Queen’s Brian May denies Donald Trump permission to use band’s music at events

Republican presidential candidate used "We Are the Champions" to soundtrack last night's victory speech 

 

 

 As a man more disliked than Nickelback, it’s no surprise to learn that Donald Trump is having a tough time finding music to soundtrack his improbable presidential campaign. Over the past few months, Drumpf has used songs by Adele, R.E.M., and The Rolling Stones, only to receive cease and desist notices from each artist. Neil Young did grant the Republican candidate permission to use “Rockin’ in the Free World” but he also called Trump a misogynist and racist, so there’s that.

Last night, after winning the final wave of Republican primaries, Trump took the stage to Queen’s “We Are the Champions”. Co-founder Brian May has since a responded in a statement posted to his website. Spoiler: He’s not pleased.

“I’ve had an avalanche of complaints – some of which you can see in our ‘Letters’ page – about Donald Trump using our ‘We Are The Champions’ track as his ‘theme’ song on USA TV,” May said. “This is not an official Queen statement, but I can confirm that permission to use the track was neither sought nor given. We are taking advice on what steps we can take to ensure this use does not continue. Regardless of our views on Mr Trump’s platform, it has always been against our policy to allow Queen music to be used as a political campaigning tool. Our music embodies our own dreams and beliefs, but it is for all who care to listen and enjoy.”

Meanwhile, on the ‘Letters’ portion of his website, May referred to Trump’s campaign as “unsavoury.” He also linked to a tweet reading, “Trump enters speech to We Are the Champions. Freddie Mercury just sent a cease and desist letter from the grave.”

Guess you could say, another one bites the dust.

 

Adam Lambert praises Queen for giving him 'confidence' and allowing him to show a different side on stage

Adam Lambert says performing with Queen has given him "a great confidence".

The hitmaker has praised the concerts he's done with Brian May and Roger Taylor for giving him an "opportunity to make myself  known to more people".

He said: "[It has given me] a great confidence. Public reaction to the group's concerts [have been] wonderful and the tour gave me the opportunity to make myself known to more people."

When asked if he feels differently performing with a group than solo, he told Italy's TGCom24: "I would not speak of different emotions but of different ways to approach the show."

Adam even said he has the chance to show off a different side of himself when performing with the group.

He added that he has to be "really exaggerated", saying: "it is the music that requires it, I have to be drawn into the role."

Speaking about the approach to his own tour, Adam said it allows him to express his "creativity" more.

 He said: "In my tour instead [I] explore the current fashion and dance and I can express my creativity. I have taken care of every single aspect of the show."

Meanwhile, the 34-year-old singer previously opened up about the personal nature of his album 'The Original High'.

 He said: "It's a very personal album, you know, I wanted fans to be able to understand me a little bit better, some of my more sensitive kind of side and introspective side.

"I think on the previous album I got to be a little bit more kind of over the top conceptually. This one is a little bit more honest I think.

 "It's not always easy but I think a song like that is meant to try to give people strength."

Speaking about the song itself, Adam said he enjoys the different ways the lyrics can be interpreted, adding: "It could be about a relationship, it could be about a relationship with a family member or a relationship with the public, which is I think the way I relate to it the most.

"I think that sometimes it takes a lot of extra energy to hide what and who you are."

FREDDIE MERCURY Scholarship At ACM Announced

The Academy of Contemporary Music (ACM) and Metropolis Studios announced the inauguration of a Freddie Mercury Scholarship, endorsed by QUEEN's Roger Taylor and Brian May. The award comes in the year which will see the celebration of the singer's 70th birthday, on September 5.

The first-ever scholarship in the iconic artist's name will be awarded to one student studying on the 2 Year Creative Artist route of the BA (Hons) Music Industry Practice program, the 3 Year BA (Hons) Commercial Songwriting program or the 3 Year BA (Hons) Professional Music Performance degree program at ACM, as delivered from the academy's London campuses. The ACM@Metropolis academy is based at the legendary Metropolis Studios in Chiswick and ACM London (a brand new campus for September 2016) is based in Clapham. The prestigious scholarship will fully fund a student's entire study path and is worth up to £27,000.

