Queen guitarist Brian Could has reiterated that new music from the band is not past the realms of chance.
“I believe it may occur,” he tells Mojo journal. “Each Roger [Taylor] and I are consistently writing and arising with concepts and doing issues in our studios.
“I may have the beginnings of a Queen music proper there in entrance of me now. It’s simply whether or not the thought reaches maturity or not. It’s whether or not that seed can develop.”
This is not the primary time the band – who have not launched a brand new album since 1995’s closing assortment with Freddie Mercury, Made In Heaven – have spoken about the opportunity of new music. However regardless of working with two singers within the years since Mercury’s dying – Paul Rodgers and Adam Lambert – solely dwell albums have resulted.
In 2023, whereas talking on US Radio, Could revealed that Queen had “dabbled a bit of” in making new music with Lambert, who turned the band’s new frontman in 2011.
And final yr, Throughout an interview with Uncut, drummer Taylor was requested Queen if deliberate to launch any new, unique materials sooner or later.
“I believe we would”, he responded. “Brian [May] and myself had been speaking the opposite day, and we each stated that if we really feel now we have some good materials, why not? We are able to nonetheless play. We are able to nonetheless sing. So I don’t see why not.”
Final month, Could launched a brand new Gibson SJ-200 12-string acoustic guitar with a efficiency and interview on the Gibson Storage in London.
“It’s a dream come true, as quickly as I held the guitar I assumed ‘that is what I would like’,” stated Could. “It has such presence and such a ravishing breadth of sound. Gibson has finished probably the most lovely job, it has the beautiful photo voltaic system on it, together with Mercury, however a very powerful factor is it sounds huge.
“It’s very conventional old fashioned expertise, not made with AI or mechanised in any approach. I take incredible satisfaction in it and I’m very honoured to have labored with Gibson. From the times once I used to gaze enviously on the guitar catalogues, sitting there with my dad, I want he was right here to see this superb fusion of the collaboration we’ve made.”