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 which garnered 350,000 people. Over the course of the tour, they played to just short of one million viewers.
Set list This set list is representative of the performance on 13 October 2008 in London. It does not represent all concerts for the duration of the tour.
"Hammer to Fall" "Tie Your Mother Down" "Fat Bottomed Girls" "Another One Bites the Dust" "I Want It All" "I Want to Break Free" "C-lebrity" "Surfs Up... School's Out" "Seagull" "Love of My Life" "'39" "Bass solo" / "Drum solo" "I'm in Love with My Car" "A Kind of Magic" "Say It's Not True" "Bad Company" "We Believe" "Guitar Solo" / "Bijou" / "Last Horizon" "Radio Ga Ga" "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" "The Show Must Go On" "Bohemian Rhapsody" Encore "Cosmos Rockin'" "All Right Now" "We Will Rock You" "We Are the Champions"
Tour dates DateCityCountryVenueEurope12 September 2008KharkivUkraineFreedom Square15 September 2008MoscowRussiaOlimpiyskiy16 September 200819 September 2008RigaLatviaArena Riga21 September 2008BerlinGermanyBerlin Velodrome23 September 2008AntwerpBelgiumSportpaleis24 September 2008ParisFrancePalais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy26 September 2008RomeItalyPalalottomatica28 September 2008MilanDatchforum29 September 2008ZürichSwitzerlandHallenstadion1 October 2008MunichGermanyOlympiahalle2 October 2008MannheimSAP Arena4 October 2008HanoverTUI Arena5 October 2008HamburgColor Line Arena7 October 2008RotterdamNetherlandsRotterdam Ahoy8 October 2008Esch-sur-AlzetteLuxembourgRockhal10 October 2008NottinghamEnglandNottingham Arena11 October 2008GlasgowScotlandScottish Exhibition and Conference Centre13 October 2008LondonEnglandThe O2 Arena14 October 2008CardiffWalesCardiff International Arena16 October 2008BirminghamEnglandNational Indoor Arena18 October 2008LiverpoolEcho Arena Liverpool19 October 2008SheffieldSheffield Arena22 October 2008BarcelonaSpainPalau Sant Jordi24 October 2008MurciaEstadio de La Condomina25 October 2008MadridPalacio de Deportes de la Comunidad28 October 2008BudapestHungaryPapp László Budapest Sportaréna29 October 2008BelgradeSerbiaBelgrade Arena31 October 2008PragueCzech RepublicO2 Arena1 November 2008ViennaAustriaWiener Stadthalle4 November 2008NewcastleEnglandMetro Radio Arena5 November 2008ManchesterManchester Evening News Arena7 November 2008LondonThe O2 Arena8 November 2008Wembley ArenaMiddle East14 November 2008DubaiUnited Arab EmiratesDubai Festival CitySouth America19 November 2008SantiagoChileEstadio San Carlos de Apoquindo21 November 2008Buenos AiresArgentinaJosé Amalfitani Stadium26 November 2008São PauloBrazilVia Funchal27 November 200829 November 2008Rio de JaneiroHSBC Arena
Box office score data VenueCityTickets sold / available Gross revenueSportspaleisAntwerp13,043 / 15,719 (83%)$1,018,028O2 ArenaLondon18,687 / 18,687 (100%)$1,294,847Via FunchalSão Paulo8,860 / 10,000 (89%)$1,006,163HSBC ArenaRio de Janeiro6,472 / 9,100 (71%)$364,528TOTAL47,062 / 53,506 (88%)$3,683,566
Personnel Brian May – lead guitar, vocals Roger Taylor – drums, tambourine, 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"
Guests Al Murray was a guest at the first O2 gig and sang "Cosmos Rockin'" with Rodgers. Former Prime Minister of Latvia Ivars Godmanis was a guest in Riga playing the drums on "All Right Now", with Taylor on tambourine.
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