THE SHOW MUST GO ON: THE QUEEN AND ADAM LAMBERT STORY
Netflix
The key to Lambert’s extraordinary success in Freddie’s shoes is, as Lambert once told me in an interview, he never tried to be Freddie: “I did have fear. Oh God, are people gonna like it? What are they gonna say? The critics! The fans! Will people accept me? When it worked out, it felt like a big victory to me. But I was never Freddie Mercury.”
Freddie himself once said: “Not easy to replace me, huh?”
The key to the success of this great doco is that Freddie is a constant presence, with lots of performance clips and interview grabs about him and by him. It’s as much about his kick-arse mercurial talent as it is about Queen or Lambert. There are the unforgettable historic concerts; the band and Freddie at Live Aid at Wembley in 1985, the band and Lambert doing We Will Rock You and We Are the Champions at last year’s Oscars, and everything and everyone in between.
Plus, lots of trivia gems, like Lambert’s cameo in Bohemian Rhapsody and, tragically, the fact that Freddie only publicly admitted having AIDS the day before he died.
Last word to Freddie when asked, “Ever intimidated facing a crowd of 350,000?”
“No, the bigger the better. In everything.” (1 hour, 25 mins)