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40 Years Ago: Queen Reach Their U.S. Peak With ‘The Game’ Tour

Queen had every reason to feel positive when they opened the world tour in support of their eighth album,  The Game , on June 30, 1980.

A 49-date U.S. run was ahead of them, the LP was released the same day and would go on to become their only No. 1 and “Another One Bites the Dust” would become their second chart-topping single from the record after “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” from the previous year.

Backstage, however, it wasn’t so straightforward. The Game – the band's  first album to feature synthesizers , albeit in a minimal manner – was a difficult record to complete. “We struggled bitterly with each other,” guitarist Brian May told Mojo in 1999. “We were all frustrated with each other. I remember [bassist]  John [Deacon] saying I didn't play the kind of guitar he wanted on his songs. We all tried to leave the band more than once. But then we'd come back to the idea that the band was greater than any of us. It was more enduring than most of our marriages.”

A total of 81 dates were booked worldwide over 17 months, including a record-breaking visit to South America and culminating with two nights at the Rock Montreal festival. As always, Queen invested heavily in putting on a memorable show, with running costs reportedly £25,000 a day, which equals about $180,000 a day in modern terms.

Synths wouldn’t begin to make an appearance at Queen live shows until 1982, which left May, Deacon, singer  Freddie Mercury  and drummer Roger Taylor continuing to focus the energy of four individuals on the challenge of replicating the feel of their multi-layered studio work.

Watch Queen Perform ‘Play the Game’ at Rock Montreal in 1981

“The flashy thing, that if it looks good and is well presented, then it can’t really have a substance," May told Melody Maker during the tour. "A couple of years ago that was at its peak, that if you had a decent light show and a good PA, that was selling out to commercialism. I think people have got over that, the groups that were successful from that period have started to go down the road we’ve gone down. If people are paying to see them, it’s worth being able to be heard properly and seen properly. It’s worth doing a complete show that people are satisfied with.”

He noted that "touring is certainly the most immediately fulfilling part of what we do, and it’s not really a big strain – mentally or physically – because we’re well organized, we know how to do it. All you have to worry about is playing well on the night. For me, it’s by far the best part of being in the band. Suddenly, life becomes simple again!”

May didn’t discuss the tensions that surrounded the making of the album album, but he did say that "on the whole, I wouldn’t have it any other way. … I think you need the balance, you need the studio to develop ideas. … But there is always somewhere new to conquer, as it were.”

Even amid the peak of interest in the States, the guitarist insisted that it wasn’t the band’s main ambition. “It’s an aim that affects everybody, even if they won’t admit it, that you’re progressing,” he reflected. "You get to play Madison Square Garden for one night, then two, then three. You’re reaching more people each time, and it’s a recognition that the people who enjoyed themselves the first time had come back and brought their friends. … Often, if you sell more records, it doesn’t mean that the quality of the record is any better, sometimes quite the opposite. But it’s something you do, another little force that propels you along.”

In the same interview, May recalled his first visit to the U.S. "We sold out a couple of nights in a small place, and I went to see Led Zeppelin at the Forum," he explained. "And I thought then, ‘Jesus Christ, if we can ever play here, that would be the ultimate dream come true!’”

Ironically, Queen’s final U.S. concert would take place in that very same venue in September 1982. By that time,  The Game  had sold 4 million copies, powered by the success of the tour. But the combined forces of changing musical tastes, the flop of the sci-fi movie Flash Gordon featuring Queen’s soundtrack , further personal issues and mainstream disapproval of Mercury’s lifestyle meant many Americans lost interest in the band.

“I remember suddenly realizing that we weren't packing them in quite as much as we used to,” Taylor said of their final appearance at the L.A. Forum in 1982. Queen had much more to offer the world during the rest of the decade, but mainstream American fans sat most of it out.

“We always assumed that we would go back,” May said in 1999. “But events overtook us. I know Freddie was very keen for that last album [ Innuendo ] to be accepted in the States. But we never got there. … Even the impact of Freddie’s death wasn't anything like as big as the impact of Wayne’s World . It wasn’t the same as in Europe.”

