Fresh from being awarded to dubious honour of creating the catchiest song in the world, iconic glam rock band Queen may have sold somewhere in the vicinity of 300 million records worldwide, but they never truly recovered from the loss of their frontman, Freddie Mercury, who died after a long but very private battle with AIDS in 1991.

In 2004, Paul Rodgers stepped up to the plate to perform vocal duties for the band however that relationship was never permanent and ended in 2009. Since then original members Brian May and Roger Taylor have been planning a comeback, quitting their label of almost 40 years EMI in 2010 and signing instead with Universal.

Now in an interview with Britain’s Daily Express, guitarist May has revealed their intention to tour again saying “We talk about going out on the road all the time but there’s a bit of a singer problem to put it mildly. We get a lot of offers to work with other people. I worked with Lady Gaga and she’s very creative and is someone we’ve talked about singing, fronting the band with.”

May also told the newspaper that Queen are also considering bringing in several guest vocalists to give renditions of Queen’s hit tracks as part of a TV show. “We have talked about doing duets with other people and in a strange way I almost pressed the yes button,” he said. “We were debating the idea of a TV show where we have all these guest stars. We didn’t press it today but we are still looking at it. Lady Gaga has said she would like to do something with us.”

Lady Gaga is reportedly a huge fan of the band, performing with May at the MTV VMA’s as her alter ego Jo Calderone in August last year. Even her name, Gaga, is derived fromQueen’s 1984 hit ‘Radio Ga Ga’. Watch this space for further developments.

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