Feeling cooped up during this coronavirus pandemic?
Queen and Adam Lambert are too. So they’re reviving that freeing, electric live-music feeling by releasing their first live album.
“Queen + Adam Live Around the World,” dropping Oct. 2, features highlights from the more than 200 performances they’ve made around the globe during the last several years. It will be available in a variety of formats, including CD, DVD and Vinyl.
“When we couldn’t tour this year we wanted to give the fans something in place of that, and a live album just felt right,” Lambert said in a press release. “It’s the first time we have released an album together and we have had a lot of fun putting it together, picking out favorite performances over the past seven years.”
“We hadn’t really watched those clips before, we were always too busy touring,” Queen drummer Roger Taylor said. “We weren’t aware of how good the band sounded.”
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“Queen + Adam Live Around the World” features clips from performances in Brazil, Portugal and the United Kingdom, among other locales. It includes their entire Fire Fight Australia concert, which raised funds for those affected by the Sydney brushfire and featured the band performing Queen’s 1985 Live Aid set in full.
The CD features 20 tracks, including “Don’t Stop Me Now” and “I Want To Break Free.”
The album follows an hourlong “Tour Watch Party” on YouTube that Lambert, 38, and Queen did after their shows were canceled due to coronavirus precautions. That collaboration drew more than half a million viewers, according to a press release.
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Lambert, who released solo album “Velvet” earlier this year, says he misses touring and is excited to treat fans to “Queen + Adam Live Around the World” in the interim. Queen and Lambert are set to, tentatively, resume touring in March.
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