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Brian May - Live at the Brixton Academy Audio CD

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Brian May Band: Brian May
Title: Live at the Brixton Academy
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Release Date: 1994-02-14
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Back to the Light 2: Driven by You 3: Tie Your Mother Down 4: Love Token 5: Headlong 6: Love of My Life 7: 39/Let Your Heart Rule Your Head 8: Too Much Love Will Kill You 9: Since You've Been Gone 10: Now I'm Here 11: Guitar Extravagance 12: Resurrection 13: Last Horizon 14: We Will Rock You 15: Hammer to Fall

Live at The Brixton Academy
Didn't realise how old this CD was, but the different spin on the style of music was a change.


BRIAN MAY LIVE AT BRIXTON
BUT, I DID NOT EXPECT WHAT I HEARD ON THIS CD. BEING A FAN OF QUEEN I KNEW BRIAN COULD SING AND IS THE BEST GUITARIST IN THE WORLD. HE IS AWESOME. I AM SO GLAD HE DECIDED TO DO HIS OWN TOUR AND CD'S. ALTHOUGHT FREDDIE WAS
A GREAT SINGER AND SHOWMAN, BRIAN WAS ALWAYS IN HIS SHADOW.
HE PUT TOGETHER A GREAT BAND WITH COZY POWELL ON DRUMS. THEY SEEMED TO ENJOY WORKING TOGETHER. COZY HAS BEEN MISSED SINCE HIS UNTIMELY DEATH. BUT, THE WORK WITH BRIAN WILL GO ON FOREVER.
IF YOU ARE A FAN OF QUEEN OR BRIAN MAY THIS IS A MUST OWN. YOU WILL ENJOY THIS CD. IF YOU DON'T KNOW QUEEN OR BRIAN'S MUSIC YOU SHOULD BUY IT AND YOU WILL BECOME A FAN OF BOTH.


The World's Greatest
His vocal is and has always been tremendous. No one can down Brian May. Anyone who has listened carefully to the Queen albums knows that Brian's vocals are and have always been immaculate. Playing amazing guitar at the same time just gives him more points. The fact that he's performing old Queen tunes just goes to show how much of their material he actually penned. Hail Brian May. Hail Queen.


Better than Queen's live versions!
I'd LOVE to see the video of this. While Brian doesn't have the vocal chops of Freddie or Paul Rodgers, the versions of Queen songs (notice that Brian wrote the majority of the ROCKERS for Queen) kick much butt. But the cd is certainly sheer listening pleasure, and should be played at high volume. The Brian solo stuff is well done too. If you love Queen's Rockier songs, these are the definitive live versions. I saw Queen in 1986 at Wembley, a show that was preserved for posterity, and currently available on CD or DVD. With that said, compare the versions of the same songs between the two, and the Brian May live cd is superior.


Good CD, but video version was better
I was fortunate to be in London in Feb. Read all the reviews, unfortunately they only had the CD to listen to. 1994 when this was available on VHS (PAL) version. Since I have a couple of multisystem VCR's I am able to enjoy this concert like it should be. Yeah, Brians voice often was a little weak, but what did you expect, he is from a band that had Freddie Mercury handling the majority of the vocals. The guitar playing was top notch and the band was extemely well suited to backing him up. Also the backing vocalists were quite attractive and they were very talented as well and put a lot of "movement" into singing the backing vocals. The concert was extremely well filmed and it is a shame that this has not been released to DVD yet and may never be. At least I bought two copies, so if the one ever wears out, I still have another, and I am probably the only one in the US to have this. . . lucky me. If you only bought the CD version of this, you only got half the show, this was a concert that was very entertaining and to see Brian playing the "Red Special" up close a lot was great. Dennis C.


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