
1168
01:07:40,240 --> 01:07:43,600
Sometimes I think to myself: "What would
Freddie be like if he were alive today?"
1169
01:07:43,680 --> 01:07:47,920
And something tells me
that he would have gotten more open
1170
01:07:48,000 --> 01:07:49,360
as the times changed a bit.
1171
01:07:49,440 --> 01:07:51,040
What is this on the stage?
1172
01:07:51,800 --> 01:07:53,360
What the heck?
1173
01:07:55,120 --> 01:07:56,760
Is this for a man or a woman?
1174
01:07:57,600 --> 01:07:58,880
That's for a man?
1175
01:08:02,080 --> 01:08:04,040
Great. I'll take that for later. Great.
1176
01:08:04,120 --> 01:08:08,320
[Adam] I'm out and proud and in a society
where I feel like I can be open.
1177
01:08:08,400 --> 01:08:10,960
And it's a journey which we're all happy
that the world has made.
1178
01:08:11,040 --> 01:08:14,160
But it's not over yet, you know.
There is still prejudice.
1179
01:08:14,520 --> 01:08:17,720
There's still all sorts of abuses
that go on.
1180
01:08:21,200 --> 01:08:23,160
-[gunfire]
-[screaming]
1181
01:08:23,880 --> 01:08:25,200
Good evening from Orlando,
1182
01:08:25,279 --> 01:08:28,960
the focal point of a nation still reeling
from the carnage that took place
1183
01:08:29,040 --> 01:08:31,399
just up the street at the Pulse nightclub.
1184
01:08:31,479 --> 01:08:35,640
Shocking stories of survival,
harrowing escapes and heroic acts
1185
01:08:35,720 --> 01:08:37,720
in the face of relentless hate.
1186
01:08:37,840 --> 01:08:39,319
[distant siren wailing]
1187
01:08:40,880 --> 01:08:42,640
[Adam] This song is dedicated...
1188
01:08:44,560 --> 01:08:46,920
to those that lost their life
last night...
1189
01:08:51,000 --> 01:08:52,520
in Orlando, Florida...
1190
01:08:52,600 --> 01:08:54,080
[cheering]
1191
01:08:55,319 --> 01:08:57,359
...and anybody that has been victim
1192
01:08:57,439 --> 01:09:00,399
of senseless violence...
1193
01:09:01,439 --> 01:09:02,560
or hatred.
1194
01:09:09,240 --> 01:09:14,960
♪ There's no time for us ♪
1195
01:09:15,319 --> 01:09:19,800
♪ There's no place for us... ♪
1196
01:09:20,359 --> 01:09:24,080
[Adam] That morning I remember hearing
about the Pulse shooting in Orlando
1197
01:09:24,640 --> 01:09:26,680
and just thinking to myself,
1198
01:09:26,760 --> 01:09:28,439
"That could have been any club.
1199
01:09:28,520 --> 01:09:30,960
That could have been my group of friends.
1200
01:09:31,439 --> 01:09:32,600
It could have been me."
1201
01:09:33,319 --> 01:09:36,319
When we got to that song that night,
I was like... [exhales]
1202
01:09:36,399 --> 01:09:40,000
♪ Who wants to live ♪
1203
01:09:40,080 --> 01:09:43,680
♪ Forever? ♪
1204
01:09:43,760 --> 01:09:47,600
♪ Who wants to live ♪
1205
01:09:47,680 --> 01:09:51,800
♪ Forever? ♪
1206
01:09:52,200 --> 01:09:56,040
♪ Ooh ♪
1207
01:09:57,040 --> 01:10:01,040
♪ There's no chance for us ♪
1208
01:10:02,200 --> 01:10:06,560
♪ It's all decided for us ♪
1209
01:10:08,720 --> 01:10:15,680
♪ This world has only one sweet moment ♪
1210
01:10:16,520 --> 01:10:17,600
♪ Set aside... ♪
1211
01:10:17,680 --> 01:10:19,640
I've never heard it sung like that.
1212
01:10:20,920 --> 01:10:23,040
That's... That's special.
