Who is Paul Rodgers?

Mr.Jingles79 wrote:

I mean, George Michael was perhaps the only possible decent choice if it ever came to Queen touring again with someone. Paul Rodgers just doesn't seem work for me, but I might give it a listen if I have the chance.

Oh, yeah! If it were George touring with Brian and Roger... I'd go see that. His name would probably attract more people than Paul Rodgers.

They'll definately rock a hell of a lot harder with Rodgers than with George Michael.
Rodgers easily has one of the best hard rock voices ever and I think they will stick to that genre on the tour. Not to mention I think Paul is a little more respectable in the music world than a guy caught in a public washroom....well I think you know where that's going.
This isn't a full on Queen tour, we will get to hear some Free and Bad Company which I'll take over "Wake Me Up Before You Go Go" any freaking day.

That`s the other legend about Queen: The first is 1) Queen can continue without Freddie 2) the second is: Queen was a hardrock band - it wasn`t, they just tried to incorporate every style (and usually only Brian May was interested really in hardrock stuff).

And I don´t see why a no-name like Paul Rodgers (Im sure most people haven`t even heard about his band or his songs) should be better than George Michael, at least he his a worlwide known pop star (something Paul Rodgers never will achieve).... by the way I like ROCK and POP Music.

Goddammit!! I can't believe this "Radioactive" dude is gonna be it for awhile. I used to dig his pipes back in the day, but I'm thinking, now?? I'd rather hear Liza f'ing Minnelli. Well, maybe not. Did anybody hate "The FIRM" as much as I did back in the 80's? Hey, does this guy even play the piano? Or are they gonna do that fifth beatle thing. Please somebody with sense call that guy from Queen For A Day to do the vocal trip for a bit or two with Brian and Roger. It might just be more convincing. All right now!!!

Paul Rodgers = "No-name"?

Better known than Peter Cetera, I'd venture to suggest.

Also, as Queen fans, did none of you wonder who that bloke on the Smoke On The Water sleeve was? Or for whom Brian was playing on the Muddy Waters album? Or who was singing All Right Now (obscure track that THAT fucking is) at the end of the Guitar Expo show back in 1991?

Honestly, some of you people make Americans look worldly...

I knew of Paul Rodgers before I knew of Queen.

For some of you complaining about Paul Rodgers, listen to some fucking Free and Bad Company. And then listen to some live Queen - not studio albums, but live albums. Queen were essentially a rock band live, and that's what we're talking about here: the resurrection of Queen as a live band. There's a reason that songs like 'Nevermore', 'Lily Of The Valley', 'Jealousy', 'Leaving Home Ain't Easy', etc weren't in the set list, because they would have bored the fuck out of people.

Honestly, people have nothing better do than bitch about situations they have no control about. Queen have no one to please anymore but themselves, so if they want to have some fun and allow their fans the opportunity to share in that fun, then that's respectable enough.

Morals are morals, but this is just fucking rock and roll.

Paul Rodgers is good singer and it's really sad that some people doesn't know him...
Oh yeah - and he's Freddie's friend as Brian said, though I'm not sure that if Freddie loved his works that means that they knew each other and were friends!

i don`t know who paul rodgers is.I just wanna say i don't like the idea of somone else singing queen songs.i can understand Roger and Brian miss being on tour, for a musician touring is part of their lives, but they have to understand that there cannot be another frontman in queen,nobody can be in Freddie's place.i have wonder all these years why Roger and Brian cannot sing ? I would prefer them singing (for better or worst)rather than a "stranger"! ana.

listen, if you want to live in the past(i agree is a great place) then live in the past, but i think they have a chance to make some interesting things happen, and possibly help the queen legacy grow, but it could also turn stale like recently what happened to the doors.

We are not talking about Peter Cetera and Chicago (although they sold more records in the US than Queen - were is your fucking Rodgers on this list?)- I have just said that George Michael and 50%-Queen are way better than this Paul Rodgers-dude (EVERYONE knows Michael and he has a better voice)

and even live, Queen wasn`t just a hard rock band - watch Freddie at Earls Court or even at Wembley (Paul Rodgers only can keep up with Tie Your Mother Down - then he is finished)

FINALLY!!! Someone told me who Paul Rodgers is.

Mike, aren't Brian and Roger living in the past and using the name of the band which doesn't exists for 13 years?

AGREED, Serry Funster

<b><font color="red">Peter Cetera</b> wrote:

We are not talking about Peter Cetera and Chicago (although they sold more records in the US than Queen - were is your fucking Rodgers on this list?)- I have just said that George Michael and 50%-Queen are way better than this Paul Rodgers-dude (EVERYONE knows Michael and he has a better voice)

and even live, Queen wasn`t just a hard rock band - watch Freddie at Earls Court or even at Wembley (Paul Rodgers only can keep up with Tie Your Mother Down - then he is finished)

I get the feeling your parents made you listen to shitty music as a child, hence your username.

Regardless, you've made it quite clear that not only do you have no intent to see the band, but that you seem to have a personal vendetta against Mr. Rodgers. As you so kindly neglected to argue, what the band are doing is just rock and roll, not trying to change the world.

I'm sure Brian and Roger are sitting on their computers reading the numerous topics about Paul Rodgers, and saying to themselves, "Shit, maybe they're right. Why would we want to play with a guy we obviously have some sort of chemistry with, a guy who we both respect and like as a musician and person, whereas the fans want us to sing with George Michael."

Honestly, get a clue here, people - Brian and Roger are doing this because they want to. It is partly their music, and I'm certain they're not doing it out of disrespect for Freddie or John. They want to have a bit of fun, and I'm sure Brian and Roger aren't particularly interested in fronting a band themselves, hence the lack of solo tours.

Christ, if we have to listen to this for 4 1/2 more months, I'll gladly crawl under a rock until the bitching has stopped.

Bring forth your arguments, but don`t get personal - HeM Gordon already tried that and failed.

What everybody listens to is only his or her own affair. Certainly some Queen-fans may call most of your musical taste "shit". Since I am a Queen fan for thirteen years my musical taste can`t be so bad....

and if Brian and Roger are so convinced they ARE Queen, they should sing the songs themselves (then I would probably even go to see them ... since it would be like a Taylor/May-double-solo-concert)