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Reviews > Queen + Paul Rodgers Music Reviews > 10-02-2008 - C-lebrity - Rolling Stone

by Chuck Eddy

3 1/2 Stars

Back in the Eighties, Queen and Bad Company both got funky trying to keep up with Billy Squier and Foreigner. And now that Paul Rodgers is filling in for Freddie Mercury, Queen's back on that terrain. Or you could imagine this is the Firm, with Brian May as Jimmy Page: tough, macho gut-bust rock propelled by synthy fills - cool! - with a lyric theme timed for American Idol and the U.S. presidential election, and massed vocals turning Queenly toward the end.