Per week after Benson Boone lined Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” at Coachella with special guest Brian May, the “Lovely Issues” singer reprised the second for the competition’s second weekend… however this time, as a substitute of the real-life Brian Might, Boone had one other particular visitor: a cardboard cutout of Brian Might.
Maybe poking enjoyable on the crowd for his or her lackluster response to the legendary guitarist on the first weekend, Boone teased previous to the tune, “Simply wait until you see who I deliver up for ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ immediately.”
Then, as soon as the tune started, issues began the identical means they did the week prior — Boone, draped in a cape, sang the intro and did one more flip off his piano. However as he received to the road “I typically want I’d by no means been born in any respect” and turned to greet the particular visitor platform rising from beneath the stage, the one individual — err, factor — on it was the life-size Might duplicate.
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“Brian Might!” Boone energetically shouted, pointing on the cutout as real-life guitarist Sus Vasquez skillfully delivered the guitar solo in Might’s absence.
Later within the tune, Boone introduced the cutout down from the platform to the principle stage the place his band was arrange, putting it on high of his piano at one level and, in the end, placing his arm round it for the tune’s tender conclusion. Watch a video of the efficiency under.
Later within the set, Boone instructed the viewers, “I wish to allow you to all know, on Brian’s behalf, he would’ve beloved to have been right here, however he sadly needed to fly out so, we got here up with that concept and he sends his love.”
Might’s look at Coachella weekend one marked a return to the stage after he suffered a stroke final yr, briefly shedding the flexibility to make use of his left arm. On social media this week, he expressed his pleasure at taking part within the set, saying Boone “gave us all a present” and sharing fan-made recreation movies.
Up subsequent, Boone will carry out at a number of different festivals this summer time, together with Governors Ball, Bourbon & Past, and extra (get tickets). He additionally introduced on-stage at Coachella that his sophomore album, American Coronary heart, will arrive on June twentieth by way of Night time Avenue/Warner.
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