Queen and Adam Lambert have announced an epic return to Glasgow later this year.

Both acts will be heading for the SSE Hydro for a phenomenal concert on December 3.

Just weeks after announcing a 26-date summer tour of North America, Queen and Adam Lambert revealed today further live plans for 2017 which will now see the band return to Europe for a series of 24 dates including 12 arena concerts in the UK and Ireland.

The tour is expected to showcase a spectacular new stage production and a setlist, which the band hints will provide some surprises.

These shows will mark the band’s first full British tour in almost three years, having last performed across the UK in January 2015 when they played ten sold out shows.

Performance material will undoubtedly acknowledge this year’s 40th anniversary of Queen’s biggest-selling studio album to date, News of the World from 1977, which yielded the immortal anthems ‘We Will Rock You’ and ‘We Are the Champions’.

Queen drummer and co-founder Roger Taylor insists the 2017 tour “will look entirely different to the show we took around before.”

He said: “Production has really changed a lot, the things you can do now, you have a much broader palette. It’s 100% live.

“We’re planning on doing stuff we either haven’t done before or haven't done for a long time. We started as an albums band, that's what we were. The fact that we had hits was just a byproduct.”

Adam added: “We will probably be pulling some other songs out of the Queen catalogue which we haven’t done before, which I am very excited about.”

Tickets are priced between £78.30 and £89.65, including admin fee.

An ultimate on-stage VIP experience package will go on sale at £990, and there is also another ‘I want it all’ VIP package at £334.85.

All tickets are set to go on sale on Friday at 10am.