# Adam Lambert fronting Queen? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 26, 2009, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-lambert-fronting-queen/497630 "2009-05-26T00:33:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-lambert-fronting-queen/497630/21 "2009-05-26T20:10:39Z")
> [@spooje](#): > > This a bit different. they aren’t trying to continue, they are trying to resurrect. Paul Rodgers was a horrible choice, but anyone stepping into that will be lame. I like that they called themselves “Queen + Paul Rodgers” when he joined the band. Not quite as classy as Zeppelin (refusing to perform under the LZ moniker ever again after John Bonham’s death), but better than sticking some other dude behind the mic and hoping nobody noticed. ---
**Author:** ![jimpatro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9e5f3/32.png) [@jimpatro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimpatro)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-lambert-fronting-queen/497630/22 "2009-05-26T20:13:18Z")
After that incredible performance with Queen on the finale I’d say he’s a perfect fit. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-lambert-fronting-queen/497630/23 "2009-05-26T20:15:02Z")
> [@PunditLisa](#): > > Queen died with Mercury, I agree. However, I can understand the remaining band member’s desire to continue on. It’s undoubedly very difficult to go from being in a very famous, very successful band with a hefty paycheck to poor obscurity. At least in Queen’s case, the dismantlement was not a by-product of competing egoes, so it’s easier (at least for me) to accept someone else stepping in. > > Many bands have tried to carry on with an essential member of the band MIA and none have succeeded. It’s especially hard to carry on without the lead singer. At the end of the day, the new band ends up being a cover band (albeit a really good cover band) for the old band and can, at best, fill venues that are a fraction of the size they used to play in. > > On the one hand, it does seem rather pathetic to go from playing Wembley Stadium to playing the Kansas State Fair. On the other hand, the surviving bandmates are still making a living doing what they (I presume) love to do. We should all be so lucky. Nah, if the remaining members of Queen reformed into a new band they’d be hailed as a supergroup and still be famous. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-lambert-fronting-queen/497630/24 "2009-05-26T20:17:21Z")
> [@PunditLisa](#): > > On the one hand, it does seem rather pathetic to go from playing Wembley Stadium to playing the Kansas State Fair. On the other hand, the surviving bandmates are still making a living doing what they (I presume) love to do. We should all be so lucky. I totally missed this post before. FTR, Queen didn’t go straight from Wembley to state fairs. If anything, they’ve almost become more popular since Freddie died, especially in Britain. Practically the whole country watched the Freddie Murphy tribute shows, which IIRC lasted a whole goddamn week. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-lambert-fronting-queen/497630/25 "2009-05-26T20:28:58Z")
> [@spooje](#): > > They should form a new group and do instrumental rock. That would be GREAT! As I said before,Roger is a very good singer, Queen songs with Roger on lead vocals: Modern Times Rock’n’Roll The Loser In The End Tenement Funster I’m In Love With My Car Drowse Fight From The Inside Fun It (with Freddie) More Of That Jazz Rock It (Prime Jive) (Freddie sings the first part) A Human Body Hijack My Heart Let Me Live No One But You (Only The Good Die Young) (second verse > [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Queen did put out the one album with Rodgers; as MadTheSwine notes, none of those guys need to tour for the cash, so I’d tend to put them into the second group of bands. Three albums actually,one studio ,two live. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-lambert-fronting-queen/497630/26 "2009-05-26T20:37:00Z")
> [@PunditLisa](#): > > On the one hand, it does seem rather pathetic to go from playing Wembley Stadium to playing the Kansas State Fair. On the other hand, the surviving bandmates are still making a living doing what they (I presume) love to do. We should all be so lucky. > [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > I totally missed this post before. > > FTR, Queen didn’t go straight from Wembley to state fairs. If anything, they’ve almost become more popular since Freddie died, especially in Britain. Practically the whole country watched the Freddie Murphy tribute shows, which IIRC lasted a whole goddamn week. Heh,yeah I missed it also. [Live in Ukraine - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_in_Ukraine) From the entry: Over 350,000 Ukrainians came to see them play and more than 10,000,000 homes watched the show live on television. In all, more than 20,000,000 took part in what the band recall as “an unforgettable experience. 350,000! That doesn’t happen much. We are not in Kansas anymore. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-lambert-fronting-queen/497630/27 "2009-05-26T20:58:55Z")
Triple post warning! Roger also sang the very high parts on Bohemian Rhapsody…“for meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.” Also,just a bit of trivia…the song that knocked BoRap out of the #1 spot on the British charts in 1975? Mamma Mia…by ABBA. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-lambert-fronting-queen/497630/28 "2009-05-26T21:10:21Z")
> [@MadTheSwine](#): > > Heh,yeah I missed it also. [Live in Ukraine - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_in_Ukraine) > From the entry: > Over 350,000 Ukrainians came to see them play and more than 10,000,000 homes watched the show live on television. In all, more than 20,000,000 took part in what the band recall as “an unforgettable experience. > > 350,000! That doesn’t happen much. > > We are not in Kansas anymore. They did a one-night showing of that concert in movie theaters here in the U.S. last fall; I was one of a total of 7 people in the theater (in suburban Chicago). It was a pretty amazing spectacle. One interesting thing I noted: the audience sang along to all the Queen songs, and obviously knew them well. The band also did a few Paul Rodgers songs; when they did “All Right Now”, Rodgers tried to get the crowd to sing the chorus…and, it was clear that they didn’t know it, or the song! It wasn’t until the third time through the chorus that the crowd was singing along. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-lambert-fronting-queen/497630/29 "2009-05-26T22:02:13Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > One interesting thing I noted: the audience sang along to all the Queen songs, and obviously knew them well. The band also did a few Paul Rodgers songs; when they did “All Right Now”, Rodgers tried to get the crowd to sing the chorus…and, it was clear that they didn’t know it, or the song! It wasn’t until the third time through the chorus that the crowd was singing along. Ouch. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adam-lambert-fronting-queen/497630.md?page=1)