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The Game Tour was a concert tour by the British rock band Queen to support their successful 1980 album The Game . This tour saw the band being the first to play in South American stadiums in early 1981. In Buenos Aires , Queen drew a crowd of 300,000—the largest single concert crowd in Argentine history as of 1982 [update] . [1] In São Paulo , Brazil, the attendance was 131,000 and 120,000 on two consecutive nights. [2] This was the only tour that Queen played in Venezuela where they were due to play 5 shows in its capital city Caracas . However, after their third performance, the Venezuelan government declared an 8-day period of National Mourning due to the passing of Venezuelan former president Romulo Betancourt . The remaining two concerts were cancelled and all tickets were refunded to more than 50,000 disappointed fans.

• 1.1 North America
• 1.4 South America
• 1.5 Rock Montreal
• 2 Tour dates
• 3 Tour band
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Setlists [ ]

North america [ ].

• "Jailhouse Rock"
• "We Will Rock You (fast)"
• "Let Me Entertain You"
• "Need Your Loving Tonight" (Dropped after August 13, 1980)
• "Play The Game"
• "Death On Two Legs"
• "Killer Queen"
• "I'm In Love With My Car"
• "Somebody To Love" (Dropped after August 14, 1980)
• "Get Down, Make Love"
• "You're My Best Friend"
• "Now I'm Here"
• "Dragon Attack" (Added on August 26, 1980)
• "Now I'm Here" (reprise)
• "Rock It (Prime Jive)" (Dropped after July 11, 1980)
• "Love Of My Life"
• "Keep Yourself Alive"
• Drum/Guitar Solos
• "Brighton Rock" (finale)
• "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
• "Bohemian Rhapsody"
• "Tie Your Mother Down" Encore
• "Another One Bites The Dust" (Added on August 17, 1980)
• "Sheer Heart Attack" Encore
• "We Will Rock You"
• "We Are the Champions"
• "God Save the Queen"

Other Songs:

"'39" (Part played on September 29, 1980)

• "We Will Rock You (Fast)"
• "Play the Game"
• "Death on Two Legs"
• "I'm in Love with My Car"
• "Need Your Loving Tonight" (Dropped after December 8, 1980)
• "Dragon Attack"
• "Now I'm Here (Reprise)"
• "Fat Bottomed Girls" (Added on November 30, 1980)
• "Love of My Life"
• Guitar solo
• "Battle Theme"
• "Flash" (Added on December 6, 1980)
• "The Hero" (Added on November 29, 1980)
• "Brighton Rock" (Reprise) (Dropped after December 9, 1980)
• "Another One Bites the Dust"

Other songs

• "Imagine" (Performed on 9 December, 14 December, 16 December, and 18 December)
• "Jailhouse Rock" (dropped after February 16)
• "Get Down Make Love"
• "Rock It (Prime Jive)" (Added on February 16)
• "Fat Bottomed Girls" (Only on February 12)
• Drum/Guitar Solo
• "Vultan's Theme" (Added on February 13)
• "Another One Bites The Dust"
• "We Are The Champions"
• "God Save The Queen"
• "Need Your Loving Tonight" (On February 13 and February 19)
• "Teo Torriate" (On February 17, 18, and 19)
• "The Millionaire Waltz" (Intro only on February 18)

South America [ ]

• "Somebody To Love"
• "Need Your Loving Tonight" (Dropped after September 25)
• "Now I'm Here" (Reprise)
• "Fat Bottomed Girls"
• "Tie Your Mother Down" Encore:
• "Sheer Heart Attack" Encore:
• "Mustapha" (On February 28 and March 21)
• "Death On Two Legs" (On February 28 and March 21)
• "Killer Queen" (On February 28, March 21, September 25, October 9, and October 17)
• "Jailhouse Rock" (On March 8 and October 18)
• "Rock It (Prime Jive)" (On February 28 and March 21)
• "Back Chat" (Bassline only on October 9)

Rock Montreal [ ]

• "Somebody to Love"
• "Under Pressure"
• "Sheer Heart Attack"
• "Jailhouse Rock" Encore

Tour dates [ ]

Tour band [ ].

• Freddie Mercury – Lead vocals, piano, guitar ("Crazy Little Thing Called Love"), tambourine.
• Brian May – Guitar, backing vocals, piano.
• Roger Taylor – Drums, timpani, lead vocals ("I'm in Love With My Car"), backing vocals.
• John Deacon – Bass guitar, additional vocals

References [ ]

• ↑ "Queen's Flashy Rock" . The Washington Post . 27 July 1982.
• ↑ Henke, James (11 June 1981). "Queen Holds Court in South America" . Rolling Stone .