The degree program includes songwriting, performance, production and business modules and is delivered in accordance with ACM's "learning by doing" ethos. This is an entirely practical and vocational approach whereby students develop the skills and knowledge they will need for a sustainable career in the music industry through applied, relevant experience with the real-world practical industry connections necessary to find and refine their own direction in contemporary music. The relationship between ACM and Metropolis Studios (one of Freddie's favorite recording studios and where QUEEN recorded much of their "Innuendo" album, their last in Freddie's lifetime) gives unprecedented access to ACM students. They study parts of their courses at the studio complex, integrating them into the facility's in-house label, publishing and productions teams, and enabling them to make use of the world-class facilities, giving them genuine, real time experience of the music industry as it exists today.

QUEEN band member Roger Taylor, who is also a patron of ACM and has a drum studio named after him at the academy's Guildford campus, said, "Freddie's name endures in so many ways so it's therefore great to have this scholarship celebrating his musical genius!"

Guitarist Brian May said: "This scholarship will be a lasting tribute to Freddie and the path he blazed. He would be happy to see young talent being helped to blossom. Of course Metropolis holds a very special place in QUEEN history, and it's a pleasure to continue that link."

Bruce Dickinson, director at ACM, said: "The Freddie Mercury Scholarship offers a fantastic opportunity for one talented student. We always seek out musicians with the most potential and commitment to study, regardless of background and qualifications, and this award will allow us to fully support one student's journey into the music industry. With original music at the core and the combination of songwriting, performance, production and business on the course, it is very fitting that this scholarship is being awarded in Freddie's name. As one of the greatest examples of original talent across writing, performing and creating a brand out of both, he is such an inspiration to our students."

Metropolis Studios CEO Ian Brenchley is looking forward to welcoming the successful scholar to the studio, the world's largest independent recording facility, where over 50% of the U.K.'s Top 40 is serviced. "We are hugely excited to be entering into this partnership and to be able to offer the scholarship to one lucky student," he said. "Freddie's spirit is alive and well at Metropolis, where he wrote and recorded so much of his material and his legacy lives on every time his Fazioli grand piano is played in our flagship studio. Aside from our work with chart-topping artists like Adele, Amy Winehouse and Sam Smith, a lot of what we do is supporting emerging talent, whether through us delivering workshops and master classes to the ACM students who study at the studio, attend our events and take advantage of internship placement opportunities, or the external emerging talent discovered by our A&R teams for development deals on our in-house label, signing them to our publishing company and providing them with a platform at our regular industry showcase nights. So to be able to offer even greater access via the scholarship, will allow us to honour Freddie's legacy in the most appropriate way possible — supporting the next generation of talent."

Applications for the ACM's study programs beginning September 2016 are now open. All applicants to the 2 Year Creative Artist route of the BA (Hons) Music Industry Practice program, the 3 Year BA (Hons) Commercial Songwriting program and the 3 Year BA (Hons) Professional Music Performance degree program will be considered for the Freddie Mercury Scholarship.

Brian May says Adam Lambert's role with Queen was 'written in the stars'

Vocal powerhouse Adam Lambert has revealed that he's really glad that he chose to perform 'Bohemian Rhapsody' on 'American Idol' because it led him to tour the world as the frontman for legendary rock band Queen.

Speaking to UNews Romania recently, the sensation admitted that he can't believe that he is now singing with the group and he probably owes it all to that performance on 'Idol':

"No, I wouldn't have believed it if someone had told me, 'ok, fast forward six years from now and you're going to be touring the world with Queen." I'm really glad I went with that song for that reason, it turned out well."

Iconic guitarist Brian May then added that he believes they would have found Lambert even if he hadn't performed a Queen song on 'American Idol': "It would have happened anyway, it was written in the stars."

Why Freddie Mercury's Voice Was So Great, As Explained By Science

Freddie Mercury, the late frontman for the legendary band Queen, died almost 25 years ago. But he's still regarded as the best rock singers ever. But how did he manage to achieve such vocal range?

A new study in Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology set out with the ambitious task of analysing Mercury's voice. By selecting archive recordings, as well as using a rock singer to imitate, a team of Austrian, Czech and Swedish authors discovered some interesting findings about the voice once described as "a force of nature with the velocity of a hurricane."

The lead author on the study, Austrian voice scientist Christian Herbst, states that Mercury's voice range was "normal for a healthy adult -- not more, not less." Contrary to his popular image, he was probably a baritone who sang as a tenor with exceptional control over his voice production technique. He is known to have rejected an offer to sing as baritone in an opera duet with singer Montserrat Caballé because he worried that his fans knew him only as a rock singer and would not recognise his voice in baritone.
 
