{"id":168356,"date":"2026-03-19T17:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T17:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/168356\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T17:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T17:18:09","slug":"paul-rodgers-makes-public-debut-as-queens-lead-singer-106-5-the-arch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/168356\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Rodgers makes public debut as Queen\u2019s lead singer \u2013 106.5 The Arch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag-9.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid w-100 wp-post-image\" alt=\"ABCAudio ThisDayInHistory v03 ag\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>On This Day, March 19, 2005 \u2026<\/p>\n<p>Queen and Bad Company frontman Paul Rodgers performed together at Nelson Mandela\u2019s 46664 charity concert in George, South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>While the two acts had previously collaborated for Queen\u2019s October 2004 induction into the U.K. Music Hall of Fame, the Mandela concert marked the public debut of what was dubbed Queen + Paul Rodgers.<\/p>\n<p>They performed Queen classics \u201cWe Are The Champions,\u201d \u201cWe Will Rock You,\u201d \u201cCrazy Little Thing Called Love and \u201cRadio Gaga,\u201d as well as the Bad Company tracks \u201cCan\u2019t Get Enough,\u201d and \u201cFeel Like Makin\u2019 Love,\u201d as well as \u201cAll Right Now,\u201d by Rodgers\u2019 former band, Free.<\/p>\n<p>That same year, Queen + Paul Rodgers launched a world tour, which hit North America in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Queen released one album with Rodgers, The Cosmos Rocks, in 2008, followed by the Rock The Cosmos tour.<\/p>\n<p>The collaboration between Queen and Rodgers ended in 2009, when Rodgers left to reunite with Bad Company.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On This Day, March 19, 2005 \u2026 Queen and Bad Company frontman Paul Rodgers performed together at Nelson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123,9870],"class_list":["post-168356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168356","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=168356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}