The re-formed rock’n’roll royalty look set to abdicate from their throne after a five-year reign Queen + Paul Rogers …
they won’t, they won’t rock you anymore. Photograph: AFP At long last, a reunited band that are bowing out instead of ramping up. Queen + Paul Rodgers are “done”, the singer said in a recent interview, bringing an end to five years of post-mortem rocking you. “We did a world tour, we did a second tour of Europe and the Far East and eastern Europe and a [2008] studio album, and I think we’re kind of leaving it there gently,” Rodgers told VH1 Classic Radio. There has been no formal band announcement. Rodgers joined with Queen in 2004, replacing legendary frontman Freddy Mercury, who died in 1991. But while the former Bad Company leader sang Bohemian Rhapsody to millions, last year’s The Cosmos Rocks did not exactly storm up the charts. Their final release appears to be a forthcoming live CD/DVD, Queen + Paul Rodgers Live In Ukraine. “It’s out there for us to do things in the future if there’s something