Brian becoming a bigger role on new Queen Tour
BUT FREDDIE REMAINS SUPERMAN
The Line of people is endless in front of the Manchasters Apollo-Theatre. The fans are waiting patiently in foursome rows
for the moment to see their favorite Band again. It's a sell out since a couple of weeks and the Black Market calls
for prices around 150 Deutsche Mark ( about 40 GBP at that point) - for one ticket !
Because of technical difficulties and problems with the lightnig rig, the show starts with a delay of nearly two hours.
Accompanied with Wagner fanfare, explosions, smoke and stage fog with a huge amount of light, Queen finally hit the stage.
Surprisingly Freddie's wearing a Hells Angels like Leather Jacket and a super-tight red Leather pants with Knee pads.
He complements it with a slim red tie.
He starts rockin without any hesitation " Tie your mother down". No one of the 8000 fans keeps it on the seats.
At the least when "Killer Queen" and "I 'am in Love with my Car" were played the fans are freaking out.
In general the whole Show - with Freddie as the focal point, how he acts with his Mic-stand and his moves - runs like a clockwork.
Every song is technically mature.
Brian May is a much bigger part of the show than before. Especially during his own composition " Save me", he shines with a superb guitar Solo
while Freddie stays in the background. Same goes for "Brighton Rock".
But also John Deacon and Roger Taylor come to their Solo-Spot. The fans are singing fanatical to Queen's anthems like " Love of my Life" and "Bohemian Rhapsody",
Freddie is playing the Conductor.
For Queen's latest hit "Crazy little thing called Love" Freddie choosed to go Rock and Roll Style and the fans are going nuts again. The whole Show, the Songs, the Lights and the stage fog,
everything is corresponding well with each other.
To the Sound of " We never walk alone"( You'll never walk alone) Queen are leaving the stage..well they tried, the crowd encouraged them for an encore.
On the shoulders of a well padded Superman, Freddie returns to the stage and swings his Microphone joyfully while singing " We are the champions"
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I do NOT correct any flaws by the original writer/report !
Unfortunatelly it's not from my stock. I only made the translation.
Most likely it's from the first night, cause he was wearing black leather pants on the second night.
Great article and pictures - thanks for posting ! Indeed, this is definitely from the first night.
And here we have instance #463 of Greg Brooks making up bullshit for his book. Combined with another review, the setlist begins with Let Me Entertain You and Tie Your Mother Down (like the first night in Newcastle), not whatever he wrote in there.
Great stuff!! Probably the most exciting tour of all.
And to think a recording of the second night is probably collecting dust in Brian's archives.... (like about 8 others, including Hammy)
Free those Crazy Tour recordings, QPL. It are the best shows Freddie ever sang and pretty much in general the best shows Queen ever played.
Any of the Crazy Tour tour shows, if recorded, would have made a better live album than Live Killers.
The band were as tight as I've ever heard them, the familiar setlist had Crazy and Save Me added to it, some nights they changed things around a little. It was great to see a band who had geared their show to arenas playing theatres and clubs with the same energy that the La Forum demands. It was great to see the full, although slightly scaled down, arena show in these venues
The energy they played with made most punk bands sound tame, and having John Harris return to FOH for this tour meant these shows were genuinely loud. A report in International Musician of the Bristol show said during BM's solo in Love Of My Life the DB meter was reading 109 db and most of the show was between 118 and 125!!!
Vocal harmony wrote:
Any of the Crazy Tour tour shows, if recorded, would have made a better live album than Live Killers.
The band were as tight as I've ever heard them, the familiar setlist had Crazy and Save Me added to it, some nights they changed things around a little. It was great to see a band who had geared their show to arenas playing theatres and clubs with the same energy that the La Forum demands. It was great to see the full, although slightly scaled down, arena show in these venues
The energy they played with made most punk bands sound tame, and having John Harris return to FOH for this tour meant these shows were genuinely loud. A report in International Musician of the Bristol show said during BM's solo in Love Of My Life the DB meter was reading 109 db and most of the show was between 118 and 125!!!
That's great. I didn't realise it wasn't Trip on this tour.. I'd love to be able to get hold of some of those old copies of International musician.. I've still got a few copies of Lighting and Sound Design from the early nineties.. Always interesting to read about a gig from the tech standpoint.
I agree with the comment that Vocal Harmony made about the live album.
The Crazy Tour features all four members at the top of their games - would be one of the best tours to release a live album from!