{"id":13805,"date":"2023-12-02T00:57:20","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T19:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/freddie-mercury-performing-elvis-presleys-jailhouse-rock-live-shared-by-queen-music-entertainment\/"},"modified":"2023-12-02T00:57:20","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T19:27:20","slug":"freddie-mercury-performing-elvis-presleys-jailhouse-rock-live-shared-by-queen-music-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/freddie-mercury-performing-elvis-presleys-jailhouse-rock-live-shared-by-queen-music-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Freddie Mercury performing Elvis Presley\u2019s Jailhouse Rock live shared by Queen | Music | Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Queen are well known for closing their live shows with We Will Rock You and We Are The Champions.<\/p>\n<p>But prior to May 1978, Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon\u2019s encore was often a classic cover, one of which was Elvis Presley\u2019s Jailhouse Rock.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Brian reflected in 2021: \u201cI think it\u2019s impossible to have been a kid at that time and not been influenced by Elvis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFreddie in particular though, of course. He was one of Freddie\u2019s great heroes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, his guitarists were a great inspiration. Scotty Moore was one, James Burton the other. So, yeah, Elvis was definitely an influence.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>This week\u2019s episode of Queen The Greatest Live features epic archive footage of the band performing Jailhouse Rock on Christmas Eve 1975 at the Hammersmith Odeon.<\/p>\n<p>The video was captioned: \u201cQueen\u2019s ferocious reboot of Jailhouse Rock was anything but reverent, adding rocket fuel and proto-punk energy. With Roger Taylor revving the tempo, Brian pulling out his best supercharged Scotty Moore guitar licks and Freddie throwing flowers to the crowd \u2013 while balloons and blow-up dolls float through the air \u2013 it\u2019s the most anarchic encore imaginable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Roger Taylor recently reflected: \u201cOn Jailhouse Rock, we could go a bit mad\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Queen are well known for closing their live shows with We Will Rock You and We Are The Champions. But prior to May 1978, Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon\u2019s encore was often a classic cover, one of which was Elvis Presley\u2019s Jailhouse Rock. Sir Brian reflected in 2021: \u201cI think &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[766],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13805"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}