QUEEN + PAUL RODGERS will release their new album,
"The Cosmos Rocks", in Europe on September 15 and the U.S./Canada on October 14 via
EMI.
Look for the first plays of the new
QUEEN + PAUL RODGERS single on UK radio next week:
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Radio 2:
"Ken Bruce Show" next Monday, August 4 between 9:30 a.m. and noon. The track will then hopefully get more airs before going into playlist the following week.
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Virgin Radio: The track will be played from noon onwards that day (Monday, August 4).
You can currently log onto the album club www.queenonline.com and are invited there to check out premier track
"Say It's Not True" (previously released at the end of last year by
QUEEN + PAUL RODGERS as a special World Aids Day download for
Nelson Mandela's 46664 HIV AIDS charity).
Video footage of
QUEEN + PAUL RODGERS performing a new song,
"C-lebrity", on the April 4, 2008 edition of the UK's
ITV "Al Murray's Happy Hour" can be viewed below. Other tracks on the new CD will include a "first" for a
QUEEN album — a cover version. The remaining tracks are all newly written by
May,
Taylor and
Rodgers during the late 2007/early 2008 recording sessions.
QUEEN's last studio album was
"Made In Heaven", released in November 1995 and containing the last recordings with
Freddie. The LP became the band's biggest selling studio album, with world sales in excess of 20 million.
QUEEN's
"Greatest Hits 1" album has achieved the distinction of being the UK's biggest selling album of all time, having sold a staggering 5,407,587 copies in Britain alone (source: VH1/The Official UK Charts Company. November 2006).
Paul Rodgers' voice is one of rock's platinum assets and as a multi-instrumentalist and songwriter as front man of
FREE and
BAD COMPANY and as a solo artist he has written, produced and recorded some of radios biggest hits.
Between them,
QUEEN and
Paul Rodgers have released more than 50 albums during their long careers and sold in excess of a staggering 300 million records.
