The concert opened with three straight songs from 1984's underappreciated The Works: "Machines (Or 'Back to Humans')," "Radio Ga Ga" and "Hammer to Fall." The show was divided up into five distinct acts, and concluded with the expected parade of hits such as "Bohemian Rhapsody," We Will Rock You" and "We Are the Champions."
Queen + Adam Lambert are currently scheduled to return to the stage in February 2024 for a five-show tour of Japan.
Fotogallery of LA concert is on UCR
Days before, Queen and Adam Lambert have performed live'Fat Bottomed Girls with the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders
Queen and Adam Lambert’s North America tour brought Sir Brian May, Roger Taylor and the singer back to Dallas, Texas for two nights at the American Airlines Center.
As was the case when the band was last there in 2019, the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders surprised fans by joining the trio on stage with pom-poms, for a rendition of Sir Brian’s crowd-pleasing Fat Bottomed Girls, The Express reports.
The 76-year-old guitarist shared a shot of himself strumming with the beautiful dancers surrounding him, on his Instagram.
He captioned the post: Thank you Dallas. For some great new memories. Thank you lovely DCC ladies. What a blast !!! Bri.”
Fat Bottomed Girls was released in 1978 and its official music video was filmed at the Dallas Convention Center that same year, with Freddie Mercury on vocals.
Earlier this year the song was controversially removed, on Queen’s approval, from a new version of their Greatest Hits albums made available on Yoto, an audio platform aimed at children.
Recently what should have been the original album cover of "Fat bottomed girls" e "Bicycle race" has re-emerged. On November 16, 1978: during a Queen concert at Madison Square Garden in New York, some topless girls on bicycles enter the scene during the "Bicycle race".
If you miss out on presale tickets, Queen and Adam Lambert are also holding a general onsale event for hopeful attendees who live outside of Japan.
Opening their Japanese dates February 4 in Nagoya, the band will additionally perform it’s lauded “Rhapsody” show in Osaka (Feb 7), Sapporo (Feb 10) and conclude with two shows at the Tokyo Dome, (February 13 and 14) performing in all to over 200,000 concert-goers. The Sapporo show is a particularly historic one, marking the band’s first return to the city in over 42 years, last played by Queen on its “Hot Space” tour, October 29, 1982.
Ticketing Information: Pre-show for Japanese residents only from August 10 (Thu) 12:00 pm – October 6 (Fri) 23:59 pm. Pre-sale for overseas customers from October 7 ( Mon) 12:00 pm – October 25 ( Wed) 23:59 pm. Public on-sale from October 28 (Sat) 10:00am. Visit the band’s official website for further information.
The band's drummer shared: “As with most shows, I'm not talking about plays or anything like that, I think for the audience, they want to be blown away at first. So if you can blow them away a bit at first, we used to say blind them, deafen them, and then calm down a bit after 20 minutes.
But it's really you try and make an impact with the first song visual and obviously sort of an aural attack really. And then you try and space the songs intelligently, but you really want to go bang, bang, bang, bang at the beginning of a show.”
Brian May said: “Yeah, openings and closings of shows are incredibly important. What's in the middle is important too. But you know, the way you come on and the way you leave are the most significantly memorable moments.
So a lot of thought goes into the opening, and it's been a speciality of mine for a long time. In fact, sometimes writing a song, you're already aware that it would be a good opener. You see it in that light.
