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“When the machines take over

It ain’t no place for rock and roll”

“MACHINES (OR BACK TO HUMANS)”

Jaw-dropping show opener of The Rhapsody Tour

to be released November 10 as new QUEEN digital single.

  Available on all major Digital music services:

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A thrilling collision of sound and vision dubbed “a masterclass” by USA Today, the Queen and Adam Lambert Rhapsody show opens with the juddering industrial beat and vocal harmonies of “Machines (or Back To Humans)” – a new reworking of the cult favorite track that opened the second side of The Works album in 1984.

While immersive staging pulls the audience into a dystopian world of spinning cogs and hissing pistons, a battalion of CGI robots march across the giant video screens to the sound of “Machines” and look down on the crowd with unforgiving brimstone eyes – only to be vanquished with the assistance of a virtual Freddie vocal, the band then launching into a techo-infused but highly human “Radio Ga Ga,” which kicks off a two-hours-plus roller coaster of the band’s legacy catalogue.

In the opening of the new Rhapsody production, the audience hears Freddie Mercury and Brian May’s duetting lead vocals from behind, raising the alarm (originally in 1984!) that The Machines are about to take over.   Set against this, the robotic voices are provided by Roger Taylor’s vocoded vocals advocating the Machines’ point of view. The theme of this conflict bursts back in at various points later in the set.

Brian May, co-creator (with Roger Taylor) of the “Machines” song, and advocate of the new theme, says: “The Robot Horde provide a narrative thread to our new show.  In these days of Artificial Intelligence beginning to invade our whole lives, these mechanical guys personify Robotic Insurgence.  In our still-developing current show, ‘Back to Humans’ is the sound track to us as humans reclaiming our control. ‘Machines’ and ‘Radio Gaga’ actually have a common ancestor, the beginnings of a collaboration between myself and Roger in the sessions for The Works album in 1984.  But we had different ideas of how it should develop, and the track split into two songs going in opposite directions … Roger piloting ‘Radio Ga Ga’ to completion and into a world-wide hit, and me taking the route of making ‘Machines’ into a kind of unending battle.  Putting the new show together, it hit me that ‘Machines’ was more relevant than ever.  So the idea came about of theming the show with a 21st century version of this battle – and, incidentally, bringing ‘Ga Ga’ and ‘Machines’ fittingly back together once again.  And this stands very well with our long-standing belief that a rock show should be live and dangerous rather than performed to clicks and electronic backings.”

Adds Roger Taylor: “’Machines’ was born out of the electronica we originally explored on ‘Radio Ga Ga’ to create this sense of the battle between the electric side and the human side. Now at a time when it’s increasingly becoming a machines world and we’re all just trying to keep up, we felt it the perfect time to revive this idea of basically going back to humans.”

Reintroduced to the Queen setlist for the band’s current US tour, the feverish live reaction to “Machines (Or Back To Humans)” has now prompted the band to release the original track as a digital single becoming available November 10.

Roger Taylor says, “Basically, it starts off where everything is electronic – electronic drums, everything, And what you have is the ‘human’ rock band sort of crashing in.  What you wind up with is a battle between the two.”

Originally written by Brian and Roger almost 40 years ago and today holding a core position in the band’s current spectacular live production, “Machines” is undisputedly now even more of its time than ever.

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Queen + Adam Lambert Extend Touring Into 2024 with announcement of

February Japan Shows.

Dates Follow Upcoming October – November 2023 North America Tour

“We are so excited to be returning to Japan…

We promise to bring a very real spectacular!

“This may be the last time…who knows?”   – Roger Taylor, Brian May

Already lined up for a spectacular North America 22-date concert run this fall, Sir Brian May, Roger Taylor and their exceptional front man, Grammy nominated Adam Lambert, are extending their Rhapsody Tour activity into 2024 with the announcement today of five mega dome concerts in Japan in February next year.

Opening their Japan show dates February 4 in Nagoya, the band will additionally perform it’s lauded Rhapsody show in Osaka (Feb 7), Sapporo (Feb 10) and conclude with two shows at the Tokyo Dome, (February 13 and 14) performing in all to over 200,000 concert-goers. The Sapporo show is a particularly historic one, marking the band’s first return to the city in over 42 years, last played by Queen on its Hot Space tour, October 29, 1982.

On making the announcement, Roger Taylor speaking alongside Brian May, said: “We are so excited to be returning to Japan, the country that has always held a special and most honoured place in our hearts.”  Taylor continues: “This may be the last time…who knows?  We promise to bring a very real spectacular for you to enjoy!”

Since their first arrival in Japan in April 1975 to scenes of fan mob mania, the bond between Queen and Japan has been richly woven into band history. Despite their absence on the touring circuit, Queen’s music continued to be treasured in Japan throughout the 90’s and into the 21st Century, thanks in part to their inclusion in TV commercials and television dramas. Featured in a beer commercial, the band’s “I Was Born To Love You” reached No.1 on the singles chart.  Invited to return in 2014 – now fronted by Adam Lambert – to headline at Japan’s largest rock festival, Summer Sonic, Queen’s status as Japan’s favourite foreign band was reconfirmed.

Japan is now once again a regular feature on the touring schedule, Queen and Adam Lambert having returned as recently as 2020 to perform four massive sold-out shows playing to a combined audience of over 132,000 people across the country, clearly evident that the bond between Queen and Japan continues to remain as strong as ever.  An enthusiastic Adam Lambert says: “The Japan shows back in 2020 were so much fun, the audience were incredible!  I am thrilled to have the opportunity to come back. Can’t wait!”

Queen + Adam Lambert’s career-spanning Rhapsody Tour set list celebrates the band’s extraordinary back catalogue, lining up wall-to-wall immortal anthems like “We Will Rock You”, “Don’t Stop Me Now”, “Radio Ga Ga”, and “Somebody To Love” alongside classic deep cuts and vintage fan favourites. Featuring a dazzling state-of-the-art stage design, incredible special effects and set pieces, this sense-swamping extravaganza has been blowing critics and fans away the world over.

As with last year’s UK and European dates, the 2024 Japan tour will see Queen + Adam Lambert supported on stage by their regular band members, long-serving Queen keyboard player Spike Edney, bass guitarist Neil Fairclough and percussionist Tyler Warren.

Having extensively toured over the last few years, the Rhapsody show is forever evolving. But it remains at heart a tribute to Freddie Mercury’s majestic legacy, a confirmation of Brian and Roger’s undimmed musical prowess, plus a magnificent showcase for Adam’s vocal skills and electrifying stage charisma, all of which adds up to a glorious full-blooded celebration of one of the greatest songbooks in rock history

Full tour dates:

February 4th (Sun) Nagoya – Vantelin Dome

February 7th (Wed) Osaka – Kyocera Dome

February 10th (Sat) Sapporo – Sapporo Dome

February 13th (Tue) Tokyo – Tokyo Dome

February 14th (Wed) Tokyo – Tokyo Dome

Ticketing Information:

August 10 (Thu) 12:00 pm – October 6 (Fri) 23:59 pm :

Ticket company Pre-sale  *Lottery – for Japanese residents only*.

