someday i’m gonna be free, lord!
(or: june 6’s honey from the hive)
posted at 5:20 am by brandon in sweet you rock and sweet you roll
George Michael & Queen — “Somebody to Love”
(from Ladies & Gentlemen: The Best of George Michael
A final word on the Sugarland show about which I’ve been railing (and raving) for days now (and, no doubt, about which you must be sick of reading): Little Big Town and Matt Nathanson returned to the stage to join Jen and Kris and close the concert with a triumphant cover of this Queen classic, which of course gave me a surrious hankering for my gorgeous George Michael, who himself — helped along by the surviving members of Queen — turned in an intensely intoxicating cover of this tune some two decades ago, at a tribute concert honoring Queen’s fabulous lead singer Freddie Mercury just a few months following Mercury’s tragic death from AIDS, and who landed himself a sizable radio hit with the recording the following year. (Matter of fact, sacrilegious though it may seem, there are those among us who quite justifiably feel that Michael stole and assumed sole possession of the song with this one brazenly brilliant performance.) And I generally find that whenever I get an overpowering urge for some George, the best and most satisfying course of action is to indulge it.
