written by on 08/03/2010
If you like Queen you will hate this show.
If you like Queen songs and dont care how they sound or who plays them then youl love it.
Personally I hated it.
If they had a half decent story line it would be something but this was both awful and disrespectful. Basically the whole show is a line up of performance artists playing air guitar to queen tracks. Id like to say i was being harsh here but im not - this is all it was.
Ben Elton should seriously take a look at what hes done here. There was a golden opportunity to make a performance that celebrated queens music for the genius that it was - instead they have produced something completely lacking in substance and talent. There is no way Elton is or ever has been a Queen fan otherwise he would not have produced this.
There is heavy irony here as the show is sticking the boot into the likes of Simon Cowell/XFactor as the killer of genuine musical talent - yet the whole show is doing exactly this.
I big dissapointment.