Queen + Rodgers make progress on new album

The Queen + Paul Rodgers album is taking shape. The band, which features the former Bad Company and Free frontman on vocals, plans to release the set, called The Cosmos Rocks, later this year. Its the first new studio album from Queen since singer Freddy Mercury died in 1991.

According to RollingStone.com, the first single, "C-lebrity," sounds like a mixture of Free's "All Right Now" and Queen's "Somebody to Love." Other tracks include "We Believe," and "Call Me," which May says sounds like it would fit right in on Queen's 1974 album Sheer Heart Attack. As for having Rodgers serve as frontman in Mercury's place, he says Mercury would have been fine with it. May says, "I feel like he's still very much part of the band. We reference him every day. He always really enjoyed Paul's work. He used to have a go at me in the studio when I tried to have him sing bluesy stuff. He'd say, 'Brian, you're trying to make me fucking sound like Paul Rodgers, and I can't do it!'"

Queen + Paul Rodgers will tour Europe in the fall.
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