In March 2021, Queen introduced Queen: The Best, a 50-part YouTube sequence telling the band’s story from their earliest exhibits to their Adam Lambert-fronted resurgence. And now they’ve launched a sequel.
Queen: The Best Dwell kicks off immediately, and guarantees to take viewers behind the scenes with the Queen machine on the highway. Within the first episode, new interviews with Roger Taylor and Brian Could reveal the steps the band goes via in rehearsal earlier than their dwell exhibits.
“Rehearsing with Roger is all the time a little bit of a shock as a result of you do not know how a lot you are going to bear in mind and you do not know if it is nonetheless going to really feel the identical,” says Could. “However it’s shocking how stuff does movement again into you, into your veins when you begin kicking stuff round.”
“Usually we play a track via and see if it really works, if we predict it will work dwell, and so they do not all the time work dwell,” says Taylor. “A few of them simply, they don’t seem to be suited actually for an thrilling or involving, participating efficiency, a dwell efficiency. So there’s fairly a number of songs we have by no means performed dwell which were on albums and possibly for good purpose.”
The sequence, which is prefaced by a brand new theme performed by Brian Could based mostly on We Are The Champions, guarantees “uncommon archive dwell footage, up to date performances and behind-the-scenes interviews from throughout Queen’s 5 a long time”.
The sequence was put collectively by longtime band affiliate Simon Lupton, who produced Queen: The Best and in addition labored on the documentaries Queen: Rock the World, Queen: Behind the Rhapsody, Queen: Days of Our Lives, Queen on Fireplace: Dwell on the Bowl and Queen Dwell at Wembley ’86.
In November, Could spoke to to Selection (opens in new tab) about the opportunity of new dwell exhibits from Queen + Adam Lambert, saying, “There’s a powerful chance that we’ll be going out collectively once more. We’re speaking about that as you and I communicate, making these selections. Now, it does get to be extra of a choice as you grow old. I’m not 35 anymore, and leaving house for 2 months just isn’t simple.
“However we really feel as like if we’re all match and nicely, that we’d wish to go on the market yet another time. It will in all probability be in america in 2023 in some unspecified time in the future. I’m hoping that occurs, however it’s a powerful chance.”