October 7 ( Mon) 12:00 pm – October 25 ( Wed) 23:59 pm:

Pre-sale/Pre-sale for overseas customers.

https://ib.eplus.jp/queen-adamlambert/

October 28 (Sat)  10:00am : Public On-sale

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QUEEN + ADAM LAMBERT RETURN

FOR THE RHAPSODY TOUR ACROSS NORTH AMERICA

Tickets Onsale Starting Friday, March 31 at 10am Local on LiveNation.com

For approved artist images and hi-res tour art, please download HERE.

“Visions fine and sound supreme

Essence of a fiery Queen

Doyens of the Paradigm

We Will Rock You one more time.”

Brian May

Having first launched their universally acclaimed Rhapsody Tour with 25 epic shows across North America in 2019, Queen + Adam Lambert are bringing their highly acclaimed production, now expanded and updated, back to where it first began. After a 4-year long hiatus, Sir Brian May, Roger Taylor and their exceptional frontman Adam Lambert have announced they will set out on a spectacular North America run this fall. Produced by Live Nation, the tour kicks off on October 4 at Baltimore’s CFG Bank Arena making stops in Toronto, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Dallas, Denver and more before concluding at BMO Stadium in Los Angeles. See full routing below.

Brian May says, “Our last tour featured our most ambitious production ever. So we decided to rip it apart and get even more ambitious. Watch out world.”

And Adam Lambert says: “I can’t wait to tour North America one more time with the Rhapsody tour alongside the two unbelievably talented legends that are Brian May and Roger Taylor.”

Queen + Adam Lambert’s 150-minute career-spanning set list celebrates the band’s extraordinary back catalogue, lining up wall-to-wall immortal anthems like “We Will Rock You”, “Don’t Stop Me Now”, “Radio Ga Ga”,

and “Somebody To Love” alongside classic deep cuts and vintage fan favourites. Featuring a dazzling state-of-the-art stage design, incredible special effects and set pieces, this sense-swamping extravaganza has been blowing critics and fans away the world over.

As with last year’s UK and European dates, the 2023 North American tour will see Queen + Adam Lambert supported on stage by their regular band members, long-serving Queen keyboard player and musical director Spike Edney, bass guitarist Neil Fairclough and percussionist Tyler Warren.

Having extensively toured over the last few years, the Rhapsody show is forever evolving. But it remains at heart a tribute to Freddie Mercury’s majestic legacy, a confirmation of Brian and Roger’s undimmed musical prowess, plus a magnificent showcase for Adam’s vocal skills and electrifying stage charisma, all of which adds up to a glorious full-blooded celebration of one of the greatest songbooks in rock history. Read more on the story of The Rhapsody Tour so far, including the special performance opening the Platinum Jubilee concert with the late Queen herself tea cup tapping to the beat of “We Will Rock You” HERE.

TICKETS: Tickets will be available via a general onsale beginning Friday, March 31st at 10AM local time at LiveNation.com.

MORE ON TICKETS:

Queen + Adam Lambert appreciate that it is an enormous task to try and stop scalpers from taking advantage of fans wanting to purchase tickets for the tour. In an effort to help minimize resale and keep ticket prices at face value for fans, the band are collaborating with the venues’ ticketing partners to restrict the ability to transfer tickets for The Rhapsody Tour so that they may only be transferred between fans at the original price.

Fans will still have protection against unforeseen circumstances. Those who purchase tickets and are no longer able to attend their show will be able to sell their tickets at the price they paid using a face value ticket exchange, including the Ticketmaster Face Value Exchange – which is free to use for buyers and sellers. More information on how the Ticketmaster Exchange works is available here.

Unfortunately, the states of NY, IL, and CO have laws in place which protect ticket scalpers – these laws prohibit artists from being able to restrict the transfer of their tickets to face value exchanges only. For shows in these states, Queen + Adam Lambert strongly encourage fans to only buy or sell tickets to one another on face value exchanges. More information can be found here, with more details to follow in the coming weeks.

QUEEN + ADAM LAMBERT THE RHAPSODY TOUR 2023 DATES:

Wed Oct 04 – Baltimore, MD – CFG Bank Arena

Sun Oct 08 – Toronto, ON — Scotiabank Arena

Tue Oct 10 — Detroit, MI – Little Caesars Arena

Thu Oct 12 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden

Sun Oct 15 – Boston, MA – TD Garden

Wed Oct 18 — Philadelphia, PA – Wells Fargo Center

Mon Oct 23 — Atlanta, GA – State Farm Arena

Wed Oct 25 – Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena

Fri Oct 27 – St. Paul, MN – Xcel Energy Center

Mon Oct 30 — Chicago, IL – United Center

Thu Nov 02 – Dallas, TX – American Airlines Center

Sun Nov 05 — Denver, CO – Ball Arena

Wed Nov 08 – San Francisco, CA – Chase Center

Sat Nov 11 – Los Angeles, CA – BMO Stadium

Queen + Adam Lambert Announce ‘Rhapsody Over London’

Concert spectacular to stream live and on-demand

this July, powered by Kiswe, offering Queen + Adam Lambert fans global, unique access to experience the hottest tour of the year, alongside a live Q&A with the band

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Tickets will be available from: livestream.queenonline.com

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(London, July 06, 2022) – Queen + Adam Lambert today announced details of Rhapsody Over London, an exclusive concert spectacular, filmed live at The 02 London during their current sold-out European tour, that will premiere live on July 24th via Kiswe’s global streaming platform.

The exclusive live concert film will feature a LIVE Q&A with Brian, Roger and Adam, speaking backstage from the penultimate show of their European tour.  Fans around the world will have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to purchase tickets and submit their questions via video by July 19th, for the band to answer live during the Q&A.

The concert will only be available until July 31st on the platform and accompanied by special VOD packages, where fans will have access to additional concerts and interviews. The acclaimed documentary The Show Must Go On, The Queen + Adam Lambert Story will be available exclusively for ticket holders for a full two days prior to the livestream.

The concert was filmed during the band’s sold-out 10-day run at The O2 Arena, London in early June. Having been attended by over half a million concert goers during the 2022 36-date European tour, Queen + Adam Lambert’s Rhapsody Over London live concert film is set to reach a worldwide audience of millions more when the experience premieres online July 24.

The broadcast will give fans around the world one more chance to experience the magic of the Rhapsody tour.  A massive undertaking, utilising 26 cameras and a crew of over 100 film technicians, the production presents the band’s two and half hour show in its entirety. The audience will also be able to interact with fellow fans throughout the show using Kiswe’s fan engagement features, including fan chat feed and cheer buttons, fan react videos enabling viewers to upload video selfies, purchase custom digital stickers, and the ability to buy exclusive in-concert merchandise.

In a dazzling 28 song performance, Queen + Adam Lambert’s live show honors Freddie Mercury’s dictum that “too far is never far enough” with state-of-the art video content, lasers, and pyrotechnics.

