Sir Brian May, who was promoting his new book, Islands in Infinity: Galaxies 3-D, confessed: “We’re not talking about touring at the moment. I’m certainly not talking about touring because I’ve done 50 years of it. And I’m treasuring my time with the family at the moment and time to be able to do things like this, the astrophysics side of my life. To be able to do stuff with animals and basically spend time with my grandchildren and my animals. So that’s become very important to me. I don’t know how much longer I have left. It’s going to be finite. We know that. But to me, that’s a priority now. And I love to play. Everybody knows I love to play.”

Sir Brian added: “I love to go to places and play and meet wonderful people. I loved working with Benson Boone. What a joy, what a treasure. I loved doing the Last Night of the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall. But signing your name on a dotted line to say you’re going to be on tour for the next six months, and you cannot go home… I kind of don’t feel like doing at the moment. I like to do it in different ways where I keep control.”

By the sounds of it, there are no plans for another Queen and Adam Lambert tour anytime soon, but that doesn’t mean the one-off gig won’t happen.