Brian May & Dappy perform in the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge

Adam Lambert On Working With Queen...

Singer Adam Lambert says he's not taking over as the frontman for Queen, but adds “there's more stuff coming up this year.”

Brian meets Chickenfoot

Rock band Chickenfoot recently undertook a short jaunt round Europe to promote their really quite brilliant Chickenfoot III album. Brian May recently met up with them and commented: "I had a great time with these guys last weekend. And boy - what an encyclopedia of how to play great rock music. Chickenfoot rock - all real, all brilliant musicianship … all power and passion." (brianmay.com).

Origami Queen

Check out these insanely detailed and highly stylized, paper versions of Queen by People Too...

23 Queen songs in 9 minutes...

Musician Gregg M was invited as a guest in a ‘Queen evening’ and felt that a simple cover version was not the way to go. Therefore he decided to create something new and challenging, in order to entertain the audience, Gregg says it was “Like a Human Jukebox, actually …. It took a while for me  to figure out how to begin the monster and I worked it bit by bit. I separated it in several parts, each including 4 or more songs and then put the pieces together, just like a giant musical jigsaw puzzle. Two days later, and something like 20 hours of musical work of writing, rehearsing and demoing, I sent a draft to my singer (who’s with me in my band, The Sunchase, as well as my ‘twisted covers concept’, the Guest-Sessions) and we rehearsed it bits by bits some days later. We decided it would be more fun if we did not have any chart on stage so we worked really hard to remember everything and went onstage at ‘Le Zèbre’ in Paris the week after that.”

I hope you enjoy the Queen Mashup!

Further details for Gregg M and his music are available at ;
http://www.thesunchase.net/
http://www.onemonthonesong.com/

Why Queen's Hot Space Has Sadly Always Been Luke Warm

Are you sitting down? It really hurts me to say this, but in my opinion, this is Queen's worst album. In summary 1980's disco music never really suited Queen at all...

Out of Africa...

This is a guest post by LESLEY-ANN JONES, an award-winning journalist and author with over 20 years' experience in London, New York and Hollywood. Please, please check out her book FREDDIE MERCURY: THE DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY which was revised and updated in 2011.http://lajwriter.blogspot.com