Adam Lambert’s vocal prowess and showmanship is a special effect in itself, soaring to the ecstatic high notes of “Somebody to Love,” and appearing on a bejewelled Harley Davidson bike for “Bicycle Race.” But at its heart the Rhapsody show stays a very human honoring of the core band’s work, as Brian May simply strums his acoustic guitar to 20,000 people for his A Night at the Opera gem “’39,” and duets with film of Freddie on a moving “Love Of My Life.” Roger Taylor performs a majestic “These Are The Days Of Our Lives” as moments from Queen’s history poignantly plays out on the expansive screens.

A full arsenal of hits is refreshed by the band’s live virtuosity, May’s Red Special guitar finding new sorcery in “A Kind of Magic” as well as reaching stratospheric heights in a towering guitar solo. Taylor and Lambert emulate Bowie and Mercury in a thunderous “Under Pressure.” “Bohemian Rhapsody” resurrects Queen’s glorious 1975 harmonies before a cyborg-masked May’s rousing solo, and Lambert’s rush to the front for the storming finale.

CONCERT FILM CREDITS

Executive Producers:   Roger Taylor, Brian May, Adam Lambert

Director:   Matt Askem

(Music credits include U2, Muse, Santana, Fatboy Slim, Take That, Simple Minds)

Sound Producers:   Justin Shirley-Smith, Joshua J Macrae and Kris Fredriksson

(Queen’s award-winning audio team)

Film Production company:  Serpent Productions

(Producers:  Dione Orrom & Celia Moore)

What the critics are saying about the shows:

“a sense-swamping banquet featuring lasers, pyrotechnics, confetti cannons and massive screens. The set list was pretty much wall-to-wall anthems too. Britrock pageantry enhanced with high-tech Las Vegas production values”

“Two and a half hours of jaw dropping spectacle and euphoria.”

Notes to editors:

VOD packages will be available until July 31st, consisting of additional concerts and interviews including:

Concerts: 

Queen + Adam Lambert – Summersonic – Live in Japan (worldwide premiere)

Queen + Adam Lambert – Live Around the World – a visual odyssey of live performances compiled during the past 10 years

Interviews:

‘Queen + Adam Lambert – Meet The Press’ – Highlights from press conferences spanning the last 10 years

‘Live Around The World – album launch Q&A.’  live streamed in 2020  to celebrate the worldwide launch of the chart topping album

Documentary:

The Show Must Go On – The Queen + Adam Lambert Story

*Available exclusively to view July 22 & 23 only*

Four (4) ticket packages will be available as follows:

US$20 – Rhapsody

• Rhapsody Over London Concert Film Ticket in 1080p HD
• Live Pre-Show Q&A from Tampere, Finland
• 2-day pre-show pass to documentary The Show Must Go On’ The Queen + Adam Lambert Story (July 22 + 23 only)

US$30 – RhapsodyPlus

• Rhapsody Over London Concert Film Ticket in 1080p HD
• Live Pre-Show Q&A from Tampere, Finland
• 2-day pre-show pass to documentary The Show Must Go On’ The Queen + Adam Lambert Story (July 22 + 23 only)
• VOD bundle (available until July 31st) includes:

Summersonic – Live in Tokyo

Live Around the World

‘Queen + Adam Lambert – Meet the Press’

‘Live Around The World’ launch Q&A

$40 – RhapsodyPlus 4k

• Rhapsody Over London Concert Film Ticket in 4K Ultra HD
• Live Pre-Show Q&A from Tampere, Finland
• 2-day pre-show pass to documentary The Show Must Go On’ The Queen + Adam Lambert Story (July 22 + 23 only)
• VOD bundle (available until July 31st) includes:

Summersonic – Live in Tokyo

Live Around the World

‘Queen + Adam Lambert – Meet the Press’

‘Live Around The World’ launch Q&A

$75 – I Want It All Package

• Rhapsody Over London Concert Film Ticket in 4K Ultra HD
• Live Pre-Show Q&A from Tampere, Finland
• 2-day pre-show pass to documentary The Show Must Go On’ The Queen + Adam Lambert Story (July 22 + 23 only)
• VOD bundle (available until July 31st) includes:

Summersonic – Live in Tokyo

Live Around the World

‘Queen + Adam Lambert – Meet the Press’

‘Live Around The World’ launch Q&A

• Plus, exclusive Rhapsody Over London t-shirt

Tickets will be available from: livestream.queenonline.com

Media Assets: Click links for broadcast & print assets for Queen + Adam Lambert Rhapsody Over London

Print, socials & photo assets here: QAL RHAPSODY OVER LONDON MARKETING ASSETS

Press contacts:

Kiswe

Purpose Worldwide / Sydney Dennen, Associate Partner sydney@purposenorthamerica.com  c. +1.616.648.9176

Universal Music Group

Communications: James Murtagh-Hopkins       James.Murtagh-Hopkins@umusic.com

Hollywood Records / DMG North America:

Sharrin Summers Executive Director, Publicity  sharrin.summers@disney.com  c: 818 425 3260

Queen   

Phil Symes philsymes@theprcontact.com

Adam Lambert

Shoshanna Stone shoshanna.stone@edge-ent.com

Band socials:

Queen

https://www.facebook.com/Queen

https://twitter.com/queenwillrock

https://www.instagram.com/officialqueenmusic

https://www.youtube.com/Queen

https://www.tiktok.com/@queenofficial

Adam Lambert

https://facebook.com/AdamLambert

https://twitter.com/AdamLambert

https://instagram.com/AdamLambert

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9SGC_32CZahPYkEY92xflA

https://www.tiktok.com/@adamlambert

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Queen + Adam Lambert: “It breaks our hearts…”
UK & European Rhapsody Tour again postponed
But the show goes on in 2022 – with two dates added in Glasgow

Photos available HERE

Queen’s Brian May and Roger Taylor, plus singer Adam Lambert, spoke today of the “heartbreak” at having to once again postpone the highly anticipated UK and European dates of their Rhapsody World Tour.

Following a sensational run across Asia and Oceania last winter, Queen + Adam Lambert were originally set to rock the UK and Europe in summer 2020. During the band’s spring break, however, the coronavirus outbreak left them no choice but to prioritise the safety of fans, crew and venue staff by postponing the dates until 2021.

Now, with the COVID-19 pandemic still far from resolved, the band are forced for a second time to reschedule the tour dates, moving them to 2022. “Under continuing Europe-wide Covid restrictions there’s no possible way the tour can go ahead as planned for this year,” Queen + Adam Lambert said today. “The prospect of again not being able to look forward to performing and getting to experience those wonderful audiences is just heart breaking.”

To ease their loyal fans’ disappointment, Brian, Roger and Adam have announced a new and expanded set of 2022 dates for the UK and Europe Rhapsody shows, when they hope it will finally be safe to perform for large audiences.

While the tour remains set for the original May – July period, the 2022 dates will now kick off in the UK, starting with two shows at the Manchester MEN Arena on May 30 and 31. British fans will also welcome the addition of two extra UK shows at Glasgow’s Hydro venue on June 2 and 3.

