Queen keeps rocking with Adam Lambert No one will ever replace Freddie Mercury. [...] if some of the surviving members of Queen — guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor — insist on hitting the road again, they might as well do it with former “American Idol” star Adam Lambert. The group is celebrating the 40th anniversary of its breakthrough album, 1977’s “News of the World” — the one that includes stadium-shaking anthems such as “We Will Rock You” and “We Are the Champions.”