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 - The Platinum Collection - Coloured Vinyl 6-LP Set - Sealed - UK - vinyl box set - £124.99, $149.99, €139.99 (New Item) (arrived 08-Feb-2023 10:35)on February 8, 2023 at 12:52 pm
QUEEN The Platinum Collection (2022 UK/EU limited edition box set featuring 51-tracks on all three of their Greatest Hits double albums presented across 6 x 180-gram coloured LPs pressed on glorious yellow, red, pink, purple, blue and green vinyl. Housed inside a hard shell 'Crest Logo' slipcase with 24-page large format photo book, hype sticker & factory sealed. Recommended)
- Queen - News Of The World - 1st - VG - UK - vinyl LP - £20.00, $24.00, €22.40 (New Item) (arrived 24-Jan-2023 12:41)on February 8, 2023 at 12:52 pm
QUEEN News Of The World (1977 UK first press 11-track LP, their classic sixth studio album including the singles We Are The Champions/ We Will Rock You & Spread Your Wings. The gatefold picture sleeve is Very Good with some edge wear scuffingand the usual small edge split to the inner, yet the vinyl still looks barely played, priced advantageously EMA784)
- Queen - Queen II - Transitional - 1st Vinyl & 2nd Labels - UK - vinyl LP - £195.00, $234.00, €218.40 (New Item) (arrived 19-Jan-2023 13:09)on February 8, 2023 at 12:52 pm
QUEEN Queen II (1974 UK 11-track LP on the cream & red EMI labels printed with 'Side White' and 'Side Black' above the tracklistings & 4U stampers the matrix numbers crossed out in the run-outs with corrected numbers stamped below, as per first batch press, housed in the fully laminated picture sleeve with lyric inner with diagonal edge cuts at the top and one bottom corner. The sleeve shows a little creasing to edges and back, with a small residual sticker mark to reverse, the innerhas light creasing to the corner, whilst the vinyl is Near Mint EMA67)
- Queen - Innuendo - Factory Sample - UK - vinyl LP - £195.00, $234.00, €218.40 (New Item) (arrived 19-Jan-2023 13:10)on February 8, 2023 at 12:52 pm
QUEEN Innuendo (Rare 1991 UK 12-track vinyl LP, the groups fourteenth studio album including I'm Going Slightly Mad, Don't Try So Hard, The Hitman and Bijou which were especially edited for the vinyl edition; picture sleeve with 'ManufacturersProperty' sticker on the reverse and lyric inner. The sleeve, inner and vinyl are all in wonderful near mint condition. One of the best examples we have ever seen PCSD115)
- Queen - It's A Hard Life - 4 Prong - UK - 7" vinyl - £12.00, $14.40, €13.44 (New Item) (arrived 20-Jan-2023 09:23)on February 8, 2023 at 12:52 pm
QUEEN It's A Hard Life (1984 UK 7" vinyl single with intact four prong centre, also including Is This The World We Created?, housed in a glossy card picture sleeve. The sleeve shows light ring wear and some creasing on the opening, whilst thevinyl displays few signs of play QUEEN3)
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