First Time Reaction to Queen "Somebody to Love" Live in Montreal 

WOW!!!! This is by far THE best reaction for this song in all of RU-vid! You didn’t make all the right noises in your comments to please the viewers, your total appreciation of this performance shone through and was genuine. What I’m most thrilled to hear is your recognition of the fabulous voice and drumming of Roger Taylor. Most reactors just concentrate on Freddie, who is wonderful, but you give credit where credit is due, so I’ve now subscribed to your channel and look forward to many more Queen videos. My suggestion for you to react to is “White Queen”, live at Hammersmith Odeon, 1975. It’s mesmerising! ❤🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

The beer bottle on the piano was placed for advertising purposes only. Freddie only ever drank tea with honey while performing to soothe and lubricate his throat.

It’s not just that Roger is singing and drumming. It’s that he is doing a phenomenal job at both.

Four guys, no ear pieces, no autotune, no mixing, nothing but them and their instruments out there jamming their ❤hearts out. John , Roger, Brian, and Freddie doing it right. Highly talented each their own. Together Epic!! 😂 on the PSA for miracle ear 😂

Think about it. Only four people on the stage making this music. That’s talent folks.

Finally somebody appreciates not only Roger Taylors awesome drumming but his amazing backing vocals.

This is 100% live perfection. No auto-tune no trickery no in ear monitors just pure unadulterated talent. Queen at their peak live were absolute perfection.

They're the only band where every member has written at least one No.1 song, and all four of them sing. Roger the drummer and Brian the guitarist both have great voices and they've each been lead singers in their own bands. Queen is the complete package.

Amen. Roger Taylor is phenomenal.

No matter who you are. It’s easy to see greatness. This man is a legend. I’ve been a musician my whole life. I couldn’t imagine working with such greatness.

Thank you so much for appreciating Roger Taylor. Freddie Mercury is the one of the best vocalist ever, but the rest of the group definitely needs to be recognized for their talent.

Roger is a great drummer and he is singing the higher harmony notes over Freddie so big props.

When I watch Roger playing the drums and singing I wonder where he finds the energy, it is not like he is taking a slow slap at the skins, he is all in and singing through this entire song. You can see him take really deep breaths to be able to do it all. If you want to see some more skillful vocals and instrumentals you must react to Queen: White Queen live at Odeon, Hammersmith, 1975 that is a mind melting performance. Thank you for a great reaction.

I miss Freddie so badly. 😢

Ladies and Gentlemen... Roger Taylor! They all are so good. They work perfect together. And each one of them is a music mastermind.

Yes!!! Somebody appreciating Roger Taylor in this video. His vocals are absolutely immense!

Roger Taylor himself has great back up vocals and a great drummer

Roger would have been good enough to be a lead singer in 90% of bands. You have to be as awesome as Freddie to compete. And not many are as great as Freddie ever! The best Frontman of all time imo. Queen simply the best live band of all time.

I've been a fan since 1975, when I was 12 years old. Roger's vocal range is crazy, but you have to dive deep to hear the best vocals. Every member of Queen is brilliant.

Roger’s solo playing the drums like a maniac and singing his song-‘ I’m in Love with My Car’ is unreal!!

Roger Taylor, drums, great falsetto, Brian May, great guitarist who made his own guitar as a teen, also great backup vocals & lower vocals, John Deacon, great bass, some vocals but great at electronics, all with degrees and very smart and talented to the gills. Brian is an Astro-physicist, Roger went for dentistry, Freddie went to art school, graphic design. John was an electronics engineer. Poor Freddie, greatest vocalist ever. He even sang opera with Monseratte Caballe. All their live performances are awesome. Roger and Brian have and have had their own solo recordings, along with Freddie having his own. Sigh.

Queen are the most musically talented band ever each of the four member wrote a number 1 hit👍

Not a lot of people noticed that Brian May's guitar actually broke at around 6 mins 30 ,crew instantly repaired it and Freddie turned round to see if he would make it for the vocals ,he didnt quite so the band played 2 extra bars to give him time ,the sign of real professionals

Roger has stated that singing and playing the drums is a “nightmare”.

I think this is the best performance of a live song by Queen . Roger’s talent is amazing ❤️. Freddie is exceptional rip 😢❤️❤️

For all the Queen fans I think your review is very kind and full of heart. Loved it.

