The Works Tour

660 days without playing a single concert, and then back with a new tour with several changes, the most important being Spike Edney on synths, piano and guitar. Live Aid is included here as they used Works-era equipment. Roger made a deal with Zildjian and stopped using Paiste products (including the gong).

Brian had a new replica of his guitar, made by the American company Guild (Brian was living in Los Angeles back then), which looked very similar (though not identical) and the sound was almost identical, only a bit darker. Roger, an avid guitar collector, found a classical electric guitar (which looks like an acoustic but is actually electric), that Brian would use later on for some legendary recordings including Innuendo (1989, Steve Howe played that same guitar as well).

Percussion

Drum kit

• Ludwig 26" x 16" bass-drum.
• Ludwig Speed-King pedal.
• Ludwig Hercules hardware.
• Ludwig 14" x 6.5" snare drum.
• Ludwig 12" x 11", 13" x 12" and 14" x 13" rack toms.
• Ludwig 16" x 16" and 18" x 16" floor toms.
• Simmons SDS-VII e-drum pads.
• Wuhan 20" china cymbal.
• Zildjian 15" hi-hats.
• Zildjian 17" and 2 x 18" crash cymbals.
• Zildjian 20" ride cymbal.
• Zildjian 22" china cymbal.
• Bass-drum logo: Queen on The Works font, black background (white at Live Aid).

Tambourines

• New Era.

Roger's mics

• snare: AKG c451e (without "a51")
• hi-hat: AKG c451e with "a51"
• bassdrum: Beyerdynamic M300N
• toms: Sennheiser MD421-II
• overhead: AKG c451e with "a51"
• snare-bottom: Shure SM57 LC
• vocals: AKG C452E (probably)

Bass guitars

Electric bass guitars

• Fender Precision 1968 [main]
• Fender Precision 1981 [Under Pressure]
• Music Man Stingray [Anothe One Bites the Dust]
• Fender Precision Elite [spare]

Guitars

Main electric six-string guitars

• BHM bespoke [Brian]
• Fender Telecaster 1978 [Crazy Little Thing]
• Fender Telecaster 1981 [Staying Power] - played by John Deacon. A Black-Gold model, CE 10484.
• Fender Telecaster 1983 [Crazy Little Thing] - played by Freddie Mercury. A Standard 1983 Blonde model.
• Fender Telecaster [Jailhouse Rock] - played by Rick Parfitt in one concert.
• Gibson Chet Atkins CE [Is This the World We Created]
• Gibson Les Paul Junior [Hammer to Fall] - played by Spike Edney

Spare electric guitars

• Guild BHM bespoke
• Gibson Flying V

Acoustic guitars [Love of My Life, Crazy Little Thing]

• 2 x Ovation Pacemaker 1615 twelve-string

Keyboards

Piano

• Steinway 1972 D concert grand 8 ft 11.75 in

Synthesisers

• 2 x Oberheim OB-Xa.
• Oberheim OB-8. - used only for the mimed performance in Montreux.
• Roland Jupiter 8.
• Roland VP-330 [Ga Ga, Machines].

Electric grand piano

• Yamaha CP-80