Queen haven’t any intentions of performing in America once more as a result of the nation “is a harmful place in the intervening time”, guitarist Sir Brian Might has claimed.
Queen’s Brian Might says it is unlikely the band will ever tour America once more
The 78-year-old guitarist is dismayed by what’s going on within the USA underneath President Donald Trump’s second time period, and he does not imagine the legendary rock band’s followers will ever see them Stateside once more.
Talking to the Eden Confidential column within the Day by day Mail newspaper, Brian stated: “America is a harmful place in the intervening time, so you must take that into consideration.
“It is very unhappy as a result of I really feel like Queen grew up in America and we adore it, but it surely’s not what it was. Everyone seems to be considering twice about going there in the intervening time.”
Queen final carried out in America in 2019 after they have been on The Rhapsody Tour with singer Adam Lambert.
The final time Might and drummer Roger Taylor, 76, performed stay collectively was in September 2025 after they carried out Bohemian Rhapsody on the Final Night time of the Proms, marking the hit single’s fiftieth anniversary. The duo have been accompanied by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and theatrical tenor Sam Oladeinde on vocals.
Might – who suffered a stroke in 2024 which triggered a lack of management in his left arm, however from which he has now recovered -recently vowed to by no means carry out at Glastonbury as a result of culling of badgers on Worthy Farm, the pageant web site in Somerset, South West England.
The We Will Rock You hitmaker – who based the Save Me Belief which campaigns for the rights of foxes and badgers – stated: “I would not do Glastonbury subsequent yr due to the politics of the individuals who run it, except that modifications, I will not do it.
“They like killing badgers, they usually assume it is for sport and that is one thing I can not help as a result of we have been attempting to save lots of these badgers for years, and they’re nonetheless being killed for years, in order that’s the rationale we’re lacking out on it.”
Glastonbury founder and dairy farmer Sir Michael Eavis, 90, beforehand branded Brian a “hazard to farming” and criticised him for his opposition to the badger cull, which is aimed toward stopping the unfold of bovine TB in cattle.