In many ways, this deeper scholarly interest and analysis of Mercury's voice moves to affirm many of the singer's stage persona traits. In particular, the study examined the intentional distortion Mercury used to produce so-called 'growl' sounds. With a rock singer imitating this special type of singing, the authors filmed his larynx with a high-speed camera at over 4,000 frames per second, giving them an understanding of what Mercury would have done physiologically while singing these 'distorted' notes. The authors could thus reconstruct how Freddie Mercury, in his flamboyant and eccentric stage persona, drove his vocal system to its limits.

What they found was an intriguing physical phenomenon called subharmonics. This is seen in a more extreme way in Tuvan throat singing where not only the vocal folds vibrate, but also a pair of tissue structures called ventricular folds, which are not normally used for speaking or classical singing. Mercury's more fragile side is also fitting with his hallmark vibrato (a rapid, slight variation in pitch). Most pop/rock singers maintain a regular vibrato, whilst his was more irregular, and unusually fast.

This deeper study into one of the world's best known vocal artists contributes not only to the scholarly understanding of voice but also to Freddie Mercury's continuing legacy.

You might be able to hear that vocal fingerprint in the vocals-only version of Queen's hit song "We Are The Champions" below.

The Singer Prince dies at 57

Prince, who pioneered "the Minneapolis sound" and took on the music industry in his fight for creative freedom, died Thursday at age 57.

"It is with profound sadness that I am confirming that the legendary, iconic performer, Prince Rogers Nelson, has died at his Paisley Park residence this morning at the age of 57," said his publicist, Yvette Noel-Schure.

Earlier Thursday, police said they were investigating a death at the Paisley Park studios in Chanhassen, Minnesota. They responded to a medical call and found the singer unresponsive in an elevator, Carver County Sheriff Jim Olson said.

A massive outpouring of grief followed on social media. Some are saying the icon's death "is what it sounds like when doves cry," a reference to his monster hit from 1984. Fans rushed to record stores to pick up vinyl and other Prince memorabilia.

Kaleena Zanders went to Amoeba Music in Los Angeles to buy a vinyl edition of Prince's iconic album "Purple Rain" on Thursday. She cried in the car as she drove there. 

 "Prince means the future, because he's changed music, everyone in music, he's influenced every person, and I believe that he represents our future, and it kind of died with him in a way.

 Just this month, Prince made news, but it wasn't for his music. He said he wasn't feeling well, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and canceled a concert date at the Fox Theater in the Georgia city. 

 Some days later, he took the stage in Atlanta to perform in a 80-minute set, unusually short for him. The stage was engulfed in lavender smoke. It was just Prince at his piano. He played his classic songs but kept the mood light and fun -- at one point showing off his skills with a version of the Peanuts theme song.

 After the performance, the singer's plane made an emergency landing, Noel-Schure told CNN. He was reportedly was rushed to a hospital in Moline, Illinois. At the time, the publicist said, "He is fine and at home."

The singer's fame never waned through the decades, but he was considered synonymous with the 1980s. His fame reached a fever pitch with the 1984 film "Purple Rain," about an aspiring musician, his troubled home life and a budding romance. 

He was a prolific musician. Between 1985 and 1992 he released eight albums, one per year, including the soundtrack for Tim Burton's "Batman." He starred in two more movies during that era -- "Under the Cherry Moon" and "Graffiti Bridge." He also put out a concert film. "Sign 'o' the Times" hits theaters in 1987.

 He infamously changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol in the 1990s during a dispute with his record label, Warner Bros. He started to become known then as the "Artist Formerly Known as Prince." 

In 2000 when the singer's publishing contract with the company expired, he reclaimed the name Prince.

Prince won seven Grammy Awards and earned 30 nominations. Five of his singles topped the charts and 14 other songs hit the Top 10. He won an Oscar for best original song score for "Purple Rain."

 The singer's predilection for lavishly kinky story-songs earned him the nickname, His Royal Badness. He was also known as the "Purple One" because of his colorful fashions. 

 His sound was as unique and transfixing as he was. He created what became known as the Minneapolis sound, which was a funky blend of pop, synth and new wave.

