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C'è voluto un secolo per trovare questo concerto; alla fine l'ho trovato e non ha deluso per niente le mie aspettative. I quattro (ancora capelloni naturalmente, siamo addirittura nel 1974) vengono accompagnati in auto al Rainbow Theatre dove già campeggia il motivo di "Procession" e subito può partire la grintosa e coinvolgente "Now I'm Here". Si passa poi all'atmosfera verde "acida" di "Ogre Battle", altra canzone immancabile nelle scalette dei concerti dei Queen nel '74 ma anche oltre. Dal verde all'azzurro per una versione veramente celestiale di "White Queen" (l'assolo frutto del lavoro unificato di Freddie e Brian è sicuramente uno dei momenti più belli del concerto). L'ultimo album uscito prima del concerto è "Sheer Heart Attack", e i Queen provano anche qui canzoni meno ricorrenti nei concerti e meno famose in generale: a queste appartiene "In The Lap Of The Gods" che manca solo della parte e dei cori iniziali. Deacon che schiocca le dita apre un fantastico medley: "Killer Queen", la terz'ultima parte di "March Of The Black Queen" che ha per unico difetto quello di durare troppo poco e infine una simpatica versione strumentale di "Bring Back That Leroy Brown" con Brian che strimpella un pò l'ukulele prima della fine del medley. A seguire ci sono quattro canzoni di Queen I ("Son & Daughter", "Keep Yourself Alive", "Liar" e un'altra versione di "Son & Daughter", entrambe spesso ricorrenti nei concerti) e la mitica "Stone Cold Crazy" sulle quali non mi dilungo per questioni di spazio. Dopo un assolo di Brian c'è la straordinaria interpretazione dei 4 di "Father To Son" di cui è presente un pezzo consistente e ben arrangiato. Immancabile è anche "In The Lap Of The Gods... Revisited" con tanto di esplosione finale che apre la conclusione del concerto con "Jailhouse Rock" e "God Save The Queen" lungo i titoli di coda.
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05 Liar (00:00)
I have sinned dear Father
Father I have sinned
Try and help me Father
Won't you let me in?
Liar
Oh nobody believes me
Liar
Why don't they leave me alone?
Sire I have stolen
Stolen many times
Raised my voice in anger
When I know I never should
Liar
Oh ev'rybody deceives me
Liar
Why don't you leave me alone?
Liar I have sailed the seas
Liar from Mars to Mercury
Liar I have drunk the wine
Liar time after time
Liar you're lying to me
Liar you're lying to me
Father please forgive me
You know you'll never leave me
Please will you direct me in the right way
Liar liar liar liar
Liar that's what they keep calling me
Liar liar liar
Listen are you gonna listen
Mama I'm gonna be your slave
All day long
Mama I'm gonna try behave
All day long
Mama I'm gonna be your slave
All day long
I'm gonna serve you till your dying day
All day long
I'm gonna keep you till your dying day
All day long
I'm gonna kneel down by your side and pray
All day long and pray
All day long and pray
All day long and pray
All day long all day long all day long
All day long all day long all day long
All day long all day long all day long
Liar liar they never ever let you win
Liar liar everything you do is sin
Liar nobody believes you
Liar they bring you down before you begin
Now let me tell you this
Now you know you could be dead before they let you
06 Son And Daughter (00:00)
I want you
to be a woman
Tried to be a son and daughter rolled into one
You said you'd equal any man for having your fun
Now didn't you feel surprised to find
The cap just didn't fit
The world expects a man
To buckle down and to shovel shit
What'll you do for loving
When it's only just begun?
I want you to be a woman
Tried to be a teacher and a fisher of men
An equal people preacher
Will you lead us all the same?
Well I travelled all round the world
A brand new word for day
Watching the time mustn't linger behind
Pardon me I have to get away
What'll you think of heaven
If it's back from where you came?
