Somebody to Love

Oh, yeah.

Somebody to love.

That's such a fucking sad song.

I know.

I'm

just saying.

He wished he could have somebody to love.

I don't know why that song came to mind.

Rachel's voice is one of a kind.

I mean, she became super famous for her Somebody to Love cover on The X Factor.

And I think you're going to get a lot out of this episode.

Rachel imparts a lot of wisdom about auditioning and about, you know, self-consciousness and insecurity because being on a show like The X Factor and, just experiencing social media at what felt like the very beginnings and what felt like, I mean, don't get me wrong.

And he was like, sing wicked.

But I did, I did my pop rock audition song.

which was somebody to love because i had seen you know morgan james is

i don't think so

Queens.

Somebody to love.

Yes, really.

When you remember that transition is the greatest act of self-love a person can ever have, the quote-unquote somebody in the song becomes about a trans person who isn't sure they can love themselves enough to do what they have to do to actually become their true self.

I just gotta get out of this prison cell.

Someday I'm gonna be free.

Can anybody find me? Somebody to love.

I gave myself goosebumps just reading the lyrics because Freddie's voice on that song is the best.

Do you have anything that sort of jumps out at you that you would sort of pick off?

Well, Somebody To Love, I know it's a famous song, but I mean, that's a fucking hell of a vocal performance.

It's hard to go past that, right? Yeah.

It's hard to sort of...

Yeah.

It's...

Somebody To Love is so good...

When you listen to that vocal performance, and I was talking about this with Jace, actually, because Jace Ness from Queen Rocks Australia was on the Ultimate Catalogue Clash we recorded last night.

I really like the song Someone...

Somebody to Love.

Yeah, yeah, that's a good one, too.

I remember we were listening to it in theater or, or, or while we were, like, backstage getting ready to do one of our s- plays.

Right.

I don't remember which one, but I remember, like, when playing Somebody to Love and, like, where you're like... there's, like, a quick, quick bit of silence.

I, I [laughs] was like, "Please." [laughs]

Yeah.

It's one of my favorite Christmas episodes of Coronation Street.

And at the end of it they play Somebody to Love by Queen, which, as you know, isn't a Christmas song, but they had, yeah, towards the end of the episode-

I love Queen

... there's just a montage of characters being miserable as Somebody to Love plays, and that worked-

Mm

... fairly well.

Mm-hmm.

And started playing Somebody to Love.

I see what you did there.

Okay, let's do it.

I would love to see

...

Somebody to Love.

Another great song.

And what I did was then, I just moved into it through a friend of mine who asked me to do a Freddie on the Stars in Their Eyes competition.

And I sang Somebody to Love and got in a lemon jacket and all that kind of thing.

And I won that competition.

And then Our guitarist who plays Brian May, his name is Thomas Brunkard, saw this video and Tom wanted to go in and start doing a Queen tribute act then from there about 2008.