City:	London, England
Venue:	Swiss Cottage Private School
Date:	September 4, 1970

Barry Mitchell recalls this gig going down quite well, and provides this anecdote about what was being discussed in the dressing room: "Roger was having a thing with a young lady living in student accommodation in Kensington, and apparently he’d scaled two or three balconies to get to her room." It's uncertain if the setlist handwritten by Freddie is from a gig or a rehearsal, but it undoubtedly hails from this period. Morning Sun is a Taste cover, and Reason is perhaps an early discarded original. Another original song would soon be introduced to Queen's set - Liar. Its roots go back to Freddie's pre-Queen band Ibex, a track called Lover (worth noting is that Brian May and Roger Taylor had joined Ibex at a show in Liverpool the previous September for a few songs). Liar may have also been inspired by the 1970 Argent track of the same name, as the choruses are similar. Louis Austin, who had worked at De Lane Lea studios where Queen recorded their first demo in 1971, later stated that he thought Queen's Liar was a cover (thanks to Sebastian for the info, having tracked down Austin for an interview).

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