QUEEN Guitarist Brian May - "It’s Actually An Appalling Lowering Of Standards, This Whole TV-Dominated Culture"
May 6, 2007, 17 years ago
QUEEN guitarist Brian May, a co-producer and musical supervisor on We Will Rock You, fashioned around 31 of Queen’s greatest hits, revealed in an interview with Whatsonstage.com that his team have been approached about doing a similar TV programme for their musical, which celebrates its fifth birthday at the West End’s Dominion Theatre (in London, UK) this month.
“We were asked,” said May. “But we said no. We all feel that TV auditioning would be contrary to the spirit of our show. It’s actually an appalling lowering of standards, this whole TV-dominated culture. I promise you will never find us on some panel bullying and ridiculing young performers – I personally detest that kind of thing, and I think it’s a shame that the public puts up with it.”(Thanks BrianMay.com)
