New Music From Queen Could Be on the Way After Near 30-Year Hiatus

Queen‘s Roger Taylor has teased the possibility of new music from the iconic band nearly 30 years after their last album. Their final studio album, Made in Heaven, was released in 1995, after Freddie Mercury died in 1991.

The band was previously touring with Adam Lambert, who took over vocals in 2011 from Paul Rodgers. Their Rhapsody Tour wrapped in February 2024. Previously, in October 2022, Queen rediscovered and released a lost track with Mercury’s vocals, titled “Face It Alone.” Now, Taylor has revealed that there might be plans to record brand new music.

The drummer spoke with Uncut recently, and discussed the possibility. When asked if there were plans to record new material, he answered, “I think we might.”

He continued, “Brian [May] and myself were talking the other day, and we both said that if we feel we have some good material, why not? We can still play. We can still sing. So I don’t see why not.”

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Queen Teases Plans to Record New Material, Previously “Dabbled” in Recording with Adam Lambert

According to Brian May, Queen has already recorded a little bit with Adam Lambert on vocals. Last year, May revealed that they “dabbled a little” with recording new music. “It is just that you haven’t heard any of it,” he said.

He continued, “It would have to be something so special that we would feel we would want to launch it on the public.” Additionally, Lambert shared the sentiment that new music from Queen would have to be something truly special.

“If they’re going to put something out that’s new, it’s got to be at a certain level,” he said, according to a report from NME. “It has to be the right thing. And I’ve always said, ‘Is it appropriate for me to be doing new material?’ I feel like it scares me.”

May also reiterated this sentiment in 2021, sharing that recording had taken place but nothing was of the right caliber for Queen.

“Actually, Adam, Roger and myself have been in the studio trying things out, just because things came up,” he said. “But up to this point, we haven’t felt that anything we’ve done has hit the button in the right way,” adding, “So it’s not like we’re closed to the idea, it’s just that it hasn’t happened yet.”

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