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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda jam Nation. Well our Next Guest found

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Speaker 1: fame in two thousand and nine, finishing as a runner

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Speaker 1: up on American Idol. Since then, he sold over three

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Speaker 1: million albums five million singles worldwide, been the front man

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Speaker 1: for Queen since twenty eleven, replacing Freddie Mercury. His new

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Speaker 1: album High Drama is out now. It's a collection of

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Speaker 1: the most extraordinarily fabulous covers. He's here now are.

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Speaker 2: Post Hi and Let's go through the songs. I just

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Speaker 2: love the songs on High Drama. Thank You, Chandale's a local,

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Speaker 2: This is cruct Yeah, and on could You Club Me? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Oh that's great.

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Speaker 1: How did you pick your faves?

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Speaker 3: It was there was a long list to start with,

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Speaker 3: but the you know, the whole concept of this album

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Speaker 3: is to take songs and completely rework them so that

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Speaker 3: you know, that kind of helped me narrow it down.

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Speaker 3: I needed to know, like, Okay, I can do something

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Speaker 3: special with this each song. And also I wanted songs

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Speaker 3: on there that I could you know, find some personal

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Speaker 3: attachment to, you know, with the storytelling in the lyrics.

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Speaker 3: I wanted to be able to, you know, perform them

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Speaker 3: as if they were written about my life, so that

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Speaker 3: kind of helped me narrow it down even further. And

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Speaker 3: you know, I just wanted some variety on there. You know,

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Speaker 3: there's some like older throwbacks, there's some more contemporary stuff.

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Speaker 3: There's there's kind of a bunch of different genres that

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Speaker 3: we that we run in and out of, and and

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Speaker 3: I turned it all into a dramatic rock and roll fantasy.

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Speaker 2: Well you do sex on fire, and I think that

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Speaker 2: suits your voice perfectly.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you really song. I was a little

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Speaker 3: nervous about that one because the original record is like flawless,

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Speaker 3: but we took it and we kind of turned it

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Speaker 3: in this like it's a sort of a festival like

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Speaker 3: indie dance type treatment on that one. So I had

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Speaker 3: fun with that.

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Speaker 1: Were there any of the record company rejected, Like did

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Speaker 1: you say you wanted to do a Karen Carpenter or

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Speaker 1: something like that?

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Speaker 3: No, No, there were no We like. It was a

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Speaker 3: really nice process actually because once we the list down,

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Speaker 3: everybody was on board and we planned it so we

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Speaker 3: didn't waste any time in the studio doing stuff that

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Speaker 3: wasn't going to make the album.

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Speaker 2: Aga Dude didn't come up there, no crazy Frog, no

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Speaker 2: follow up might be an album of just clangers, like

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Speaker 2: a terrible novel. I have the album of a song. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: an accomplished artist like you, accomplished artists like yourself, does

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Speaker 2: an album of clangers, A dreadful song.

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Speaker 3: Flop songs that's hilarious, a pivot point. It could be interesting, be.

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Speaker 2: Interesting writing this down.

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Speaker 1: I say, are you going to be touring this?

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Speaker 3: I don't know yet exactly. I'm doing some shows we

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Speaker 3: just announced, like a big show in the UK. There's

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Speaker 3: some stuff in Europe over the summer. At some point

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Speaker 3: I will be putting a tour together. I love you know.

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Speaker 3: It's so nice to be back here after three years

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Speaker 3: ago being here with Queen right before the pandemic. I

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Speaker 3: love it down here. The energy down here is great.

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Speaker 3: Everyone's friendly, it's you know, great weather. It's always really positive,

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Speaker 3: supportive audiences. So I'd like to come back down here

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Speaker 3: and tour for sure, and.

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Speaker 2: With Queen again.

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Speaker 3: I'd like to do it solo tour again down here,

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Speaker 3: because it's been a minute. It's been since like twenty fifteen. Sure,

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Speaker 3: so that would be really fun.

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Speaker 1: When you were when you first as we said, we're

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Speaker 1: on American Idol in two thousand and nine, you were

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Speaker 1: runner up. Who who came first?

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Speaker 3: This guy named Chris Allen.

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Speaker 1: Has he gone on to have success?

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Speaker 3: I don't know if there's a ton of like mainstream seas.

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Speaker 3: I think he's still making music. He's a lovely guy,

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Speaker 3: great great talent there. When you look at it, you've

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Speaker 3: kind of like, well, you know, yeah, it depends on

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Speaker 3: how you look at it.

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Speaker 1: I think we know how.

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Speaker 2: We You're touring with Queen, You've got this, Yeah, you

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Speaker 2: got a go gig. Yeah, doing the big stuffing the

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Speaker 2: big stuff.

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Speaker 1: I wasn't aware that you were in a scene in

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Speaker 1: Bohemian Rhapsody. Very brief, very really tell us about that.

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Speaker 3: I don't have any dialogue. I'm literally when Freddy and

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Speaker 3: the band they stop at a rest stop when they're

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Speaker 3: on the bus and he uses the payphone to call Mary,

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Speaker 3: and I'm a trucker who gets out of the truck

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Speaker 3: and kind of gives them the eye and walks to

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Speaker 3: the bathroom and turns around and like, do you want

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Speaker 3: to go in the bathroom with me? So that's me,

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Speaker 3: I accused him. Yeah, well I was kind of disguised.

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Speaker 3: I had like a beard and a wigne, so I

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Speaker 3: don't really look fully like me.

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Speaker 1: But circle that story. That's amazing. Yeah, you're cracking onto

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Speaker 1: Freddy Mercury.

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Speaker 3: I mean I I I asked the director, my are

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Speaker 3: sure you don't want to do like an interior of

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Speaker 3: the bathroom shot where we like get to it. He

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Speaker 3: was like no, I'm sorry. I'm like, damn, damn, that's enough.

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Speaker 1: It still wouldn't be a speaking part, just off part.

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Speaker 3: I'd be fine with that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so this is your next this is your next pivot.

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Speaker 3: Maybe that's actually I have gotten into acting. I was

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Speaker 3: just in a film called Fairyland that premiered at sun

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Speaker 3: Dance and it's an indie film about a single gay

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Speaker 3: father raising his daughter in San Francisco in the seventies.

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Speaker 1: Are you the father?

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Speaker 3: I'm one of the father's boyfriends. Oh yeah, So I

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Speaker 3: have some scenes towards the outer half of the movie,

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Speaker 3: and I play a party boy who you know likes leather.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's not like you stretch.

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Speaker 3: The leather did not stretch. No, Yeah, that's very sick.

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Speaker 2: It's just your weekend, Adam. It's great to talk to you.

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Speaker 2: The latest album, High Drama is out now to wherever

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Speaker 2: you get your music. From and please consider our proposal.

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Speaker 2: Your album have clangers or you know, dud songs, this.

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Speaker 1: Could be anyone can sell it.

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Speaker 2: You can.

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Speaker 3: Oh, that's very sweat.

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Speaker 1: It's a very strange compliment.

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Speaker 2: But take it. I t it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I take it.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Adam