Idol Top 36
At the kick-off to season 8, Adam Lambert was a clean-faced contestant among a sea of hopefuls, but it didn't take long before he secured a spot in the Top 36 and then the Top 13.
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Top 13 Party
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Getty Images As a kid, Lambert's performing experience began in the theater at his San Diego area elementary school. Lambert eventually graduated to a bigger stage with a role in Wicked.
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Top 4 Performance
Image Credit: Photo Credit: FOX By Top 4 week of season 8, Adam Lambert, seen here performing Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love," had already broken out the studded leather jacket, blue hair dye and over-the-top theatrics to establish himself as something truly different.
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Idol Finale
Image Credit: Photo Credit: FOX Adam Lambert’s custom made get-up fit perfectly with KISS’s kitschy style as the artists performed together at Nokia Theater L.A. Live for the American Idol season 8 grand finale in May 2009.
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2009 AMA’s
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Getty Images The openly gay musician pushed the limits with his overtly sexual jaw-dropping performance of “For Your Entertainment” featuring dancers wearing bondage leashes and in close proximity to Lambert's crotch. But the piece de resistance was when Lambert kissed his keyboard player Tommy Ratliff half-way through the song.
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Club Nokia Show
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Getty Images Lambert demonstrated his affinity for showmanship on the Glam Nation 2010 Tour while performing at Club Nokia on December 16, 2010 in a custom top hat and floor-length purple suede trench coat with feather epaulettes.
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Performance with Queen
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Getty Images Adam Lambert and Brian May of Queen performed a medley of the legendary British rock band's songs at the 2011 MTV Europe Music Awards in Belfast, Ireland — a preamble to a run of shows they're planning for summer 2012.
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2011 AMA’s
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Getty Images The American Idol alum returned to the AMAs as a presenter in 2011. After sparking a wave of controversy with his same-sex kiss on national television, that allegedly had him “banned” from the show, Lambert was welcomed back with open arms.
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20th Annual Elton John AIDS Foundation Oscar Viewing Party
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Getty Images The American Idol season eight runner-up and his Finnish beau Sauli Koskinen walk the white carpet at the 20th Annual Elton John AIDS Foundation's Oscar Viewing Party in February 2012.