Queen and Adam Lambert honor global COVID-19 ‘Champions’

LONDON – Queen and singer Adam Lambert have a information for employees on the frontline of the COVID-19 combat: “You Are the Champions.”

Brian May possibly, Roger Taylor and Lambert just lately collected practically to report a new model of the Queen classic, “We Are the Champions.”

“You Are the Champions” was released early Friday on all streaming and obtain providers, with proceeds heading to the Environment Health Organization’s COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund.

“I believed, this is a fantastic way to use the legacy that we have to do some great in the earth,” May possibly claimed.

“You know, we really don’t genuinely will need to make dollars anymore. We really don’t will need to be any far more well known. We will need to use what we have in the greatest feasible way.”

For May possibly the release comes at a time of fantastic sadness. The guitarist before this week dropped a close friend who he likened was like a brother to him, to the virus.

“That’s the closest it’s arrive to me physically,” he claimed, adding it’s given serious meaning to the dying tolls broadcast every day on television.

“Each just one of all those is a loved ones tragedy,” May possibly claimed. “Each individual just one of all those men and women lose a loved just one.

“I think psychologically the human race is heading to be extremely damaged.”

For Taylor, the track also has personal significance as his daughter Rory Eleanor Taylor will work as a medical professional in a London clinic.

“She’s basically in the video with her minimal playing cards, displaying tips about isolating, etc.”

The music video demonstrates caregivers and frontline employees from throughout the earth as perfectly as vacant town scenes and the band doing in their residences.

For most men and women, the new coronavirus leads to gentle or moderate signs, this kind of as fever and cough, that clear up in two to a few weeks. For some, particularly older older people and men and women with present overall health troubles, it can trigger far more critical or deadly diseases, together with pneumonia.

Lambert, who joined the keep track of from his Los Angeles household, thinks the track genuinely hits a good take note that every person is in this with each other.

“There’s a perception of unity that is going on all over the earth, even although it’s, you know, in a detrimental, scary time,” Lambert claimed. “I think that we’re all being familiar with each and every other a minimal little bit far more ideal now. And it’s sort of leveling almost everything out a little bit.”

“It’s only via our relationship and our love for each and every other are we heading to get via it with each other,” he claimed.

The band hopes the charity single will supply some consolation following the pandemic compelled them to cancel the 27-present British isles and European leg of their greatest ever tour.

“It was quite heartbreaking to have to allow it go. We have rescheduled for up coming 12 months and we’re all crossing our fingers. We really don’t know do we? We really don’t know if it’s heading to be proper to get thousands of men and women in just one place, even in 12 months from now,” May possibly claimed.

Taylor remains optimistic that are living music will endure.

“I just cannot think that festivals and are living music won’t arrive back again. It is element of our … DNA genuinely now.”

In the meantime, Taylor and May possibly keep on being in lockdown in their respective residences in the British isles. Like many, May possibly is having difficulties with the loss of independence.

“It doesn’t get any less complicated as time receives on. It is receiving worse if something. I experience like almost everything that I worked for in my everyday living has been type of taken absent and set somewhere where I just cannot reach it,” he claimed.

It is really not all undesirable, as Taylor noted.

“I think men and women have found heaps of great points to do,” he claimed. “I think there is been a good deal far more get in touch with in people and mates.”