General info, amplification
  The band
  Electric strings
  Acoustic strings
  Percussion
  Piano
  Keyboards

Queen
  Smile
  Early shows I
  Early shows II
  Sheer Heart Attack
  A Night At The Opera
  Summer 1976
  A Day At The Races
  News Of The World
  Jazz
  Crazy tour
  The Game + Flash
  We Will Rock You
  Hot Space
  Montreux 1984
  The Works 1984
  The Works 1985
  Live Aid
  Montreux 1986
  Magic tour
  Freddie Mercury Tribute
  Queen + PR tour 2005
  Queen + PR tour 2006

Brian May
  Back To The Light
  Another World

Magic Tour (07.06.1986 - 09.08.1986)

The last tour Queen ever did.

Percussion

Drums: Yamaha 9000 (birch shells) bass drum: 22"x14" (Remo pinstripe heads) snare: 14"x8" (Remo coated ambassador heads) toms: 12"x10", 13"x11", 14"x12" (Remo pinstripe heads) floor toms: 16"x16", 18"x16" (Remo pinstripe heads) Cymbals: Zildjian (brilliant finish) hi-hats: Avedis New Beat 15" crashes: Avedis Rock Crash 18", K Dark Crash 17" (Wembley: Z Custom Light Power Crash 17"), K Dark Crash 19" (Wembley: Z Custom Power Light Crash 18") ride: Avedis Medium Ride 20" chinas: K China 19", Avedis China High 20" Hardware: all by Yamaha (incl. the pedal) Effects: Roland Octapad The bass drum logo was a white (or a bit pinky?) 'Queen' writing (AKOM font) on a clear background. Roger also used a Ludwig tambourine every night and threw it to the audience.

Bass guitars

John's main was Fender Precision '68 model (first photo) which he'd used for most of his career. Fender Elite (the red bass on the second photo) was the main back-up, used in Leiden as well as for the entire Knebworth gig where he almost smashed it at the end of Radio Ga Ga (but he still played it for the second encore). His two other back-ups were the Fender Precision Special and Musicman Stingray. During this tour John played both Another One Bites The Dust and Under Pressure with the regular Fender Precision.

Peter Hince (2002): "The Black Precision Bass is John's old stage natural one - the one he played almost entirely through Queen's career. It was re-furbished and sprayed black."

Guitars

Brian used the Red Special for almost everything, with the Guild replica as back-up. 12-string was Ovation Pacemaker acoustic (LOML and CLTCL) and the CLTCL solo was still on the Telecaster (it'd be the last tour so far Brian used one). Ironically, the "unplugged" or "acoustic" set was done with an electric guitar: the solid-body Gibson Chet Atkins Classical Electric which looks and sounds like an acoustic guitar but is not. Freddie played a Telecaster electric in CLTCL and it was the last time we ever saw it in concert. It has apparently disappeared after he died. Spike still used a Gordon Smith for Hammer To Fall.

Keyboards

Freddie's Steinway (first photo) was used for the last time in Knebworth. Compared to the 70s or even early 80s, Freddie played very little piano: just the ending of In The Lap Of The Gods ... Revisited, the intro of Seven Seas Of Rhye and two nearly-full songs (BoRhap and WATC). Spike played it during Tutti Frutti and Crazy Little Thing Called Love too. Apparently the piano was then used sometimes at Mountain Studios and after Freddie died, taken by Roger who brought it to his studio in Cossford Mill. Brian played a Yamaha DX-7 (second photo) in Who Wants To Live Forever. Spike's keyboards included an E-MU Emulator II (third photo), Roland Jupiter 8 / Yamaha DX-7 (fourth photo, Roland is on the top of the photo) and Roland VP-330 (fifth photo).

Vocals

Loads of Shure mics; Brian had one, Roger had two (one for the "acoustic" set), Freddie had three (one for guitar and one for piano), and Brian, John and Spike had one each.