Rock the Cosmos Tour

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.^[1] 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.^[2]

Setlist

Main set

1. "Cosmos Rockin'/Surf's Up...School's Out!" [intro tape]
2. One Vision
3. "Tie Your Mother Down"
4. The Show Must Go On
5. "Fat Bottomed Girls"
6. "Another One Bites the Dust"
7. "Hammer to Fall"
8. "I Want It All"
9. "I Want to Break Free"
10. "A Kind Of Magic"
11. "Seagull" (Paul Rodgers solo)
12. "Love of My Life"
13. "'39"
14. "Bass Solo" (Danny Miranda + Roger Taylor)
15. "Drum Solo" (building the drum kit)
16. "I'm In Love With My Car"
17. "Say It's Not True"
18. "Bad Company"
19. "We Believe"
20. "Guitar Solo"
21. "Bijou" (with Freddie Mercury studio vocals)
22. "Last Horizon"
23. "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
24. C-lebrity
25. Feel Like Makin' Love
26. Radio Ga Ga
27. "Bohemian Rhapsody" (Pre-recorded vocals and piano part by Freddie Mercury - taken from Queen's 1981 Queen Rock Montreal DVD, with lead vocals by Paul Rodgers for the hard rock section. Rodgers then duetted with the Montreal recording of Mercury for the "outro" section, which then allowed the audience to sing the final "Nothing really matters to me" line before Rodgers repeated it in a slightly varied way. The final (original studio vocal line) "Any way the wind blows" line was then heard while Mercury took a bow for the crowd on the big screen. Spike Edney played the "outro" piano part)

Encores:

28. "Cosmos Rockin'"
29. "All Right Now"
30. "We Will Rock You"
31. "We Are the Champions"
32. "God Save the Queen" [tape]

Other songs

• "Wishing Well" (Kharkiv, Moscow)
• "Shooting Star" (Kharkiv, Moscow)
• "Warboys" (Moscow, Riga, Berlin)
• "Time to Shine" (Antwerp)
• "The Stealer" (Zurich)
• "Las Palabras De Amor" (Barcelona, Madrid, Santiago, Buenos Aires)
• "Tavaszi Szel Vizet Araszt" (Budapest)
• "Blue Danube Waltz" (Vienna)
• "Voodoo" (Newcastle, Manchester, London, Dubai, Santiago)
• "Maybe It's Because I'm a Londoner" (London)
• "Under Pressure" (Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Rio)

Tour dates

Box office score data

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.^[3][4]

References