Not beer guys… singers don’t drink beer while performing … can cause burping. Freddie was an impossibly fabulous genius composer singer artist… His birthday was yesterday and His fans will love him and miss him forever✌🏼💛 Queen are the GOAT!

The Righteous Brothers' manager, Phil Spector, coined the descriptor 'wall of sound'. That duo did it in spades, but Freddie and his band perfected it.

Roger is a highly underrated drummer/singer.

ONE OF THE BEST GROUPS IN THE WORLD. ALL OF THEM REAL MUSICIANS, NO AUTO-TUNE, NO LIP-SYNC, JUST PURE ARTISTS. I AGREE THE DRUMMER IS INCREDIBLE.

I Love This Live Version Of This Great Song,A Great Performance

Yesterday was Freddie’s birthday, and h once told some reporter this was his favorite song. 👍

Yes this entire concert was excellent. Save Me, Play the game and their live performance of Bohemian Rhapsody will not disappoint. As you've already noticed us Queen fans are more than just a little passionate about these guys and we're always happy to see new fans in the making. Enjoy your journey 👑

Queen had two fantastic vocalists - and Freddie Mercury. May and Taylor are great singers in their own right with tons of great stuff. Taylor is outstanding in this video.

Queen was one of the best bands ever and they all contributed in the song writing genre

I will never not watch someone react to this specific performance, and I tell ya not enough ppl point out how amazing Roger is! This entire concert is so good. We've watched it many times, but I just bought tickets for my son and I to see it in IMAX in January!

Just thought I would mention this. Freddie's touring piano, which you see here, today lives at Brian May's house.

You'll be even more shocked and amazed when you listen to another Queen live performance. It's called White Queen from The Hammersmith Odeon in 1975. Have fun! Great reaction video this one!!

I think singing and playing the drums at the same time would be like patting your head and rubbing your stomach at the same time 😃

Freddie wrote this song ... inspired by his favorite artist, Aretha Franklin... Every band member sang backup on this one during live performances.. the studio version really shows their harmonizing... I love this song and it was one of Freddie's favorites❤..

Queen - their live performances are better than their recordings! Gives me goosebumps every time ❤️ Hope you have watched their Live Aid performance 😊

First 38 seconds and....ummmm....this dude's got some chops!!

every song freddie sings on its own is a show itself, you have pop music, classical, opera, rock music, jazz, the blues, Then there is Queen its own style

Mrs Coach hits the nail on the head when she said "You cant beat them" she is absolutely right

The GOAT version of Somebody To Love.

I keep coming back to this video because of your appreciation for Roger 👏

That's not a beer, that's Freddie's tea actually

The little cups on the piano that Freddie is drinking is lemon, and honey , for his throat

They’re all very versatile, songs are versatile and of all genres, and Freddie has a 4-5 vocal range. Thebes’s.

I saw them live several times and they were THE GREATEST

You must become queenies… There is 300 more songs to go!!!woo hoo!!🎼❤️🎼🇬🇧🇬🇧

This song as performed is actually gospel. Queen transcended genres. They could and often did do just about everything under the sun. Freddie even sang with Opera singers. Freddie is often called the best front man ever with one of, if not the best, vocal ranges but Queen is one of the best bands ever too. All four of them.

This popped up in my timeline for reasons only understood by the designers of RU-vid algorithms, so I decided to rewatch it. While doing so, I was reminded of a story about this performance you might find interesting. It is a clear example of what a tight, finely-tuned performing group Queen was.. Today, most performers wear earbuds from which they receive cues and messages while performing but that wasn't the case in 1981. Queen had to rely on visual cues from each other and trust between them. But that was no problem since they had played together so often that they could read each just by looking at each other. This incident occurred when Freddie got up from the piano the second time during "Somebody To Love". As Freddie glides to the center stage, he glances over towards left stage and sees Brian's back as he head upstage to the left back corner on the stage. Apparently, Brian had a problem he needed to take care of. I don't what the problem was except I know it wasn't as just a broken guitar string. As all guitar players know, guitar strings do break and usually as the most imopportune moment. But Brian ( and John) were prepared since they always had a backup guitar tuned and ready to go. If Brian had a broken sting he would have simple switched to the backup which would take less than a minute to do and he didn't. (The backup for Brian's Red Special was not red but blond in color in 1981). Freddie knew that he couldn't continue on with the song but would have to continue to entertain the audience until Brian could return to performing. After a few minutes of enteracting with the audience, Freddie looks over his left shoulder towards Brian for a couple of beats, When he turns back toward the audience, he immediately begins the chorus of the song, "Find me somebody to love, Find me somebody to love". Brian is then seen walking up to his microphone perfectly timed to reach his microphone just in time to sing.

