But we could make brilliant music with Adam. But I don’t think people should expect radically groundbreaking things. Of course, Adam does have a fairly busy career on his own but I think we should. I don’t know why we haven’t got around to it. I have friends in Hong Kong, though.įrom here, are there any plans to go into the studio together to make a new Queen album? M: And now, to be able to do it in China, it’s just something incredible.
So we decided we will do it one more time. So there we are! Finally we can make Queen music. He has that delightful kind of lightness that people warm to and it really fits so well with us because we spent a load of years with Freddie, who also had that kind of lightness. M: He’s a nice person to work with, which is vital because you can’t possibly tour the world with someone you don’t like. They were on fire and I was thinking ‘wow – these guys are the rockstars!’Īdam’s a great addition to the band, then…
I saw them performing on stage, in pairs of shorts and with no shoes on. I heard the big hits when I was a child but I didn’t really understand what they were like as a band but then, in my early 20s, I got really into music and studying bands. L: Well, I didn’t discover Queen until a little bit later on in my life. When you were young, how important was Freddie and Queen’s music to you? But over the years it has become much easier to do that because I think, now, the music is sort of in my body. Lambert: I think the toughest part is finding the balance between making the music my own and honouring the original recordings. What’s the toughest part of doing Freddie’s parts? We should really address the question of filling Freddie’s shoes to you, though, Adam. Brian and I didn’t expect to still be working under the name Queen but this is our fourth or fifth tour and we’ve found ourselves absolutely loving it. Those two things really make him perfectly fitted for Queen. He has an incredible sense of humour, which is very important, and he has an incredible vocal range. T: He has a lot of things in common with Freddie Mercury. He also has an ability with the audience. Adam has an extraordinary instrument – the most wonderful instrument you could possibly find in this world, you know. What’s Adam adding to the band since the sad death of Freddie in 1991? He’s obviously had good times there…īut now he’s here for the first time with Queen. An incredibly gifted singer and performer.Īdam Lambert has actually played in Hong Kong before… It’s great – with Adam Lambert we’ve kind of found a new lease of life. We did, I think, 15 shows in 15 different countries and it was fabulous. T: Yeah, we had a sensational tour in Europe. In fact, this Asian tour is following on from your recent string of festival shows in Europe and beyond. We wanted to come but I think culturally we were unacceptable at the time. It’s amazing that we can actually come now. We had fans there and we never really knew. It’s extraordinary that we never could make direct contact with China over all those years.
I have visited Hong Kong in the past and I have had some incredible experiences there so I’m very excited. We’re really interested to see the reaction there and we’re very optimistic. We’ve never played in China and never played in Hong Kong. We’re very excited about coming to Hong Kong for the first time ever. So, you’re playing our city for the first time. Take it from Taylor, Lambert and the axe god themselves… Expect the same multi-sensory experience here alongside the same sense of nostalgia, the same singalong choruses and the same ter-riffic May lead solos. The team have already performed more than 70 sold-out shows together across the globe in the past few years, taking an awesome light show and special effects with them.
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And they’re joined by Adam Lambert, who first shared the stage with May and Taylor on the final of American Idol in May 2009, a series he was runner-up on. Sadly, Freddie Mercury died a while ago and bassist John Deacon won’t be here but one of the world’s true guitar legends, Brian May, is leading the charge, as is superstar drummer Roger Taylor. This is the first time the group, the creators of super-hits like Bohemian Rhapsody and We Will Rock You, has ever played Hong Kong – or China, for that matter, with a gig in Shanghai too – and it should be a right royal performance. Possibly the biggest rock band in history graces AsiaWorld-Expo on September 28 as part of an Asia tour that’s taking in Japan, Singapore, Thailand and China. Prepare to tie your mothers down, Hong Kong.
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