Adam Lambert to hit Atlanta as Queen frontman?

By Project Q Atlanta | Feb 3, 2012 | 3:33 PM

Glambertini’s rejoice! The U.K.’s Daily Star confirms that rockin’ gay “American Idol” alum Adam Lambert will tour this summer with Queen and says that he is honored to pay tribute to personal hero Freddie Mercury.

“The intention is to pay tribute to Freddie and the band by singing some fucking great songs,” Lambert reportedly says. “It’s to keep the music alive for the fans and give it an energy that Freddie would have been proud of. There’s no intention in my mind of replacing Freddie. That’s impossible.”

It’s a rumor that MTV News and Rolling Stone have been dangling for days. Lambert first played with Queen at the 2009 “American Idol” finale, and after a November performance in Belfast at the MTV Europe Awards with Queen’s Brian May and Roger Taylor (photo) followed by some effusive praise from Taylor in the press, hopes were high that the veterans would take on Lambert. Now the dream appears to be a reality.

The report throws out a few concert dates, including one at Knebworth, where Queen played their last concert with Mercury in 1986. If and when the tour hits the U.S. behind Lambert’s “Tresspassing” album dropping on March 20, there’s little worry they’d skip Atlanta, which provided two-nights of Adam euphoria during Lambert’s Glam Nation tour, and was the pitstop of a long-weekend vacation for him that found the singer mixing with gay fans at Blake’s.

We wait with baited breath.