Controversy followed the singer and that, in part, made his fans adore him more.

"Darling Nikki," a song that details a one-night stand, prompted the formation of the Parents Music Resource Center. Led by Tipper Gore, the group encouraged record companies to place advisory labels on albums with explicit lyrics.

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Queen and Elton John amongst the UK's most charitable celebrities

 

Elton John has been revealed as the most charitable British musical celebrity of 2015 in new research by The Sunday Times, with One Direction and Queen members Brian May and Roger Taylor also amongst the top givers.

The Sunday Times annual 'Giving List' estimates that £266 billion was given to charity in the UK in 2015, with the Sainsbury family - founders of the supermarket - topping the list overall, having given £220 million in 2015. That figure amounts to more than 40% of their total wealth.

Elton John's giving centred on his own Aids charities, to which he gave an estimated £26.8 million over the course of the year. The Giving List also reveals that Coldplay have given a total of £1.7 million, Ringo Starr gave £1.6 million to a charity he started, the Lotus Foundation, while One Direction and the two Queen members also gave figures the put them comfortably in the top givers in the UK.

Harry Potter author JK Rowling, Rory McIlroy, David Beckham and Jamie Oliver also made donations that saw them listed highly, with Rowling having given £10.3 million to various charities over the course of the year.

Freddie Mercury to be immortalized in biopic from Theory of Everything writer

When rock band Queen asked us “Who wants to live forever?” back in 1986, we interpreted it as standard lyrical rhetoric. But now, three decades and what feels like light years in technological, medical, and scientific advances later, the answer to that age-old question may have changed. And according to Ray Kurzweil, the famous American inventor who has been described as the “rightful heir to Thomas Edison,” we’re nearing immortality.

As the man responsible for the first CCD flatbed scanner, the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer, and much more, Kurzweil has a knack for spotting trends and anticipating the future. And if history is any indication (and his word stays true), we may be in for a long, long lifetime.

In an episode of PBS’s News Hour last week, Kurzweil noted that death, which he describes as “a great robber of meaning, of relationships, of knowledge,” will soon be conquered. Indeed, the futurist notes, our species will soon be able to defeat disease and degeneration, and live “indefinitely.”

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Reflecting on the massive leaps and bounds technology has made in the last few years, Kurzweil says that immortality is no longer a pipe dream. While we’ve spent the last several millennia rationalizing death, Kurzweil says, we no longer have to resign ourselves to this supposedly inevitable fate. Referring to the “exponential growth of information technology,” the inventor also predicted the appearance of computers the size of blood cells in the not so distant future, which would be able to make their way through our bodies and connect to the cloud. All this, he says, is a “2030 scenario.”

It’s all, in a strange way, part of the cycle of life, Kurzweil suggests. After all, as the human race has progressed, we’ve continuously extended our life expectancy — naturally, the next step is an essentially infinite number of years. In 10 or 15 years, he claims, we’ll be able to all but eliminate breakdowns in the body, or at the very least, depend less upon the physical self. Our thinking will reside partially in the cloud, allowing us to spread out our existence over various media. “If part of it gets wiped away, we’ll be able to re-create it,” he says.

So live your best life now; soon enough, it may be one that lasts into eternity.

Queen’s Brian May Pens Moving Tribute to Motorhead’s Lemmy Kilmister

There is a lot of love in this world for Motorhead leader Lemmy Kilmister. His passing has impacted many in the music world who came to know and enjoy their time spent with the iconic rocker. Among those weighing in with testimonials is Queen guitar great Brian May, who posted a lengthy missive via his website, brianmay.com, that includes photos of May with Lemmy alongside his heartfelt words and recollections.

May and Lemmy have crossed paths several times over the years. In an interview earlier this year, Kilmister told us, “He came onstage with us 10 years ago and did ‘Overkill’ and he went f–king cracking. I like Brian. He did this thing where he came coming at you like 1,000 miles an hour and he went down on his knees like they do in all the movies. I was very surprised. I was very pleased we got that out of him [laughs].” May most recently made an appearance on Motorhead’s Bad Magic album, lending a guitar solo to the song “The Devil.”

In his posting, May says of Lemmy, “Words don’t come easy, especially when you know Lemmy would have laughed at us all trying to say dignified things about him being a hero. Any time I attempted to say anything complimentary to Lemmy to his face, he would fix me with a kind of amused, contemptuous stare. But a kind of hero he certainly was. Unique in just about every way imaginable.”

