E Canada reports:

The legendary Queen frontman - famous for such hits as ‘We Are The Champions' and ‘Bohemian Rhapsody' - tragically died of AIDS in 1991 and now his former bandmate Brian May has revealed a biopic about his troubled life is on the way.

The guitarist told Britain's Daily Express newspaper: “There is a film in the pipeline and we're all involved in it. I'm not allowed to say much about it and casting isn't finalised but we've had some incredible offers to play Freddie. Really incredible.”

May has also lifted the lid on his next project, a new album with Queen drummer Roger Taylor.

It will be the first Queen record of new material since Mercury's untimely death.

May said, “It's going really well. Is there a track which will be a tribute to Freddie? Well, we're just writing what we want at the moment but it's all a tribute to Freddie. I mean, without him, we wouldn't be here.”

The rock band's back catalogue is already the inspiration for long-running West End musical ‘We Will Rock You' and recently a TV documentary, ‘Freddie Mercury: A Kind Of Magic', was aired to commemorate what would have been the singer's 60th birthday.

In other Queen news, Mirvish Productions plan to open We Will Rock You at the Canon Theatre (Toronto, ON) on March 14th, 2007. Tickets go on sale on November 20th.

Full details can be found at this location .

Source E Canada

Long established Swiss rocker Krokus has issued the following update:

"We have been asked by many of you what songs will be played on the European leg of the current Hellraiser Tour
You will be glad to know that the band is playing 18 songs during their dynamic set, eight of them in support of the Hellraiser album release. Here's the set order:

01. Hellraiser
02. Too Wired To Sleep
03. Hangman
04. Angel Of My Dreams
05. Long Stick Goes Boom!
06. Bad Boys Rag Dolls
07. Screaming In The Night
08. Fight On
09. Spirit Of The Night
10. Midnight Fantasy
11. Easy Rocker
12. Rock City
13. Rock 'n' Roll Tonite
14. Celebration
15. Headhunter
16. Bedside Radio
17. Eat The Rich
18. Rocks Off!

Fasten your seat belts and enjoy the show!!!"

Source Krokus

Chris Cornell, Audioslave/ex-SoundGarden frontman has told MTV that his up coming solo album will feature his cover of Michael Jackson hit "Billie Jean".

"I didn't plan on it," he said. "It just sort of happened organically. I changed the music quite a bit, I didn't touch the lyrics. And it's not a joke. I took a completely different approach to it, musically. It's like when Johnny Cash did [the SOUNDGARDEN song] 'Rusty Cage' , " on Cash 's 1996 LP "Unchained" , "and people started calling me and leaving messages saying, 'I heard the JOHNNY CASH version and the lyrics are really, really great.' No one ever told me that before. Ever. Not once. This is kind of like that. It does that to this song, because it's really an emotional song.

"The lyrical content is kind of panicky, because — well, it's a pretty bad thing, someone coming and lying to you, saying you're the father of their kid and you're not."

Source MTV