Hi everybody ;)
hope you all enjoy this nice upgrade I've made of infamous Queen playback exibithion at Sanremo Festival in 1984 (second night, Freddie is in white jacket). I've remastered both video and audio and I think that now the quality is the best you can possibly get ;) hope to hear your feedback very soon, have a good download!
Don't pay too much attention to the date on the file name ;) correct date is February 4, 1984 as stated here -> link
Now please somebody can help me? I can't find a decent first night version (the one with Freddie wearing the red jacket) on the internet, somebody would be so kind to post it here on Queenzone? thanks ;)
The only semi-decent version I've found it's on youtube (link but has a logo on it and it's heavily compressed by youtube standards :(
Raffy wrote:
Hi everybody ;)
hope you all enjoy this nice upgrade I've made of infamous Queen playback exibithion at Sanremo Festival in 1984 (second night, Freddie is in white jacket). I've remastered both video and audio and I think that now the quality is the best you can possibly get ;) hope to hear your feedback very soon, have a good download!
Quite good quality of picture and sound. Thank you.
Thank you very much!!
Do you know the year of this broadcast?
I recorded it from RAI TV in the '90 or early 2000 but I lost the videotape... so thanks again for bringing it to light! :-)
You're welcome Luca :) Don't know the exact broadcast date but I suppose from the Rai logo and the quality of the vhs that this comes from the early 90s or mid 90s
zippo112 wrote:
wow...by far the best quality ive seen on this video....can i upload it on Youtube and give you all the credits for the video?
Yeah no problem mate ;) only thing is that I've realised that in the beginning there's a little fade in where is not supposed to be, so I will correct this little error and then repost it here then you will upload on youtube if you like ;)
Actually If you like you could upload all the others videos I've posted on your channel, I'm not jealous :) Give credit to me if you like but also to Queenzone, thanks to this great community my passion for Queen over the years has been fed and implemented :)
No big deal man ;) If you like to enjoy the video in its original format (4:3) you can always download it from my torrent. In the next few days I will publish another revised version with corrected intro & outro.
Thanks a lot for sharing this. You've performed a little miracle with the sound. Very well indeed!
I wonder if the problem with the sound was in the broadcast or just on the original source VHS where the video comes from. Either way, this is fantastic and Queen's appearances in Sanremo deserves to be on an official DVD as bonus features.
P.s: I was so impressed with the sound that i completely forgot to review the picture. You asked for the feedback, so here it goes.
It's the best version i've seen of this performance so far. The quality is fantastic for what i expect from a 20 plus year old VHS. It would be easier to just stick the song from the cd, but it would lose it's appeal and some live feel that this clip has because we can hear people clapping and sheering. So, i'm glad that you did this this way. Thank you once again.