American glam-rocking singer/songwriter Adam Lambert concedes, with a self-chiding laugh half-way through our conversation, that “sometimes success and fame can feel a little bit like double-edged swords that bring great things but also bring unexpected things, like being misunderstood or underestimated, and that can be hard.”
With his singular voice and musical vision, Lambert found enormous US success as the runner-up on the 2009 season of American Idol. Though he well and truly owned the stage every week, he was best known for two blistering but utterly different performances during his time on Idol, each of which showcased his enormous versatility and vocal prowess.
One of them was a mind-blowing psychedelic freak-rock interpretation of Johnny Cash’s ‘Ring of Fire’ and the other a heart-wrenching, pared-back cover of the Tears For Fears song ‘Mad World.’.....same same