The Queen + Adam Lambert Tour 2014–2015 was a worldwide concert tour by British rock band Queen and American singerAdam Lambert during 2014 and 2015. Following on their 2012 tour and their appearance at the 2013 iHeart Radio Music Festival, the band announced a 2014 tour of North America. Following the overwhelming success of their North American tour, it was expanded to Australia, New Zealand and Asia in the autumn, then Europe in early 2015. A tour of South America took place in September 2015. According to Pollstar, the complete tour 2014–2015 grossed $68.7 million, ranked number 35 in the top 100 worldwide tours in 2014 and number 46 in 2015.
Background
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. 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. The tour began with an intimate performance at the iHeartRadio Theater in Los Angeles. On 2 April it was announced that Queen would play in South Koreafor the first time in their careers at the Super Sonic Festival. 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. 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. On 26 May a second date at Melbourne's Rod Laver Arena was added. The following day a second date at Sydney's Allphones Arena was added. On 16 July a concert at Auckland's Vector Arena was announced. A week later a second concert at the Vector Arena was announced. 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. Three special performances were played for X FACTOR UK, Helene Fischer Show on 25 December 2014, & New Year's Eve at Westminster Hall where they played Drowse for the first time at the rehearsals, London 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.
Set lists
Tour dates
List of concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, tickets sold, amount of available tickets and gross revenue
Cancelled dates
Tour band
Brian May – electric and acoustic guitars, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Love of My Life", "'39" "Teo Torriate " and "Las Palabras de Amor " 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"
