Queen
+ Adam Lambert will reign over a highly anticipated North American summer tour
starting in Chicago in June. Brian May, Roger Taylor + Adam Lambert will come
together for the first time in Las Vegas at The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel &
Casino on Saturday, July 5 and Sunday, July 6.
Queen
+ Adam Lambert received glowing reviews for their performance together at the
iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas last September, triggering a
conversation between Adam, Roger and
Brian to take the show on the road.
Rolling Stone said, “Lambert astounded the audience on songs like ‘We
Will Rock You’ and the closing ‘We Are The Champions’ and ‘Crazy Little Thing
Called Love’. It was the most
anticipated act of the night.” Billboard claimed, “…Queen effectively stole the
show, with timeless songs that music fans of all genres can sing along to” and
the Hollywood Reporter exclaimed, “Adam Lambert, Queen bring down the iHeart
house. With the perfect mix of rock
attitude mixed with style, theatricality, sex appeal and impressive vocal
gymnastics, [Lambert] took the band’s music to new heights.”
The
threesome first shared the stage during American Idol in May 2009 for a
performance of “We Are The Champions”. They teamed up again in 2011 at the MTV
European Music Awards in Belfast, Ireland for an electrifying eight-minute
finale of “The Show Must Go On”, “We Will Rock You” and “We Are The Champions”
and in the summer of 2012, Lambert performed a series of shows with Queen
across Europe as well as dates in Russia, Ukraine and Poland. They also performed three sold-out gigs at
London’s Hammersmith Apollo.
In a
career spanning over 40 years Queen has amassed a staggering list of sales,
awards, and hall of fame inductions that is second to none. Record sales in the hundreds of millions of
units, including an unprecedented string of number one albums and top-charting
singles that continue to put Queen in the top ten of all-time iTunes sales,
seven Ivor Novello Awards, an MTV Global Icon Award, two songs enshrined in the
Grammy Hall of Fame - “We Will Rock You”
and “We Are the Champions” – which also remain the most played songs at sports
events and arenas around the world, and, as if to qualify all of hyperbole,
just last month Queen received the accolade of becoming the first artist ever
to sell over six million copies of an album in the UK - beating out even the
Beatles' Sgt Pepper by close on a million copies - with their Greatest Hits
album, which also achieved the record of over 1,422 weeks on the British album
chart. The statistics show a staggering
one in three British households now own a copy of the iconic act’s original
Greatest Hits collection. Even with the
tragic loss of their uniquely talented singer Freddie Mercury, Queen remain one
of the most revered bands in rock and pop history, able to claim one of the
most enduring song catalogues of all time. Just think: “Bohemian Rhapsody”,
“Another One Bites the Dust”, “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”, “Radio Ga Ga”,
“Killer Queen”, “Fat Bottomed Girls”, “Bicycle Race”, songs that form the
backdrop to the lives of generations of fans across all ages. With their
sterling song craft, virtuoso musicality,
and colossal spectacle of their live performances, Queen – Brian May,
Freddie Mercury, Roger Taylor and John Deacon - captured hearts and conquered
charts like no other band in history, a legacy that continues to live through
the ongoing work and concert performances by May and Taylor. Their musical We
Will Rock You, co-created with writer Ben Elton, is approaching its 12th year
on stage in London’s West End and is currently touring North America.
Adam
Lambert’s stunning performances on the eighth season of American Idol are still
widely regarded as some of the most riveting moments in the show’s history. His
debut album For Your Entertainment earned him a Grammy Award nomination for
Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. His second album, Trespassing, debuted at No.
1 on the Billboard charts. The subsequent tour took Lambert from Australia to
South Africa, throughout Asia and Eastern Europe and culminated in a sold-out
arena show in Helsinki, Finland. In 2013, Lambert appeared as a guest star on
the hit TV series, GLEE. He is currently writing and recording for his third
album, which will be released this year.
Tickets, starting at $49.50 (plus applicable
service fees), go on sale Friday, March 14 at 10am at the Hard Rock Hotel Box
Office, online at AXS.com or by calling 888-9-AXS-TIX.