The beer on the piano probably belongs to one of the other band members. Freddie usually drinks tea with honey to preserve his voice.

Songs: Loveof my life, You take my breath away, Too much love, The show must go on….Roger had a solo career also, great song: Old Friends, Say it’s not true. Brian had his own version of Too much love, he wrote it, so…they both take on different meanings. Soooo many songs, can’t decide.

LOL that you pointed out the camera look...but it's like, yeah, that was Freddie's WARMUP...let that sink in...

If you want more of Roger Taylor watch him at the same concert singing I'M IN LOVE WITH MY CAR. You'll love it.

Liked & subscribed because you said you will do more Queen! Great reaction to the best band ever& thank you for giving kudos to Roger Taylor, his ability to sing & play drums so phenomenally is second to none! In any other band he would have been the lead singer! Freddie didn’t drink beer on stage usually, he said it would be disrespectful to the audience if he burped, he normally would drink tea with honey for his voice! The beer was for the other band members & for advertising! You must do Queen’s set at Live Aid ( please!) it’s 21 mins wisely regarded as the best live performance ever, you won’t regret it I promise! Thank you again, love from Australia 🇦🇺

MY FAVORITE SONG! Hurray 🎉 Thank you 🙏🏻 Freddie penned this beauty inspired by Aretha Franklin. This was Freddie’s favorite composition!! The cups contain honey water & tea! Heineken bottle placed strategically for the sponsors!! 👉🤩👈

My favorite live queen song ever, rodger tayler on drums needs a shout out. His voice is amazing in itself. Singing while playing the drums thanks for abnolaging him❤❤❤ 🎶 GO ROGER 😘 but they can all sing in Harmony 😊

They all worked together to give great performances. If Freddie was having throat problems, Roger would come in to give Freddie a chance to rest his voice.

Drumming and singing at the same time is sooo much harder than you’d think… Absolute silk innit… goosebumps unite 🤯

Every single man from queen was a genius in their own way and just destined for what they did. We all adore Freddie, but every one of the band was amazing too on equal level.

I've listened to thousands of Queen songs and a fair number ov videos over 40+ years and you're right, I couldn't take my eyes off of Roger. You have to be damn good to be noticed individually while sharing a stage with Freddie. He is damn good.

Don't be misled, our guys know you're out for a good time at their concert - the drinks displayed, great touch. BUT, Freddie's sips as he performs are most likely not alcoholic - honey water hydrates . Pianist, vocalist, entertainer extraordinaire, such was Freddie and Roger, Deaky, and Brian - they worked with each other to steal the show! And Freddie did all he could to spotlight their talent. Queen, the Best!

Really enjoyed it guys.Queen is a youtube sensation..lol a fifty year old band.Amazing Freddie,best performer in the worlds greatest rock band

You REALLY should check out some of Roger's and Brian's solo stuff. They both sing as well, and they do a darned good job. To me, this performance actually edges Live Aid out for their best. Barely, but it does.

I have watched this performance soooo many times. Totally agree that Roger stole the show. I love his performance. Mad respect.

If you want to experience Queen at their very best watch the Queen set at the Live Aid concert from 1985, this has been voted the very best rock performance of all time

Queen is one of a fantastic and amazing performer, espeially in their prime time. I grew up knowing their musics and songs a little late, but they still are one of my favorite rock band of my teenage life.

I saw them several times and they tore it up every time!

Great reaction. You need to see their “ live aid “ performance. It’s a very quick 20 minutes that will flash by. You won’t regret it. 😁👍🏾

Freddie sorely missed

Go you guys! Your open-ness is wonderful! Welcome to the Queen machine! There's so much to listen to, get ready!

George Michael performed this song at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert and he's for sure the second best singer in the world who sang this song, you'd like that performance too

Listen to “I’m in love with my car ”live and you can hear Taylor’s voice (does all the singing) truly outstanding.

Welcome to the Queen rabbit hole.... check out Save Me from this concert and anything from Wembley 1986... not to mention Live Aid. They all are multi talented and they have no particular genre, they play and sing everything.

Not just great drumming and singing from Roger, but the fact both activities are physically demanding and he really kicks in toward the end of the number shows how good he is. Great reaction guys.