External links [ ]

• Queen Concerts
• Queen Live: 1980–1982

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The Game by Queen was recorded over two distinct sets of sessions, whereas in the past each album was recorded in a single block of sessions. Four tracks were largely finished during the summer of 1979, including the opening single “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” that was released seven months before the release of The Game . The remaining songs were laid down between February and May of 1980. This was not the only change to the band’s modus operandi.

Listen to Queen’s album The Game now .

There was a new place to record, Munich’s Musicland Studios, and a new co-producer in Reinhold Mack who had encouraged British acts to enjoy Giorgio Moroder’s state-of-the-art facility. All this led to something of a new “sound,” one that had been hinted at on Roger Taylor’s Jazz piece, “Fun It,” but would now find a more prominent place on the new album.

Meanwhile, the Techno, before it was called Techno, methods that Mack brought to recording also necessitated that Queen finally relent and use synthesizers, an instrument they’d hitherto been proud to avoid unless one counts the Syndrum Roger Taylor tried out on “Fun It.”

Yet before these decisions could be made there was the business, as usual, of life on the road. The Europe leg of the Jazz tour (aka Live Killers) saw the band sweep through Northern Europe, with the emphasis on their increasingly rabid German fan base, while the World or Asian leg took them to Japan. Thereafter some writing and recording was done in Munich, holidays were taken, and then all back to Germany for an August date at Ludwigsparkstadion, Saarbrücken, their biggest Euro gig, to that point, aside from the 1976 London Hyde Park extravaganza.

Having completed the British leg of this mammoth undertaking with a winter stint they called the Crazy tour – 20 shows in the UK and Ireland that culminated in a Boxing Day special at London’s Hammersmith Odeon, which was a part of the “Concerts for the People of Kampuchea,” organized by Paul McCartney and UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim.

With Christmas over, the band were immersed in pre-production and more serious business at Musicland. Co-producer Mack recalls his involvement with Queen was something of a fluke. In mid-1979 he’d eaten lunch with Giorgio Moroder who told him, “I hear you are working with Freddie Mercury .” This was news to Mack, who was finishing off a Gary Moore album in Los Angeles. Soon after Mack and Queen met up.

“Their [Queen’s] credo was, ‘this is how we are used to doing things,’” the co-producer said. “For instance, editing songs together on 2-inch tape is always a little ‘iffy.’ Moving edits ends quickly in a tape looking like a zebra crossing, which can cause problems passing the heads, losing top-end. And nobody had two or three 24-track machines around for assembly and offset editing, ending up two or three generations down. Anyway, it took a long time convincing the gentlemen to entertain the idea of punching in the whole band during tracking. After that proposition went down well and was approved as ‘not too bad,’ the workflow became much easier. I had the advantage of being a fast decision maker compared to the band. I could always try things while people were pondering delicate details.”

Both producer and band began to enjoy the challenge. In any case, the first fruits of their labours were ridiculously successful. As Mack recalls, “The band came off a tour of Japan and had some time to spend before going back to England. So it just fell into the ‘right time, right place’ category. The project did not start out as an album. It was a bunch of one- and two-week sessions. The first track we attempted was ‘Crazy Little Thing Called Love.’ Freddie picked up an acoustic guitar and said, ‘quick, let’s do this before Brian comes.’ About six hours later the track was done. The guitar solo was an overdub later on. Brian still hates me for making him use a Telecaster for the part. It was released as a pre-album single and went to No.1. That obviously helped a great deal to inspire confidence and the working relationship tremendously.”

Queen’s eclectic approach, whereby they would attempt anything from kitsch novelty to fill your boots arena rock, didn’t phase the phlegmatic German one bit. The main challenge was the band’s internal democracy. Eventually, the pieces fell into place with Mack describing his main role as encouraging “Bigger, wider, better I guess.”

The second session gave us the opening four tracks. “Play The Game” is a Freddie song featuring Queen’s first use of a synthesizer, and one that he plays, an Obereim OB-X. Sung in Mercury’s most unforced, natural voice, best suited to the openhearted message of this love song, “Play The Game” was later released as a single: the picture sleeve depicts Fred’s famous moustache and “clone” leathers for the first time – these would become trademarks. The flip-side “A Human Body” was a rarity for many years, only available on the 7” vinyl version.

