Possibly the biggest rock band in history graces AsiaWorld-Expo on September 28 as part of an Asia tour that’s taking in Japan, Singapore, Thailand and China. Adam’s amazing.ĪLEX JONES: Well “We Will Rock You” opens at London Coliseum on the 2nd of June for 12 weeks.Prepare to tie your mothers down, Hong Kong. It’s a thrill every time.ĪLEX JONES: And Adam’s a great guy. We are going to the States in the Autumn and I think, well maybe somewhere else in the Spring and maybe we get back to England after that I can’t say Europe can I? We get back to Britain and possibly Europe as well.īRIAN: But I mean there’s no plans right now. Their music has inspired me, educated me and seen me through some very tough times in my life,” A little nice message.ĪLEX SCOTT: Michelle says “Is there any chance of another Queen and Adam Lambert tour here in the UK?”īRIAN: Well it’s not long since we did it, of course. I am now 46 and still listen to them and see Queen and Freddie as role models. Thank you very much.ĪLEX JONES: Alexis says “I first saw Queen when I was 10. He makes his horse all the time It’s the sword that puts them off, yeah. Do people courtesy on the streets?īRIAN: They should. We should, I feel like we should all bow.ĪLEX: Yeah. First of all though we would like to say “Congratulations: Sir Brian, on the Knighthood. Now we have had loads of messages for all three of you.
All those years ago and I’m going to be working with Roger to sing ‘Days Of Our Lives’ and with Brian.ĪLEX JONES: Fantastic. Roger’s going to come in and work with me a bit on it and that will be just WOW. I’ve obviously got somebody I can go to and that is an amazing privilege. I get to sing a Roger Taylor song.īEN: As I say we can’t wait I’ll tell you
So I’m very pleased to be 50 years later making my second performance. I’m making my West … I haven’t been in a musical since I was in an amateur production of “Oliver”, playing The Artful Dodger with the Godalming Theatre Group in 1973. I mean I auditioned this bloke playing “The Rebel Leader“ and I was very impressed. Lee Mead, I know of course from Andrew’s “Joseph” and there’s a there’s an old codger. You’ve got, what, Brenda Edwards, Lee Mead…īEN: Brenda Edwards she did two years for us at the Dominion when we did 12 years there, fantastically. They’re not normal, full-on comedies as well as the greatest rock song book in history.ĪLEX SCOTT: Well you’ve got some familiar faces in it. Because although musicals are fun, I love them. Its, and perhaps that’s what makes it a bit different from most musicals. It has to be laughter and that was really the first pitch.,which they came to me and said: “We want to make it funny and it is funny. I think that’s the reason that Queen have been such a cultural Colossus for so many decades that people feel uplifted in the presence of the music and so the musical had to do that too and for that it has to be humorous. The whole idea is that people should should come together and celebrate our common Humanity. There’s always been such glee and such joy and fun, you know. Now just for the people who haven’t seen it, tell us how the story works with the songs that we all know and love well.īEN: WelI think the key, the reason I was the luckiest writer in Britain and got the gig – got invited to to put a show together for Queen’s theatrical debut, was because they wanted a comedy, because Queen have always had this wonderful sense of humour. Dominion.ĪLEX JONES: Well this is … coming back to the West End, Ben, and people would be delighted. And so we’ve really had a lot of fun and brought a lot of pleasure I think in the years that the three of us collaborated…. ROGER: Well it’s … I wasn’t …it’s not that I I wasn’t really a fan of musicals but of course we we tried to make it a real rock and roll musical which is why we felt we needed somebody funny like Ben and who had this sort of revelatory idea, I think, walking in the park one day. What, it started in 2000, but what do you actually – you weren’t a fan at the start right? You can actually do it with the audience and they would get it.ĪLEX SCOTT: … So many of the songs are celebrated in the musical. So yeah it’s lovely and you get the feeling you don’t really need the instruments. I mean ‘Rock You’ and ‘Champions’ are a kind of staple for the end of the show and you kind of know it’s going to score and you know people will be happy at the end if they weren’t already. I would have to say ‘We Will Rock You’, especially as this is the moment where we’re relaunching the musical, which is named after that song. BRIAN: You know I still love playing them all I have to be honest.
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