The full list of the now 29 rescheduled shows will, as before, include a marathon 10-night residency at London’s The O2, plus a pair of concerts apiece in both Manchester and Birmingham (and now Glasgow).

The band’s previously scheduled 13 mainland Europe shows now follow the UK dates throughout late June and July. See rescheduled dates below.

Promoters for the Rhapsody Tour confirmed today that all previously purchased tickets continue to be valid for the corresponding rescheduled shows. Ticket holders will be contacted by their point of purchase for information on ticket exchanges for the new dates. New dates can be found at QueenOnline.com. “We wish to make it clear. None of the shows from 2020 and 2021 have been cancelled, just re-arranged due to COVID-19. We really do hope that as many people as possible who were booked for those original dates in 2020 will still be able to join us for the shows.”

This time last year, Queen + Adam Lambert were reaching the end of the Rhapsody Tour’s Japan leg and heading out for eleven massive Australia and New Zealand shows. “After starting off 2020 with an amazing run of shows playing to audiences of upwards of 50,000 in a single night,” say the band, “the cancellation of the Europe shows that should have followed last summer was a huge disappointment.”

Brian May adds: “Those incredible scenes at those concerts now seem like an impossibly distant dream. One minute we are out in Australia strutting our stuff and interacting with thousands of happy people, next minute we are stuck in the house. We were so lucky to be able to complete that tour, running just ahead of the wave that was about to break on us.”

Despite the wrench of being off the road, the band have certainly made the most of their enforced downtime, with Brian, Roger and Adam managing to remain active throughout 2020. Early in the first lockdown, the three artists connected up, triggered by a guitar track Brian posted on his Instagram grid. Working remotely, Roger and Adam added their parts to Brian’s track, leading to a new version of “We Are The Champions,” their pioneering lockdown single “You Are The Champions.” With the proceeds going to front line health workers, the track became a musical cry of support for all who were fighting the Coronavirus.  The video featured many scenes from Covid wards and included Roger’s very own daughter Dr. Rory Taylor. The video was viewed nearly 4 million times during its first month on YouTube, with the proceeds going towards the Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund for the World Health Organization.

Roger Taylor responded to the stay at home policy writing and recording his personal reflections of the time with an atmospheric solo single “Isolation” which gave him a No.1 rock chart single and video.

Staying engaged with their fans, the band then returned to YouTube with a Tour Watch Party offering highlights of Queen + Adam Lambert performances from previous tours and festival gigs. The enthusiastic response led directly to the compilation, mixing, and release of their first album together, Live Around the World, presented in CD + Blu-ray and vinyl packages. A concert version of the movie is now available to stream via download or rental.

Speaking on the release of Live Around The World late last year, the band said: “As we all grapple with the challenge of creating live shows in a world dominated by a formidable viral enemy, it seemed the perfect time for us to create a collection of hand-picked live highlights from our Queen shows over the last seven years with our brother Adam Lambert. As you watch and listen to these tracks you’ll be journeying all around the world with us, and experiencing a complete virtual live set”.

Uplifting and defiant in challenging times, Live Around The World proved a welcome positivity booster for fans as they continue to wait for the Rhapsody tour to resume. It also gave Queen + Adam Lambert a No 1 album on week of release in the UK and elsewhere around the world – marking Queen’s first UK No 1 album in 25 years, their 10th in total and Adam’s first time at the top of the chart.

On getting back to performing live again Roger Taylor says: “When we do eventually get to play in front of live audiences it will be with a ferociously renewed attack and we shall revel in the wonderful experience of actually interacting with them again.”

Frontman Adam Lambert said: “It’s so disappointing to have to postpone again, but safety comes first, and we look forward to spring 2022 when we will be back, better than ever.”

The postponement of this year’s tour dates is especially disappointing for the band, who were looking forward to playing the shows as part of a significant landmark for Queen. With fifty years now having passed since the 1971 recruiting of John Deacon, completing Queen’s classic line-up, 2021 marks a Queen Golden Jubilee that the band was hoping to celebrate with fans.

Nevertheless, The Show Must Go On – and it will in 2022 when Queen + Adam Lambert return to touring and embark on their next chapter together.

Queen + Adam Lambert — The Rhapsody Tour 2022
RESCHEDULED DATES BELOW:
May 30 – Manchester, UK AO Arena
May 31 – Manchester, UK AO Arena
June 2 – Glasgow, UK SSE Hydro
June 3 – Glasgow, UK SSE Hydro
June 5 – London, UK The O2
June 6 – London, UK The O2
June 8 – London, UK The O2
June 9 – London, UK The O2
June 11 – Birmingham, UK Utilita Arena
June 12 – Birmingham, UK Utilita Arena
June 14 – London, UK The O2
June 15 – London, UK The O2
June 17 – London, UK The O2
June 18 – London, UK The O2
June 20 – London, UK The O2
June 21 – London, UK The O2
June 24 – Berlin, Germany Mercedes-Benz Arena
June 26 – Cologne, Germany Lanxess Arena
June 28 – Zurich, Switzerland Hallenstadion
June 29 – Munich, Germany Olympiahalle
July 1 – Amsterdam, Holland Ziggo Dome
July 2 – Amsterdam, Holland Ziggo Dome
July 6 – Madrid, Spain Wizink Centre
July 7 – Madrid, Spain Wizink Centre
July 11 – Bologna, Italy Unipol Arena
July 13 – Paris, France AccorHotels Arena
July 15 – Antwerp, Belgium Sportspalais
July 17 – Copenhagen, Denmark Royal Arena
July 18 – Copenhagen, Denmark Royal Arena

Queen + Adam Lambert’s ‘Live Around The World’ Concert Film Available to download or rent now.

“If you’re looking to have that rock and roll concert experience at home while we’re stuck here right now…dress up, put some glitter on, and have an amazing time with us…”
Adam Lambert

All the drama and joy of the Q + AL live experience now available to download.

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‘Love Kills – The Ballad’, iHeart Radio Theater, Los Angeles, USA, 2014
Click here to watch the performance video

(January 29, 2021) The DVD edition of Queen + Adam Lambert’s widely-acclaimed No.1 album Live Around The World is available for stand-alone digital release now. It is available to download for purchase and rent from iTunes and Google in Canada, and iTunes, Google and Amazon TVOD in the U.S.

At the same time the band make available at Youtube their performance of “Love Kills” taken from their electrifying 40 minute set they played at the iHeart Radio Theatre, Los Angeles, June 16, 2014 which served as a preview to their debut North America tour which saw the band play 21 shows across the US and Canada including such high profile venues as New York’s Madison Square Gardens and Los Angeles The Forum. It was the precursor to what was to become the Queen + Adam Lambert live phenomenon across the world.

