Guitarist legend Brian May was upset by the behavior of the audience at Queen’s concerts.
At first, Brian May didn’t like the rowdy crowd. PDO
Nowadays, audience singing at concerts is completely normal. Few popular music artists get annoyed if the audience cheers loudly, quite the opposite.
But there was another one before, the audience hardly sang at concerts. At the end of the 70s, the situation began to change little by little, and this was with the band Queen About Brian May beyond bearing.
– We wanted the audience to be quiet and listen to our songs, May says in an interview with Total Guitar Magazine.
May remembers how, for example, at a Led Zeppelin concert, the audience didn’t sing along.
– When Zeppelin played, the audience listened to them. Why didn’t the idiots keep quiet at our concert, they sang instead?
Freddie Mercury screamed at the crowd at Wembley in 1986. PDO
Queen’s concert at Bingley Hall was a landmark concert at the end of the 1970s at Bingley Hall.
– The audience was wild. We looked at each other as we left the stage. I said For Freddie Mercurythat instead of fighting this, maybe we should be encouraged and take energy from the audience.
Queen did this and in the 80s it became one of Mercury’s trademarks, the crowd singing.