These setlists look fucking amazing. Civil War and Motivation? Hope they bring this show to the UK soon...

Having given this a bit of thought... a Queen/Lambert collaboration could work, but they would really need to put some thought and effort into it.

1) Record a new album. A karaoke act isn't going to cut it. Call it Restoration, or Jubilee, or something. Be cocky. Queen was never self-effacing.

2) Move heaven and earth to get Deacon involved. Two old guys trading off their band name with some session musicians and an American Idol singer = not going to cut it. Deacon's endorsement - even if it was limited to studio work and writing credits - would make a huge difference.

3) If you can't get Deacy, get a bass player who's an active participant in the band, not just a session guy milling around the back of the stage in a black t-shirt. Given that the backing vocals were a key component in the Queen sound, why not add something new to the mix? As mentioned upthread, Bowie's old bassist Gail Ann Dorsey would be good - she did the Freddie vocals on Bowie's live version of Under Pressure, so would add a bit of oomph to the songs live.

4) ROCK. People are going to be expecting the 80s pop-tinged Queen with Lambert fronting the band - he can do the showtunes and the big ballads, but can he belt out a Tie Your Mother Down or a Hammer to Fall? Prove it with the first track - make it the heaviest thing Queen's ever done.

5) Collaborate. All those artists who claim to have been influenced by Queen? Time for them to put up or shut up. Get Dave Grohl to co-write a rock track, Axl to pen a piano ballad, Lady Gaga to come up with a pop track. Hell, ask one of them to produce the thing.

6) Put a bit of Freddie in there - complete one of his unreleased tracks as a duet with the new singer. Kisses to the past, and all that.

Do all of that, and it might - MIGHT - just work.

Made in Heaven was pretty good, I thought – certainly the most thematically consistent of Queen's records. But yeah, you could hear where they were papering over the gaps in the material. I'd love to have heard Face it Alone completed, but there just isn't the material available to do it justice. Maybe as a duet with a new singer, but the fans would blow a gasket.

And I'm impressed with Adam Lambert's performance. I'd happily watch him if he went on tour with Queen – though I'd rather they didn't just do a karaoke-style run through of the old hits, I'd like to see them do a full album together. He's the only person I've seen who has the showmanship and the voice to perform Freddie's material, and I'd be prepared to give him a fair chance. Rather him than Paul Rogers or Robbie Williams or the various others they've tried over the years.

It'd be nice if Queen and Lambert actually got a bassist to record with them in studio rather than just having a session guy on tour. Ideally Deacon, but someone like Gail Ann Dorsey might be good (and could bolster the backing vocals a bit!).

Slash is on fire on that disc. The band are... passable. Like a pub band. And I can't stand Myles - sorry, I just find his singing voice really irritating. If Slash were to hook up with the VR guys and get Chester Bennington on vocals - pretty much the only guy with the vocal range and the venom to spit out Axl's lyrics - I would be a very happy camper. But I just can't be having with all this solo stuff.

Or if Axl would just swallow the bile and do a couple of songs with the old team at the R&RHoF - especially with Slash on form like this - that would make my day.

It should've been a single. With a video in which Buckethead emerges from a chicken coop atop that same cliff from November Rain, aces the solo and is then beamed up by the mothership to return to his home planet, his work here on Earth done.