The physical DVD of Live Around The World was initially released on October 2, along with the CD + Blu-ray and vinyl editions of the album. It presents a compilation of concert highlights captured the world over, chosen personally by Brian May, Roger Taylor and Adam Lambert from over 200 shows they have performed with several featured here becoming available for the very first time. These cover concerts from Rock in Rio, Lisbon, to the UK’s Isle of Wight Festival, Summer Sonic, Japan, and selected UK and North America tour dates, with the sheer joy and drama of their live show captured in such unforgettable performances as “Fat Bottomed Girls” performed in Dallas with the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders and “Who Wants To Live Forever” from their 2016 Isle of Wight Festival headline appearance.

In keeping with its physical counterpart, the digital edition of the Live Around The World DVD also includes the band’s entire 22-minute Sydney Fire Fight Australia appearance in which they performed Queen’s original history-making 1985 Live Aid set in full: “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “Radio Ga Ga,” “Hammer To Fall,” “Crazy Little Thing Called Love,” “We Will Rock You” and “We Are The Champions.” While even Freddie Mercury’s iconic “Ay-Ohs” feature. The performance has been singled out by many music critics as the best live performance of 2020. In addition there’s also performance footage featuring a Roger Taylor ‘Drum Battle’ with drummer son, Rufus Taylor, and Brian May’s “Last Horizon” guitar solo.

Live Around The World entered the UK Official Albums Chart at No. 1 in its initial week of release, also topping the charts elsewhere in the world. Queen’s first album with Adam Lambert, it became Queen’s tenth chart-topping album in the UK, and first since Made In Heaven, in November 1995.

The new record’s success brings Queen level with Eminem, Michael Jackson, Rod Stewart, and U2 on ten UK No.1 albums each. They jump ahead of ABBA and Bob Dylan who each have nine. The band’s first bestseller in the UK was A Night At The Opera, in December 1975. Before their last triumph in 1995 with Made In Heaven, they also topped the charts with A Day At The Races (1976), The Game (1980), their record-breaking first Greatest Hits collection of 1981, A Kind Of Magic (1986), The Miracle (1989), and Innuendo and Greatest Hits II (both 1991). In the U.S. Greatest Hits was the ninth top 10 album for Queen, joining the Bohemian Rhapsody soundtrack (No. 2 in 2019), Greatest Hits I, II & III: The Platinum Collection (No. 6, 2019), Classic Queen (No. 4, 1992), The Game (No. 1, 1980), Jazz (No. 6, 1979), News of the World (No. 3, 1978), A Day at the Races (No. 5, 1977) and A Night at the Opera (No. 4, 1976).

Since their first appearance together in 2009 when Brian May and Roger Taylor appeared as guests on the finale of the eighth season of American Idol on which Adam Lambert was a contestant, the combination of Queen + Adam Lambert has gone from strength to strength. Together, they have become one of the world’s biggest live touring bands, with their early 2020 tour of Oceania selling out to record-setting audiences including a single show at Sydney’s ANZ stadium drawing a crowd of over 60,000. To date the band has played to a worldwide audience approaching 4 million. Itching to return to live shows, the band’s postponed 2020 European tour is expected to resume once conditions allow.

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Queen + Adam Lambert Live Around the World
CONCERT FILM DOWNLOAD TRACK LIST

Tear It Up (May) The O2, London, UK, 07/02/2018
Now I’m Here (May) Summer Sonic, Tokyo, Japan, 2014
Another One Bites The Dust (Deacon) Summer Sonic, Tokyo, Japan, 2014
Fat Bottomed Girls ft. Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders (May) American Airlines Center, Dallas, USA, 2019
Don’t Stop Me Now (Mercury) Rock In Rio, Lisbon, Portugal, 2016
I Want To Break Free (Deacon) Rock In Rio, Lisbon, Portugal, 2016
Somebody To Love (Mercury) Isle of Wight Festival, UK, 2016
Love Kills – The Ballad (Mercury/Moroder) iHeart Radio Theater, Los Angeles, USA, 2014
I Was Born To Love You (Mercury) Summer Sonic, Tokyo, Japan, 2014
Drum Battle (Taylor) Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney, Australia, 2014
Under Pressure (Queen/Bowie) Global Citizen Festival, New York, USA, 2019
Who Wants To Live Forever (May) Isle of Wight Festival, UK, 2016
The Guitar Solo (Last Horizon) (May) The O2, London, UK, 2018
The Show Must Go On (Queen) The O2, London, UK, 04/07/2018
Love Of My Life (Mercury) The O2, London, UK, 02/07/2018
Bohemian Rhapsody (Mercury) Fire Fight Australia, ANZ Stadium, Sydney, Australia, 2020
Radio Ga Ga (Taylor) Fire Fight Australia, ANZ Stadium, Sydney, Australia, 2020
Ay-Ohs (Mercury) Fire Fight Australia, ANZ Stadium, Sydney, Australia, 2020
Hammer To Fall (May) Fire Fight Australia, ANZ Stadium, Sydney, Australia, 2020
Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Mercury) Fire Fight Australia, ANZ Stadium, Sydney, Australia, 2020
We Will Rock You (May) Fire Fight Australia, ANZ Stadium, Sydney, Australia, 2020
We Are The Champions (Mercury) Fire Fight Australia, ANZ Stadium, Sydney, Australia, 2020

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‘Love Kills – The Ballad’, iHeart Radio Theater, Los Angeles, USA, 2014
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Queen + Adam Lambert Share ‘Somebody To Love’ From ‘Live Around The World’

“Adam has the ability to sing anything and everything we throw at him.”
Roger Taylor

Queen + Adam Lambert ‘Live Around the World’ Released Worldwide October 2^nd  Digitally And in CD+Blu-ray & Vinyl formats
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‘Somebody To Love’ Live At The Isle Of Wight Festival, UK, 2016

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(November 6, 2020) Having debuted at No. 1 on the UK’s Official Albums Chart with their October 2 released Live Around The World album, Queen + Adam Lambert now release the full length performance of ‘Somebody To Love’ on Queen’s Official YouTube channel this Friday, November 6.

The Live Around The World album compiles concert highlights from the world over, personally selected by Roger Taylor, Brian May and Adam Lambert from over 200 shows they have performed together, many among them becoming available for the very first time.

The show-stopping Live Around The World performance of ‘Somebody To Love’, was captured at the Isle Of Wight Festival in 2016 – Queen + Adam Lambert’s first UK festival together and a milestone show which Lambert recalls was “a really special night.”

Written by Freddie Mercury, ‘Somebody To Love’ was a highlight of Queen’s 1976 album, A Day At The Races and a huge hit in its own right, reaching No. 2 in the UK and a Top 20 place in the Billboard Hot 100 in the US. Mercury freely acknowledged that the song’s composition was influenced by the legendary soul star Aretha Franklin and – as the Live Around The World performance confirms – Adam Lambert’s soulful, gospel-tinged interpretation is well suited to this much-loved, soul-searching song with its complex vocal harmonies.

“Adam has the ability to sing anything and everything we throw at him,” Roger Taylor says of Lambert’s vocal abilities. “There’s nothing he can’t handle. Our songs are big and theatrical and Adam fits that easily. I think he’s the best singer around. His range is staggering.”

