Brian May says Queen won't tour again.

May told The Times he made the decision 18 months ago. "I love to play, I love to travel, but the trade-off is sacrificing your freedom," he said. "I have a wife, grandchildren and a lot of astrophysics I want to do, so I'm thinking maybe 50 years is enough." He pointed to a moment on the road when a close family friend died while the band was in the States. He told his tour manager he would nip home for a few days and come back, and she told him, "You know you can't do that." May has also backed off a Queen avatar show he spent a lot of time planning. "You can't do it without massive use of AI, with all the consequences of that," he said. Queen's last tour was the Rhapsody Tour with Adam Lambert, which wrapped in Japan in February 2024.

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