QUEEN + ADAM LAMBERT: BY ROYAL APPOINTMENT Words: NICK HASTED, Classic Rock Magazine #206 - On Sale Now! You can’t replace Freddie Mercury. But on the eve of a tour, the royal family’s Brian May and Roger Taylor and crown prince Adam Lambert explain why they’re keeping the band’s legacy alive. “My songs are like Bic razors,” Freddie Mercury declared in Queen’s early days. “For fun, for modern consumption. You listen to it, like it, discard it. Disposable pop.” But 23 years after his death, his band’s latest album is called Queen Forever. And that band’s two remaining members, guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor, concede that for them the title is true. “I understand people who say: ‘There is no Queen without Freddie. Just leave it be,’” Taylor admits, “because that’s what we felt, following his death. All three of us said: ‘Right, that’s the end of the band.’ But the band just didn’t seem to die.” May now believes that trying to lay Queen to rest with its singer was doomed from the start. “Even though both Roger and I were adamant it was over, it never went away.” All details of the magazine are here: classicrock.teamrock/features/2014-12-31/classic-rock-206-on-sale-today Or you can get it on ipad a https://itunes.apple/gb/app/classic-rock-magazine/id819311424?mt=8 Or, you can read the entire new issue online @ teamrock/getcr. (Requires a TeamRock+ subscription, but there is a free 30-day offer on at the moment.) queenonline
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