Queen to tour with Adam Lambert sitting in for Freddie Mercury
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“Queen” is launching an arena tour—sort of. As almost anyone knows, the band’s true frontman, Freddie Mercury, died in 1991. For this tour, as first reported two years ago, he’ll be replaced by American Idol runner up Adam Lambert, which… yeah. As video of a recent performance shows, Lambert is certainly technically proficient (and fashion forward) enough to sing Mercury’s lines, but he does lack both a certain je ne sais quoi and a hearty Mercurial mustache. But that doesn’t seem to bother Queen’s remaining members, Brian May and Roger Taylor, who said in a press conference today that they’re ready to “ROCK those beautiful arenas JUST ONE MORE TIME.”