Brian’s urgently metallic, “Dragon Attack” quickly became a live song, as did John Deacon’s classic “Another One Bites The Dust.” With a walking bass line, influenced by Bernard Edwards progressive riff on the legendary track “Good Times,” where staccato, mute and dead notes impart enormous drama and funky expectation, Deacon made good use of his time hanging out with Chic during the dawn of uber-disco. This was a real revelation for the quiet bass man who now added rhythm guitar, piano, some lead and handclaps while his rhythm foil Roger Taylor deadened his kit to arid with stuffed blankets. The song became a dance anthem.

Brian recalled that since “Deacy” was never going to sing his composition, Mercury hammered the vocal until his throat bled. John must have been delighted when the single not only topped the US charts, it finished as #1 on the Cash Box Year-end list, sold over two million copies and be certified Platinum.

John’s second song from the album, “Need Your Loving Tonight” (JD plays acoustic guitar) also got a US single release and figure in contemporary tours, when Brian and Roger took the background vocals, although Freddie sings the studio version to perfection.

Mercury’s “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” is from the earlier Musicland sessions. The teaser single from The Game , released on October 5, 1979, became Queen’s first American Chart-topping single. Another million-seller, Freddie wrote it in the bath at the Bayerischer Hof Hotel in Munich during one of their extensive Munich recording sessions. Inspired by Elvis Presley’s rock-a-hula style this is a slab of very good-time rockabilly with a “Sun sound.” As Mercury told the Melody Maker in 1981, “’Crazy Little Thing Called Love’ took me five or ten minutes. I did that on the guitar, which I can’t play for nuts, and in one way it was quite a good thing because I was restricted, knowing only a few chords. It’s a good discipline because I simply had to write within a small framework. I couldn’t work through too many chords and because of that restriction I wrote a good song, I think.”

Already sounding like a classic LP, though one of Queen’s shorter duration albums, The Game kicks off Side 2 with Freddie’s intro transposing to Roger’s lead vocal on “Rock It (Prime Jive),” a song that takes the band back in time. The smart nostalgia (souped-up by Mack’s extra keyboards) gives way to the bizarre and more than unsettling “Don’t Try Suicide,” a song whose message is summed up in the title. Whether the subject of the narrator’s advice is male, female, a friend of the singer or an acquaintance of the band is never clear, but the language used is very down to earth and verges on the callous, while talking a lot of sense. Freddie wrote it – who else would have?

Brian’s 1979 recorded “Sail Away Sweet Sister (To The Sister I Never Had)” is neither as dark, nor as brusque, but seems equally personal. Taylor’s “Coming Soon,” the second of the 1979 pieces on this side, is one of the drummer’s more rebellious numbers, though penned with a certain sense of tongue-in-cheek. Electronic drums and the Oberheim re-appear.

The Game ends on a somber note, with Brian’s excellent “Save Me,” a UK No.11 on release in January 1980, though once again it dates from Queen’s first foray into the Musicland facility. May succumbed to modern tech and added the synths, acoustic and electric guitars, and the backing vocals to a powerful ballad beautifully interpreted by Mercury in the key of G major. Yet Brian was no Luddite and would soon concur: “That was when we started trying to get outside what was normal for us. Plus we had a new engineer in Mack and a new environment in Munich.

Everything was different. We turned our whole studio technique around in a sense because Mack had come from a different background from us. We thought there was only one way of doing things, like doing a backing track: We would just do it until we got it right. If there were some bits where it speeded up or slowed down, then we would do it again until it was right. We had done some of our old backing tracks so many times; they were too stiff. Mack’s first contribution was to say, “Well you don’t have to do that. I can drop the whole thing in. If it breaks down after half a minute, then we can edit in and carry on if you just play along with the tempo”.

A video for “Save Me” was made at Alexandra Palace, December 22, 1979, during the day, while Queen would perform a historic show in the same venue that evening. Having got out of the 1970s intact, Queen were now very definitely – Rock Royalty. The Game topped the UK and US charts and would go on to sell an estimated twelve million copies worldwide. Bring on the 80s…

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This page is a brief summary of Queen's various tours. Shows are considered to be part of the same tour if they feature a very similar setlist, and are adjacent chronologically. The main tour name is listed first, along with the number of shows, and the individual legs of the tour are listed below. This list only focuses on proper tours, from the first UK tour (starting on 20 October 1973) to the Magic tour (ending on 9 August 1986), plus tours with Paul Rodgers and Adam Lambert between 2005 and 2020. One-off shows between 1973 and 1986 are also included, but those from outside this period are excluded as they are so numerous.

