Adam Lambert and Queen are scheduled to
make an announcement next week.
According to ABC
Radio, the announcement will be made Thursday morning at New York
City's famed Madison Square Garden.
“It's safe to assume that this will
serve as a kickoff for some kind of concert event or series,” the
outlet reported.
In an interview earlier this month with
BBC
Radio 2, Queen guitarist Brian May discussed upcoming plans for
the band and hinted at a possible reunion with Lambert, who fronted
for the British band in a series of highly successful European shows
in 2012.
“We are ongoing, because we can't
help it,” May said. “I think we all protested too much in the
sense when Freddie [Mercury] went and we didn't want to talk about it
and didn't want to be Queen for a while. But after a while you
realize that people wanna hear the songs and see us do things. So,
no matter what you call it, Roger [Taylor] and I do do stuff and I
think we'll be doing some more stuff this summer in fact, probably in
the States.”
“We've been talking to Adam Lambert,”
May said of a possible frontman. “You know we've already done some
gigs with Adam, who's amazing.”
(Related: Ben
Whishaw to play Freddie Mercury in upcoming biopic.)