The Cosmos Rocks
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September 12, 2008 (German-speaking countries), September 15, 2008 (including the rest of Europe); October 28, 2008 (North America) |
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14th |
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58:40 |
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The Priory |
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The Cosmos Rocks is the fifteenth studio album by Queen , released in 2008, and the only studio album by Queen + Paul Rodgers . It is the first joint album by the remaining Queen members Brian May and Roger Taylor since Made in Heaven , the band's last studio album with the original line-up, released thirteen years earlier.
The album
A few months after the completion of the worldwide tours of Queen + Paul Rodgers, which began in 2005, work began on a studio album in autumn 2006. The recording sessions, each lasting several weeks, took place in Roger Taylor's studio in Surrey and lasted until 2008. The album was mastered in early August.
Brian May, Paul Rodgers and Roger Taylor sang and played all instruments themselves; only in the song C-lebrity contributed Taylor Hawkins from the Foo Fighters additional backing vocals on. Most of the lead voice sang Rodgers. The stylistic spectrum of the album includes hard rock , blues rock and ballads .
As the first joint studio release of Queen + Paul Rodgers, 2007, the ballad was released in late Say It's Not True for free on the band's official website, and then as a single in favor of Nelson Mandela's 46664 - AIDS -Benefizprojekten. In early September 2008, the hard rock track C-lebrity, also composed by Roger Taylor, was released as a pre-release single. The album The Cosmos Rocks was released in German-speaking countries on September 12, 2008, when Queen + Paul Rodgers' European tour began with an open-air concert in front of 350,000 spectators in Ukraine. Three days later, on September 15th, the album was released in most other countries; in North America, The Cosmos Rocks was only released by Hollywood Records in late October.
The trio dedicated the album to Freddie Mercury ; Queen bassist John Deacon, who was not involved in the recordings, and Paul Kossoff , the guitarist of Rodgers' former band Free , who is thanked in the first place in the liner notes . The album cover was designed by Richard Gray, who has been responsible for the design of all Queen albums since 1986. The pictures are from the photographer Edgar Martins.
The album was essentially released in three different physical formats: as a CD, as a limited deluxe edition including an additional DVD with live recordings (see list of titles below) and as a vinyl double LP. Furthermore, various online editions are offered, with an exclusive bonus track on iTunes .
The song Take Love , written by Paul Rodgers and played live as part of the North American tour in 2006, was also recorded in the studio, but not completed.
Track list
All pieces are officially named "Queen + Paul Rodgers". The actual composers are given in brackets .
- Cosmos Rockin ' (Taylor) - 4:11
- Time to Shine (Rodgers) - 4:23
- Still Burnin ' (May) - 4:03
- Small (Taylor) - 4:39
- Warboys (Rodgers) - 3:18
- We Believe (May) - 6:07
- Call Me (Rodgers) - 2:58
- Voodoo (Rodgers) - 4:27
- Some Things That Glitter (May) - 4:02
- C-lebrity (Taylor) - 3:38
- Through the Night (Rodgers) - 4:53
- Say It's Not True (Taylor) - 4:01
- Surf's Up ... School's Out! (Taylor) - 5:55
- Small reprise (Taylor) - 2:05
A cover version of Runaway , the 1961 biggest hit by American rock 'n' roll singer Del Shannon , was released as the exclusive bonus track on the iTunes edition of the album .
Single releases
Say It's Not True was released as a single on December 28 (in German-speaking countries) and December 31, 2007; the proceeds will go to Nelson Mandela's 46664 AIDS campaign.
C-lebrity was released in German-speaking countries on September 5th and worldwide on September 8th, 2008. The title was released as a CD and 7 ″ single as well as online. a. as an iTunes exclusive. Other tracks - depending on the issue - include the presentation of C-lebrity in the British television series "Al Murray's Happy Hour" as a video as well as live interpretations of Fire and Water and The Show Must Go On . Both concert recordings come from the DVD Super Live in Japan . The single reached number 33 in the British charts and 67th in the German charts.
We Believe was only released as a promo single in Italy and contains a version of We Believe shortened by almost three minutes .
Special edition with live DVD
The "Special Edition" of The Cosmos Rocks includes the bonus DVD Super Live in Japan - Highlights . This live recording shows excerpts from the concert in the Saitama Super Arena near Tokyo on October 27, 2005:
- Reaching Out (Hill / Black)
- Tie Your Mother Down (May)
- Fat Bottomed Girls (May)
- Another One Bites the Dust (Deacon)
- Fire and Water (Rodgers / Fraser )
- Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Mercury)
- Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together) (May)
- These Are the Days of Our Lives (Queen)
- Radio Ga Ga (Taylor)
- Can't Get Enough ( Ralphs )
- I Was Born to Love You (Mercury)
- All Right Now (Rodgers / Fraser)
- We Will Rock You (May)
- We Are the Champions (Mercury)
- God Save the Queen (Trad. Arr. May)
The complete concert recording - comprising 29 songs - was released in 2006 exclusively in Japan on DVD with the title Super Live in Japan .
Chart placements
| Charts | Top ranking | Weeks |
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 Germany (GfK)
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4th (7 weeks) | 7th |
 Austria (Ö3)
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11 (8 weeks) | 8th |
 Switzerland (IFPI)
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5 (7 weeks) | 7th |
 United Kingdom (OCC)
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5 (6 weeks) | 6th |
 United States (Billboard)
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47 (2 weeks) | 2 |
The Cosmos Rocks took fourth place in the “European Top 100 Albums” charts published by Billboard .
Reception by other musicians
The British singer and musical actress Kerry Ellis released a cover version of Some Things That Glitter in 2010 under the title I Loved a Butterfly . It was produced by Brian May, who also played acoustic guitar, and appeared on Ellis' debut album, Anthems . While the authors of Some Things That Glitter (as with all songs by The Cosmos Rocks ) are named 'Queen + Paul Rodgers', I Loved a Butterfly is named as sole author Brian May.
Singer and musical artist Martha Rossi recorded an Italian version of We Believe (Credimi) . Songwriter Brian May can be heard on guitar. Rossi's version appeared on her EP Musica Sarà (Label Universal ) in 2011 .
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- ^ Brian May: Works Reaching Fruition - Zodiacal Light Thesis to Cosmos Rockin '. ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Bri's Soapbox, August 1, 2008 ("Today is the day we MASTER the Queen plus Paul Rodgers album.") [Accessed September 18, 2008]
- ↑ Brian May: First Night of the Queen and Paul Rodgers Tour ( Memento of the original from February 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Bri's Soapbox, September 13, 2008. (“We just did our first show of the tour ... ... to 350,000 people in Kharkov ... I can hardly believe it ... no - that isn't a misprint! ") [accessed on September 18, 2008]
- ↑ a b The Cosmos Rocks in the British charts
- ↑ a b The Cosmos Rocks in the German charts
- ↑ austriancharts.at .
- ↑ hitparade.ch .
- ↑ a b billboard.biz .
