Symphonic Queen, Royal Albert Hall, London. May 2016.
The music of Queen has been important in our family for as long as I can recall. As a child all of us liked listening to their music and both my sister and I remember clearly the band's performance at Live Aid in the mid 1980s. I think that the Innuendo album was one of the very first CDs that my dad bought for the new CD player. We never managed to see the original line up in concert - forget world peace etc. I am pretty sure that the first thing my sister and I would do with a time machine is get ourselves to a Queen concert!
On a very warm May evening my mum, sister and I went out to the Royal Albert Hall for this event, and again at least two of us when in with the wrong idea as to what was going to happen. I know that I expected a staid classical music performance of Queen's music. What we got was close to a full on rock concert!
Yes the music was played by the full Royal Philharmonic Orchestra but they were joined by 3 rock musicians and eight incredible singers. The music translated wonderfully into this hybrid mix and soon the full venue was rocking along to the sound.
Many of my favourite tracks were played and in between the music a very amusing Ken Bruce gave information about the band, songs and where they were used. It sounds corny but on the night it was great and we all came out buzzing and how well the music translated into this new sound is just testament to how good the original tracks were.
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