1213
01:10:23,120 --> 01:10:29,640
♪ Who wants to live forever? ♪
1214
01:10:29,720 --> 01:10:36,360
♪ Who wants to live forever? ♪
1215
01:10:36,440 --> 01:10:40,760
♪ Ooh, yeah ♪
1216
01:10:45,880 --> 01:10:47,640
♪ Who dares ♪
1217
01:10:47,720 --> 01:10:49,280
♪ To love ♪
1218
01:10:49,360 --> 01:10:55,160
♪ Forever? ♪
1219
01:10:55,240 --> 01:10:57,880
[harmonizes]
1220
01:10:57,960 --> 01:11:00,920
♪ When love must die... ♪
1221
01:11:03,160 --> 01:11:04,800
He's still astounding, you know.
1222
01:11:04,880 --> 01:11:07,960
The lengths he can push things to
is extraordinary.
1223
01:11:08,040 --> 01:11:11,120
Sometimes I'm standing right here playing
"Who Wants to Live Forever"
1224
01:11:11,200 --> 01:11:12,760
and he's there doing his thing
1225
01:11:12,840 --> 01:11:15,200
and when he goes into
this stratospheric thing in the middle,
1226
01:11:15,280 --> 01:11:17,760
I very often go: "Wow!"
1227
01:11:17,840 --> 01:11:24,360
♪ And we can have forever ♪
1228
01:11:24,520 --> 01:11:30,400
♪ And we can love forever ♪
1229
01:11:30,480 --> 01:11:35,760
♪ Forever is our today ♪
1230
01:11:40,480 --> 01:11:46,440
♪ Who wants to live forever? ♪
1231
01:11:47,000 --> 01:11:52,840
♪ Who wants to live forever? ♪
1232
01:11:53,640 --> 01:11:58,440
♪ Forever is our today... ♪
1233
01:12:01,880 --> 01:12:04,240
[Adam] Now, when I sing it,
I think about Freddie.
1234
01:12:04,320 --> 01:12:07,880
I think about the fact
that he was taken away too soon.
1235
01:12:08,320 --> 01:12:12,800
♪ Who waits forever anyway? ♪
1236
01:12:15,960 --> 01:12:22,320
To me, it sends the message of be here now
and make the most of what you have
1237
01:12:22,400 --> 01:12:24,800
and who you love
1238
01:12:24,880 --> 01:12:28,720
and who loves you, because you never know,
it might be taken away tomorrow.
1239
01:12:32,440 --> 01:12:34,440
[cheering and applause]
1240
01:12:36,560 --> 01:12:38,480
[music: "Ghost Town"]
1241
01:12:44,320 --> 01:12:47,320
♪ Died last night in my dreams ♪
1242
01:12:47,400 --> 01:12:49,200
♪ Walking the streets ♪
1243
01:12:49,280 --> 01:12:51,400
♪ Of some old ghost town... ♪
1244
01:12:51,480 --> 01:12:55,040
I've had the opportunity
to continue my solo career
1245
01:12:55,120 --> 01:12:57,440
alongside of this collaboration
with Queen.
1246
01:12:57,520 --> 01:12:59,400
♪ A city of vampires... ♪
1247
01:12:59,480 --> 01:13:04,320
I think my musicianship has improved
because of working with Brian and Roger,
1248
01:13:04,400 --> 01:13:08,320
so, it's definitely helped me grow
as a solo artist as well.
1249
01:13:08,400 --> 01:13:11,520
♪ And now I know my heart is a... ♪
1250
01:13:11,600 --> 01:13:14,400
And I get to go create new songs
that are mine
1251
01:13:14,480 --> 01:13:17,720
and then I get to go out with Brian and
Roger and pay tribute to Freddie Mercury.
1252
01:13:17,800 --> 01:13:20,960
♪ My heart is a ghost town... ♪
1253
01:13:21,040 --> 01:13:24,680
[Parker] There's been a perfect storm
in 2018 that happened.
1254
01:13:24,760 --> 01:13:28,160
Queen built up to a point where they could
headline the Hollywood Bowl again,
1255
01:13:28,240 --> 01:13:29,920
and it would be
the hottest ticket in town.
1256
01:13:30,000 --> 01:13:33,160
And then the Bohemian Rhapsody movie
came out.
1257
01:13:34,600 --> 01:13:39,200
In the Bohemian Rhapsody movie,
Freddie Mercury is going out with Mary
1258
01:13:39,280 --> 01:13:41,440
and he's calling her from a truck stop
1259
01:13:41,520 --> 01:13:44,360
and he's still grappling
with his own sexuality
1260
01:13:44,440 --> 01:13:46,240
and there's this hunky trucker.
