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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Brian is right, as much Queen as ever. He has also said something to the effect that they would be MORE likely to collaborate with Adam on one of HIS own albums than to do Queen+ one..We shall see… 🙂
I would LOVE to see Brian, Roger and Adam get together on a new album. These three are born to write together!!
Here, take my $$$. I’ll by both an Adam Lambert album and a QAL album! Or two .. or three… for friends 😀
I’m in, I’ll buy, I have been a Queen fan from their very first day. what’s happening today is wonderful, let’s pass this wonderful music on to the next generation. When you stop performing and allow the CD’s to disappear from the music store shelves to to lack of interest, that’s when groups die away. The only way to keep Queen alive is to keep it current, by keeping it in the public’s eye.
Of course Adam is “replacing Freddie”. What’s wrong with that ? He’s doing a fabulous job and no one has forgotten Freddie. Adam honors his memory and his music. He’s keeping it alive and bringing it to new generations. i think Freddie would be happy about that and in awe of Adam’s talent. “Replacing Freddie” doesn’t mean Freddie never lived or isn’t loved. I love both Adam and Freddie – two iconic performers !
No, Brian, Freddie wouldn’t mind you saying that. In fact, he’s probably thrilled about it, wherever he is.
I think it’s already happened, hence the delay in Adam’s album.