“He was a living mismatch of personality types. His music was roaring, abrasive, uncompromising, and his lyrics mostly deliberately gave no hint of sensitivity. Yet as a person he was a pacifist, a deep thinker, and a man who cared profoundly about his friends,” recalls May. “I was never in his closest circle of pals, but we bumped into each other often and he always managed to say something shockingly respectful to me, leaving me disarmed, because he hated being praised himself. Or so it seemed. One of my dearest friends lived with Lemmy for 10 years and she always spoke of him as a tender man, very different from his public face, which never deviated from his tough gaze on the world. Lemmy was a highly cultured and well-read man — yet to see him glued to a fruit machine most of a night in the Rainbow Bar and Grill on Sunset Strip you would never have guessed it. In fact, that hallowed place, steeped in Rock and Roll history, will always bear his spiritual mark.”

He continued, “We all come into this world as babies, and mould ourselves into what we want to be. Lemmy — as a product of his own will, has to be the original mould of a Hard Rock Icon which defines the term. Lemmy lived his music and his persona within his music 100 percent to the full. Motörhead has been for most of its history a three-piece outfit — again leaving no room for frills — and the three pieces (or sometimes four) were always frenetically at max.”

May recalls, “I remember guesting with them at the Brixton Academy, and it was possibly the most ear-splitting experience of my life. Most bands — while the back line is arranged to look mean and powerful, actually keep the on-stage volume to a controlled maximum, the real volume for the audience being supplied by miking everything into a large PA system. Not so Motörhead (with the umlaut on the ‘o’ of course). The giant piles of speaker cabinets behind them were all live and all turned up to 10. ( OK – 11 ! ) The sound of Lemmy’s bass was like being inside a giant pulverising machine, a whole frequency spectrum thing. It wasn’t a conventional bass sound at all. Even if no other instrument was playing for a moment, Lemmy’s bass was deafening you from 50 cycles to 10K. And he was hammering (and I choose my words carefully) round about 200 notes a minute for a lot of the time. It was, and is, unique. And on top of this monumental noise sat his highly distinctive throaty tobacco-soaked growl of a vocal.”

The guitarist goes on to discuss the progression of Lemmy’s career, starting with the psychedelic Hawkwind and continuing in Motorhead, citing such stellar players as Fast Eddie Clarke, Philthy Animal Taylor, Wurzel and Phil Campbell along the way. He concludes by saying, “All the most important stuff is in his music. Phil roped me in to play on the most recent Motörhead album, an honour which I will now treasure more than ever. It’s a track called ‘The Devil.’ If there’s any justice, Lemmy will be in some celestial rock and roll bar, knocking back Jack Daniels with the Devil at his side, the two of them quietly chuckling at the oddities of life.”

Read Brian May’s full salute to Motorhead’s Lemmy Kilmister, complete with photos, at his brianmay.com website.

New PSA for HIV features Elizabeth Taylor's powerful 1992 speech at Freddie Mercury Tribute

In the last 27 years of her life, the movie legend Elizabeth Taylor used her immense fame to fight against AIDS.

Taylor, who died in 2011, proves to still be a compelling voice in that fight in a new public service announcement unveiled this week by GLAAD and The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation.

The two-time Oscar winner and recipient of a special Oscar for her humanitarian work is seen giving a powerful speech at Wembley Stadium in 1992 at a tribute to Queen frontman Freddie Mercury who had died the year before from complications due to AIDS.

‘Each day around the world, 5,000 people are infected with HIV,’ Taylor tells the crowd of 72,000.

The footage of Taylor is featured along with new spots from such stars as Whoopi Goldberg, Jonathan Groff and Bebe Neuwirth, among others.

Groff says: ‘Today we have the tools to make HIV history’ and Neuwirth adds: ‘Let’s finish what we started.’

GLAAD says the spot is designed to ‘inspire, inform, and reignite the passion and action needed to beat the HIV and AIDS epidemic once and for all.’

For more information, visit  http://www.glaad.org/HIV.

