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The timing was appropriate. On Valentine’s Day, Queen’s Web site (www.queenonline.com) announced that guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor were officially kicking off rehearsals with ex-Bad Company front man Paul Rodgers for a tour under the Queen name.

After 18 years, Queen are going back on tour. But how have their lives changed? And can these middle-aged rockers really succeed without Freddie..?

WHEN QUEEN, the biggest and most theatrical British act of the Seventies and Eighties, announced yesterday they were going back on the road, the question all true Queen fans were asking was: who would fill the spangled leotards left empty by Freddie Mercury’s death from Aids in 1991?