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The sixth episode of Queen's 50-week YouTube series ‘Queen: The Greatest Live’, which celebrates their live performances of 'Now I'm Here,' has been released.
The song, from Queen's 1974 album 'Sheer Heart Attack,' has become their standard set opener and is their most-played live song.
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Episode 6 of the YouTube series features four live performances of 'Now I'm Here,' including two classic clips with Freddie Mercury from the London Rainbow '74 and London Hammersmith '75 shows, as well as performances by Queen and Adam Lambert from Summer Sonic, Tokyo in 2014 and, most recently, from the band's Rhapsody Over London show 2022.
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“We released it after ‘Killer Queen’. And it’s just a total contrast. It was just to show people we can still do rock ‘n’ roll, we haven’t forgotten our rock ‘n’ roll roots. I enjoyed doing that on stage,” Mercury told Record Mirror at the time [per a press release].
Take a look at the episode below:
‘Queen: The Greatest Live’, which was announced last month, is the follow-up to their previous YouTube series ‘Queen: The Greatest’, which was announced in March 2021 and told the band's story from their earliest shows to their return with Adam Lambert. Rare archive live footage, contemporary performances, and behind-the-scenes interviews from across Queen's five decades are promised in the new series.
Longtime band associate Simon Lupton, who produced ‘Queen: The Greatest’ and also worked on the documentaries ‘Queen: Rock the World’, ‘Queen: Behind the Rhapsody’, ‘Queen: Days of Our Lives’, ‘Queen on Fire: Live at the Bowl’, and ‘Queen Live at Wembley’ '86, put together the series.
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So far, the series' episodes have focused on the band's rehearsal process and how they open their shows.
In other news, Brian May recently revealed that during the band's early days, he was irritated by crowds singing every line to their songs. May told Total Guitar magazine that at first, they just wanted fans to listen to the lyrics they'd spent hours writing.
“Because we thought: ‘People, just listen. We’re working really hard, so bloody well listen!’ But they were unstoppable.”
---Silviya.Y
