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Brian May admits Queen never thought they'd play arenas again

Queen guitarist Brian May has revealed that he thought the band wouldn't play arenas again.

The veteran rockers have toured large venues this year in countries such as the US and Australia with Adam Lambert on vocals.

They are due to take their show to Europe next year and May told the Classic Rock Magazine radio show that Lambert has given the band a new lease of life.

He said: "I would go to shows and think, ‘Well we used to do that – we used to play in arenas and whatever, but that’s never going to happen again'. I didn’t feel it in a terribly sad way. I just thought, ‘We did that, and now we do something different'.

“Suddenly we’re in the same arena again, if I can use the metaphor. How incredible that we can still do that and people still want to come and fill those arenas, and we can still rock the hell out of them. It’s very uplifting."

May was speaking after collecting the Band of the Year prize at the Classic Rock Awards on Tuesday (November 4).

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Watch Queen perform with Lambert below: