Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
Queen
Rock Concert Review: Queen + Adam Lambert — Close to the Real Thing
Now more than ever, “the people,” of all ages, want Queen. How lucky we are that Lambert, May, and Taylor are willing and able to deliver.
Film Review: “Bohemian Rhapsody” — Pure Pleasure
The film captures everything I love about Queen — the outrageousness, the audacity, the bigness of it all.
Concert Review: Queen + Adam Lambert at Boston’s TD Garden
To their credit, replacing Freddie Mercury is not something his surviving bandmates have ever tried to do.
Theater Review: “Mercury’s Ashes” — A Beautiful Mystery Story
Homophobia may not have been behind Freddie Mercury’s decision to keep the location of his ashes a secret, but it hardly ruins Mercury’s Ashes.
Album Review: Queen’s “A Night at the Odeon”—Holding Nothing Back
1975 was when they officially began their reign. A fab year for sure.
Rock CD Review: Queen, “Live at the Rainbow ‘74” — Before They Were Massive
The newly released Live at the Rainbow ’74 set proves that Queen had been slaying audiences since the beginning of their career.