Queen say they "might" release some new material
15 October 2024, 13:06
Queen tease the their first newly written material in over 15 years.
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Queen's Brian May and Roger Taylor have been on several massive tours in recent years, billed as Queen + Adam Lambert and fronted by the former American Idol runner-up.
Despite the success of the collaboration and a pair of live albums, this lineup is yet to release any newly-written studio material.
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That's despite the previous incarnation of Queen – Queen + Paul Rodgers – releasing the album The Cosmos Rocks in 2008.
That record went to number five in the UK album chart but has been largely forgotten since, with both May and Taylor expressing their reservations about recording further new material without Freddie Mercury, who died in 1991.
However, in recent years they've seemed more open to the possibility, and Taylor has now told Uncut that there's a real chance of a studio comeback.
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"I think we might," Taylor said of the prospect of releasing new music as Queen.
"Brian and myself were talking the other day, and we both said that if we feel we have some good material, why not?"
He added: "We can still play. We can still sing. So I don't see why not."
Last year, Brian May openly admitted that the group had "dabbled a little" in the studio, while he acknowledged that none of the recordings have yet been good enough in his mind to release.
"We have dabbled a little. It is just that you haven't heard any of it," May was quoted by The Sun as telling a radio station in the US.
"It would have to be something so special that we would feel we would want to launch it on the public."
