| The Real Wizard 10.01.2016 17:57 |
Documentaries, TV specials, and various other clips have yielded footage from the Live Killers era, but a lot of them weren't properly labelled for decades. In collaboration with a whole of lot of people, at long last the miscellaneous bits of footage has all been properly identified, and have been uploaded to YouTube by Chinwonder with the correct audio from each show. For those of you who don't frequent the Announce section of the forum, it's well worth the download to have your own copies of this now that it's organized into one place: link More info here: link link Some clips are fragmentary, but others are more substantial. But they're all correctly labelled, and that's what matters most. Along with the Brussels, Rotterdam, Munich, Madrid and Poitiers footage (all of which is easily accessible on YouTube; what a day and age we live in), this paints a pretty clear picture - that the band were keen to market their live album in 1979, and that a ton of footage had to be filmed. A lot of it didn't make it past the cutting room floor, but it seems fairly certain that they have three complete nights of Paris and at least two nights of Tokyo. Let's hope the band release a proper Live Killers box set in the near future. But in the meantime, enjoy this footage. |
| MERQRY 10.01.2016 18:05 |
Oh, thanks Bob! What a precise job. A Live Killers box set would be fabulous... We must keep an eye on 2019 :O It would be criminal for QP do not release something with all that potential footage in his archive. Even if only few of that footage are "releasable" following his standards. |
| The Real Wizard 10.01.2016 18:30 |
MERQRY wrote: Even if only few of that footage are "releasable" following his standards.They released songs like Don't Lose Your Head and Body Language. Virtually everything in their archive should be above those standards ;) |
| Hangman_96 10.01.2016 19:52 |
Priceless stuff. Many thanks! I vividly remember tracking down and identifying some bits of footage from the Paris and Tokyo gigs back in 2010 and 2011, if anything of it was used there. |
| The Real Wizard 10.01.2016 23:55 |
^ well, you're named, so maybe ;) |
| DepeX 11.01.2016 00:09 |
Many thanks Bob, and obviously, thanks to chin too. |
| Bad Seed 12.01.2016 03:14 |
Excellent, thank you! |
| brians wig 12.01.2016 03:22 |
The Real Wizard wrote: They released songs like Don't Lose Your Head and Body Language.What's wrong with DLYH? It's my favorite song on the album and always gets turned up. It's that driving beat you see.... |
| cmi 12.01.2016 11:10 |
What's wrong with 'Body Language' ? One of the sexiest songs from one side and one of the funniest from another... :) Great one. |
| The Real Wizard 12.01.2016 13:02 |
A few wrong notes in a 1979 concert are still 1000x better than songs that nobody outside of hardcore Queen fans care about. Don't give QP ideas - they may release Q+Lambert versions of those songs instead of a Live Killers box set if they think people like them ;) |
| Sue Dounim 12.01.2016 15:09 |
cmi wrote: What's wrong with 'Body Language' ? One of the sexiest songs from one side and one of the funniest from another... :) Great one.One of my favorite tracks from Hot Space, and very underrated. Not sure why it gets the hate it does. |
| DepeX 12.01.2016 15:21 |
Just a matter of tastes, in my opinion. I don't like Body Language, but it's just my personal taste. |
| The Real Wizard 13.01.2016 01:16 |
Sue Dounim wrote: One of my favorite tracks from Hot Space, and very underrated. Not sure why it gets the hate it does.I can think of three reasons: Queen II Sheer Heart Attack A Night At The Opera To think that a band who created such masterpieces churned out such tripe less than a decade later is just beyond reason. I can't think of another major artist who sunk so low after flying so high. |
| Oscar J 13.01.2016 05:56 |
^ So true. :( |
| Queenman!! 13.01.2016 09:50 |
Sue Dounim wrote:============================================cmi wrote: What's wrong with 'Body Language' ? One of the sexiest songs from one side and one of the funniest from another... :) Great one.One of my favorite tracks from Hot Space, and very underrated. Not sure why it gets the hate it does. The song and video expresses the world and wishes of Freddie at that point of his life ,. and eventually brought HIV, AIDS and a death sentence. That's why.... |