When music is your life, passion & love, what a life, they lived it, made it, performed it, they was at the top of their game. 1981 live me in the UK Birmingham.

They are all fantastic artists.R I P Freddie.

I miss this man every day

Now that your headed down the Queen rabbit hole, you need to learn his true range. Check out Freddie and the great Spanish opera singer, Montserrat Caballe singing Barcelona. He admired her for years and was so excited to work with her. He wrote the song for her and it ended up being the theme song for the Barcelona Olympics. They are amazing together!!!!!

Shout out to Roger Taylor for mad drummers and killer backup vocals!

roger the drummer is an amazing singer on his own and produced most the backing vocals on queen songs as he can produce high notes and that low raspy voice he uses when singing live, he often supports freddies singing when freddie is struggling, hes often been known to sing verses while freddie recovers

Welcome to the greatest live band in the history of popular music. Love from the UK.

You can watch the whole concert from Montreal 1981 on line. I recently watched it with my son on an IMAX screen in the Montreal Forum( it's been converted to an entertainment complex). It was magical, Freddy was able to control the crowd 42 years later through that movie screen. Being projected on almost the very spot where he stood in 1981

Now that I know you're in love with Roger Taylor, please watch this same song in the Queen Official Video Studio version. Because you'll hear how the song was released with so many rich harmonies the band can't duplicate live on stage. Those Roger high vocals! Woo. Plus it's fun to see the lad, all young and everything, in what looks like their 'recording session' of this song. (It's really worth a peek)

Oh this is the phenomenal video. I have no other words 😁

Thank you for reacting so enthusiastically to my second-favourite live Queen performance of all time. My absolute favourite being their twenty minute set for Live Aid at Wembley, in London in 1985. I have loved Queen since I saw the official video of Bohemian Rhapsody broadcast on the BBC pop music programme 'Top of the Pops' in 1975. (You really should check that out too. It's phenomenal). In case you didn't spot it, if you look back at the second time Freddie jumps up from the piano, he sees Brian May (lead guitar - now Sir Brian May PhD, the author and astrophysicist) heading to the back of the stage with a broken string, and so he extends his interaction with the crowd - and tells Roger (drums) and John (bass) to "keep it going", until he sees Brian returning. Thank you for picking up on Roger's awesome ability to continue with the epic drumming, never missing a beat, while singing his heart out. Oh, and the beer bottle is a product placement. The brown liquid in Freddie's cup is tea with lemon and honey to lubricate and soothe his throat through a concert that might last up to two hours. ♥ New subscriber, hoping to follow you down the Queen rabbit hole as you discover more of my favourite band.

Absolutely correct with all your comments. Now try doing Save Me from the same concert. The whole show was simply incredible, and you have stumbled across a couple of the gems - more to see!

This is a great performance, can you believe that it is just 4 guys up there making all that amazing music! All the songs from the Montreal concert are worth hearing. Queen - an unbelievably talented group, who compose and perform in so many different styles, you will never get bored listening. And, yes, Roger Taylor's ability to hold his performance on the drums while singing is just awesome! Subscribed....

One of the greatest bands ever. All of the band members are genius.

So “Watching them” back then, we didn’t get to do that much unless you saw them live. We had albums and radio. All these great songs live is awesome to see but the whole other side of Queen is what monsters they were in the studio! All the harmonies, yes even the BALLADS are just phenomenal! What you may loose from their studio work, they make up for being monsters on stage!!!!

Queen were the best live band ever and Freddie's vocals live were so fantastic. Roger and Brian were wonderful vocalists too.

Freddie drank iced tea

I recommend "love of my life" from the same concert. Dr. Brian May, playing his 12 string will melt your heart ❣✌

Great reaction. Freddie didnt drink beer when he was performing he was drinking tea with honey/lemon to soothe his throat

Thanks for the Roger Taylor love. This is such a stellar performance by all

What blows my mind every time I see it is that Roger Taylor is so good on the drums that he can sing along and play the drums perfectly without having to look at which drum he is hitting. He knows exactly where each drum is and hits it without missing a beat! Brian May is incredible on the guitar, and John Deacon rocks as the bass player! And of course no one can match Freddy vocally! They did everything without audio-tune, and they are the only band in history with each member of the band writing a number 1 hit song! Love Queen!!

When the drums go off as you say note Freddie add libs and fills in because Brian has a problem with his guitar you see Freddie looking back and not going on until Brian is ok to rejoin ! Such talent to cover so smoothly 😊