“Some of Queen’s songs are just so vocally athletic and physically demanding”, Adam Lambert said. “For example, ‘The Show Must Go On’ is certainly demanding, ‘Who Wants To Live Forever’ goes from zero to 99. ‘Somebody To Love’ is really intense and big.”

“One thing as a vocalist which I love about Queen’s catalogue is they’ve ventured into so many different genres”, Adam adds. “It makes every show a fun and challenging evening for me and I just love that.”

“Somebody To Love” – performed at Isle of Wight Festival, 2016 – is available to watch on Queen’s Official YouTube channel Friday November 6.

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Queen + Adam Lambert land first Number 1 album together, and Queen’s first chart topper in 25 years: “Thank you folks for making us Number 1 after all these years”

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Queen + Adam Lambert have beaten Blackpink to Number 1 on the UK’s Official Albums Chart this week, the Official Charts Company can confirm.

The iconic British band and US glam-rock singer’s first album together, a live collection called Live Around The World, secured the top spot with the most CD and download sales of the week following a late challenge from K-pop girl group, Blackpink.

Live Around The World is Queen’s 10^th Number 1 album in the UK, and first for almost 25 years since Made in Heaven in November 1995, the group’s final studio album featuring the last recorded vocals from Freddie Mercury. It also marks nearly 45 years since the band’s very first Number 1 album A Night at the Opera in December 1975.

In terms of chart-topping albums, Queen now pull level with Eminem, Michael Jackson, Rod Stewart and U2 on double figures with 10 Number 1s apiece, leapfrogging ABBA and Bob Dylan who have enjoyed nine.

In the process, Adam Lambert scoops his very first UK Number 1; his previous career peak was Number 8 logged by 2015’s The Original High.

Watch: Queen + Adam Lambert celebrate their first Number 1 album together:
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Celebrating the news, Queen guitarist Brian May tells OfficialCharts.com:

“Thank you folks for making us Number 1 after all these years. So Queen + Adam Lambert’s very first release is Number 1… amazing. God bless you all.”

Royer Taylor said of Queen + Adam Lambert’s chart-topping success:

“Number 1, my favourite number. It’s been 25 years since Queen have had a Number 1 album and it’s a thrill, still! Thanks to everybody who went out and bought it. I hope you love it and get a lot of kicks out of it.”

Adam Lambert commented on his very first UK Number 1 album:

“I am beyond thrilled that we are Number 1!!!!!! As I always say, I am the luckiest person in the world to be able to work with Brian and Roger, and I’m so glad people are enjoying this album so much! The fact that we can celebrate the iconic music of Queen all these years later is incredible. We are hoping to be back on the road at venues across the globe again very soon!” 

South Korean girl group Blackpink enter at Number 2 this week with their debut Korean-language album titled The Album. Jennie, Jisoo, Lisa and Rose also had the best-selling cassette album of the week, shifting an impressive 5,700 copies on the format.

Oasis’ (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? re-enters the Official Albums Chart this week at Number 3. The fifth best-selling album of all-time is back in the Top 10 following its 25^th anniversary vinyl reissue, which tops this week’s Official Vinyl Albums Chart.

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“I Was Born To Love You”
(Summer Sonic, Tokyo, 2014)
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Brian May provides new highlights into making of Queen version 

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Live Around the World out October 2^nd
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This Queen + Adam Lambert version of “I Was Born To Love You” made its live debut in the band’s show set for their first Asia tour in August 2014: a trek which saw them play Seoul, Korea and two massive outdoor festival shows in the Japanese cities of Osaka and Tokyo.

The performance is taken from their headlining appearance on Sunday August 17, 2014 at Tokyo’s Marine Stadium – the main stage of Japan’s largest rock festival, Summer Sonic.  It was the first time they had ever played this arrangement of the song live together. Prior to this, Queen had only rarely included this track in a live set, and only as an abridged acoustic version.

Originally written by Freddie Mercury and released as the lead single from his 1985 debut solo album Mr Bad Guy, the song provided him with a decent sized hit. After Mercury’s death, Queen re-worked “I Was Born To Love You” for their final album, 1995’s Made In Heaven.

Brian May says, “I had an obsession with the song, and had the idea to make a new version, simulating how it would have sounded if we had been able to play it live with Freddie on stage. So the Queen version was put together as a ‘virtual’ live track, using Freddie’s spectacular vocal as the central thread. Roger, John and I played our parts live, to a rearranged template I’d put together – complete with some additions to the arrangement, taking some liberties with the vocal, and even borrowing some choice Freddie ad-libs, to add to the feeling that it was a live band recording. Little did we know that years later we’d have the opportunity with Adam to finally bring this arrangement to life on a real stage.”

While finding favor as an album track, the song took on a life of its own in Japan. Adopted in February 1996 as the bedrock for a national Japanese TV commercial for Kirin Ichiban Shibori, one of the best-selling lager beers in the country, the song attracted such popularity that it forced its release as a single, becoming Queen’s first song to enter the Japanese chart since the 1977 “Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together).” Then in 2004 the song was used as the theme for a popular TV drama series. It returned to the chart, reaching No.1 and remains one of Queen’s most popular songs in the country.

This performance of “I Was Born To Love You,” from the filled-to-the-brim Tokyo Summer Sonic event, provided one of the show highlights for Japanese fans experiencing for the first time the combination of Queen’s legendary magic on stage with the newly introduced talent of Adam Lambert. The set also included a remarkable Brian May performance of “Teo Toriatte (Let Us Cling Together),” a song written by May over 40 years ago especially for the band’s Japanese fans, and including Japanese lyrics.

While the show was a resounding success, May recalls, “We all thought it was quite a difficult gig. The audience was wonderful, but with the extreme heat and humidity, it was very difficult to play. However, when we saw the video, we all thought that it had great energy and the interaction with the crowd was great.”

Lambert recalls, “The Japanese audience was so passionate, so emotional. You could feel the connection. And it’s different than in other countries; there is something very special there.”

Drummer Roger Taylor adds, “The audience reaction was fantastic, and it was such a young audience, which was a big surprise for us.”

Since that summer of 2014, Queen + Adam Lambert have gained further critical acclaim from Japanese media and fans alike with their live shows, having since performed a three-night run at Nippon Budokan in September 2016 and more recently, in January this year, when they performed to a combined audience of close on 140,000 across the space of just four indoor stadium shows in the country.

This performance has only previously been seen on video in Japan – on the Queen + Adam Lambert – Live in Japan DVD, released exclusively in Japan in various formats on December 20, 2016. In this new live release, it is now revealed to the world in all its live and exciting untouched glory.

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“I Was Born To Love You” Summer Sonic, Tokyo, 2014

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Queen + Adam Lambert Share The Live Performance of

“The Show Must Go On”

From The Upcoming Live Around The World Release 

“The Show Must Go On” (The O2, London, UK, 07/04/2018)

This performance of the song was captured at the second of the band’s two spectacular shows at London’s 02 Arena on July 4th 2018

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The song’s history

As the twelfth and final track on Innuendo, Queen’s final album released during Freddie Mercury’s lifetime, “The Show Must Go On” was completed while Freddie was already in the final stages of his battle against the then incurable horror of AIDS.

