Benson Boone trolls Coachella with cardboard cutout of Queen rocker Brian May week after horrible audiences reaction
The show must go on!Pop-rocker Benson Boone trolled his Coachella crowd on Friday night when he brought out a surprise guest after last week’s crowd had an underwhelming reaction to iconic Queen guitarist Brian May.The “Beautiful Things” hitmaker staged a cardboard cutout of the legendary rocker to appear onstage — instead of the actual May — for his flashy cover of “Bohemian Rhapsody” during the festival’s second weekend.Boone, who wore a fur cape to honor Queen singer Freddie Mercury, began the song at the turquoise piano, performed his signature flip off the Yamaha instrument and turned center stage to watch the cutout of May rise into view after the second verse.As Boone sang, “I sometimes wish I’d never been born at all,” the cardboard cutout was featured while a real guitarist, Sus Vasquez, played the first guitar solo.“Brian May!” Boone excitedly shouted.The Grammy-nominated artist grabbed the cutout during the song’s bridge, slid it past his choir of backup singers and walked it around the bottom part of the stage during the second guitar solo.The “Beautiful Things” artist placed the image down a few times, but just like the song, it would ironically tip over, “any way the wind blows.”A seemingly unfazed Boone grabbed “May” multiple times and held him in the air as he finished the song in the California desert.“I would like to let you all know, on Brian’s behalf, he would’ve loved to have been here, but he unfortunately had to fly out so, we came up with that idea and he sends his love,” Boone told the crowd as he finished his set with his popular song “Beautiful Things.”Earlier in the day, Boone teased that there would be a special guest during the hit 1975 song.“Just wait till you see who I bring up for Bohemian Rhapsody today …” the singer captioned.Boone playfully posted a TikTok video after the gig, where he lip-synced the famous tune alongside the massive cutout.“He really said this cr...