Queen - Rio on Fire 1985 (Ultimate Marlamir Edition)
Rio de janeiro, Brazil
11-18 January 1985
In 1985 queen headlined two night on the biggest music festival to date, 10 days rock in rio festival.
They played for 250 000 people (some source say 350 000 or even 470 000) the biggest
audience they ever played. Freddie and rest of the band give strong and very solid
perfomances, especially on first night. thats why most of the officialy released material
are mostly used from first night (Broadcast, cd, etc). freddie upset nearly whole crowd
on first night during i want to break free because he wear fake woman hair and big fake boobs.
Crowd didnt get the reference and start to fight, which was getting worse especialy
during very energy jailhouse rock perfomance and queen need to make encore wait.
Few people and other band members said that freddie was in backstage (during encore wait)
very sad and in tears because of the unexpected crowd reaction. to apologise freddie
wear both british and brazil flag during we will rock you. some sources say that setlist
was suposed to be longer but few songs was cancelled do to various reason.
This ultimate edition bring the best possible sources and remastered audio
to make the best possible version (hopefully :D) of rock in rio concert.
Features:
Best source mix, remastered audio, new intro, low gen master copy collor correction
Video sources:
Low quality footage (improved collor)
chief mouse restoration (video only)
Live in rio
Canal 13 broadcast
globo tv chief mouse processed
Various tv report(Friday people tv report & etc)
audio sources:
Low quality footage (Remastered)
Canal 13 broadcast (Remastered)
Live in rio
Tv reports
A winter tale cd
The works deluxe edition
Sun city 84 soundboard for machines intro (improved)
2nd night 6 source merge
Audio prewiev:
Marlamir wrote:
freddie upset nearly whole crowd on first night during i want to break free because he wear fake woman hair and big fake boobs.
Crowd didnt get the reference and start to fight, which was getting worse especialy
during very energy jailhouse rock perfomance and queen need to make encore wait.
Few people and other band members said that freddie was in backstage (during encore wait)
very sad and in tears because of the unexpected crowd reaction. to apologise freddie wear both british and brazil flag during we will rock you. some sources say that setlist
was suposed to be longer but few songs was cancelled do to various rreason
I wouldn't be surprised if 99% of that was made up by the British media after the Sun City incident.
It took a lot longer than 10 minutes to embroider those two flags together. It was always in the plan.
Marlamir is in the Paralympic team, can't judge him by regular standards.
What counts is the pleasure of participation, which is the not-always-easy-to-follow motto of queenzone.
aristide1 wrote:
Marlamir is in the Paralympic team, can't judge him by regular standards.
What counts is the pleasure of participation, which is the not-always-easy-to-follow motto of queenzone.
I really wanted to call you a dick for saying that, but - fuck me with a pine cone, that was hilarious.
Val lurex wrote:
"It's a compilation of both nights, isn't it? "
yes it is both night compilation, but most stuff are from first night.
Nitroboy wrote:
"Why is your "before" audio sample so quiet??? "
original low quality footage have around -15db volume, other sources are similiar though.
i agree real wizard, hilarious hate.
also does someone know how much of the break free things are real? sounds exaggeration for me.
I agree that the flag thing is bollocks - it was clearly standard procedure to have UK flag and local flag (see also Tokyo 85, Budapest 86).
The 'falsie causing riot' could also be false - reports were that the crowd were throwing stuff until he took them off, but there's no footage of that, so maybe any disturbance in the crowd was coincidental? Further, if Freddie was in tears after that, he'd have topped himself after Slane...
There's a lot of Chinese whispers involved in this sort of thing...
Penetration_Guru wrote:
The 'falsie causing riot' could also be false - reports were that the crowd were throwing stuff until he took them off, but there's no footage of that, so maybe any disturbance in the crowd was coincidental?
Indeed.
But - then why did Mercury not do the boob thing on the second night? It's literally the only night on the Works tour where he didn't do the gag.
Maybe it was just to get the press off their backs.
maybe he was just scared to wear them again. after crowd fighting and knowledge what media can do(especialy after sun city), the last thing what he want to do is to ruin band reputation in brazil? Next question i have is why he didnt wear its hard life costume as well, he wear only this fake hear for W.A.T.CH.