I want you to be a woman
I want you to be a woman yeah
13 Ogre Battle (00:00)
Words and music by Freddie Mercury
Now once upon a time
An old man told me a fable
When the piper is gone
And the soup is cold on the table
And if the black crow flies
To find a new destination
That is the sign
Come tonight
Come to the ogre site
Come to the ogre battle fight
He gives a great big cry
And he can swallow up the ocean
With a mighty tongue he catches flies
And the palm of his hand incredible size
One great big eye has to focus in your direction
Now the battle is on
Yeah yeah yeah!
Come tonight
Come to the ogre site
Come to the ogre battle fight
Ah ah ah ah ah
The ogre men are still inside
The two way mirror mountain
You gotta keep down
Right out of sight
You can't see in but they can see out
Keep a look out
The ogre men are coming out
From the two way mirror mountain
They're running up behind
And they're coming all about
Can't go east 'cause you gotta go south
Ogre men are going home
The great big fight is over
Bugle blow let trumpet cry
Ogre battle lives for ever more
You can come along
You can come along
Come to ogre battle
16 Killer Queen (00:00)
So sad her eyes
Smiling dark eyes
So sad her eyes
As it began
On such a breathless night as this
Upon my brow the lightest kiss
I walked alone
And all around the air did say
My lady soon will stir this way
In sorrow known
The White Queen walks and the night grows pale
Stars of lovingness in her hair
Needing - unheard
Pleading - one word
So sad my eyes
She cannot see
How did thee fare, what have thee seen
The mother of the willow green
I call her name
And 'neath her window have I stayed
I loved the footsteps that she made
And when…
My Goddess, hear my darkest fear
I speak too late
It's for evermore that I wait
Dear friend goodbye
No tears in my eyes
So sad it ends
As it began
18 Bring Back That Leroy Brown (00:00)
Words and music by Freddie Mercury
Bring back bring back bring back that Leroy Brown Yeah!
Bring back bring back gotta ring that Leroy Brown Yeah!
Bet your bottom dollar bill you're a playboy Yeah Yeah!
Daddy cool with a ninety dollar smile (ooh Yeah)
Took my money out of gratitude
And he git right out of town
Well I gotta getty up steady up shoot him down
Gotta hit that latitude babe
Bring back bring back bring back that Leroy Brown Yeah!
Bring back bring back gotta ring that Leroy Brown Yeah!
Big bad Leroy Brown he got no common sense
No no he got no brains but he sure gotta lotta style
Can't stand no more in this here jail
I gotta rid myself of this sentence
Gotta get out of the heat step into the shade
Gotta get me there dead or alive babe
Wooh wooh big bad Leroy
Wooh wooh wooh wooh
Big bad Leroy Brown
Bring back bring back bring back that Leroy Brown Yeah!
Bring back bring back gotta bring back Leroy Brown Yeah!
Big mama Lulu Belle she had a nervous breakdown
She had a nervous breakdown
Leroy's taken her honey chile away
But she met him down at the station Oohoo
Put a shotgun to his head and unless I be mistaken
This is what she said
Big bad big boy big bad Leroy Brown
I'm gonna get that cutie pie
Bring back bring back bring back that Leroy Brown Yeah!
Big bad caused a mighty fine sensation Yeah Yeah!
Gone and got himself elected President
We want Leroy for President
Next time you gotta hit a bitty baddy weather
This time like a shimmy shammy leather
He's a big boy bad boy Leroy
I don't care where you get him from
Bring that big bad Leroy back
Want him back
19 Son And Daughter (00:00)
I want you
to be a woman
Tried to be a son and daughter rolled into one
You said you'd equal any man for having your fun
Now didn't you feel surprised to find
The cap just didn't fit
The world expects a man
To buckle down and to shovel shit
What'll you do for loving
When it's only just begun?
I want you to be a woman
Tried to be a teacher and a fisher of men
An equal people preacher
Will you lead us all the same?
Well I travelled all round the world
A brand new word for day
Watching the time mustn't linger behind
Pardon me I have to get away
What'll you think of heaven
If it's back from where you came?
I want you to be a woman
I want you to be a woman yeah
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Di Legomatteo
La sua voce, che raggiunge vette inimmaginabili, vicino al celestiale!
Tra i concerti dei Queen lo considero tra i migliori, superiore anche a Wembley per interpretazione.
