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Rock the Cosmos Tour

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Associated album
  
The Cosmos Rocks

Legs
  
3

Leg
  
3

Start date
  
12 September 2008

End date
  
November 29, 2008

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No. of shows
  
34 in Europe1 in the Middle East5 in South America40 in Total

Rock the Cosmos Tour(2008)
  
Queen + Adam Lambert Tour 2012(2012)

The Rock The Cosmos Tour was the second and final concert tour by Queen + Paul Rodgers, promoting their only studio album "The Cosmos Rocks". The opening date was recorded for a DVD release. which was released on 15 June 2009. The tour included one of the largest open-air concerts in Kharkiv, Ukraine which garnered 350,000 people. Over the course of the tour, they played to just short of one million viewers.

Contents

Set list

This set list is representative of the performance on 13 October 2008 in London. It does not represent all concerts for the duration of the tour.

Tour band

  • Brian May – Lead guitar, Vocals
  • Roger Taylor – Drums, Percussion, Vocals
  • Paul Rodgers – Lead vocals, Guitar, Piano, Harmonica
  • Freddie Mercury – Pre-recorded lead vocals

    • Additional musicians

  • Spike Edney – Synthesizer, Piano, Keytar, Accordion, Backing vocals
  • Danny Miranda – Bass guitar, Electric Upright Bass, Backing vocals
  • Jamie Moses – Rhythm guitar, Backing vocals, Electric upright bass on "Bass Solo" (Cardiff & Birmingham gigs only)
  • Neil Murray (replacing Danny Miranda in Cardiff & Birmingham) – Bass guitar, Electric Upright Bass on "'39"
  • Al Murray was a guest at the first O2 gig and sang "Cosmos Rockin'" with Paul.
  • Former Prime Minister of Latvia Ivars Godmanis was a guest in Riga playing the drums on "All Right Now", with Taylor on tambourine.

    • References

    Rock the Cosmos Tour Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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