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 Live Killers (1979 UK 22-track double LP, featuring a brilliant collection of tracks recorded live during the European leg of Queen's 'Jazz' world tour between January & March 1979. The gatefold picture sleeve has some light wear from storage & comes complete with the green & red narrative inners, whilst the vinyl is clean & grades EX/EX- with only a few faint hairlines not affecting play EMSP330)
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QUEEN A Day At The Races (1976 UK 10-track LP, the fifth studio album from the legendary British band, including Tie Your Mother Down, Somebody To Love & Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy, gatefold picture sleeve with die-cut picture inner. The sleeve shows some light edge scuffing with small corner creases and, aside from a few light surface marks, the vinyl appears barely played EMTC104)
- Queen - One Vision - Japanese - 7" vinyl - £30.00, $41.40, €35.10 (New Item) (arrived 31-Aug-2021 08:54)on September 19, 2021 at 11:14 pm
QUEEN One Vision (1985 Japanese 7" vinyl single, also including Blurred Vision, picture sleeve with lyrics printed on the reverse EMS-17594)
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QUEEN One Vision (1985 UK solid centre 7" vinyl single, also including Blurred Vision. The 'negative image' picture sleeve has the lyrics printed on the reverse QUEEN6)
- Queen - Greatest Hits: Target exclusive - Red Vinyl - Sealed - US - 2-LP vinyl set - £49.99, $68.99, €58.49 (New Item) (arrived 01-Sep-2021 09:23)on September 19, 2021 at 11:14 pm
QUEEN Greatest Hits (2020 US Target exclusive limited edition 17-track double LP issue of their classic 1981 compilation album, pressed on Ruby Red Vinyl, including their anthemic best loved hits Bohemian Rhapsody, Another One Bites The Dust, Don't Stop Me Now, Somebody To Love, We Will Rock You and more. Both vinyl discs are BRAND NEW unplayed housed in the gatefold picture sleeve which remains sealed within its custom hype-stickered shrink)
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