Almost as a counterpoint to the hateration against Adam Lambert that surfaced on Yahoo! Music, mainstream media sources have been saying that the out singer was signing on to be Queen’s new lead singer.As Rolling Stone reported on Friday:
Adam Lambert is reportedly the new singer for Queen, replacing the American Idol winner’s own late idol, Freddie Mercury. Lambert broke the news to the U.K.’s Daily Star.
“The intention is to pay tribute to Freddie and the band by singing some fucking great songs,” he said. “It’s to keep the music alive for the fans and give it an energy that Freddie would’ve been proud of.”
Queen previously toured with former Bad Company singer Paul Rodgers taking Mercury’s place.
But it appears the rock mag and others got it wrong—or at least jumped the gun. Lambert is in talks to perform with the band again, as he did in the American Idol finals in 2009 and at the MTV EMAs, at Europe’s traveling Sonisphere festival. But nothing 
has been said about him joining the band on a permanent basis.
“The Daily Star item only mentions that Adam may perform with Queen at Sonisphere,” says a rep from Hollywood Records. “This is not confirmed. Nothing has been signed.”
Lambert—whose new album, Trespassing, drops in March—distanced himself from the rumors this weekend on Twitter:
“Oooh them clever reporters takin my quotes outta context…. I haven’t confirmed any guest appearances. I was talking about the EMA’S.
That being said, I’m truly flattered by your jump to such glorious conclusions mr journalist!! :)”
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And, perhaps more importantly, do you think all this Glambert news—from the Yahoo! comments to the Queen gossip—was whipped up by Lambert’s publicity team to help promote Trespassing?
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Mike UK
the Daily Star is another one of those newspapers where the only thing printed in it that you can believe is the date, even then I’d check a calendar!
Riker
I’m not sure what I would think of this. Lambert definitely has the vocal range and stage presence to be an adequate successor to Freddie, but i’m concerned that his own style would clash with the rest of the band’s, rather than complementing it.
Then again, Freddie pushed the boundaries of his time, and Adam Lambert does the same thing today. Its possible that if they mesh well, he could be a great new permanent frontman for Queen.
Cam
This was probably floated either by his publicist or Queen’s publicist to test the waters and see if they could drum up some publicity.
ScaryRussianHeather
No. The Yahoo comments (and comments EVERYWHERE) have been hateful since day one. It’s just that Glamberts got smart about how to make Glaad earn some of that donation money by pounding on them to do something. Considering the author always brags about idoling Lambert and gets unlimited access, it’s abhorrent that Yahoo continues to allow those comments after he kindly gives hours of interviews to her. The least they could do (if they CARED) would be to disable comments.
Adam will never be a permanent front man for Queen. He enjoys his still-new solo career and creative freedom as executive producer of his tours, even if they’re are much smaller than Queen’s. Last year he played same venues as Gaga did for her first album, and will continue to grow with his audience. One offs with Queen is the perfect way to get more mainstream exposure and fight the anti-Idol stigma, which is probably a bigger stigma than his sexuality, tbh.
wtdp
I would love to see a few big dates with Queen, but not permanently, that would be a silly move for him to make at this point in his career, besides, he is way too driven to do his own music. As to whether the rumor was publicity-driven, who knows. He is brilliant at marketing himself! Nothing wrong with that – Lady Gaga said she “studied fame”. It is never boring to be a fan of Adam’s.
JayKay
So he made up this rumor to try and drum up publicity for his inevitably terrible new album, then says the press is misquoting him. God he’s pathetic.
Jeff
I agree JayKay. Queen sucks without the openly bisexual singer Freddie Mercury.
pickles
Is it too obvious that Prince Poppycock SHOULD be the one to re-ignite this roll for Queen? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M5FcdDYnMc
TASTEY GOODIES
ADAM LOVES CREATING HIS OWN MUSIC AND STAGE PERSONNA SO WHY WOULD HE WANT TO BE THE FRONT MAN FOR QUEEN? HE LOVES BEING HIS OWN PERSON AND HE HAS STATED IN INTERVIEWS THAT HE IS HUMBLED THAT QUEEN WANTED HIM AT THE EMA’S. TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, QUEERTY, HE WOULD BE A GODSEND.
kah
@JayKay: On what do you base your assumption that Adam Lambert would deliberately start a rumor for publicity? And why do you assume his new album will be terrible? If you don’t like pop music or his singing fine, but why so nasty?