This was the band's first headlining international tour and featured a far larger equipment. The famous 19th and 20th November 1974 concerts at the Rainbow Theatre have been professionally filmed, and both the video and some extraordinary photographs by Richard Paul-Jones (link) provide some nice insight into what they used at the time.

Additions were a lot of piano-based songs, plus a short excerpt from Bring Back That Leroy Brown on which Brian swiftly changed, with help from his roadie Richie Anderson, from guitar to ukelele-banjo, and then back to guitar.

Percussion

Roger's Ludwig kit
Roger's Ludwig kit
Drum kit
  • Ludwig 26" x 14" bass-drum.
  • Ludwig 14" x 7.5" snare drum.
  • Ludwig 16" x 16" and 20" x 20" floor toms.
  • Ludwig 12" x 12" rack tom.
  • Meazzi 14" x 14" rack tom.
  • Zildjian 15" hi-hats.
  • Paiste 15", 16" and 18" crash cymbals.
  • Zildjian 16" and 20" crash cymbals.
  • Zildjian 22" ride cymbal.
  • 3 x Cowbells.
  • Ludwig stands.
  • Shaftesbury stands.
  • Ginger Baker sticks.
  • Bass-drum logo: black crest / white background.
Tambourine
  • Unknown
Triangle [Killer Queen]
  • Unknown
Roger's mics
  • AKG D19 for the toms

Guitars

Brian's Red Special
Brian's Gibson Les Paul
Electric six-string guitars
  • BHM bespoke [main]
  • Gibson Les Paul Deluxe orange sunburst [spare]
  • Fender Pre-CBS Stratocaster black [second spare]
Guitar rig
  • 9 x Vox AC30 amplifiers
  • Cornish bespoke effect [trebe-booster]
  • Maestro tape-delay
  • fOXX foot pedal [phaser]
  • Vox foot pedal [wah-wah]
Ukelele-banjo [Leroy Brown]
  • Sheltone (on the record, Brian played Bring Back That Leroy Brown with an Abbot Monarch, which was the brand George Formby used and which his father had since before Brian was born. Brian was hesitant on taking such a valuable instrument on the road so he took a cheap West German banjolele (made in Japan) instead.

Bass guitars

Fender Precision '65
Fender Precision '68
Electric bass guitars [used interchangeably]
  • Fender Precision 1965 (e.g. 10.12.1974).
  • Fender Precision 1968 (e.g. 08.12.1974).
Bass rig
  • 2 x HiWatt amplifiers.
  • 2 x 4" x 12" Sound City cabinets.
Public Address system
  • 2000 W RSE PA
  • Bison Echorec
  • Akai cassette machine

Pianos

Freddie's Steinway at Rainbow
Freddie's Baldwin in Germany
Piano
  • Depending on the venue