Adam Lambert returning to 'American Idol'
The former San Diego vocal dynamo will guest Feb. 18 & 19 on the TV series that made him famous. A tour with Queen may be looming.
Adam Lambert is returning to "American Idol."
The
former San Diego vocal dynamo will guest on the TV series that made him
a national star on Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb. 18 and 19. His
second-place finish in 2009 earned him a major label record contract, a
devoted following and a spot as the lead singer in the legendary English
rock band Queen, which may embark on a U.S. concert tour with Lambert
later this year. (We'll have more on that in a moment.)
Lambert
and 2006 "Idol" alum Chris Daughtry will be featured together on
Tuesday and Wednesday's editions of the show. Both will serve as mentors
on "Boot Camp," a new competition phase of the show that will be
overseen by former "Idol" mainstay Randy Jackson. The camp is a two-day
workshop designed to familiarize viewers with this year's 30 "Idol"
semi-finalists before the show's live episodes begin airing and the
viewer voting period kicks off.
It
remains to be seen if this season will also see the return of other
"Idol" alums, such as Chula Vista native Jessica Sanchez, who came in
second on the show in 2012 and released her debut solo album last year.
However,
the show's two new executive producers, Evan Prager and Jesse
Ignjatovic, appear amenable to such a possibility. "We're always open to
that," they told The Hollywood Reporter last month. "We collectively
love the idea of bringing previous 'Idols' back to the show."
Now, back to the possibility of Lambert touring with Queen.
In
an interview last week on England's BBC Radio 2, Queen guitarist Brian
May suggested that U.S. shows with Lambert could happen as soon as this
summer.
After collaborating
with two of Queen's three surviving members for one song on "Idol" in
2009, Lambert first performed in concert in 2011 with Queen, whose
original lead singer, Freddie Mercury, died in 1991. Lambert also
performed a a few shows with Queen in 2012 and another with the band
last fall in Las Vegas. He seems to fit in well with May and Queen
drummer Roger Taylor.
"We've
been talking to Adam Lambert," May told BBC Radio 2. "You know, we've
already done some gigs with Adam, who is amazing. We (Queen) 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 realize 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."
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