• UK (31) - 20 October 1973 to 28 December 1973
• UK (22) - 1 March 1974 to 2 April 1974
• USA (19) - 16 April 1974 to 11 May 1974
• UK/Europe (30) - 30 October 1974 to 13 December 1974
• North America (40) - 5 February 1975 to 6 April 1975
• Japan (8) - 19 April 1975 to 1 May 1975
• UK (26) - 14 November 1975 to 24 December 1975
• USA (32) - 27 January 1976 to 12 March 1976
• Japan/Australia (19) - 22 March 1976 to 22 April 1976
• UK (4) - 1 September 1976 to 18 September 1976
• North America (40) - 13 January 1977 to 18 March 1977
• UK/Europe (19) - 8 May 1977 to 7 June 1977
• North America (26) - 11 November 1977 to 22 December 1977
• UK/Europe (20) - 12 April 1978 to 13 May 1978
• North America (35) - 28 October 1978 to 20 December 1978
• Europe (28) - 17 January 1979 to 1 March 1979
• Japan (15) - 13 April 1979 to 6 May 1979
• UK (20) - 22 November 1979 to 26 December 1979
• North America (46) - 30 June 1980 to 30 September 1980
• UK/Europe (17) - 23 November 1980 to 18 December 1980
• Japan (5) - 12 February 1981 to 18 February 1981
• South America (first leg) (7) - 28 February 1981 to 21 March 1981
• South America (second leg) (6) - 25 September 1981 to 18 October 1981
• UK/Europe (30) - 9 April 1982 to 5 June 1982
• North America (33) - 21 July 1982 to 15 September 1982
• Japan (6) - 19 October 1982 to 3 November 1982
• UK/Europe (23) - 24 August 1984 to 30 September 1984
• South Africa (9) - 5 October 1984 to 20 October 1984
• Australasia/Japan (14) - 13 April 1985 to 15 May 1985
• UK/Europe (26) - 7 June 1986 to 9 August 1986
• UK/Europe (32) - 28 March 2005 to 15 July 2005
• Aruba/USA/Japan (9) - 8 October 2005 to 3 November 2005
• North America (23) - 3 March 2006 to 13 April 2006
• UK/Europe (34) - 12 September 2008 - 8 November 2008
• Dubai/South America (6) - 14 November 2008 - 29 November 2008
• UK/Europe (6) - 30 June 2012 - 14 July 2012
• North America (24) - 19 June 2014 - 28 July 2014
• Asia and Australasia (11) - 14 August 2014 - 4 September 2014
• UK/Europe (25) - 13 January 2015 - 27 February 2015
• South America (6) - 16 September 2015 - 30 September 2015
• UK/Europe (15) - 20 May 2016 - 25 June 2016
• Asia (9) - 12 September 2016 - 30 September 2016
• North America (26) - 23 June 2017 - 5 August 2017
• UK/Europe (26) - 1 November 2017 - 16 December 2017
• Australasia (10) - 17 February 2018 - 6 March 2018
• UK/Europe (16) - 7 June 2018 - 8 July 2018
• Las Vegas Residency (10) - 1 September 2018 - 22 September 2018
• North America (26) - 10 July 2019 - 23 August 2019
• Asia & Australasia (16) - 18 January 2020 - 29 February 2020

Festivals & One Off Shows (Only performances with Freddie are included)

• Sunbury Music Festival - Melbourne, Australia, 2 February 1974
• We Are The Champions Video Shoot - London, England, 6 October 1977
• Saarbrucken Festival - Ludwigsparkstadion, Saarbrucken, Germany, 18 August 1979
• 'We Will Rock You' Concerts - Forum, Montreal, Canada, 24/25 November 1981
• Saturday Night Live - New York, USA, 25 September 1982
• San Remo Song Festival - San Remo, Italy, 3/4 February 1984 (mimed)
• Montreux Golden Rose Pop Festival - Montreux, Switzerland, 12 May 1984 (mimed)
• Rock In Rio Festival - Rio De Janeiro, 12/19 January 1985
• Live Aid - London, England, 13 July 1985
• Montreux Golden Rose Pop Festival - Montreux, Switzerland, 11 May 1986 (mimed)

Queen + Adam Lambert Return For The Rhapsody Tour Across North America

Tickets Onsale Starting Friday, March 31 at 10am Local on LiveNation.com

“visions fine and sound supreme   essence of a fiery queen   doyens of the paradigm   we will rock you one more time.”   brian may  .

