Should Queen retire
Im a massive Queen fan expecially when Freddie was around.
But Brian and Rodger are still playing nearly 30 years after Freddies passing.
I watched the new year gig and as good as they were They do look like there showing there age, Expecialy Rodger. Should they just retire and let other bands play there music as a tribute.
But Brian and Rodger are still playing nearly 30 years after Freddies passing.
I watched the new year gig and as good as they were They do look like there showing there age, Expecialy Rodger. Should they just retire and let other bands play there music as a tribute.
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I do think at times people under estimate what the other members of Queen bought to the band.
no, i don't think that would cure this issue.....;-)
They shouldn't need the money, Brian comes across as a bit of mad scientist (which he is) Roger, like a lot of blokes who were good looking when they are young, just looks old. When he came out wearing that hat to take a bow on new years, I thought he looked like a gnome.
I don't know why, but seeing them with a young lad singing, just seems wrong, I don't get the same feeling with Quo, which is basically another pair of rock dinosaurs belting out the same tunes for decades.
But Queen without Freddie, ain't Queen.
Deacon is no loss anyway, wasn't that noticeable when he was in the band.
Yes but they are touring band...don't think they have produced any new material since Freddie...and you could hardly say Deacon was that noticeable on the stage, basically he was just there...so no loss not to have him.
They did the Made In Heaven album released in 1995; and No-One But You (Only the Good Die Young) for the Queen's Rock compilation album in 1997 with John Deacon, after which he rightfully and tastefully bailed out because Queen minus Freddie Mercury is not Queen IMHO..
There after May & Taylor have gone about flogging a dead horse in the recording studio under the Queen moniker:
1998 "Too Much Love Will Kill You" with Luciano Pavarotti
1999 "Another One Bites the Dust" with Wyclef Jean & Pras Michel
2000 "We Will Rock You" with 5ive
2001 "We Are The Champions" with Robbie Williams
2008 "The Cosmos Rocks" album with Paul Rodgers
2009 "Bohemian Rhapsody" with the Muppets
2015 "TBA" album with Adam Lambert
I did enjoy the New Year Eve's thing, but kept comparing where Freddie would have done this or that(like playing the piano).
Nobody is saying they should have retired, but to go on hawking the "Queen" name is just wrong, Queen was always much more than the sum of the parts, it's a bit like Velvet Revolver, and the "New" Guns n Roses, VR sounded like GnR until the singer opened his mouth, GnR sound like a cover band with Axl singing badly. But neither is the real deal.
They have a back catalogue that is superb and people love listening to the music.
Why not use the queen name,its all a matter of opinion but to me it all comes down to the music full stop.;-)