Queen to return with new music? Brian May teases comeback

20 March 2025, 10:30

Queen guitarist Brian May ramps up the expectation of new music from the band.

Queen have kept pretty busy in recent years with their on-and-off touring as Queen + Adam Lambert, but this lineup is yet to release any new music.

There's not been any truly new material under the Queen banner since the successful but generally forgotten The Cosmos Rocks released by Queen + Paul Rodgers in 2008.

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There has been the occasional studio outtake from the Mercury era on various reissues, but in recent months there appears to be a ramping up of the idea that the current touring lineup could release some newly-written songs.

Brian May admitted in 2023 that the band had "dabbled a little" in the studio but suggested they had not yet come up with something worth putting out, while Roger Taylor last year added that he thinks the band might well come up with the goods.

"We can still play. We can still sing. So I don't see why not," he said.

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Now Brian has given what seems to be the strongest indication that a studio return is in the offing.

"I think it could happen," May told Mojo. "Both Roger and I are constantly writing and coming up with ideas and doing things in our studios.

"I could have the beginnings of a Queen song right there in front of me now. It’s just whether the idea reaches maturity or not. It’s whether that seed can grow."

If May is nervous about coming up with new material, it wouldn't be any different from his time writing music for Queen in the old days.

“Every time I brought a new song to the boys I'd be as nervous as hell, thinking, 'They’re gonna say it's rubbish, they're gonna hate it," May said.

"I'd always be embarrassed and apologising. That never ever went away."