While he switches to a Red Special copy, John Deacon gets to play the bass solo as it's heard on the record - the one and only time he has the chance to do it. Part way through his vocal exchange with the audience in Now I'm Here, Freddie says, "C'mon, we're gonna make you sing like Aretha Franklin." At the end of the successful duel, he jokingly says, "Right, you can join the band!" The r&b influence is never more evident than it is here, and it makes for a classic version of the song.īrian breaks a string just before his guitar solo in Dragon Attack. Before launching into the familiar piano theme, he asks the audience in a moment for the ages, "Are you ready?" And in excitement, "Huh? Are you ready brothers and sisters?" The version captured here on film is surely one of his best. His intro is different every night, as is his solo spot towards the end. Somebody To Love has been a vocal adventure of Freddie's for the past couple years. This is Staying Power." For some reason part of the speech was removed for the CD release of "Live At The Bowl." Without a doubt this is his definitive live delivery of the song, pulling off all of the stops. People get so excited about these things! We just wanna try out a few songs. That doesn't mean we've lost our rock and roll feel, okay? I mean it's only a bloody record. For what it's worth we're gonna do a few songs in the funk/black category, whatever you call it. There are also extras from 1982 shows in Vienna and Tokyo.Īfter a great version of Play The Game, Freddie essentially apologizes to the audience for much of the latest album's content: "Now most of you know that we've got some new songs out in the last week.
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The DVD is a beautiful document of Queen's show at the time, packed full of classic Queen moments. The 2004 official release of this show (both on CD and DVD) is called "Queen On Fire: Live At The Bowl". Both the Milton Keynes and Wembley shows would eventually be released on DVD uncut.
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An even shorter version (about 50 minutes long) of the Milton Keynes video was shown on UK TV in 2001 (and many times since). The video was edited by Gavin Taylor, who was later invited by the band to direct the now famous video at Wembley Stadium in 1986. A shortened video was shown on UK TV on a show called "The Tube" in January 1983 (omitting Action This Day, the bit of Las Palabras de Amor, Back Chat, Get Down Make Love, part of the guitar solo, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Another One Bites The Dust, and Sheer Heart Attack), and on MTV in the US in August 1983 (the latter was a simulcast, with the audio being broadcast on FM radio in stereo, on the west coast, at least). Lemonade bottles were then thrown at the guitarist which he tossed back into the audience. Their guitarist, Julian Cope, stood before about 40 thousand Queen fans and introduced the next song as being probably the best song they had ever heard, prompting someone near the stage to throw a toilet seat at him, which missed (people are known to bring cameras and certain substances to concerts, but toilet seats?). The Teardrop Explodes were among the bands (the same line-up as last week in Leeds) who opened for Queen at this show. An early tour itinerary listed two London shows (June 4 and 5) on the agenda.
It was originally intended for the band to play this concert at Arsenal Stadium in Highbury, but it was moved to Milton Keynes for the same reason the Leeds show wasn't played at the famed Old Trafford. It's also worth noting that the band wanted to play at London's famous Royal Albert Hall as well, but the plan was never orchestrated as there was much fear that the weight of Queen's lighting rig would make the ceiling cave in.
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