Rock the Cosmos Tour
| World tour by Queen + Paul Rodgers | |
 Poster with the tour dates | |
| Location |
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|---|---|
| Associated album | The Cosmos Rocks |
| Start date | 12 September 2008 |
| End date | 29 November 2008 |
| Legs | 3 |
| No. of shows |
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| Queen concert chronology | |
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]
Set list
This set list is representative of the performance on 13 October 2008 in London. It does not represent all concerts for the duration of the tour.
- "Hammer to Fall"
- "Tie Your Mother Down"
- "Fat Bottomed Girls"
- "Another One Bites the Dust"
- "I Want It All"
- "I Want to Break Free"
- "C-lebrity"
- "Surfs Up... School's Out"
- "Seagull"
- "Love of My Life"
- "'39"
- "Bass solo" / "Drum solo"
- "I'm in Love with My Car"
- "A Kind of Magic"
- "Say It's Not True"
- "Bad Company"
- "We Believe"
- "Guitar Solo" / "Bijou" / "Last Horizon"
- "Radio Ga Ga"
- "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
- "The Show Must Go On"
- "Bohemian Rhapsody"
- Encore
- "Cosmos Rockin'"
- "All Right Now"
- "We Will Rock You"
- "We Are the Champions"
Tour dates
Box office score data
| Venue | City | Tickets sold / available | Gross revenue |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sportspaleis | Antwerp | 13,043 / 15,719 (83%) | $1,018,028 |
| O2 Arena | London | 18,687 / 18,687 (100%) | $1,294,847 |
| Via Funchal | São Paulo | 8,860 / 10,000 (89%) | $1,006,163 |
| HSBC Arena | Rio de Janeiro | 6,472 / 9,100 (71%) | $364,528 |
| TOTAL | 47,062 / 53,506 (88%) | $3,683,566 | |
Personnel
- Brian May – lead guitar, vocals
- Roger Taylor – drums, tambourine, 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"
Guests
- Al Murray was a guest at the first O2 gig and sang "Cosmos Rockin'" with Rodgers.
- 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
- ^ "Blog for queentour2005.wegotit.at".
- ^ "Everything about Queen on tour [QueenConcerts]".
- ^ "Queen + Ivars Godmanis". Queen Productions. 22 September 2008. Retrieved 4 November 2009.
- ^ "Queen News September 2008". Brianmay.com. Retrieved 4 November 2009.