| Fone Bone 23.08.2012 09:29 |
Comments and corrections welcome ! Starts with SHA and does not include covers (Big Spender, Jailhouse Rock etc) Two quick comments : ADATR and NOTW tours brought most ANATO tracks to the stage, and from Jazz onwards room had to be made for new material only, except for the crazy Early Queen resurrections of the Works 84 setlist ! Sheer Heart Attack News songs added Now I'm here Flick Of The Wrist In The Lap Of The Gods Killer Queen Bring Back That Leroy Brown Stone Cold Crazy In The Lap Of The Gods...Revisited Songs dropped Doing Allright Older songs revived The March Of The Black Queen A Night At The Opera News songs added Bohemian Rhapsody Sweet Lady The Prophet's Song Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon Songs dropped Father To Son Older songs revived Doing Allright Day At The Races News songs added Tie Your Mother Down Somebody To Love The Millionaire Waltz You Take My Breath Away White Man Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy Songs dropped Flick Of The Wrist In The Lap Of The Gods The March of the Black Queen Bring Back That Leroy Brown Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon Son and Daughter Modern Times Rock and Roll Seven Seas Of Rhye Older songs revived You're My Best Friend Brighton Rock '39 Death On Two Legs News Of The World '77 News songs added We Will Rock You We Are The Champions Sheer Heart Attack Spread Your Wings Get Down Make Love My Melancholy Blues It's Late Sleeping On The Sidewalk (first 3 nights or so) Songs dropped Ogre Battle White Queen Sweet Lady You Take My Breath Away In The Lap Of The Gods... Revisited Bring Back That Leroy Brown Older songs revived I'm In Love With My Car Love Of My Life Jazz News songs added Let Me Entertain You If You Can't Beat Them Bicycle Race Dreamer's Ball Fat Bottomed Girls Don't Stop Me Now Songs dropped Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy The Millionaire Waltz Liar My Melancholy Blues White Man Stone Cold Crazy Older songs revived Teo Torriatte Crazy tour News songs added Save Me Crazy Little Thing Called Love Songs dropped Bicycle Race Dreamer's Ball It's Late Older songs revived Mustapha Liar The Game News songs added Play The Game Dragon Attack Another One Bites The Dust Need Your Loving Tonight Flash The Hero Battle Theme Vultan's theme Rock It Songs dropped If You Can't Beat Them You're My Best Friend Don't Stop Me Now Spread Your Wings '39 Older songs revived none Hot Space News songs added Action This Day Staying Power Under Pressure Calling All Girls Put Out The Fire Back Chat Life Is Real Songs dropped Let Me Entertain You Need Your Loving Tonight Mustapha Death on Two Legs Killer Queen I'm in Love with My Car Rock It Keep Yourself Alive Older songs revived Liar (some European gigs) The Works News songs added Machines Tear It Up It's A Hard Life Is This The World We Created? Hammer To Fall Radio Ga Ga I Want To Break Free Songs dropped All Hot Space tracks except for Staying Power (several early gigs) and Under Pressure of course Sheer Heart Attack (apart from a few early gigs) Flash / The Hero Play The Game Save Me Get Down Make Love Fat Bottomed Girls Older songs revived Killer Queen Seven Seas Of Rhye Keep Yourself Alive Liar Stone Cold Crazy Great King Rat My Fairy King (piano) The March Of The Black Queen (piano) Magic tour News song added One Vision A Kind Of Magic Who Wants To Live Forever Friends Will Be Friends Songs dropped Machines Somebody To Love Killer Queen Keep Yourself Alive Liar It's A Hard Life Dragon Attack Stone Cold Crazy Great King Rat Older songs revived In the Lap Of The Gods rev. |
| DLCVinnuendo 23.08.2012 12:52 |
The magic tour without somebody to love, princes of the universe, and, maybe, keep yourself alive, was very unfortunate, and my favorite setlist is the TW tour |
| The Real Wizard 23.08.2012 14:45 |
Excellent work, Fone Bone. Never seen it plotted out like this before. I think it's more accurate to use the word "devolution" for the years 1978-82. I can only imagine how disappointing it was for a lot of people to see Queen in 80 and 82 in the US. It was basically the same show as the last time, with old songs dropped and new songs added - no digging into the back catalogue. On the other hand, seeing the band in 1984 must have been fantastic in that regard. Nov/Dec 77 and April 1982 were probably the most interesting periods for the band on stage. If only there were more tapes of the former. If they plucked out Doing All Right for a single show at the Garden, who knows what else happened on that tour. Just a slight amendment: Brighton Rock was heard for most of the Opera tour. Son And Daughter was only there for a few nights, then reduced to just the last verse after Brian's solo. |
| cmsdrums 23.08.2012 15:08 |
Don't forget Hot Space tour also added Body Language (unfortunately!) |
| dysan 23.08.2012 15:25 |
