Queen won't, Queen won't, rock here because "America is a dangerous place"

Like many world and business leaders and would-be Orlando vacationers, Queen guitarist Brian May is thinking twice about crossing the pond these days. Amid mounting state violence, threats of immigrant detention, and civilian executions, May tells the Daily Mail that touring the States again has given him pause because “America is a dangerous place at the moment, so you have to take that into account.” Since July, masked state agents have been involved in eight fatalities, including the shooting deaths of Alex Pretti, Renée Good, and Keith Porter earlier this year. Meanwhile, the Trump administration’s masked police force has arrested more than 352,000 people, cramming them in inhumane detention centers, before shipping detainees, including children, to countries they’ve often never been to before. Particularly in cities such as Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and Portland, ME, things continue to escalate, and today, they began arresting journalists. “It’s very sad because I feel like Queen grew up in America and we love it, but it’s not what it was,” May says. “Everyone is thinking twice about going there at the moment.” Since 2009, May and Queen drummer Roger Taylor has toured with singer Adam Lambert under the name Queen + Adam Lambert. They last played America in 2023.