After being together since 2004 Queen & Paul Rodgers have released their first studio album. The last one was "Made in Heaven" after Maestro Freddie Mercury passed away in November,1991.
The album is called "The Cosmos Rocks" and the first single realesed yesterday is called C-LEBRITY. The album will be accompanied of a World tour ,"Rock the Cosmos tour" starting in Moscow on 16th September and finishing in Brazil on 30th November,2008. After 27 years the band will play in South America again, where they expect to perform before 1,000,000 people in Rio de Janeiro.
Although for many fans "Queen is not the same without Freddie", even for former bassit John Deacon, Paul Rodgers has never pretended to become the new Freddie Mercury and he has given the band a brand new voice, powerful and exciting, yet different.
Queen aren't the first band to continue working after the death or disappearance of their front men, but to varied success. Joy Division achieved greater commercial standing as New Order after Ian Curtis's suicide, and Pink Floyd reached new heights after Sid Barrett left the band, due to drug abuse and mental illness. As Queen´s drummer,Roger Taylor, said:
"It's, it's music. It's about having fun and you know, people get up tight about it. They should just loosen up."
This is the billboard that has appeared in the city of Buenos Aires,Argentina..."After 27 years...Queen + Paul Rodgers in Velez, 21st November"
Queen and U2 shared many things in common: the stage in Live Aid 85(it´s very funny to read the way Bono and Mercury met in U2 by U2 )in Live 8 2005, Mandela´s birthday celebration, and the fight against AIDS especially.Their song "Say it´s not true" (released for the commemoration of Internatioanl Aids day in the 46664 HIV AIDS campaing ) is a reminder that all of us can do something for the victims of the virus. Besides they founded The Mercury Phoenix Trust , in honour of their deseased friend who died of the illness, a charity organisation that fights AIDS worldwide.
I´m sure their new album is going to be a blast and so will his worldwide tour!!!
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