I like Body Language live :o) |
| Hangman_96 23.08.2012 17:02 |
Body Language did work fine as a live number. |
| MadTheSwine73 23.08.2012 20:30 |
Very, very well done. I'd say the best tour (song-wise) was the Works Tour. Too bad there aren't any high-quality soundboard recordings of these early '84 gigs. |
| tomchristie22 24.08.2012 01:31 |
Great to have it summed up like this - thanks for the effort! It must've been a pleasant surprise when they started introducing seemingly forgotten ANATO tracks like '39 and DOTL in '77. |
| Fone Bone 24.08.2012 02:49 |
Sheer Heart Attack News songs added Now I'm here Flick Of The Wrist In The Lap Of The Gods Killer Queen Bring Back That Leroy Brown Stone Cold Crazy In The Lap Of The Gods...Revisited Songs dropped Doing Allright Older songs revived The March Of The Black Queen A Night At The Opera News songs added Bohemian Rhapsody Sweet Lady The Prophet's Song Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon Songs dropped Father To Son Son and Daughter Older songs revived Doing Allright Brighton Rock A Day At The Races News songs added Tie Your Mother Down Somebody To Love The Millionaire Waltz You Take My Breath Away White Man Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy Songs dropped Flick Of The Wrist In The Lap Of The Gods The March of the Black Queen Bring Back That Leroy Brown Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon Modern Times Rock and Roll Seven Seas Of Rhye Older songs revived You're My Best Friend '39 Death On Two Legs News Of The World News songs added We Will Rock You We Are The Champions Sheer Heart Attack Spread Your Wings Get Down Make Love My Melancholy Blues It's Late Sleeping On The Sidewalk (first 3 nights or so) Songs dropped Ogre Battle White Queen (except for the last night in London) Sweet Lady You Take My Breath Away In The Lap Of The Gods... Revisited Bring Back That Leroy Brown Older songs revived I'm In Love With My Car Love Of My Life Jazz News songs added Let Me Entertain You If You Can't Beat Them Bicycle Race Dreamer's Ball Fat Bottomed Girls Don't Stop Me Now Songs dropped Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy The Millionaire Waltz Liar My Melancholy Blues White Man Stone Cold Crazy Older songs revived Teo Torriatte Crazy tour News songs added Save Me Crazy Little Thing Called Love Songs dropped Bicycle Race Dreamer's Ball It's Late Older songs revived Mustapha Liar - due to threats from the Royal Family ;-) The Game / Flash News songs added Play The Game Dragon Attack Another One Bites The Dust Need Your Loving Tonight Flash The Hero BattleTheme Vultan's theme Rock It Songs dropped If You Can't Beat Them You're My Best Friend Don't Stop Me Now Spread Your Wings '39 Older songs revived none Hot Space News songs added Action This Day Staying Power Under Pressure Calling All Girls Put Out The Fire Back Chat Life Is Real Body Language Songs dropped Let Me Entertain You Need Your Loving Tonight Mustapha Death on Two Legs Killer Queen I'm in Love with My Car Rock It Keep Yourself Alive Older songs revived Liar (some European gigs) The Works News songs added Machines Tear It Up It's A Hard Life Is This The World We Created? Hammer To Fall Radio Ga Ga I Want To Break Free Songs dropped All Hot Space tracks except for Staying Power (several early gigs) and Under Pressure of course Sheer Heart Attack (apart from a few early gigs) Flash / The Hero Play The Game Save Me Get Down Make Love Fat Bottomed Girls Older songs revived Killer Queen Seven Seas Of Rhye Keep Yourself Alive Liar Stone Cold Crazy Great King Rat My Fairy King (piano) The March Of The Black Queen (piano) Magic tour News song added One Vision A Kind Of Magic Who Wants To Live Forever Friends Will Be Friends Songs dropped Machines Somebody To Love Killer Queen Keep Yourself Alive Liar It's A Hard Life Dragon Attack Stone Cold Crazy Great King Rat Older songs revived In the Lap Of The Gods ... Revisited |
| Fone Bone 24.08.2012 03:02 |
Now corrected and easier to read! Thanks for the nice comments, especially Bob, that means a lot considering the countless enriching hours I spent on your website! BOT What strikes me is once again the fact that the ANATO tour had a short and quite weird selection of ANATO tracks (Sweet Lady but no DOTL ?)whereas during the NOTW tour 8 out 12 songs off the record were performed! Also, Jazz means the end of a lot of things : all the vaudeville Freddie tracks dropped, staples from the early days too (Stone Cold Crazy, Liar) and no more digging in the back catalogue. That trend would go on until The Works. Indeed the medley must have been quite a shock for the older fans in 84, especially after the Hot Space Tour ! In the end NOTW and The Works stand as the best tours setlist-wise, although ANATO and Crazy Tour are probably superior in termes of performance |
| Bo Alex 24.08.2012 08:59 |
