City: Philadelphia, PA, USA
Venue: Spectrum
Date: November 23, 1977

Setlist:
We Will Rock You (slow/fast), Brighton Rock, Somebody To Love, It's Late, Death On Two Legs, Killer Queen, Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy, I'm In Love With My Car, Get Down Make Love, The Millionaire Waltz, You're My Best Friend, Ogre Battle, Spread Your Wings, Liar, Love Of My Life, '39, My Melancholy Blues, White Man, The Prophet's Song, guitar solo, The Prophet's Song (reprise), Keep Yourself Alive, Stone Cold Crazy, Bohemian Rhapsody, Now I'm Here, Tie Your Mother Down, We Will Rock You, We Are The Champions, Sheer Heart Attack, Jailhouse Rock, God Save The Queen


Freddie sings a great version of Somebody To Love, reaching for many of the high notes, and hitting the vocal solo at the end of the song with complete conviction. He also delivers excellent versions of It's Late, My Melancholy Blues, and We Are The Champions.

Tonight's medley (Death On Two Legs, Killer Queen, Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy, I'm In Love With My Car, Get Down Make Love, The Millionaire Waltz, You're My Best Friend, Ogre Battle) is the longest Queen would ever play, lasting about 20 minutes. This is the last known performance of Ogre Battle - an abbreviated version with only the second verse merging into the end of the song.

Brian has a bit of trouble navigating through the riffs near the end of the rock section of Bohemian Rhapsody, something which he has openly admitted about struggling with over the years.

Freddie delivers a great version of We Are The Champions, and the encore of Jailhouse Rock is blistering.


Recording length: 123 minutes (2 CD, incomplete)
Quality: B-
Source: Audience
Lineage: Master Cassette > 3rd Gen Cassette > WAV > CDR (1) > WAV (GoldWave speed correction) > FLAC level 8
Track listing:
We Will Rock You (slow/fast), Brighton Rock, Somebody To Love, It's Late, Death On Two Legs, Killer Queen, Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy, I'm In Love With My Car, Get Down Make Love, The Millionaire Waltz, You're My Best Friend, Ogre Battle [cut], Spread Your Wings, Liar, Love Of My Life, '39, My Melancholy Blues, White Man, The Prophet's Song, guitar solo [cut], The Prophet's Song (reprise), Keep Yourself Alive, Stone Cold Crazy, Bohemian Rhapsody, Now I'm Here, Tie Your Mother Down, We Will Rock You, We Are The Champions, Sheer Heart Attack, Jailhouse Rock [cut], God Save The Queen [cut]


There are slight cuts in Ogre Battle and Jailhouse Rock for tape flips. The show is otherwise complete.

After Brian's great solo at the end of Spread Your Wings, an audience member close to the taper says, "He's better than fucking Page!," of course referring to Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin. Another is overwhelmed by the power of the music, and exclaims, "I can't handle it." Then, after the nine-and-a-half minute rendition of Liar, he has seemingly hit a state of musical ecstasy and says, "I'm fucking dying."

After Freddie announces My Melancholy Blues, one audience member says to another, "I told you they'd do it, didn't I?" The many comments on this recording by audience members give an insight into how Queen was something of a guilty pleasure for many US fans. After Brian introduces Love Of My Life, one woman shouts, "I love this song!" a couple times, with an excitement in her voice that suggests she would only admit such a thing at a Queen concert.




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