| pittrek 13.01.2016 11:26 |
Body Language is just an average pop song. It's harmless until you realize it's written by the same man who wrote stuff like Liar, The March of the Black Queen, Killer Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody, The Millionaire Waltz, We Are The Champions, Bicycle Race ...... you know, art. |
| The Real Wizard 13.01.2016 14:01 |
Queenman!! wrote:But, to be fair - so did Don't Stop Me Now, one of his finest tracks.Sue Dounim wrote:The song and video expresses the world and wishes of Freddie at that point of his life ,. and eventually brought HIV, AIDS and a death sentence. That's why....cmi wrote: What's wrong with 'Body Language' ? One of the sexiest songs from one side and one of the funniest from another... :) Great one.One of my favorite tracks from Hot Space, and very underrated. Not sure why it gets the hate it does. |
| Marknow 13.01.2016 14:21 |
The Real Wizard wrote:Queenman!! wrote:But, to be fair - so did Don't Stop Me Now, one of his finest tracks.Sue Dounim wrote:The song and video expresses the world and wishes of Freddie at that point of his life ,. and eventually brought HIV, AIDS and a death sentence. That's why....cmi wrote: What's wrong with 'Body Language' ? One of the sexiest songs from one side and one of the funniest from another... :) Great one.One of my favorite tracks from Hot Space, and very underrated. Not sure why it gets the hate it does. Freddie had a raging horn and was taking pipe long before Body Language, since the mid 70's I think. It's like saying Brian had space sickness because of '39. |
| Sue Dounim 13.01.2016 20:00 |
friendly reminder that Queen was a band that always tried to do something different. Saying their older is stuff is why something 7 years after is bad isn't really fair. Sure it's dirty pop but it's good dirty pop. And saying they fell so low because of one song is also really unfair. Clearly they were doing fine in 1982, and they definitely went on to make more great music after. |
| matt z 13.01.2016 22:56 |
Sue Dounim wrote: friendly reminder that Queen was a band that always tried to do something different. Saying their older is stuff is why something 7 years after is bad isn't really fair. Sure it's dirty pop but it's good dirty pop. And saying they fell so low because of one song is also really unfair. Clearly they were doing fine in 1982, and they definitely went on to make more great music after.Yeah like ....a few good tracks and the rest of "the works" and a few good tracks and the rest of "a kind of magic" Sorry and shitty a dip as body language may be, HOT SPACE Is actually almost their most cohesive .... strongest 1980's album That's saying a LOT |
| Queenman!! 14.01.2016 07:13 |
The Real Wizard wrote:===================================Queenman!! wrote:But, to be fair - so did Don't Stop Me Now, one of his finest tracks.Sue Dounim wrote:The song and video expresses the world and wishes of Freddie at that point of his life ,. and eventually brought HIV, AIDS and a death sentence. That's why....cmi wrote: What's wrong with 'Body Language' ? One of the sexiest songs from one side and one of the funniest from another... :) Great one.One of my favorite tracks from Hot Space, and very underrated. Not sure why it gets the hate it does. Indeed... that's why Brian hated the song so much personally. Also I can remember hearing the commentary on the Greatest Video Hits two from Roger which hated the idea of lots of steam, oiled men en that typical gay scene thing. |
| Oscar J 14.01.2016 11:30 |
Sue Dounim wrote: friendly reminder that Queen was a band that always tried to do something different. Saying their older is stuff is why something 7 years after is bad isn't really fair. Sure it's dirty pop but it's good dirty pop. And saying they fell so low because of one song is also really unfair. Clearly they were doing fine in 1982, and they definitely went on to make more great music after. It's not even good dirty pop. It's banal and lazy and much worse than a lot of good pop from that era. They were not doing fine in 1982, they were severely struggling as a band and the album did not sell well. They went back to making some solid albums with a few great songs, but not until far later. And their consistently brilliant early-mid 70's stuff remained unmatched. |