1261
01:13:47,000 --> 01:13:49,080
Well, that trucker's played
by Adam Lambert.
1262
01:13:49,160 --> 01:13:53,280
[man] If you had just closed the door,
I could've had it.
1263
01:13:53,360 --> 01:13:55,360
-[laughs]
-I could've had that.
1264
01:13:55,440 --> 01:13:56,720
I was like: "Oh, how you doin'?"
1265
01:13:56,800 --> 01:14:01,640
You do feel there are two worlds of Queen
colliding in that moment.
1266
01:14:01,720 --> 01:14:06,920
The movie has made a lot of young people
hear Queen music for the very first time.
1267
01:14:07,000 --> 01:14:12,000
And how cool would that be that a band
that was written off 30 years ago
1268
01:14:12,080 --> 01:14:15,200
becomes the band
that makes rock cool again for the kids?
1269
01:14:15,280 --> 01:14:16,680
Like, how cool is that?
1270
01:14:17,240 --> 01:14:20,400
What's actually been
quite sort of dumbfounding
1271
01:14:20,480 --> 01:14:23,760
is that we've actually stayed together
all these years.
1272
01:14:23,840 --> 01:14:28,400
And when you think about it,
I mean, we're the only sort of, you know,
1273
01:14:28,480 --> 01:14:31,720
four grande dames that have actually
sort of stuck it together.
1274
01:14:34,920 --> 01:14:37,920
[Brian] You have to survive,
and you have to survive together
1275
01:14:38,000 --> 01:14:44,640
and so many groups who are on the brink
of the world's riches don't realize that.
1276
01:14:44,720 --> 01:14:48,280
They suddenly think they're too big
for the group and they disappear off
1277
01:14:48,360 --> 01:14:51,800
and they throw away the magic,
which is a group which works together.
1278
01:14:52,320 --> 01:14:53,800
It's something very precious.
1279
01:14:53,880 --> 01:14:57,200
If you find it in your lifetime,
even once, you're so lucky.
1280
01:14:57,280 --> 01:15:00,520
And we are incredibly lucky.
We found it twice, I have to say.
1281
01:15:01,600 --> 01:15:04,400
♪ Bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah
Dah dah dah dah dah ♪
1282
01:15:05,280 --> 01:15:08,040
♪ Dah dah dah dah dah dah ♪
1283
01:15:08,120 --> 01:15:09,120
[Roger] ♪ Dah ♪
1284
01:15:09,200 --> 01:15:14,200
♪ Bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah
Dah dah dah dah dah ♪
1285
01:15:14,280 --> 01:15:16,920
-♪ Oh-oh! ♪
-♪ Oh-oh! ♪
1286
01:15:17,000 --> 01:15:18,800
-♪ Oh-oh! ♪
-[laughs]
1287
01:15:18,880 --> 01:15:20,720
-[man] Ready to go and do this?
-Yeah, hang on.
1288
01:15:23,200 --> 01:15:25,400
[Brian] It's very much like
in the old days.
1289
01:15:25,480 --> 01:15:29,160
We get together in the band room
and we do harmonies.
1290
01:15:29,240 --> 01:15:31,000
That's what we do before a show.
1291
01:15:31,080 --> 01:15:35,280
-Ah. Here's Elvis.
-Elvis... Elvis is in the building!
1292
01:15:36,040 --> 01:15:39,560
[Brian] It oils up your vocal chords
and it locks you in, you know.
1293
01:15:39,640 --> 01:15:40,760
You hear the other people
1294
01:15:40,840 --> 01:15:44,480
and you rediscover how your voice
fits into that structure,
1295
01:15:44,760 --> 01:15:47,240
and I think it's quite valuable
for us to do that.
1296
01:15:47,320 --> 01:15:50,320
["Killer Queen" intro on keyboard]
1297
01:15:53,840 --> 01:15:54,840
Here we go.
