Brian May says Queen “have been in the studio” and are “very keen” on playing Las Vegas Sphere

Brian May has given an update on the future of Queen. Find all the details below.

The legendary band are currently celebrating the 50th anniversary of ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, while looking ahead at their future.

Speaking to Rolling Stone, May and Roger Taylor have now revealed that the band won’t be wrapping things up any time soon.

“I don’t think we’re done,” Taylor said. “And I don’t think we’re gonna say, you know, final farewell tour or whatever. ’Cause it never is, is it?”

Adam Lambert took on frontman duties in 2011, most recently playing with the rock legends on their huge ‘Rhapsody Tour’, which concluded in Tokyo in 2024.

In the same interview, May went on to reveal that Queen have worked on new music with Lambert, though they’re not sure it will go anywhere. “Not many people know, but Adam and we have been in the studio trying things. Nothing really materialised so far. Some things are meant to be and some things are not.”

He then added that the band have considered bringing their live show to The Sphere in Las Vegas. “ I’m very keen on the Sphere. It’s got my mind working,” he said.

The futuristic state-of-the-art venue opened in 2023 and has since hosted residencies from the likes of U2, Phish, The Eagles and the Backstreet Boys. May explained that it was seeing a performance from The Eagles in particular that inspired him.

“I sat there watching the Eagles, thinking, ‘We should do this. The stuff that we could bring to this would be stupendous.’ So, yeah, I would like to do it. We’re having conversations,” he said.

It’s not the first time the band have teased new music, with May saying earlier this year, “I think it could happen.” It followed similar comments from Taylor last year, who was asked if the band could potentially record and release any new material. “I think we might,” he responded.

“Brian and myself were talking the other day, and we both said that if we feel we have some good material, why not? We can still play. We can still sing. So I don’t see why not.”

The previous year, May revealed that Queen had “dabbled a little” in making new music with Lambert. “It is just that you haven’t heard any of it,” the guitarist said. “It would have to be something so special that we would feel we would want to launch it on the public.”

Lambert then acknowledged the “pressure” involved in Queen returning with new material. “If they’re going to put something out that’s new, it’s got to be at a certain level,” he explained. “It has to be the right thing. And I’ve always said, ‘Is it appropriate for me to be doing new material?’ I feel like it scares me.”

In 2021, May said making new Queen music “would have to be a very spontaneous moment” – but confirmed that recording sessions had taken place.

He added: “Actually, Adam, Roger and myself have been in the studio trying things out, just because things came up. But up to this point, we haven’t felt that anything we’ve done has hit the button in the right way.

“So it’s not like we’re closed to the idea, it’s just that it hasn’t happened yet.”

Lambert also opened up about his experience performing with Queen in 2020, saying that he “didn’t want to do an impersonation” of Mercury: “Freddie and I are different. We look different, we have had different experiences.”

Queen’s 15th and final studio record, ‘Made In Heaven’, was released in 1995 following the death of frontman Freddie Mercury in 1991.

In 2022, they shared a rediscovered track featuring Mercury’s vocals, ‘Face It Alone’.

In other Queen news, Brian May recently opened up about his fears that he would never play guitar again following suffering a stroke last year.

Meanwhile, last year Queen released a newly mixed, mastered and expanded reissue of their 1973 self-titled debut album.

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