Having first launched their universally acclaimed Rhapsody Tour with 25 epic shows across North America in 2019, Queen + Adam Lambert are bringing their highly acclaimed production, now expanded and updated, back to where it first began. After a 4-year long hiatus, Sir Brian May, Roger Taylor and their exceptional frontman Adam Lambert have announced they will set out on a spectacular North America run this fall. Produced by Live Nation, the tour kicks off on October 4 at Baltimore’s CFG Bank Arena making stops in Toronto, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Dallas, Denver and more before concluding at BMO Stadium in Los Angeles. See full routing below. 

Brian May says, “Our last tour featured our most ambitious production ever. So we decided to rip it apart and get even more ambitious. Watch out world.”  

And Adam Lambert says: “I can’t wait to tour North America one more time with the Rhapsody tour alongside the two unbelievably talented legends that are Brian May and Roger Taylor.”  

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Queen + Adam Lambert’s 150-minute career-spanning set list celebrates the band’s extraordinary back catalogue, lining up wall-to-wall immortal anthems like “We Will Rock You”, “Don’t Stop Me Now”, “Radio Ga Ga”, and “Somebody To Love” alongside classic deep cuts and vintage fan favourites. Featuring a dazzling state-of-the-art stage design, incredible special effects and set pieces, this sense-swamping extravaganza has been blowing critics and fans away the world over. 

As with last year’s UK and European dates, the 2023 North American tour will see Queen + Adam Lambert supported on stage by their regular band members, long-serving Queen keyboard player and musical director Spike Edney, bass guitarist Neil Fairclough and percussionist Tyler Warren.  

Having extensively toured over the last few years, the Rhapsody show is forever evolving. But it remains at heart a tribute to Freddie Mercury’s majestic legacy, a confirmation of Brian and Roger’s undimmed musical prowess, plus a magnificent showcase for Adam’s vocal skills and electrifying stage charisma, all of which adds up to a glorious full-blooded celebration of one of the greatest songbooks in rock history. Read more on the story of The Rhapsody Tour so far, including the special performance opening the Platinum Jubilee concert with the late Queen herself tea cup tapping to the beat of “We Will Rock You” HERE . 

TICKETS: Tickets will be available via a general onsale beginning Friday, March 31st at 10AM local time at LiveNation.com .  

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Queen + Adam Lambert appreciate that it is an enormous task to try and stop scalpers from taking advantage of fans wanting to purchase tickets for the tour. In an effort to help minimize resale and keep ticket prices at face value for fans, the band are collaborating with the venues’ ticketing partners to restrict the ability to transfer tickets for The Rhapsody Tour so that they may only be transferred between fans at the original price. 

Fans will still have protection against unforeseen circumstances. Those who purchase tickets and are no longer able to attend their show will be able to sell their tickets at the price they paid using a face value ticket exchange, including the Ticketmaster Face Value Exchange – which is free to use for buyers and sellers. More information on how the Ticketmaster Exchange works is available here . 

Unfortunately, the states of NY, IL, and CO have laws in place which protect ticket scalpers – these laws prohibit artists from being able to restrict the transfer of their tickets to face value exchanges only. For shows in these states, Queen + Adam Lambert strongly encourage fans to only buy or sell tickets to one another on face value exchanges. More information can be found here , with more details to follow in the coming weeks.  