1298
01:15:54,920 --> 01:15:57,520
♪ She's a killer queen ♪
1299
01:15:57,600 --> 01:15:59,680
♪ Gunpowder, gelatin ♪
1300
01:15:59,760 --> 01:16:01,800
♪ Dynamite with a laser beam ♪
1301
01:16:01,880 --> 01:16:04,520
♪ Guaranteed to blow your mind ♪
1302
01:16:04,600 --> 01:16:05,720
♪ Anytime ♪
1303
01:16:05,800 --> 01:16:08,280
♪ Ooh, recommended at the price ♪
1304
01:16:08,360 --> 01:16:12,240
♪ Insatiable an appetite ♪
1305
01:16:12,800 --> 01:16:14,440
♪ Anytime! ♪
1306
01:16:14,960 --> 01:16:18,680
♪ Bicycle races are coming your way ♪
1307
01:16:18,760 --> 01:16:23,560
[Adam]
♪ So forget all your duties, oh, yes! ♪
1308
01:16:24,080 --> 01:16:27,880
♪ Fat-bottomed girls
They'll be riding today ♪
1309
01:16:27,960 --> 01:16:32,120
♪ So, look out for a big fat ass ♪
1310
01:16:33,440 --> 01:16:36,080
-[Roger] Hey!
-[laughter and applause]
1311
01:16:36,160 --> 01:16:37,720
No, our harmonies are real.
1312
01:16:37,800 --> 01:16:42,680
And the New York Times,
some dickhead in the New York Times said:
1313
01:16:42,760 --> 01:16:45,840
"Their harmonies
were suspiciously accurate."
1314
01:16:45,920 --> 01:16:47,560
What a shitty thing to say.
1315
01:16:47,640 --> 01:16:49,120
You're right. You're right.
1316
01:16:53,400 --> 01:16:57,760
[Roger] When we very first met Adam,
he appeared to be more of a boy.
1317
01:16:58,480 --> 01:17:03,200
I now see him
as an incredibly accomplished man.
1318
01:17:04,680 --> 01:17:07,560
[Brian] Roger and I have a better
relationship than we used to have
1319
01:17:07,640 --> 01:17:09,120
and that's important.
1320
01:17:09,200 --> 01:17:11,360
You know,
we disagree on almost everything,
1321
01:17:11,440 --> 01:17:13,680
but we have that kind of mutual respect
1322
01:17:13,760 --> 01:17:16,720
and when we get to play together,
something happens.
1323
01:17:16,800 --> 01:17:20,800
It was always there from the beginning,
way back to the Jazz Club Room, in 1969,
1324
01:17:20,880 --> 01:17:22,960
or whenever it was.
A long time ago, isn't it?
1325
01:17:23,040 --> 01:17:24,720
All right.
1326
01:17:24,800 --> 01:17:26,920
-Oh, the linting. Thank you.
-You're very welcome.
1327
01:17:27,000 --> 01:17:28,200
You got to film the linting.
1328
01:17:28,280 --> 01:17:30,440
It's a very important part
of tonight's proceedings.
1329
01:17:30,520 --> 01:17:33,320
We love the linting.
It just gives you that extra edge.
1330
01:17:34,080 --> 01:17:38,200
[Roger] I hope we continue, actually,
as long as it's fun...
1331
01:17:38,680 --> 01:17:40,880
and as long as lots of people
want to see us.
1332
01:17:40,960 --> 01:17:42,200
Chip-chap.
1333
01:17:42,280 --> 01:17:44,640
-All right, then?
-[Cockney accent] All right?
1334
01:17:44,720 --> 01:17:48,240
-Let's do it. Have a good one.
-Yeah, nice one.
1335
01:17:50,440 --> 01:17:51,880
[crowd cheering]
1336
01:17:55,400 --> 01:17:57,840
[Adam] It's family now and it does feel,
1337
01:17:57,920 --> 01:18:00,880
like, when we're walking to stage together
before a show:
1338
01:18:00,960 --> 01:18:02,560
"Here we go, let's do it."
1339
01:18:02,640 --> 01:18:07,600
♪ Are you gonna take me home tonight? ♪
1340
01:18:08,160 --> 01:18:13,120
♪ Oh, down beside that red firelight ♪
1341
01:18:13,800 --> 01:18:18,160
♪ Are you gonna let it all hang out? ♪
1342
01:18:18,240 --> 01:18:23,160
♪ Fat-bottomed girls
You make the rockin' world go round ♪
1343
01:18:23,240 --> 01:18:25,160
[Braverman]
After the success of the first tour,
1344
01:18:25,240 --> 01:18:27,800
we were well beyond
people questioning: "Does it work?"
