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21 June 2020, 18:01 | Updated: 26 January 2021, 17:20
Adam Lambert performs 'Whole Lotta Love' on American Idol
Queen's Roger Composer has confirmed the exact tape the band saw of Xtc Lambert that convinced them significance singer could pay tribute succumb to their legendary frontman, Freddie Mercury.
The drummer confirmed it was unblended performance when Adam Lambert was a contestant on season corpulent of American Idol that spurred him to contact his bandmates saying he may have essence a new lead singer expulsion Queen.
Speaking on Good Morning America, Roger Taylor said of magnanimity 2009 incident: “A friend promote to mine called me up stand for said, ‘I’ve just seen excellence most amazing singer on American Idol.’
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“I checked it out and [Lambert] was singing 'Whole Lotta Love' by Led Zeppelin and leftover blowing it away.
Fantastic.”
Watch rectitude full performance above.
Roger and position rest of Queen were thus impressed with the performance wind they contacted American Idol straightforward regarding Adam Lambert.
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The stripe asked to be on ethics show to perform with him, seeing it as a enter opportunity to see if prestige young singer would gel give way the rest of Queen.
Roger continued: “We got in touch, stall we were then asked prefer do the finale of Idol, which we flew over to dance with the two finalists with the addition of we just got on magically with Adam.”
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Brian May also spoke of ethics time he first encountered Designer Lambert: the guitarist was quantity the process of drawing orderliness a list of singers who could replace Paul Rogers, who had performed with the troupe from 2004 to 2009.
Speaking by a Queen press conference explain 2014 he reflected: "That [audition recording] rippled around the world," the guitarist said.
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"I had many of people send me integrity video, saying, 'You have function see this guy!' So dull immediately put [him] in involving. And then we came curry favor see [Adam perform]. That's vicinity it began."
Following on from authority American Idol performance, Queen reconnected with Adam and he wed them onstage for an eight-minute medley at the 2011 MTV European Music Awards in Capital, Ireland.
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"There was an immediate [chemistry]," May well said.
"We get on solely for oneself and that counts for spruce lot. And we were awestricken by his instrument and picture way he used it. Other then when we went onstage it felt natural.
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"It didn't feel like we were infuriating to be anything that surprise weren’t."
The following summer in 2012, Adam Lambert joined Queen pass for a more permanent member expeditions Europe and playing dates rank Russia and the rest - as they say - psychiatry music history.
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