Brian May says, “Even though we were all aware of Freddie’s impending tragedy, we had some inspired and joyful times in the studio, making the Innuendo album.  We didn’t speak much about Freddie’s illness – he just wanted to get on with ‘business as usual’ as far as possible.  But already there was only a day or two per week when Freddie was well enough to come in and work with us.  We grabbed those precious moments and made the most of them.  I’d been working on “The Show Must Go On” as an idea, but I was uncertain whether the title was too obvious.  Freddie heard it and loved it and dismissed any thoughts that there was a problem with the chorus or the title.  He wanted to work on it.

We didn’t discuss what the meaning of the song was, but it was of course evident in the background that it was an attempt to give a voice to the feelings that Freddie’s valiant fight against AIDS created in all of us, and even in Freddie.  He was too low in energy to create it himself.  But I had one unforgettable special afternoon working together with him on solidifying the lyrics of the first verse of this embryonic song about a clown whose make-up hid his pain, before he slid out to attend another treatment.  That gave me enough lyrical material to later expand into the eventual two verses.  I finished mapping out the song, sang the whole thing as a demo, including the added “Wings of Butterflies” section, which somehow appeared in my head very late one night, and I played it to him when he was next in the studio.  The melody called for some very demanding top notes, and I’d only been able to ‘demo’ them in falsetto.  I said to Freddie … ‘I don’t want you strain yourself – this stuff isn’t going to be easy in full voice, even for you!’  He said, ‘Don’t worry – I’ll f…ing nail it, Darling!’  He then downed a couple of his favourite shots of vodka, propped himself up against the mixing desk, and… delivered one of the most extraordinary performances of his life.  In the final mix of TSMGO, when you get to “On with the Show” you are listening to a man who conquered everything to deliver his finest work.”

“The Show Must Go On” inevitably took on an additional poignancy after Freddie’s death.  The tragedy of AIDS denied him the opportunity ever to perform it in a Queen live show.  But the song made its stunning on-stage debut in the star-studded Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert at London’s Wembley Stadium on April 23, 1992.  Elton John took the lead vocal, and Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi guested on guitar.

The song has another strong emotional resonance in the history of Queen.

Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon performed the song live for only the second time at the opening in Paris of Maurice Béjart’s Ballet For Life.  Created by legendary choreographer Maurice Béjart in collaboration with Gianni Versace, both now sadly departed, Ballet For Life celebrated the life and work of Freddie Mercury and Béjart’s former principal dancer, Jorge Donn, who also had died of AIDS.  Set to music by Queen and Mozart, it was first performed on January 17, 1997 at the Théâtre de Chaillot in Paris.  As the finale of the performance, the three surviving Queen band members performed “The Show Must Go On” live with Elton John.

It was to be John Deacon’s last live performance with his fellow band members.

The new live version

As the emotive Live Around The World take reveals, “The Show Must Go On” is now very much a contemporary highlight of the Queen + Adam Lambert experience.  Adam Lambert says, “’The Show Must Go On’ is a song with a very deeply resonating message.  I think we all have moments in life where we feel the odds are against us and the climb is a steep one.  I always sense a great cathartic release throughout the audience during this song.  I think we all recognize that it was a big statement for Freddie at that point in his journey as well; he was fighting for his life.”

This performance of the song was captured at the second of the band’s two spectacular shows at London’s 02 Arena on July 4th 2018. Both concerts attracted widespread critical acclaim, with critics noting that “many thrilled fans leaving the arena were calling it one of their all-time favourite gigs” and declaring “this is as good as live shows get.”

This version of “The Show Must Go On” more than attests to that. Played with an undeniable depth of feeling, it’s the perfect showcase for the singular talents of Adam Lambert.  Though the singer has categorically stated “There is never going to be another [Freddie Mercury] and I’m not replacing him” on many occasions, Lambert’s bold yet dignified performance of “The Show Must Go On” is enough the stop even the most casual of observers in their tracks.  As one prominent critic said, “He is his own man, he brings his own distinctive style, identity and nuances to the songs” and he does this nowhere more so than on “The Show Must Go On.”

“The Show Must Go On” was created by the band as a tribute to Freddie Mercury’s lust for life even while the Queen frontman’s health was failing, but in this socially-distanced global world of 2020 “The Show Must Go On” – perhaps now more than ever – feels like the perfect anthem for our times.

For drummer Roger Taylor, who with Brian May and Adam Lambert occupy a place of vanguards of rock in the 21^stcentury, “the song says it all.”

Live Around the World – the CD and Blu-ray

Queen + Adam Lambert’s first live album, the hotly anticipated Live Around The World presents a compilation of concert highlights captured the world over and personally selected by Roger Taylor, Brian May and Adam Lambert.  The tracks are drawn from over 200 shows they have played together, with several here becoming available for the first time.  These include concerts from Rock In Rio and Lisbon to the UK’s Isle Of Wight Festival and Summer Sonic in Japan, to selected UK and North American tour dates.  All formats also include the band’s entire Fire Fight Australia appearance from February 2020, during which they performed Queen’s original, history-making 1985 Live Aid set in full.  The album is available Oct 2.

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Queen + Adam Lambert live to date: 218 shows

Total audience: 3,659,232

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Queen + Adam Lambert to release first LIVE album

Queen + Adam Lambert Live Around the World for release worldwide October 2^nd on all music streaming services, CD+Blu-ray & Vinyl formats

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Since their first appearance together in 2009 when Queen members Brian May and Roger Taylor appeared as guests on the finale of the eighth season of American Idol on which Adam Lambert was a contestant, the combination of Queen + Adam Lambert has gone from strength to strength becoming one of the world’s biggest drawing touring bands. Their most recent tour of Oceania saw them selling out to massive audiences, with a single show at Sydney’s ANZ stadium drawing a record crowd of over 60,000.  To date the band has played to a worldwide audience approaching 4 million.

Had this been different times, Brian, Roger, and Adam would have just ended a further tour with a colossal run of 27 shows across 9 European countries. However, the arrival of COVID-19 forced their imminent UK and European summer tour to be postponed until next year. With this in mind, Queen + Adam Lambert looked to other ways to console the almost half a million disappointed fans already holding tickets.

This is when they turned first to YouTube.  No strangers to the platform with 12.5 million subscribers already following them, the band presented a special Queen + Adam Lambert ‘Tour Watch Party,’ an hour-long show of live highlights from previous tours across the world. The positive engagement from fans worldwide showed that despite the global blackout of live shows, the show could still go on. But it wasn’t just the 500,000+ viewing fans who were impressed, so were the band themselves.

“We hadn’t really watched those clips before, we were always too busy touring” says Roger Taylor. “We weren’t aware of how good the band sounded. So we thought, well, maybe there’s a live album of highlights of concerts that we’ve done over the last eight years with Adam Lambert to be made.”

As hinted at in interviews recently, Queen + Adam Lambert have now confirmed they will release their first-ever live album Queen + Adam Live Around the World. The release comes worldwide October 2^nd on all music streaming services, CD+Blu-ray and Vinyl formats.

