It turns out coming in second place for American Idol may not be such a bad thing. For this season’s talent competition, finalists Adam Lambert and Kris Allen teamed up with British luminaries Queen for “We Are The Champions”. Although Allen ended up sweeping the vote to be crowned the next Idol, it turns out guitarist Brian May is open to the idea of more collaboration with Lambert.
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One of our favorite beta sites these days is Buffetlibre Rewind, which hosts — legally mind you — a bunch of our favorite contemporary artists covering the “classics.” We’ve picked out three we liked (along with videos of the originals), but there are plenty more where those came from.
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