Pop review: Queen + Paul Rodgers, Arena, Newcastle

Even avowed Queenophobes would have to concede that the band's 1985 appearance at Live Aid, with Freddie Mercury in his pomp, remains of one rock's all-time live triumphs. No one then could have predicted that 23 years later those anthems would be powered by what the Trades Descriptions Act may require be called Half-of-Queen-Plus-a-Bloke-from-Bad-Company-and-Free. In fact, the absence of Mercury (and bassist John Deacon, who presumably has better things to do) is not Q+PR's only problem. They s...

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