The set presents a compilation of concert highlights captured the world over personally selected by Taylor, May, and Lambert from over 200 shows they have performed with several featured here becoming available for the very first time. These cover concerts from Rock in Rio, Lisbon, to the UK’s Isle of Wight Festival, Summer Sonic, Japan, selected UK and North America tour dates, and – from one of their very last performances before lockdown – the Fire Fight Australia benefit show. All formats include the band’s entire 22-minute Fire Fight Australia appearance in which they performed Queen’s original history-making 1985 Live Aid set in full: “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “Radio Ga Ga,” “Hammer To Fall,” “Crazy Little Thing Called Love,” “We Will Rock You” and “We are The Champions.” While even Freddie Mercury’s iconic Ay-Ohs feature.

The twenty tracks featured include firm Queen fan favorites like:

“Don’t Stop Me Now” and “I Want To Break Free” as well as rarities such as their versions of the Freddie Mercury penned “Love Kills” and “I Was Born To Love You.” The live album comes in CD+Blu-ray and Vinyl versions, with the Blu-ray featuring extra performance footage which include a Roger Taylor “Drum Battle” with drummer son Rufus Taylor, and Brian May “Last Horizon” guitar solo.

Brian May said of the historic live album: “As we all grapple with the challenge of creating live shows in a world dominated by a formidable viral enemy, it seemed the perfect time for us to create a collection of hand-picked live highlights from our Queen shows over the last 7 years with our brother Adam Lambert.

May continues: “It’s a first! As you watch and listen to these tracks you’ll be journeying all around the world with us, and experiencing a complete virtual live set.  The collection climaxes in Sydney earlier this year when, in support Fire Fight Australia, we recreated the complete Queen Live Aid set. It was a historic event for a great cause – with perhaps the highest adrenaline level since the original Live Aid in 1985.  It makes me particularly happy that we can now share this unique moment with the whole world.”

While Adam Lambert added: “When we couldn’t tour this year we wanted to give the fans something in place of that, and a Live album just felt right. It’s the first time we have released an album together and we have had a lot of fun putting it together, picking out favorite performances over the past seven years.”

Queen + Adam Lambert’s only previously released track, their lockdown version of “You Are the Champions,” with all the proceeds going towards the Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund for The World Health Organization, was viewed close to 4 million times in its first month on YouTube.

Queen + Adam Lambert’s postponed 27-date UK and European Rhapsody Tour is now rescheduled to begin May 23, 2021, in Bologna, Italy, with its final date to be played in Madrid, Spain, on July 7. The full set of dates includes a 10-day residency at London’s The O2 Arena in June.

Queen + Adam Lambert Live Around the World

CD / VINYL TRACK LIST  

“Tear It Up” (May) The O2, London, UK, 02/07/2018

“Now I’m Here” (May) Summer Sonic, Tokyo, Japan, 2014

“Another One Bites The Dust” (Deacon) Summer Sonic, Tokyo, Japan, 2014

“Fat Bottomed Girls” ft. Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders (May) American Airlines Center, Dallas, USA, 2019

“Don’t Stop Me Now” (Mercury) Rock In Rio, Lisbon, Portugal, 2016

“I Want To Break Free” (Deacon) Rock In Rio, Lisbon, Portugal, 2016

“Somebody To Love” (Mercury) Isle of Wight Festival, UK, 2016

“Love Kills” (The Ballad) (Mercury/Moroder) iHeart Radio Theater, Los Angeles, USA, 2014

“I Was Born To Love You” (Mercury) Summer Sonic, Tokyo, Japan, 2014

“Under Pressure” (Queen/Bowie) Global Citizen Festival, New York, USA, 2019

“Who Wants To Live Forever” (May) Isle of Wight Festival, UK, 2016

“The Show Must Go On” (Queen) The O2, London, UK, 04/07/2018

“Love Of My Life” (Mercury) The O2, London, UK, 02/07/2018

“Bohemian Rhapsody” (Mercury) Fire Fight Australia, ANZ Stadium, Sydney, Australia, 2020

“Radio Ga Ga” (Taylor) Fire Fight Australia, ANZ Stadium, Sydney, Australia, 2020

“Ay-Ohs” (Mercury) Fire Fight Australia, ANZ Stadium, Sydney, Australia, 2020

“Hammer To Fall” (May) Fire Fight Australia, ANZ Stadium, Sydney, Australia, 2020

“Crazy Little Thing Called Love” (Mercury) Fire Fight Australia, ANZ Stadium, Sydney, Australia, 2020

“We Will Rock You” (May) Fire Fight Australia, ANZ Stadium, Sydney, Australia, 2020

“We Are The Champions” (Mercury) Fire Fight Australia, ANZ Stadium, Sydney, Australia, 2020

BLU-RAY TRACK LIST

“Tear It Up” (May) The O2, London, UK, 02/07/2018

“Now I’m Here” (May) Summer Sonic, Tokyo, Japan, 2014

“Another One Bites The Dust” (Deacon) Summer Sonic, Tokyo, Japan, 2014

“Fat Bottomed Girls” ft. Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders (May) American Airlines Center, Dallas, USA, 2019

“Don’t Stop Me Now” (Mercury) Rock In Rio, Lisbon, Portugal, 2016

“I Want To Break Free” (Deacon) Rock In Rio, Lisbon, Portugal, 2016

“Somebody To Love” (Mercury) Isle of Wight Festival, UK, 2016

“Love Kills” (The Ballad) (Mercury/Moroder) iHeart Radio Theater, Los Angeles, USA, 2014

“I Was Born To Love You” (Mercury) Summer Sonic, Tokyo, Japan, 2014

“Drum Battle” (Taylor) Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney, Australia, 2014

“Under Pressure” (Queen/Bowie) Global Citizen Festival, New York, USA, 2019

“Who Wants To Live Forever” (May) Isle of Wight Festival, UK, 2016

“The Guitar Solo” (Last Horizon) (May) The O2, London, UK, 2018

“The Show Must Go On” (Queen) The O2, London, UK, 04/07/2018

“Love Of My Life” (Mercury) The O2, London, UK, 02/07/2018

“Bohemian Rhapsody” (Mercury) Fire Fight Australia, ANZ Stadium, Sydney, Australia, 2020

“Radio Ga Ga” (Taylor) Fire Fight Australia, ANZ Stadium, Sydney, Australia, 2020

“Ay-Ohs” (Mercury) Fire Fight Australia, ANZ Stadium, Sydney, Australia, 2020

“Hammer To Fall” (May) Fire Fight Australia, ANZ Stadium, Sydney, Australia, 2020

“Crazy Little Thing Called Love” (Mercury) Fire Fight Australia, ANZ Stadium, Sydney, Australia, 2020

“We Will Rock You” (May) Fire Fight Australia, ANZ Stadium, Sydney, Australia, 2020

“We Are The Champions” (Mercury) Fire Fight Australia, ANZ Stadium, Sydney, Australia, 2020

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