'Rhapsody Tour’ Reunites Adam Lambert And Queen To Honor Late Frontman Freddie Mercury

Dec 10, 2018 by apost team

After the success of their last tour, Queen, joined by Adam Lambert, will be hitting the road again sometime soon. They are going to be touring with American Idol for six months. Recently, the movie Bohemian Rhapsody, starring Rami Malek, came out. It's essentially a documentary on the band and a biopic of Freddie Mercury, the frontman who died an early death due to AIDS.

This tour, in the wake of the movie's success and the sudden resurgence of interest in Queen, is appropriately titled the Rhapsody Tour. Lambert will be singing lead vocals on the tour and original Queen members Brian May and Roger Taylor will also join.

Earlier this year the band had a smaller tour in Las Vegas which had ten sold-out shows. This tour is going to have 23 dates all around the United States and Canada, starting on July 10, 2019, in Vancouver, BC and ending on August 23 in Charlotte, NC (surely many of them will also be sold out). Tickets go on sale December 7.

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Set designer for Stufish Entertainment Architects, Ric Lipson, has promised that this tour will be even more of a spectacle than the last. Apparently, the shows will be interactive. The singer will also be well-rehearsed; this isn't the first time Adam Lambert has joined Queen on vocals. This relationship goes back to 2009 when he joined them during the American Idol finale.

The band members were also giddy about the visual aspect of the upcoming tour. They can't stop talking about the ambition behind it. Imagine how Freddie Mercury would feel knowing that decades later, Queen is still making the charts. What an indescribable happiness that would be!

Even though it was just released, Bohemian Rhapsody is already the highest grossing music biopic in history. Some fans took issue with the movie, however. Critics tended to love the lead actor Rami Malek but some fans felt his portrayal of the main character was less than perfect.

The movie faced a tumultuous production. Bryan Singer, the director, was fired from Fox in the middle of the movie. Dexter Fletcher, the man directing Elton John's biopic, was hired to replace him. Some fans did not like his alterations, either.

For example, Freddie was portrayed as homosexual rather than bisexual. The timing of his AIDS diagnosis was off relative to other events in the film. But overall the movie was a success and made over $540 million, making it the highest grossing music biopic in the US and worldwide.

As you might have suspected, Queen's music has gotten even more popular after the movie. Now many people, especially those in younger generations, know them for songs other than their biggest hits. It's such a joy that young people will now be influenced by Queen in some way, too!

Have you seen Bohemian Rhapsody? What did you think of the movie? Are you excited for Adam Lambert and Queen to reunite for this tour? Let us know in the comments and pass this article along to a Queen fan you know!