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Now that we know Queen will embark on a full-fledged North American tour with Adam Lambert this summer, the obvious question is whether guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor will head into the studio to record some new material with their latest frontman.

The duo addressed that possibility — sort of — during a recent interview, during which they admitted that their latest round of vault-purging wouldn’t yield enough tracks for a new full-length album of recordings featuring deceased founding Queen singer Freddie Mercury. With only an EP’s worth of new material on the shelf, May and Taylor were asked if they’d consider putting together a hybrid record featuring new Lambert performances alongside the previously unreleased Mercury songs.

“Well, you know, anything is possible,” May shrugged, while Taylor asserted that “It’s logical; it’s a very logical thing to do, so why not?” before admitting, “I don’t know.” May’s final thoughts on the matter: “You never know. You never know.”

It isn’t difficult to see why it’d be a tantalizing idea for Mercury’s surviving bandmates, but the prospect of putting new Lambert-sung material up against Mercury’s old demos also seems like an incredibly risky proposition for everyone involved. Better to release the Mercury cuts on their own (or, more likely, as part of a reissue or best-of package) and then record a separate release with Lambert, so the new performances can stand purely on their own merits

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Brian May has insisted that he doesn’t care about detractors and has no time for critics of his new BFF Adam Lambert.

The legendary Queen guitarist announced last week that the American Idol star would be fronting his band for a full North American tour, which starts this summer.

The news was met with a largely positive response, and here at Unreality TV we were inundated with tweets, comments and Facebook messages from fans who were elated with the pairing.

However there were the odd voices of dissension, particularly on Twitter….not that Brian’s worried.

The British rocker insisted that those who aren’t fans of Adam or feel the need to criticise the lineup should stop listening to their tunes and stop coming to their shows. Simples.

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[quote]The 2014 Queen tour kicks off on June 19th in Chicago and at PreferredSeat.com they’ve seen a lot of interest in Queen tickets with Adam Lambert belting out the lead vocals that Freddie Mercury helped make famous from the 70’s until his untimely death in 1991. This is a tour for the baby boomer generation with legendary songs like “We Will Rock You” and “Bohemian Rhapsody” as well as countless others that still get extensive airplay on classic rock stations.

The last Queen tour was in 2009 with Paul Rogers on lead vocals but Adam Lambert brings a fresh voice that will bring out the younger generation as well as many of the middle aged women that followed him from city to city on his first tours. Adam Lambert has performed with Queen several times already with performances at a number of European concerts in 2012 and at the iHeartRadio Music Festival last September sparking rumors of a possible tour together......read more on Digital Journal

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