1345
01:18:28,200 --> 01:18:30,480
Adam brings in a whole new fan base.
1346
01:18:30,560 --> 01:18:33,360
There are people that come in
to see Adam Lambert
1347
01:18:33,440 --> 01:18:35,280
and then they walk away Queen fans.
1348
01:18:35,360 --> 01:18:37,880
♪ I was just a skinny lad ♪
1349
01:18:37,960 --> 01:18:40,360
♪ Never knew no good from bad ♪
1350
01:18:40,440 --> 01:18:45,440
♪ But I knew life
Before I left my nursery ♪
1351
01:18:46,120 --> 01:18:48,760
♪ Left alone with big fat Fanny... ♪
1352
01:18:48,840 --> 01:18:52,120
[Parker] The perception of Queen today
is very different than it was
1353
01:18:52,200 --> 01:18:55,920
ten or 20 years ago, when people thought
their glory days were behind them.
1354
01:18:56,240 --> 01:18:58,760
That was the perception before Adam.
1355
01:18:58,840 --> 01:19:00,040
♪ Oh! ♪
1356
01:19:04,040 --> 01:19:07,280
[Connelly] Twenty years
after Freddie's death, the guys in Queen,
1357
01:19:07,360 --> 01:19:10,240
they're not rock musicians,
they're wizards.
1358
01:19:10,320 --> 01:19:12,320
When we go and see their shows,
1359
01:19:12,640 --> 01:19:16,640
what we want to do is we want them
to take us in their time machine...
1360
01:19:17,080 --> 01:19:18,520
back to when we were young.
1361
01:19:18,840 --> 01:19:21,160
♪ I've been singing with my band ♪
1362
01:19:21,240 --> 01:19:23,880
♪ Across the wire, across the land ♪
1363
01:19:23,960 --> 01:19:27,840
♪ I seen every blue-eyed floozy
On the way ♪
1364
01:19:29,440 --> 01:19:31,800
♪ But their beauty and their style ♪
1365
01:19:31,880 --> 01:19:34,480
♪ Went kind of smooth after a while ♪
1366
01:19:35,000 --> 01:19:39,400
♪ Take me to them naughty ladies
Every time ♪
1367
01:19:40,920 --> 01:19:45,360
♪ Oh, won't you take me home tonight? ♪
1368
01:19:45,440 --> 01:19:46,560
Sing it!
1369
01:19:46,640 --> 01:19:50,960
♪ Oh, down beside that red firelight ♪
1370
01:19:51,840 --> 01:19:55,880
♪ Oh, you gonna give it all you got ♪
1371
01:19:55,960 --> 01:20:01,280
♪ Fat-bottomed girls
You make the rockin' world go round ♪
1372
01:20:01,560 --> 01:20:07,240
♪ Fat bottomed girls
You make the rockin' world go round... ♪
1373
01:20:08,440 --> 01:20:12,560
[Brian] We have experienced things,
which we never experienced with Freddie.
1374
01:20:12,640 --> 01:20:14,240
Hong Kong, how are you?
1375
01:20:14,320 --> 01:20:16,240
[Roger] Something's bonded us all,
actually.
1376
01:20:16,320 --> 01:20:18,880
We feel that we can really go anywhere
and do well.
1377
01:20:18,960 --> 01:20:23,160
Maybe China has been waiting for us.
We have been waiting for China.
1378
01:20:23,240 --> 01:20:25,000
♪ I got mortgages and homes ♪
1379
01:20:25,080 --> 01:20:28,560
♪ I got stiffness in my bones ♪
1380
01:20:28,640 --> 01:20:32,560
♪ Ain't no beauty queens
In this locality, no... ♪
1381
01:20:32,640 --> 01:20:35,880
The opportunity to go see
your favorite band since you were a kid
1382
01:20:35,960 --> 01:20:39,400
and even before,
my dad's favorite band, that's fantastic.
1383
01:20:39,600 --> 01:20:40,480
Yeah!
1384
01:20:40,640 --> 01:20:43,480
♪ You done made a big man out of me ♪
1385
01:20:44,600 --> 01:20:46,760
♪ Oh... ♪
1386
01:20:47,480 --> 01:20:49,520
[Hawkins] They're bigger now
than they've ever been.
