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Adam Lambert, Brian May and Roger Taylor — Queen + Adam Lambert — have arrived in Seoul, Korea, for the start of the Asia leg of their 2020 International Tour.  Earlier today, January 16th, they held a press conference for a wonderful 40 minutes (although a portion of that is simply the translator translating into Korean).  Thank you to gelly414 for posting the video on YouTube.

It only just occurred to us that a few days ago, New Year's Eve 2019, marked the 5th Anniversary of the epic New Year's Eve 2014 London concert extravaganza, QUEEN + ADAM LAMBERT ROCK BIG BEN LIVE!  The 13-song set was performed in the shadow of the iconic Big Ben and was broadcast live on BBC One.

So, our holiday gift to you ... let's celebrate 2020 by reliving this glorious performance from Brian, Roger and Adam ... and HAPPY NEW YEAR from all of us at AL 24/7 News!

Adam Lambert's last show of his mini US solo tour was at The El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles on December 21, 2019.  Fan (and/or Adam friend?) Cynthia Parkhurst created a video of some clips of Adam before the show and then performing onstage "Superpower."  However, the audio for the entire video is the studio version of the song.  Cynthia posted the vid to her Instagram account, after which Adam posted it to his IG, Twitter and YouTube accounts, the latter of which we present below.

Adam Lambert performed the final show of his December 2019 solo mini-tour at The El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles on Dec. 21st.  YouTube users gelly414 and y0116jp collected numerous smartphone vids and IG feeds from various attendees and compiled them all together into the first three videos presented below (note: there are a few duplicate scenes among them), in addition to the last one below, which features scenes from the after party at Adam's home in the Hollywood Hills.

At Adam Lambert's solo concert mini-tour in December, one of Adam's two background singers was none other than his co-contestant and dear friend from American Idol Season 8, Allison Iraheta.  You may recall that he endearingly referred to Allison during the Idol tour as his "kid sister."

To commemorate this wonderful onstage reunion of Adam and Allison, we present to you two versions of their epic duet performance of "Slow Ride": the first, the original from the television show and which includes the judges' critiques; and the second, an in-concert reprise that was performed throughout the Idol summer tour, this one from Columbus, Ohio, on August 25, 2009.  Enjoy!

UPDATE (12/26/19): We added two bonus videos at the bottom of the post.



BONUS UPDATE! We are including two additional videos below that feature not only Adam and Allison, but also the winner of their Idol season (and Adam's roommate during the show), Kris Allen.  Together, the three of them, who became the tightest of friends throughout Season 8, were lovingly dubbed "Kradison" by Idol fans.

Several months after the Idols summer tour was over, On Air With Ryan Seacrest held a contest called Idols, Rock My Town, which was "the result of months of voting by cities across America who all were pulling for the once in a lifetime concert" featuring co-headliners Adam Lambert, Kris Allen and Allison Iraheta.  New York "won" the contest and the concert took place on February 12, 2010 at the Highline Ballroom in NYC.

At the show, each of them did their own set (see setlist at MJ's Big Blog) and then came together at the end to perform Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy," a massive 2006 radio hit that was one rare song that the three felt could easily accommoate each of their singing styles (factoid: the mysterious Gnarls Barkley was none other than the great CeeLo Green).

The first video below was produced by On Air With Ryan Seacrest and is a clever edit of no less than eight videos taken by fans who were at the concert.  We present this amazing video thanks to one of our wonderful regular readers, tess4ADAM(LAMBERT Outlaw), who suggested adding the epic performance to this flashback post.


AND:  Look what we found!  Jim Cantiello (remember him..?!), who, at that time, was a correspondent for MTV News — and, seemingly, one of the biggest Idol fans of anyone in the media — interviewed 'Kradison' just before the show.  There were actually nine parts to this interview but we could only locate this one — but it still gives you a great sense of the Kradison cameraderie!

credit: Erik Simander/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock

From Hollywood trade newspaper, Variety: review of Adam Lambert's concert at Los Angeles' El Rey Theatre, December 21, 2019.

"...he sounded like a dream — no surprise to the faithful who continue to wonder, with good reason, why he still isn’t one of the biggest superstars in pop."

UPDATED (12/23/19):  Below are two videos of Adam on the special.  The first is from YouTube user Marcela Glambert: the picture is fine but the audio is extremely tinny.  The second is from MJ's Big Blog, where the picture is a bit too stretched out, but the audio is perfect.  If we can find one where both audio and picture are perfect, we will post it.  Also, if you missed the special, you can actually watch it in its entirety at CBS.com.  It can't be embedded, but link is below the two videos.







Original Post:  These are promos only for CBS "A Home For The Holidays" Special hosted by Idina Menzel and featuring, among others, Adam Lambert, airing Sunday, Dec. 21, 2019.  For those who don't have Twitter, the promo on Gelly's tweet below, which has Adam speaking directly into the camera, is completely different from the one on YouTube beneath it, which is a more overall look at the special.  The one in the tweet does not appear to be posted on YouTube.

Adam's part only 😍 pic.twitter.com/aqiuIQdgsj

— GELLY (@4Gelly) December 20, 2019

We are gleeful to present yet another video from the Live Sessions (iHeartRadio?) of Adam Lambert's new EP/album, VELVET: SIDE A....

Billboard recently published three items about Adam Lambert.  The first was a week ago when they published "100 Best Songs Of 2019: Staff List."  Billboard Senior Editor Andrew Unterberger wrote about Adam's "Superpower":

"Leading off his excellent 2019 EP Velvet: Side A, Adam Lambert's "Superpower" is one of the pop/rock powerhouse's most natural fits yet, a sleek electro-rock growler that stuns with both strength and finesse. Not like it really required much of a stretch for a guy currently serving as the frontman for Queen to embrace a 21st-century version of stomping, arena-sized glam rock, but it's still heartening just to hear how much Lambert seems to have found his musical sweet spot."

"It appears that touring with Queen only helped make Adam Lambert better. The first half of his solo project Velvet (the second is due out in 2020) shows audiences a more mature, refined version of the glam rock star they came to know on American Idol. Lambert refuses to box his sound in, gliding between soulful ballads (“Closer To You”), ‘70s funk (“Overglow”) and his classic pop-rock sound (“Superpower”). It’s all in the title — Lambert’s EP is a smooth as velvet."

"On a rainy Monday night in New York City (Dec. 16), Glamberts from all around the tri-state area gathered together in the Lower East Side's Bowery Ballroom, now transformed to resemble the interior of a shimmering disco ball, to watch their favorite glam-rock star deliver a stunning show. The crowd varied from tweens to elders (one woman wore a shirt stating "Nana Loves Adam"), all waiting for Adam Lambert to strut his way onto the stage."