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24.07.1975 Blankenberghe, Belgium (Gouden Leeuwen (Golden Lions) festival)

Queen were guests of this festival but it's not known if they only received some award or also played some song (miming of Killer Queen would have been a logical thing to do)

Setlist not available

06.10.1977 New London Theatre Centre, London, UK (We Are The Champions video shoot)

The fans were invited to a shoot of the band's new video - We Are The Champions. After the shoot (there were four mimed performances of this song) the band came back to the stage and performed a short impromptu set as a thank-you. Needless to say the setlist was very unusual. An audio recording of the whole shoot exists and despite its quite a bad quality it's an interesting "insight" into the making of one of Queen videoclips.

01. Tie Your Mother Down
02. Keep Yourself Alive
03. Somebody To Love
04. White Man
05. The Prophet's Song
06. Liar
07. Bohemian Rhapsody (intro)
08. Now I'm Here
09. Jailhouse Rock
10. See What A Fool I've Been

25.09.1982 Studio 8H, NBC, New York, New York, USA (Saturday Night Live show)

Freddie had really bad problems with his voice that night.

01. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
02. Under Pressure

03.02.1984 San Remo, Italy (San Remo festival)

01. Radio Ga Ga (mimed)

04.02.1984 San Remo, Italy (San Remo festival)

01. Radio Ga Ga (mimed)

12.05.1984 Festival hall, Montreux, Switzerland (Golden Rose festival)

mimed performance

01. Radio Ga Ga
02. Tear It Up
03. It's A Hard Life
04. I Want To Break Free

13.07.1985 Wembley Stadium, London, UK (Live Aid festival)

Most of top artists of that time were present at this mega-famous festival and Queen of course had to be there. Each artist got from ten to twenty minutes for their show; no playback or soundcheck were allowed. Queen hesitated because playing without a soundcheck is always a risk. But then they accepted the rules and their 20 minutes of fame came on at 18:44 GMT.

Queen were on top form and not only according to Bob Geldof and Elton John, they stole the show. They played only the intro to BoRhap (the opera part couldn't be played from the tape as playback was forbidden & there wasn't enough time anyway). Instead of the opera part, Radio Ga Ga followed. We Will Rock You was reduced to the first verse (and the final guitar solo) only. Is This The World We Created was performed by Freddie and Brian only later in the evening.

01. Bohemian Rhapsody (intro)
02. Radio Ga Ga
03. Hammer To Fall
04. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
05. We Will Rock You (first verse + finale only)
06. We Are The Champions
07. Is This The World We Created? (Freddie + Brian only)
08. Do They Know It's Christmas? (All Star finale with Freddie and Brian)

11.05.1986 Festival hall, Montreux, Switzerland (Golden Rose festival)

mimed performance

01. One Vision
02. A Kind Of Magic
03. Friends Will Be Friends
04. Hammer To Fall

12.07.1986 Kensington Roof Gardens, London, UK (Roof Gardens afterparty)

This was a short private impromptu performance with Samantha Fox and Gary Glitter. Queen were "billed" as 'Dicky Hart And The Pacemakers' that night. Does anybody have any idea about the exact setlist?

01. Tutti Frutti
02. Sweet Little Rock And Roller

04.04.2008 Studio 1, South Bank, London, UK (Al Murray's Happy Hour TV show)

Bohemian Rhapsody was apparently played during the break; only the final chords were broadcasted.

01. C-lebrity
02. Bohemian Rhapsody (not broadcasted)
03. All Right Now
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