Queen + Adam Lambert Tour 2014–2015
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Queen + Adam Lambert with touring musicians, L-R: Neil Fairclough, Rufus Tiger Taylor, Adam Lambert, Brian May, Roger Taylor and Spike Edney
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| Start date | 19 June 2014 | ||||||
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| End date | 30 September 2015 | ||||||
| Legs | 5 | ||||||
| No. of shows | 24 in North America 3 in Asia 8 in Oceania 25 in Europe 6 in South America 66 in total |
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The Queen + Adam Lambert Tour 2014–2015 was a worldwide concert tour by British rock band Queen and American singer Adam 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.
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 Korea for 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.
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