From the Express.
Queen + Adam Lambert have just completed the first leg of a mammoth new stadium tour. After the North American dates, the band is taking a break for a few months before hitting the road in Australia and Asia. UK and European fans still have a nervous wait to find out if the tour will make it over here. However, May just dropped some huge news that will thrill fans wherever in the world they are.
The songwriter and guitarist keeps his million Instagram followers regularly updated with his life on and off stage.
May was explaining to fans he needed a few days to recover from the end of the tour: “The return to ‘normal’ life plus East-bound jet lag always wipes me out. It’s such a massive adjustment – it’s like my body and soul go into a kind of leaden disbelief. So I kinda shut down – and I just don’t feel capable of putting out stuff to the world…
“In the quietness of life back home it feels like it was all a dream – but a dream with some very wonderful moments. For me, I need a few more days of detox from iPhone and social media.”
And then, right at the end of the heartfelt post, he casually dropped absolutely enormous news.
One fan’s upper case two-word response summed it up: “NEW ALBUM!”
May and Queen bandmate Roger Taylor have constantly debated whether or not there would ever be any new material from the band. New frontman Adam Lambert has also added his opinion. Ultimately it has usually boiled down to a rather vague “never say never.”
So, what does this new tease from May mean?
Queen Brian May announces new album: Is it a live tour album? (Image: GETTY)
All the videos, photographs and social media posts from the North American tour have reinforced what a huge undertaking it was, with more dates still to come.
It seems difficult to believe the band would have had any time – or energy – to work on new material in the middle of such a hectic schedule.
What seems much more likely is that there could be a live album on the way, recorded at some of the shows on the tour.
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- Queen - A Night At The Opera - 1st - VG - UK - vinyl LP - £35.00, $47.60, €39.20 (New Item) (arrived 28-Feb-2021 13:50)on March 1, 2021 at 12:26 pm
QUEEN A Night At The Opera (1975 UK first press 12-track LP with picture labels, including Bohemian Rhapsody & You're My Best Friend. Comes housed in the original embossed gatefold picture sleeve with illustrated inner. The cover [VG] has some discolouration & general storage wear while the vinyl grades as EX with very little sign of play EMTC103)
- Queen - A Kind Of Magic - VG - UK - vinyl LP - £15.00, $20.40, €16.80 (Back In Stock) (arrived 10-Feb-2021 09:56)on March 1, 2021 at 12:26 pm
QUEEN A Kind Of Magic (1986 UK 9-track LP, the eleventh studio album featuring the singles Who Wants To Live Forever, A Kind of Magic, Princes Of The Universe & One Vision, complete with illustrated lyric inner, gatefold picture sleeve. The sleeve & vinyl grade VG+ with some light shelf wear & faint paper hairline scuffs to show play EU3509)
- Queen - The Seven Seas Of Rhye - Japanese - 7" vinyl - £250.00, $340.00, €280.00 (New Item) (arrived 26-Jan-2021 15:37)on March 1, 2021 at 12:26 pm
QUEEN The Seven Seas Of Rhye (Mega rare original 1974 Japanese Elektra 'Caterpillar' label 7" vinyl single, also including The Loser In The End, only their second single release in Japan, with a unique picture insert with the '¥500' price point on the front and printed with lyrics on the reverse. The insert has a small amount of discoloration / foxing otherwise has little signs of wear, and the vinyl looks barely played. A really nice example of this very hard to find pressing P-1314E)
- Queen - The Complete Works - Complete - UK - vinyl box set - £395.00, $537.20, €442.40 (New Item) (arrived 27-Jan-2021 08:48)on March 1, 2021 at 12:26 pm
QUEEN The Complete Works (Mammoth 1985 UK Limited Edition Fourteen LP box set, featuring all of their classic albums up to & including The Works, complete with the Bonus 'Complete Vision' LP containing previously unreleased material. Each record is housed in a stunning white, embossed sleeve with a number on the front denoting each album, complete with unused fold-out poster map, a booklet charting the band's extensive tour history as well as the 'Complete Works' glossy colour photo-booklet, all housed in a generous 3" deep 12" square textured box, lavishly embossed with the artist & title in bold gold print. The outer box has minimal wear and just a few spots of cosmetic age & all vinyl discs are mint & unplayed. Essential! QB1)
- Queen - The Complete Works - Complete - UK - vinyl box set - £395.00, $537.20, €442.40 (New Item) (arrived 27-Jan-2021 10:21)on March 1, 2021 at 12:26 pm
QUEEN The Complete Works (Mammoth 1985 UK Limited Edition Fourteen LP box set, featuring all of their classic albums up to & including The Works, complete with the Bonus 'Complete Vision' LP containing previously unreleased material. Each record is housed in a stunning white, embossed sleeve with a number on the front denoting each album, complete with unused fold-out poster map, a booklet charting the band's extensive tour history as well as the 'Complete Works' glossy colour photo-booklet, all housed in a generous 3" deep 12" square textured box, lavishly embossed with the artist & title in bold gold print. The outer box has minimal wear and just a few spots of cosmetic age & all vinyl discs are mint & unplayed. Essential! QB1)
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