Rock the Cosmos Tour

Rock The Cosmos Tour

World tour by Queen + Paul Rodgers
Associated album	The Cosmos Rocks
Start date	12 September 2008
End date	29 November 2008
Legs	3
Number of shows	40
Queen tour chronology Queen + Paul Rodgers Tour (2005-06) Rock the Cosmos Tour (2008) Queen + Adam Lambert Tour 2012 (2012)

The Rock The Cosmos Tour was the second and final concert tour by Queen + Paul Rodgers, promoting their only studio album "The Cosmos Rocks". The opening date was recorded for a DVD release. which was released on 15 June 2009. The tour included one of the largest open-air concerts in Kharkiv, Ukraine which garnered 350,000 people. Over the course of the tour, they played to just short of one million viewers.

Setlist

Main set

1. "Cosmos Rockin'/Surf's Up...School's Out!" [intro tape]
2. One Vision
3. "Tie Your Mother Down"
4. The Show Must Go On
5. "Fat Bottomed Girls"
6. "Another One Bites the Dust"
7. "Hammer to Fall"
8. "I Want It All"
9. "I Want to Break Free"
10. "A Kind Of Magic"
11. "Seagull" (Paul Rodgers solo)
12. "Love of My Life"
13. "'39"
14. "Bass Solo" (Danny Miranda + Roger Taylor)
15. "Drum Solo" (building the drum kit)
16. "I'm In Love With My Car"
17. "Say It's Not True"
18. "Bad Company"
19. "We Believe"
20. "Guitar Solo"
21. "Bijou" (with Freddie Mercury studio vocals)
22. "Last Horizon"
23. "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
24. C-lebrity
25. Feel Like Makin' Love
26. Radio Ga Ga
27. "Bohemian Rhapsody" (Pre-recorded vocals and piano part by Freddie Mercury - taken from Queen's 1981 Queen Rock Montreal DVD, with lead vocals by Paul Rodgers for the hard rock section. Rodgers then duetted with the Montreal recording of Mercury for the "outro" section, which then allowed the audience to sing the final "Nothing really matters to me" line before Rodgers repeated it in a slightly varied way. The final (original studio vocal line) "Any way the wind blows" line was then heard while Mercury took a bow for the crowd on the big screen. Spike Edney played the "outro" piano part)

Encores:

28. "Cosmos Rockin'"
29. "All Right Now"
30. "We Will Rock You"
31. "We Are the Champions"
32. "God Save the Queen" [tape]

Other songs

• "Wishing Well" (Kharkiv, Moscow)
• "Shooting Star" (Kharkiv, Moscow)
• "Warboys" (Moscow, Riga, Berlin)
• "Time to Shine" (Antwerp)
• "The Stealer" (Zurich)
• "Las Palabras De Amor" (Barcelona, Madrid, Santiago, Buenos Aires)
• "Tavaszi Szel Vizet Araszt" (Budapest)
• "Blue Danube Waltz" (Vienna)
• "Voodoo" (Newcastle, Manchester, London, Dubai, Santiago)
• "Maybe It's Because I'm a Londoner" (London)
• "Under Pressure" (Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Rio)

Tour dates

Date	City	Country	Venue
Europe
12 September 2008	Kharkiv	Ukraine	Freedom Square
15 September 2008	Moscow	Russia	Olimpiyskiy
16 September 2008
19 September 2008	Riga	Latvia	Arena Riga
21 September 2008	Berlin	Germany	Berlin Velodrome
23 September 2008	Antwerp	Belgium	Sportpaleis
24 September 2008	Paris	France	Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy
26 September 2008	Rome	Italy	Palalottomatica
28 September 2008	Milan		Datchforum
29 September 2008	Zurich	Switzerland	Hallenstadion
30 September 2008	Katowice	Poland	Spodek
1 October 2008	Munich	Germany	Olympiahalle
2 October 2008	Mannheim		SAP Arena
4 October 2008	Hannover		TUI Arena
5 October 2008	Hamburg		Color Line Arena
7 October 2008	Rotterdam	Netherlands	Ahoy Rotterdam
8 October 2008	Esch-sur-Alzette	Luxembourg	Rockhal
10 October 2008	Nottingham	England	Nottingham Arena
11 October 2008	Glasgow	Scotland	Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre
13 October 2008	London	England	The O2
14 October 2008	Cardiff	Wales	Cardiff International Arena
16 October 2008	Birmingham	England	National Indoor Arena
18 October 2008	Liverpool		Echo Arena Liverpool
19 October 2008	Sheffield		Sheffield Arena
22 October 2008	Barcelona	Spain	Palau Sant Jordi
24 October 2008	Murcia		Estadio de La Condomina
25 October 2008	Madrid		Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad
28 October 2008	Budapest	Hungary	Budapest Sports Arena
29 October 2008	Belgrade	Serbia	Belgrade Arena
31 October 2008	Prague	Czech Republic	O2 Arena
1 November 2008	Vienna	Austria	Wiener Stadthalle
4 November 2008	Newcastle	England	Metro Radio Arena
5 November 2008	Manchester		Manchester Evening News Arena
7 November 2008	London		The O2
8 November 2008			Wembley Arena
Middle East
14 November 2008	Dubai	United Arab Emirates	Dubai Festival City
South America
19 November 2008	Santiago	Chile	Estadio San Carlos de Apoquindo
21 November 2008	Buenos Aires	Argentina	Estadio José Amalfitani
26 November 2008	São Paulo	Brazil	Via Funchal
27 November 2008
29 November 2008	Rio de Janeiro		HSBC Arena

Box office score data

Venue	City	Tickets Sold / Available	Gross Revenue
Sportspaleis	Antwerp	13,043 / 15,719 (83%)	$1,018,028
O2 Arena	London	18,687 / 18,687 (100%)	$1,294,847
Via Funchal	São Paulo	8,860 / 10,000 (89%)	$1,006,163
HSBC Arena	Rio de Janeiro	6,472 / 9,100 (71%)	$364,528
TOTAL		47,062 / 53,506 (88%)	$3,683,566

Tour band

• Brian May – Lead Guitar, Vocals
• Roger Taylor – Drums, Percussion, Vocals
• Paul Rodgers – Lead Vocals, Guitar, Piano, Harmonica
• Freddie Mercury – Pre-recorded Lead Vocals

Additional musicians:

• Spike Edney – Synthesizer, Piano, Keytar, Accordion, Backing Vocals
• Danny Miranda – Bass Guitar, Electric Upright Bass, Backing Vocals
• Jamie Moses – Rhythm Guitar, Backing Vocals, Electric Upright Bass on "Bass Solo" (Cardiff & Birmingham gigs only)
• Neil Murray (replacing Danny Miranda In Cardiff & Birmingham) - Bass Guitar, Electric Upright Bass on "'39"
• Al Murray was a guest at the first O2 gig and sang "Cosmos Rockin'" with Paul.
• Former Prime Minister of Latvia Ivars Godmanis was a guest in Riga playing the drums on "All Right Now", with Taylor on tambourine.