Queen are expected to play gigs in America this summer with Adam Lambert.
Drummer Brian May has revealed the band - which also features Roger Taylor - are still working together and planning to perform with Adam Lambert replacing the late Freddie Mercury as frontman.
Brian told BBC Radio 2: ''We are ongoing, we can't help it, I think we all protested too much in the sense when Freddie 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 realise that people wanna hear the songs and see us do things. So, no matter what you call it, Roger and I do do stuff and I think we'll be doing some more stuff this summer in fact, probably in the States.''
When quizzed about who will stand in as a frontman for the band, the 66-year-old musician said: ''We've been talking to Adam Lambert, you know we've already done some gigs with Adam, who is amazing.''
Brian and Roger have joined forces with 32-year-old Adam, who was the runner-up on American Idol in 2009, for a number of concerts in the past.
The band are also still ''good friends'' with Paul Rodgers, who they formed a supergroup with in 2005, but Brian said it was unlikely they would work together anytime soon.
He added: ''Paul has a career of his own and he can't do the Queen thing indefinitely.'' link
I think the whole thing whereby Queen thinks that they can contract with unconnected parties and take intellectual property out of Freddie's estate without those parties paying the full commercial value for it, does not make a lot of sense and leaves Queen and any artist attempting to be the front man of Queen open to litigation in the future (and the past).
This is particularly true if whoever fronts Queen cannot prove that they are acting in public policy taking into account alternative singers such as myself.
For example, as an alternative front man for Queen, I am genetically identical to the agent who is both Freddie Mercury and Michael Jackson, I am bionic because I have had a back operation and I consider my education to be the most expensive Government funded education of all time.
Just imagine if the rights to front Queen were available on the open market and any person could bid for them in an open public auction. In many ways if you are buying rights or property from a deceased persons estate, one way to decide the true value of those rights is to allow any person (irrespective of their legal entity) to bid for those rights at a public auction.
Just imagine if institutions and Governments could bid for those rights as well as extremely wealthy people.
If Adam Lambert had to bid for the rights to benefit from the intellectual property in the future from within Freddie Mercury's estate on the open market and bid for the rights in an auction to become the new front man of Queen despite no genetic link to Freddie Mercury, he would never be able to afford to front Queen and take property from Freddie Mercury's estate at the open market cost.
This is because Adam Lambert would not have the funds to outbid for example the United States Government if they want to elect another singer such as myself to front Queen.
Adam Lambert could actually in fact face the death penalty in the USA if he acts against USA Government policy and continues to show that he does not understand what he is doing.
If he holds himself out as being homosexual without a proper education covering areas such as gender which is endorsed by the USA Government he may face the death penalty if he continues to corrupt young and impressionable people by using a deceased persons estate which is unrelated to him and if he is unable to afford the open market cost of buying those rights from Freddie Mercury's estate.
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