{"id":6038,"date":"2023-09-01T19:43:32","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T14:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/freddie-mercury-performs-in-the-lap-of-the-gods-in-rare-queen-live-footage-music-entertainment\/"},"modified":"2023-09-01T19:43:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T14:13:32","slug":"freddie-mercury-performs-in-the-lap-of-the-gods-in-rare-queen-live-footage-music-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/freddie-mercury-performs-in-the-lap-of-the-gods-in-rare-queen-live-footage-music-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Freddie Mercury performs In the Lap of the Gods in rare Queen live footage | Music | Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>This week\u2019s episode of Queen the Greatest looks back at the band\u2019s big live-show finale before the We Will Rock You and We Are The Champions combo.<\/p>\n<p>From 1974-77, the group would close with Freddie Mercury\u2019s In the Lap of the Gods.<\/p>\n<p>Opening and closing the second side of their 1974 album Sheer Heart Attack, the recording features one of the highest notes on the album sung by Roger Taylor.<\/p>\n<p>Brian May previously told Uncut:\u00a0\u201cIn the beginning, a lot of his writing was very fantastical, but underneath, I think he was pouring his heart out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFreddie was struggling with various things and we all know his sexuality was quite fluid. It was hard for him to express. I think you can hear him in this song, struggling with his relationships, putting them into words and music.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Today\u2019s footage showcases Freddie performing In the Lap of the Gods\u2026 Revisited at\u00a0 Queen&#8217;s Hammersmith Odeon concert on Christmas Eve 1975.<\/p>\n<p>We then fast forward a decade to 1986\u2019s Magic tour, the singer\u2019s final set of live shows with Queen, where 144,000 fans swayed along in unison to the iconic track.<\/p>\n<p>Brian told Uncut: \u201cThat song is Freddie being magnificent and being a god \u2013 which he was quite good at.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] This week\u2019s episode of Queen the Greatest looks back at the band\u2019s big live-show finale before the We Will Rock You and We Are The Champions combo. From 1974-77, the group would close with Freddie Mercury\u2019s In the Lap of the Gods. Opening and closing the second side of their 1974 album Sheer Heart &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6039,"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\/6038"}],"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=6038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}