{"id":807403,"date":"2020-05-13T13:39:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T19:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=999131"},"modified":"2020-05-13T13:39:20","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T19:39:20","slug":"queen-to-stream-1992-freddie-mercury-tribute-concert-to-raise-money-for-covid-19-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/queen-to-stream-1992-freddie-mercury-tribute-concert-to-raise-money-for-covid-19-relief\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen to Stream 1992 Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert to Raise Money for COVID-19 Relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/freddie-mercury-tribute.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/queen\/\" id=\"auto-tag_queen\" data-tag=\"queen\">Queen<\/a> will make the 1992 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/freddie-mercury\/\" id=\"auto-tag_freddie-mercury\" data-tag=\"freddie-mercury\">Freddie Mercury<\/a> Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness available on the band\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/queen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">YouTube page<\/a> this Friday, May 15th, to raise money for the World Health Organization and its COVID-19 relief efforts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The concert will stream live at 2 p.m. ET\/11 a.m. PT and will be available to watch for the next 48 hours. For every dollar donated during the stream, YouTube\u2019s parent company Google will match with a $2 donation as part of its ongoing Google\/YouTube UN Foundation fundraiser.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PN7oGo6qlMA?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 class=\"p1\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/flashback-see-bowie-metallica-axl-rose-pay-tribute-to-freddie-mercury-115123\/\">Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert<\/a> took place at Wembley Stadium in London April 20th, 1992, several months after Mercury died from complications from AIDS.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>The show featured Queen\u2019s surviving members, \u2014 Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon \u2014 playing an array of Queen classics and other songs with artists like David Bowie, Robert Plant, Roger Daltrey, Tony Iommi, James Hetfield, Seal, George Michael, Elton John, Axl Rose and Liza Minnelli. The show also featured individual performances from Metallica, U2, Def Leppard, Guns N\u2019 Roses and Spinal Tap.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The profits from the concert helped launch the Mercury Phoenix Trust, which has donated over \u00a317 million (about $20 million) to myriad projects in 57 countries to assist in the ongoing fight against AIDS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">While COVID-19 forced Queen + Adam Lambert to postpone their Rhapsody tour to 2021, the band has kept busy. At the end of April, with each member in quarantine, they remotely re-worked \u201cWe Are the Champions\u201d into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/queen-adam-lambert-release-new-version-of-we-are-the-champions-covid-19-relief-992347\/\">\u201cYou Are the Champions\u201d<\/a> to raise money for the WHO\u2019s COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3>Popular on Rolling Stone<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/queen-to-stream-1992-freddie-mercury-tribute-concert-to-raise-money-for-covid-19-relief-999131\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queen will make the 1992 Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness available on the band\u2019s YouTube page this Friday, May 15th, to raise money for the World Health Organization and its COVID-19 relief efforts. The concert will stream live at 2 p.m. ET\/11 a.m. PT and will be available to watch for the next [&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-807403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-11 05:04:58","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\/807403","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=807403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}