The Works tour could have been in terms of setlist inclusion. But IMHO The Works tour in terms of sound, it was one of Queen's weakest eras with those atrocious electronic drums sounds. AOBTD was just horrible. Moreover, Hot Space songs live sounded great generally. Also, it's funny to realise how late ANATO songs were included in the live shows. If we see the famous Hammersmith concert, we just get Bo Rhap from ANATO (if I'm not wrong). In that tour, just 3 or 4 songs were played from the new album. So few songs, considering it was a number 1 album in UK, with a huge massive number 1 single. |
| The Real Wizard 24.08.2012 11:12 |
Fone Bone wrote: Thanks for the nice comments, especially Bob, that means a lot considering the countless enriching hours I spent on your website!Pfft, what a colossal waste of time that must have been ! Ha ha ! BOT What strikes me is once again the fact that the ANATO tour had a short and quite weird selection of ANATO tracks (Sweet Lady but no DOTL ?)whereas during the NOTW tour 8 out 12 songs off the record were performed!I reckon it was an issue of confidence in their abilities. They really weren't technically strong musicians (they rehearsed like fiends), and it probably took time to garner the confidence to play enough songs from their groundbreaking record live. In the end NOTW and The Works stand as the best tours setlist-wise, although ANATO and Crazy Tour are probably superior in termes of performanceSounds about right to me. But I'm sure no matter what they played, any Queen show would have been fantastic to witness. One of very few negative stories I've heard is Slane Castle in 86 where the band wasn't very loud, so if you were far away it wasn't much of an experience. Other than that, they could've played the phone book and knocked your socks off. |
| Fone Bone 24.08.2012 15:39 |
The Real Wizard wrote:Amen to that. I talk dirt about the Hot Space tour but I'd give up most gigs I attended in my life to attend the second Palais des Sports date :))Fone Bone wrote: Thanks for the nice comments, especially Bob, that means a lot considering the countless enriching hours I spent on your website!Pfft, what a colossal waste of time that must have been ! Ha ha ! Well I am now excessively knowledgeable about a topic I have trouble getting my friends and family interested in!BOT What strikes me is once again the fact that the ANATO tour had a short and quite weird selection of ANATO tracks (Sweet Lady but no DOTL ?)whereas during the NOTW tour 8 out 12 songs off the record were performed!I reckon it was an issue of confidence in their abilities. They really weren't technically strong musicians (they rehearsed like fiends), and it probably took time to garner the confidence to play enough songs from their groundbreaking record live. Indeed all the ANATO tracks added during the ADATR and NOTW needed serious re-arrangements and thus much rehearsingIn the end NOTW and The Works stand as the best tours setlist-wise, although ANATO and Crazy Tour are probably superior in termes of performanceSounds about right to me. But I'm sure no matter what they played, any Queen show would have been fantastic to witness. One of very few negative stories I've heard is Slane Castle in 86 where the band wasn't very loud, so if you were far away it wasn't much of an experience. Other than that, they could've played the phone book and knocked your socks off. |
| dysan 25.08.2012 03:28 |
Yeah, a shame the Works tour was the nadir of electronics and Freddie sounding gruff. I'd take those Japanese shows for ADATR as their best, but I must say I'm very pleased with Live Killers. |
| dysan 25.08.2012 03:30 |
Asuming Hangman was in the set on and off from the early days, maybe add it being dropped in 1977 |
| liam 25.08.2012 08:52 |
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| liam 25.08.2012 08:53 |
My favourite would have to be ADATR. Love the old tracks still being played and the concert closing with In the lap of the gods revisited. |
| queenUSA 25.08.2012 23:05 |
Thanks, great resource. |
| jpgthfc 04.01.2013 18:04 |
A Day at the Races tour they didn't drop Bring Back That Leroy Brown link |
| DLCVinnuendo 04.01.2013 19:51 |
i saw in queenlive that rock it was sing in the HS tour, in the usa leg!!! |
| TheWorks84 05.01.2013 05:37 |
I would of liked to see Don't Stop Me Now played on the last 3 tours. |
| *goodco* 05.01.2013 08:57 |
DLCVinnuendo wrote: i saw in queenlive that rock it was sing in the HS tour, in the usa leg!!!As the smoke swirled on stage from the 'Flash' taped intro, a single light shone on Freddie center stage as he began to belt out 'when I hear....that rock 'n roll....' My seventh Queen concert (six tours)....visually stimulating as always, but the oddest choice for a concert opener. Nice work on the list and its presentation. Some tweaking could be done here and there, as the setlists would change when they'd cross the pond. |