{"id":117918,"date":"2026-01-30T23:35:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T23:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/117918\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T23:35:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T23:35:53","slug":"brian-may-rules-out-queen-tour-in-dangerous-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/117918\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian May rules out Queen tour in &#8220;dangerous&#8221; US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Brian May also cited reasons to no longer to play at Glastonbury. <\/p>\n<p>Legendary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hotpress.com\/queen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Queen<\/a> guitarist<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hotpress.com\/brian-may\/page\/2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Brian May<\/a> has ruled out the band touring in the United States for the foreseeable future, citing the country as too dangerous. Queen&#8217;s most recent North American tour was the Rhapsody Tour with Adam Lambert in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;America is a dangerous place at the moment, so you have to take that into account,&#8221; said May in a statement to the Daily Mail. \u201cIt&#8217;s very sad because I feel like Queen grew up in America and we love it, but it&#8217;s not what it was. Everyone is thinking twice about going there at the moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>May&#8217;s decision comes amid growing violence from<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hotpress.com\/opinion\/anti-ice-protesters-denounce-trump-at-the-dublin-spire-23126969\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> ICE<\/a> agents and concerns over mass shootings.<\/p>\n<p>May also stated badger killings as a reason why he will not be preforming at Glastonbury.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wouldn\u2019t do Glastonbury next year because of the politics of the people who run it. Unless that changes, I won\u2019t do it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They like killing badgers, and they think it\u2019s for sport and that\u2019s something I cannot support because we\u2019ve been trying to save these badgers for years, and they are still being killed, so that\u2019s the reason we\u2019re missing out on it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brian May also cited reasons to no longer to play at Glastonbury. Legendary Queen guitarist Brian May has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-117918","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-queens","12":"tag-queens-headlines","13":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}