They’ve appeared with Adam Lambert off and on since 2009, and made their negative feelings known about yet another label-directed repackaging of their old favorites. All that’s left to do now is record a new Queen album, right?
Roger Taylor, in a new talk with Classic Rock, is certainly game. “If we have the material,” he says, “I wouldn’t go into making a record with any other lead singer than Adam.”
Queen has, of course, been down this road before in the post-Freddie Mercury era, recording 2008’s The Cosmos Rocks with Paul Rodgers, with whom they worked for a five-year period in the 2000s. But Adam Lambert has brought a decidedly different energy to the on-going collaborations with Queen — one more in keeping, if not completely modeled on, that of Mercury.
“I’m not replacing Freddie,” Lambert says, elsewhere in the same talk. “I’m trying to keep the memory alive, and remind people how amazing he was, without imitating him.”
Brian May, who leads Queen into a series of UK and European shows beginning this month, says Adam Lambert has brought the group back to full strength. “It’s a Queen show as much as it ever was,” May enthuses. “I don’t think Freddie would mind me saying that.”
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