{"id":804067,"date":"2020-02-11T13:09:28","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T20:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=951205"},"modified":"2020-02-11T13:09:28","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T20:09:28","slug":"watch-queen-adam-lambert-break-out-whole-lotta-love-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/watch-queen-adam-lambert-break-out-whole-lotta-love-in-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Queen + Adam Lambert Break Out \u2018Whole Lotta Love\u2019 in New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/queen-adam-lambert-whole-lotta-love.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/queen\/\" id=\"auto-tag_queen\" data-tag=\"queen\">Queen<\/a> + <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/adam-lambert\/\" id=\"auto-tag_adam-lambert\" data-tag=\"adam-lambert\">Adam Lambert<\/a> have been gigging steadily over the past year with a setlist that rarely varies from night to night. But on Monday at the Forsyth Barr Stadium in Dunedin, New Zealand, they broke out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/led-zeppelin\/\" id=\"auto-tag_led-zeppelin\" data-tag=\"led-zeppelin\">Led Zeppelin<\/a>\u2019s \u201cWhole Lotta Love\u201d midway through the show.<\/p>\n<p>On past Queen and Lambert tours, the group has performed a handful of Lambert solo tunes, but this take on \u201cWhole Lotta Love\u201d is the only non-Queen song they\u2019ve tackled this time out. They previously played it just once, February 17th, 2015 at the O2 Arena in Prague.<\/p>\n<p>The song, however, did play a key role in the history of Queen\u2019s partnership with Lambert. It was the song Lambert was singing on <em>American Idol<\/em> when keyboardist Spike Edney first came across him while watching TV with his wife.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BcdjaU5zrCQ?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI went in to refill my martini and I just caught the last minute of him singing \u2018Whole Lotta Love,&#8217;\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/queen-keyboardist-spike-edney-interview-freddie-mercury-live-aid-bohemian-rhapsody-875956\/\">Edney told <em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> last year. \u201cWhen he got to the very end I thought, \u2018Here we go. Here\u2019s where it counts.\u2019 He sang the final cadence and just flew through it. It was effortless. I thought, \u2018Wow. That takes some singing chops to be able to sing it with that kind of confidence.\u2019 Then I Googled him and the first thing I saw was him singing \u201cBohemian Rhapsody\u201d a cappella at his audition. I sent off an e-mail saying, \u2018I found a live one.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was the beginning of an incredible new saga in Queen\u2019s history. Queen and Lambert have been packing houses since they first hit the road together in 2014, but the massive success of the biopic <em>Bohemian Rhapsody<\/em> created a groundswell of interest in Queen, and they are selling more tickets than they have since the last tour with Freddie Mercury in 1986. \u201cIt\u2019s interesting to look out and see people lustily singing along to every song that was in the movie,\u201d Edney said, \u201cand looking blankly during every song that wasn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Queen and Lambert are touring through July, including a 19-night stand at London\u2019s 02 Arena.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/queen-adam-lambert-led-zeppelin-whole-lotta-love-cover-951205\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queen + Adam Lambert have been gigging steadily over the past year with a setlist that rarely varies from night to night. But on Monday at the Forsyth Barr Stadium in Dunedin, New Zealand, they broke out Led Zeppelin\u2019s \u201cWhole Lotta Love\u201d midway through the show. On past Queen and Lambert tours, the group has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-804067","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-23 02:12:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}