SAI
12-14-2004, 04:49 AM
From yahoo news and brianmay.com
Queen return
(Monday December 13, 2004 05:18 PM)
The surviving members of Queen will be reforming for a European tour in 2005 with former Bad Company and Free lead singer Paul Rodgers taking the place of the late Freddie Mercury.
Writing on his official website brianmay.com, the band's guitarist Brian May confirmed the news in a message to fans.
He wrote: "I won't go into more details right now, but, barring accidents, Queen and Paul Rodgers will be on the road, pretty much for sure, around April 2005."
Apparently the idea for the reformation was born when May played with Rodgers at the Fender 50th Anniversary gig in September of this year.
May explained: "We were both so amazed at the chemistry that was going on in "All Right Now" [the Free classic] that suddenly it seems blindingly obvious that there was 'something happening here.'"
According to queenonline.com, the shows will feature both Queen and Rodgers material.
May said the last two or three weeks have been spent discussing venues as well as material.
He concludes: "Suddenly the Queen Phoenix is rising from the again from the ashes, and will take precedence over everything in our lives."
The band has not toured since the death of lead singer Freddie Mercury in November 1991.
In the spring of 1992, the surviving members staged a star-studded tribute concert at London's Wembley Stadium for the Mercury Phoenix Trust, an AIDS-related charity.
The group's last studio album was 1991's "Innuendo" but May, drummer Roger Taylor and bassist John Deacon reunited to release 1995's "Made in Heaven" which featured vocals from Mercury recorded prior to his death.
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Queen return
(Monday December 13, 2004 05:18 PM)
The surviving members of Queen will be reforming for a European tour in 2005 with former Bad Company and Free lead singer Paul Rodgers taking the place of the late Freddie Mercury.
Writing on his official website brianmay.com, the band's guitarist Brian May confirmed the news in a message to fans.
He wrote: "I won't go into more details right now, but, barring accidents, Queen and Paul Rodgers will be on the road, pretty much for sure, around April 2005."
Apparently the idea for the reformation was born when May played with Rodgers at the Fender 50th Anniversary gig in September of this year.
May explained: "We were both so amazed at the chemistry that was going on in "All Right Now" [the Free classic] that suddenly it seems blindingly obvious that there was 'something happening here.'"
According to queenonline.com, the shows will feature both Queen and Rodgers material.
May said the last two or three weeks have been spent discussing venues as well as material.
He concludes: "Suddenly the Queen Phoenix is rising from the again from the ashes, and will take precedence over everything in our lives."
The band has not toured since the death of lead singer Freddie Mercury in November 1991.
In the spring of 1992, the surviving members staged a star-studded tribute concert at London's Wembley Stadium for the Mercury Phoenix Trust, an AIDS-related charity.
The group's last studio album was 1991's "Innuendo" but May, drummer Roger Taylor and bassist John Deacon reunited to release 1995's "Made in Heaven" which featured vocals from Mercury recorded prior to his death.
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