Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The cries of targeted derision are heard, the whispers will continue, that it’s just not Freddie up there on stage, pushing the crowd on, cajoling, entertaining, enticing, flirting at every opportunity, and in fairness they are right, it isn’t Freddie Mercury, the symbolic frontman who wowed Wembley in 1985, it isn’t the vocalist who brough tracks such as Bohemian Rhapsody and We Will Rock You to life as crowds gathered in Budapest, Maine Road or The Rainbow, but nobody ever will be, and that is the point, Queen lives on and despite everything that could have gone against them, all the publications and those who decided they were finished, the truth is Roger Taylor and Brian May, along with the exuberant and funny, the dashing and the playful Adam Lambert have created an energy, that may not be quite what you want to hear, but is certainly what you need to experience.