QUEEN + ADAM LAMBERT THE RHAPSODY TOUR 2023 DATES:   

Wed Oct 04 – Baltimore, MD – CFG Bank Arena 

Sun Oct 08 – Toronto, ON — Scotiabank Arena 

Tue Oct 10 — Detroit, MI – Little Caesars Arena 

Thu Oct 12 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden 

Sun Oct 15 – Boston, MA – TD Garden 

Wed Oct 18 — Philadelphia, PA – Wells Fargo Center 

Mon Oct 23 — Atlanta, GA – State Farm Arena 

Wed Oct 25 – Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena 

Fri Oct 27 – St. Paul, MN – Xcel Energy Center 

Mon Oct 30 — Chicago, IL – United Center 

Thu Nov 02 – Dallas, TX – American Airlines Center 

Sun Nov 05 — Denver, CO – Ball Arena 

Wed Nov 08 – San Francisco, CA – Chase Center 

Sat Nov 11 – Los Angeles, CA – BMO Stadium 

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Queen Launches A Video Game, Watch The First Trailer And Get All The Key Details

The band's big 2021 concert series was postponed due to COVID, but you can have a live music experience of sorts with the new game.

By Eddie Makuch on March 1, 2021 at 4:28AM PST

Iconic rock band Queen have released a video game that aims to give fans something they can't get right now--a live music experience. Queen: Rock Tour is out now on iOS and Android, and it's a rhythm game that invites players to experience some of Queen's most famous shows.

2021 was supposed to be a big year for Queen and live performances, as this year marks the 50th anniversary of John Deacon joining the band in 1971 as its bassist. Queen was planning a "Queen Golden Jubilee" concert with 29 dates across Europe, but it's been delayed to 2022 due to the virus. The Queen video game aims to help ease the wait for the concert series.

"Be a lockdown Rock Star! No turning back !!!" Queen's legendary guitarist Brian May said in a statement.

Featuring 20 of Queen's most famous songs--including Bohemian Rhapsody, We Will Rock You, And We Are The Champions--the game lets you perform as the band at 10 "historic" concert venues around the world like London, Munich, Houston, and Brazil.

There are more than 40 costumes to unlock, along with "exclusive images" from the Queen archives, that you can obtain by reaching certain milestones in the game.

Rock Tour was developed by Gameloft in partnership with Hollywood Records and Universal Music Group.

"Our ambition was to push the boundaries of music and gaming with a fun and rewarding experience that would put players in Queen shoes at pivotal points in their career and make them perform in real-time Queen's live music unlike ever before," Gameloft's Cedric Ratajczak said. "The creative challenge was to modernize the traditional rhythm-game genre with innovative and mobile-friendly twists inheriting from hyper-casual gaming, and with a unique and happy visual style that offers a timeless look to the band, appealing to the new generation of players."

Ratajczak said the team put "enormous attention" on the details to help make Rock Tour feel authentic. The developer said the game is aiming to set a new standard for "how band-focused music games could be executed on mobile today."

Rock Tour is free-to-play, supported by in-app purchases.

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• Jailhouse Rock ( Elvis Presley  cover) Play Video
• We Will Rock You ( Fast ) Play Video
• Let Me Entertain You Play Video
• Play the Game Play Video
• Mustapha Play Video
• Death on Two Legs (Dedicated to…) Play Video
• Killer Queen Play Video
• I'm in Love With My Car Play Video
• Get Down, Make Love Play Video
• You're My Best Friend Play Video
• Save Me Play Video
• Now I'm Here Play Video
• Dragon Attack Play Video
• Now I'm Here ( Reprise ) Play Video
• Fat Bottomed Girls Play Video
• Love of My Life Play Video
• Keep Yourself Alive Play Video
• Drum Solo Play Video
• Guitar Solo Play Video
• Brighton Rock ( Outro ) Play Video
• Crazy Little Thing Called Love Play Video
• Bohemian Rhapsody Play Video
• Tie Your Mother Down Play Video
• Another One Bites the Dust Play Video
• Sheer Heart Attack Play Video
• We Will Rock You Play Video
• We Are the Champions Play Video
• God Save the Queen ( [traditional]  cover) Play Video

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• Bohemian Rhapsody
• Death on Two Legs (Dedicated to…)
• I'm in Love With My Car
• Love of My Life
• You're My Best Friend
• We Will Rock You (2)
• Get Down, Make Love
• Sheer Heart Attack
• We Are the Champions
• Another One Bites the Dust
• Crazy Little Thing Called Love
• Dragon Attack
• Play the Game
• Now I'm Here (2)
• Brighton Rock
• Killer Queen
• Fat Bottomed Girls
• Let Me Entertain You
• Guitar Solo
• God Save the Queen by [traditional]
• Jailhouse Rock by Elvis Presley
• Tie Your Mother Down
• Keep Yourself Alive

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