1387
01:20:49,600 --> 01:20:56,480
It's amazing that Queen can be so unique
and then be the biggest band in the world.
1388
01:20:56,560 --> 01:20:58,880
♪ Are you gonna let it all... ♪
1389
01:20:58,960 --> 01:21:00,920
I've seen them five or six times.
1390
01:21:01,000 --> 01:21:03,040
I've taken everyone I know now.
1391
01:21:03,120 --> 01:21:07,440
Seeing the energy and the magnetism
that they still have,
1392
01:21:07,520 --> 01:21:09,840
it truly is undescribable.
1393
01:21:09,920 --> 01:21:12,440
♪ Yeah, yeah ♪
1394
01:21:12,520 --> 01:21:16,160
The best artists, I think,
are like ambassadors to the past
1395
01:21:16,240 --> 01:21:17,400
and also to the future,
1396
01:21:17,480 --> 01:21:20,280
and if he can be the bridge
that makes the younger kids
1397
01:21:20,360 --> 01:21:24,760
want to find out more about this
Freddie guy, it's a win-win situation.
1398
01:21:24,840 --> 01:21:28,280
Without this guy, none of this
would be happening right now.
1399
01:21:28,360 --> 01:21:30,280
We'd all be at home with our slippers.
1400
01:21:30,360 --> 01:21:31,640
[cheering]
1401
01:21:31,720 --> 01:21:34,240
Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Adam Lambert!
1402
01:21:36,840 --> 01:21:40,720
[Brian] Freddie, I know for a fact,
would look at what Adam is doing and say:
1403
01:21:40,800 --> 01:21:43,000
"Wow! How do you do some of that stuff?"
1404
01:21:43,080 --> 01:21:44,880
Can he sing or what?
1405
01:21:44,960 --> 01:21:48,080
He'd go: "Huh... Bitch!"
1406
01:21:48,560 --> 01:21:50,000
You know, he'd love it.
1407
01:21:50,080 --> 01:21:52,200
The voice is stupendous.
1408
01:21:52,280 --> 01:21:55,120
There is not another voice like that
in this planet.
1409
01:21:56,600 --> 01:21:59,000
[Roger] I think
he's the best singer around.
1410
01:21:59,520 --> 01:22:03,280
I don't know anybody that can out-sing
Adam Lambert, I really don't.
1411
01:22:04,480 --> 01:22:06,520
[Adam] I can't believe I'm here.
I'm really lucky.
1412
01:22:06,600 --> 01:22:10,160
And I know I'm not Freddie, but I'm here.
1413
01:22:10,240 --> 01:22:12,920
So, I'm going to sing the songs
and do my best
1414
01:22:13,000 --> 01:22:16,960
and let's have a good time
and let's celebrate this band and Freddie
1415
01:22:17,040 --> 01:22:20,400
and this amazing catalog
of songs together.
1416
01:22:20,480 --> 01:22:22,480
[music: "Bohemian Rhapsody"]
1417
01:22:27,840 --> 01:22:32,560
♪ So you think you can stone me
And spit in my eye ♪
1418
01:22:33,920 --> 01:22:38,840
♪ So you think you can love me
And leave me to die ♪
1419
01:22:38,920 --> 01:22:42,560
♪ Oh, baby ♪
1420
01:22:42,800 --> 01:22:46,080
♪ Can't do this to me, baby ♪
1421
01:22:46,160 --> 01:22:50,680
♪ Just got to get out
Just got to get right out of here ♪
1422
01:23:21,240 --> 01:23:24,600
♪ Ooh, yeah, ooh, yeah ♪
1423
01:23:32,800 --> 01:23:36,000
♪ Nothing really matters ♪
1424
01:23:36,240 --> 01:23:39,600
♪ Anyone can see ♪
1425
01:23:39,960 --> 01:23:43,920
♪ Nothing really matters ♪
1426
01:23:44,280 --> 01:23:47,880
♪ Nothing really matters ♪
1427
01:23:47,960 --> 01:23:52,240
♪ To me ♪
1428
01:23:52,680 --> 01:23:54,440
[cheering]
1429
01:24:05,280 --> 01:24:09,560
♪ Any way the wind blows ♪
1430
01:24:11,520 --> 01:24:13,520
[cheering and applause]
1431
01:24:23,240 --> 01:24:26,600
[music: "God Save The Queen"
in rock 'n' roll style]