Queen + Adam Lambert: Most Popular Act in Rock in Rio 2015

On Friday, Rock in Rio 2015 will kick off its 30th edition of the festival with performances by Onerepublic, The Script, and none other than the legendary band Queen, with Adam Lambert. Queen appears to be garnering most of the attention for their upcoming performance, as according to international ticketing company Ticketbis, 19.4 percent of tickets sold for the event have been for Queen’s stage performance, the most out of any of the seven main acts. And this is no coincidence, as Queen has a very unique and special relationship with this famous festival.

In 1985, the band opened for the first edition of Rock in Rio, and moved Brazil with an outstanding performance that ended in the audience passionately singing along to “Love Of My Life,” marking one of the most iconic moments in the history of the festival. “The audience just took over the song and sang it beautifully to the end,” remembers drummer Roger Taylor in an interview with Globo. Now 30 years later, the band is back, this time with Adam Lambert elegantly filling the boots of Freddie Mercury, who passed away in 1991.

The festival, which will take place over seven days, will also see performances by Katy Perry, Rihanna, Rod Stewart, Elton John, Metallica, System of a Down, and Slipknot. The second most popular act, as registered by Ticketbis, is Rod Stewart with 18.8 percent of total sales for Rock in Rio 2015. Stewart will be sharing the main act slot with Elton John and the two will be supported by Seal and Os Paralamas do Sucesso. This also comes as no surprise, considering both acts have a huge following all over the country, especially Elton John, who has toured Brazil numerous times in the last decade. These iconic acts will hit the Palco Mundo (World Stage) on Sunday, Sept 20.

The third most sought-after acts would be Metallica, supported by Motley Crue, Royal Blood and Gojira with 16.2 percent of sales. These heavy-rock themed performances will take place on Saturday, Sept 19.

In addition to everything announced, the show will be celebrating Rio’s 450th anniversary and will have a stage dedicated only to honoring the history and culture of the city with performances by local stars such as Buchecha, Maria Rita, Roberta Sá, Gabriel O Pensador, Fernanda Abreu and several others. The artists will encompass various musical genres into their performances from samba and chorinho to hip hop, pop, funk, and of course… rock!

1985 & 2015 Brian May at Copacabana Palace Hotel, Rio de Janeiro Brasil

Queen & Adam Lambert Rock in Rio 2015 Reherseal Video Clips

11.09.1982 - Concert: Queen live at the Irvine Meadows, Irvine, California, USA

11.09.1982 - Concert: Queen live at the Irvine Meadows, Irvine, California, USA

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Date	11.09.1982
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City	Irvine, California
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Attendance	12000
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Line-up	Freddie Mercury (lead vocals, piano, tambourine, acoustic guitar), Brian May (electric guitar, backing vocals, acoustic guitar, piano), Roger Taylor (drums, backing vocals), John Deacon (bass guitar, electric guitar), Fred Mandel (keyboards, piano)
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Adam Lambert Keeps Busy In Rio, With Queen And Greeting All Of His Adoring Fans

Adam Lambert was all smiles and happiness as he spotted the cameras outside their hotel. Queen Rock in Rio 2015:

Queen & Adam Lambert Adam Lambert Brazil Press Conference Video Clip

Queen & Adam Lambert ready for Rock in Rio!!! (Photos)

Foo Fighters joined by Queen and Led Zeppelin members to form 'supergroup' for UK return 2015

The Foo Fighters have begun the relaunch of their UK stage tour accompanied by members of Queen and Led Zeppelin.

After a stage injury at a show in Sweden in June in which led singer David Grohl severely injured his leg, the Foo Fighters were forced to cancel four international and UK concerts.

The cancellations included stepping down as headliners for Glastonbury festival on medical advice.

The band told fans at the time that it was "just not physically possible" for them to keep the dates.

A show at the Milton Keynes Bowl on Saturday was the first gig back for the band after surgery to repair Grohl's leg.

Grohl performed a two-and-a-half-hour extended set with his leg in a cast and sitting on a motorised throne, which he said he designed while in hospital as "high as a kite" on painkillers.

The throne, made of guitar necks shoots lights and smoke out of it "like a UFO", Grohl said.

Queen's Roger Taylor and Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones joined the Foo Fighters to play Under Pressure.

"I don't know if ya'll have ever seen a super group? Well, This is a super-duper group," Grohl told the audience, according to the BBC.

"Let me just tell you that the Foo Fighters, right now, are living out our rock'n'roll fantasy."

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