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.
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 favourites 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, CD+DVD, CD+Blu-ray and Vinyl versions, with the DVD and 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.
Tracklist
LP1 - Side A
Tear It Up (The O2, London, UK, 02/07/2018)
Now I'm Here (Summer Sonic, Tokyo, Japan, 2014)
Another One Bites The Dust (Summer Sonic, Tokyo, Japan, 2014)
Fat Bottomed Girls ft. Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders (American Airlines Center, Dallas, USA, 2019)
LP1 - Side B
Don't Stop Me Now (Rock In Rio, Lisbon, Portugal, 2016)
I Want To Break Free (Rock In Rio, Lisbon, Portugal, 2016)
Somebody To Love (Isle of Wight Festival, UK, 2016)
Love Kills - The Ballad (iHeart Radio Theater, Los Angeles, USA, 2014)
LP2 - Side A
I Was Born To Love You (Summer Sonic, Tokyo, Japan, 2014)
Under Pressure (Global Citizen Festival, New York, USA, 2019)
Who Wants To Live Forever (Isle of Wight Festival, UK, 2016)
The Show Must Go On (The O2, London, UK, 04/07/2018)
Love Of My Life (The O2, London, UK, 02/07/2018)
LP2 - Side B
Bohemian Rhapsody (Firefight Australia, ANZ Stadium, Sydney, Australia, 2020)
Radio Ga Ga (Firefight Australia, ANZ Stadium, Sydney, Australia, 2020)
Ay-Ohs (Firefight Australia, ANZ Stadium, Sydney, Australia, 2020)
Hammer To Fall (Firefight Australia, ANZ Stadium, Sydney, Australia, 2020)
Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Firefight Australia, ANZ Stadium, Sydney, Australia, 2020)
We Will Rock You (Firefight Australia, ANZ Stadium, Sydney, Australia, 2020)
We Are The Champions (Firefight Australia, ANZ Stadium, Sydney, Australia, 2020)
