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 - Headlong - UK - 12" picture disc - £15.00, $18.30, €16.65 (New Item) (arrived 12-Sep-2019 11:26)
on January 1, 1970 at 12:00 am
QUEEN Headlong (1991 UK limited edition 3-track 12" Picture Disc single with clear vinyl surround, also including the non album recordings All God's People & Mad The Swine. Housed in a clear pvc sleeve 12QUEENPD18)
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Queen - Queen's Greatest Pix - New Old Stock! - UK - book - £30.00, $36.60, €33.30 (New Item) (arrived 12-Sep-2019 10:53)
on January 1, 1970 at 12:00 am
QUEEN Queen's Greatest Pix (Original 1981 UK 96-page 7½" x 11" colour picture book by Jacques Lowe with many superb photographs plus discography, fully laminated cover and features the renowned image of the band taken from the 'Greatest Hits'album artwork. This is brand new old stock, wrapped in tissue paper with brown paper outside and tape sealed, a top archive example that hasn't seen light of day for 35 years!)
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Queen - The Miracle - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £15.00, $18.30, €16.65 (New Item) (arrived 12-Sep-2019 10:39)
on January 1, 1970 at 12:00 am
QUEEN The Miracle (1989 UK 10-track LP, including the singles I Want It All, Breakthru, The Invisible Man & Scandal, iconic picture sleeve featuring the artwork of the familiar faces of the four band members into one morphed Gestalt image designed by Richard Gray, along with the lyric inner. The sleeve shows just a little light edgewear and the vinyl remains in superb condition with just a few minor surface scuffs PCSD107)
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Queen - News Of The World - 1st - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £25.00, $30.50, €27.75 (New Item) (arrived 12-Sep-2019 10:31)
on January 1, 1970 at 12:00 am
QUEEN News Of The World (1977 UK first press 11-track LP including We Will Rock You & We Are The Champions, housed in a thick gatefold picture sleeve complete with the original die-cut lyric inner. The sleeve shows some minor wear & the vinyl remains in excellent conditon with few signs of play EMA784)
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Queen - One Vision - UK - 12" vinyl - £10.00, $12.20, €11.10 (New Item) (arrived 11-Sep-2019 17:36)
on January 1, 1970 at 12:00 am
QUEEN One Vision (1985 UK 12" vinyl single, also including Blurred Vision, within a in a great 'negative photo' style flip-back picture sleeve with lyrics and band photo printed on the reverse. The sleeve shows just some light wear and the vinyldisplays a few light cosmetic surface scuffs but remains in excellent condition 12QUEEN6)
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