“How would you feel about being in the band, playing, with no one up there [near the stage] and no one dancing,” Molly said. “I would have been like, ‘Screw you.’”
Lowe said the band did the gig for exposure—and considered their two-night stint a success.
“We had a nice number to come along,” Lowe said. “I thought it was really great...A few of them were shouting that they’re our most faithful groupies now.”
The two concerts were divided into high-school and college-only nights because of social considerations, according to Queen.
“We don’t feel it’s appropriate for the two groups to mix socially. This is a long-standing policy,” Queen said. “They take the same classes, eat together, and go on the same trips together, but in terms of real social events where people would be meeting and perhaps going off on their own, we don’t think that’s appropriate.”
—Staff writer Samuel C. Scott can be reached at sscott@fas.harvard.edu.