British rockers Queen, American jazz icon Herbie Hancock, and Canadian soprano and conductor Barbara Hannigan were honored as recipients of the 2025 Polar Music Prize at Grand Hotel in Stockholm, Sweden tonight. Swedish Idol winner (and former frontman for H.E.A.T. and Skid Row) Erik Grönwall sang “Stone Cold Crazy,” Swedish pop singer Miriam Bryant sang “The Show Must Go On,” Tobias Forge of Swedish rockers Ghost did “Bohemian Rhapsody” with Opeth guitarist Fredrik Åkesson and the Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, and Queen collaborator Adam Lambert (who is not Swedish) sang Queen’s “Who Wants To Live Forever” and “Another One Bites The Dust.”
