Queen + Adam Lambert Tour 2014–2015

Queen + Adam Lambert first toured together in 2012. The following year, 2013, Queen and Lambert only performed one concert together at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. This concert was part of the iHeartRadio Music Festival. The band were joined onstage by American band Fun for several songs. The concert was met by positive reviews.^[6]

On 6 March 2014 Queen and Lambert announced at a press conference in the United States and via QueenOnline that they would tour North America in June and July 2014 starting in Chicago including concerts at the legendary venue Madison Square Garden in New York and at The Forum in Los Angeles where the band had last performed in 1982.^[7] The tour began with an intimate performance at the iHeartRadio Theater in Los Angeles.^[8]

On 2 April it was announced that Queen would play in South Korea for the first time in their careers at the Super Sonic Festival.^[9] On the same day it was announced that Queen and Lambert would play at the same festival franchise in Japan. The last time Queen played in Japan was with Paul Rodgers eight years previously.^[10]

On 19 May it was announced that Queen and Lambert would play several shows in Australia. This was the first time that Queen had played in the country since 1985, twenty-nine years previously. Queen and Lambert were to perform one show each in Perth, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.^[11][12] On 26 May a second date at Melbourne's Rod Laver Arena was added.^[13] The following day a second date at Sydney's Allphones Arena was added.^[14] On 16 July a concert at Auckland's Vector Arena was announced.^[15] A week later a second concert at the Vector Arena was announced.^[16] On 29 September 2014, Queen and Lambert announced a European leg of the tour, including two concerts at The O2 in London on 17 and 18 January 2015.^[17]

Three special performances were played for X FACTOR UK,^[18] Helene Fischer Show on 25 December 2014,^[19] & New Year's Eve at Westminster Hall where they played Drowse for the first time at the rehearsals, London^[20] on 31 December 2014. The 85,000 tickets for each night of Rock in Rio sold out in just 3 hours.

Lady Gaga performed with Lambert and Queen singing Another One Bites The Dust during their stop in Sydney.^{[citation needed]}

List of concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, tickets sold, number of available tickets, and gross revenue

• Brian May – electric and acoustic guitars, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Love of My Life", "'39" "Teo Torriate (Let Us Cling Together)" and "Las Palabras de Amor (The Words of Love)" and co-lead vocals on "I Want It All"
• Roger Taylor – drums, percussion, backing vocals, lead vocals on "These Are the Days of Our Lives" and "A Kind of Magic" and co-lead vocals on "Under Pressure"
• Adam Lambert – lead vocals
• Freddie Mercury – vocals (pre-recorded on "Love of My Life" and "Bohemian Rhapsody")

Additional musicians

• Spike Edney – keyboards, backing vocals
• Neil Fairclough – bass guitars, electric upright bass, backing vocals
• Rufus Tiger Taylor – percussion, additional drums, backing vocals

• QueenOnline – Queen's official website.
• Adam Lambert – Adam Lambert's official website.