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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 worlds biggest drawing touring bands. Their most recent tour of Oceania saw them selling out to massive audiences, with a single show at Sydneys 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 wasnt just the 500,000+ viewing fans who were impressed, so were the band themselves. We hadnt really watched those clips before, we were always too busy touring says Roger Taylor. We werent aware of how good the band sounded. So we thought, well, maybe theres a live album of highlights of concerts that weve done over the last eight years with Adam Lambert to be made. As hinted at in interviews recently, Queen + Adam Lambert have now confirmed they will release their first-ever live album Queen + Adam Live Around the World. The release comes worldwide October 2 nd in CD, CD+DVD, CD+Blu-ray and Vinyl formats. 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 UKs 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 bands entire 22-minute Fire Fight Australia appearance in which they performed Queens 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 Mercurys iconic Ay-Ohs feature.
The twenty tracks featured include firm Queen fan favourites like Dont 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.
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