On Feb. 25, less than 24 hours after their killer opening performance at the 2019 Oscars, Queen + Adam Lambert, as the revived glam-rock group calls itself, announced the release of a new documentary, The Show Must Go On: The Queen + Adam Lambert Story.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">So excited about our documentary “The Show Must Go On - The Queen + Adam Lambert Story” airing on <a href="https://twitter.com/ABCNetwork?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ABCNetwork</a> on April 29th!! <a href="https://twitter.com/QueenWillRock?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@QueenWillRock</a></p>— ADAM LAMBERT (@adamlambert) <a href="https://twitter.com/adamlambert/status/1100125439048146944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 25, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The two-hour special will air on ABC on April 29 and feature, according to the press release, "rare concert footage and exclusive, revealing portraits of the band members offstage." The film will tell the story of Queen's remaining founding members, guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor, bringing on Lambert on lead vocals to rebirth the group in 2012, following their first performance together on the "American Idol" stage in 2009, when Lambert was a contestant on the show.
In addition to offering fans the story directly from the group's members, the documentary will also feature insight from Lambert's family, former Idol judge Simon Cowell, Foo Fighters' Taylor Hawkins and Bohemian Rhapsody lead Rami Malek.
Malek portrayed the late Queen frontman Freddie Mercury in the biopic that swept the Golden Globes and last night's Oscars, where Malek won for Actor In A Leading Role. Bohemian Rhapsody currently stands as the highest-grossing music biopic of all time.
Queen + Adam Lambert will embark on a previously announced North American arena tour this summer with 23 shows across the country.
