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Watch Queen and Adam Lambert playing Elvis “Heartbreak Hotel”

Published on 09/04/2018

During a show in Las Vegas, Queen, who now performs with Adam Lambert as lead singer since 2011, included Elvis Presley’s cover song “Heartbreak Hotel” on the setlist.

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Queen will release the film Bohemian Rhapsody, which tells the story of the band on November 2

The song

“Heartbreak Hotel” is a song recorded by American singer Elvis Presley. It was released as a single on January 27, 1956, Presley’s first on his new record label RCA Victor. It was written by Tommy Durden and Mae Boren Axton.

A newspaper article about the suicide of a lonely man who jumped from a hotel window inspired the lyrics. Axton presented the song to Presley in November 1955 at a country music convention in Nashville. Presley agreed to record it, and did so on January 10, 1956, in a session with his band, The Blue Moon Boys, the guitarist Chet Atkins, and the pianist Floyd Cramer.

“Heartbreak Hotel” comprises an eight-bar blues progression, with heavy reverberation throughout the track, to imitate the character of Presley’s Sun recordings.

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