QUEEN FEATURING PAUL RODGERS CONCERT REVIEW ON ROCK N ROLL UNIVERSE

Welcome to a little time travel! Please follow the advice not to visit the merchandise and catering corners, so your travel in time will be as pleasant as it can be! Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome Queen!
Yeah, they are back, and they rock as if they'd never been gone! What a great band! Paul Rodgers is fitting in the line up very well. He is doing vocals for about half of the show, and he is doing a really great job, Freddy would be proud!
The other half of the show Brian May and Roger Taylor are sharing vocals, sometimes they sing duets with each other or Paul Rodgers.The sound, the clothes, everything is like in the 70's / 80's, I guess most of the audience is feeling quite young again after the first chords!
The arena is sold out, and the fans are appreciating the show very much! I was a bit late, so I got a place only in the very back of the venue, which wasn't bad at all, because I had a brilliant overview of the stage. Though I prefer concerts at smaller venues, I have to say that this show was really great, the sound was simply perfect and they offered a brilliant light show as well!
The stage was very large with a walkway in front of it dividing the audience. Once in a while they left the main stage and played an acoustic song at the end of the walkway. Brian May took "The liberty to sing some Freddy songs for Freddy" and only accompanied by his 12-string guitar, he played "Love of my life".
Roger Taylor played an incredible drum solo, spiced with some guitar riffs and bass guitar. The bass player especially did an awesome solo.The stage went dark, only one spotlight left, lighting up Mr. May who is doing a guitar solo now, which is a bit special. In the back of the stage they have kind of a stand with stairs and railings, which Brian May is climbing onto. Behind him is a large video screen, covered until now by curtains. They display some scenes of a city on the video screen, it looks like he's playing on the road, later they are displaying clouds and stars. The whole solo looks like a little theater play with May as leading man. One time he's climbing down the stairs and getting himself a new guitar, the roadie is handing it to him, and while he's carrying the first guitar backstage, it is still crying! Really amazing!
The set list contains all the classics like "I Want It All", "Bohemian Rhapsody", "Radio Ga Ga" and " A Kind of Magic". Some songs have a modern touch, but they didn't lose anything by that! The last song was "Bohemian Rhapsody ", the curtains open and Freddy Mercury appears on the video screen. First it is just a video, but soon the music is live, with Freddy singing from the video screen, that is a magic moment, it gives goosebumps!
They start the encores with "We Will Rock You", and the animation of the audience works well, even the technicians that moved the large spots on stage moved next to their spot and joined everybody in clapping their hands to the song!"There she stood in the street ....", The audience celebrated "Alright Now" as enthusiastically as they did the Queen songs, and I think that FREE song fits in the set very well!