City: Philadelphia, PA, USA
Venue: Spectrum
Date: November 20, 1978

Setlist:
We Will Rock You (fast), Let Me Entertain You, Somebody To Love, If You Can't Beat Them, Death On Two Legs, Killer Queen, Bicycle Race, I'm In Love With My Car, Get Down Make Love, You're My Best Friend, Now I'm Here, Spread Your Wings, Dreamer's Ball, Love Of My Life, '39, It's Late, Brighton Rock, Fat Bottomed Girls, Keep Yourself Alive, Bohemian Rhapsody, Tie Your Mother Down, Sheer Heart Attack, We Will Rock You, We Are The Champions, God Save The Queen



   

 
     

After the second song, Freddie says, "It's nice to be back here in Filthy-delphia," to a mixture of cheers and boos. "I gotcha!" He tries to recover with a usual, "We're gonna have a good show tonight; I can tell," but he definitely won't win everyone over so quickly! After a fantasticly-sung version of Dreamer's Ball, he attempts to recover: "Philadelphia seems to be nice for us." He gets a great cheer for it.

Like a few nights ago in New York, before If You Can't Beat Them, it seems something has been thrown on stage. Freddie says, "What's this? It's almost Christmas."

After '39, Freddie says, "You guys say something, go!" He then holds the mic out for a few audience members, and they shout little more than inaudible gibberish. He'd do this at a few shows this month.

At the end of the show: "Thank you, Philadelphia. We shall always remember you."

Six minutes of super 8 footage exist from this show.

The first photo was taken by Neal Preston, and the second set was taken by L.A. Ives.


Recording length: 114 minutes (2 CD, incomplete)
Quality: B
Source: Audience
Lineage: AUD > ? > CDR (x)
Track listing:
We Will Rock You (fast), Let Me Entertain You, Somebody To Love, If You Can't Beat Them [cut], Death On Two Legs, Killer Queen, Bicycle Race, I'm In Love With My Car, Get Down Make Love, You're My Best Friend, Now I'm Here, Spread Your Wings, Dreamer's Ball [cut], Love Of My Life, '39, It's Late, Brighton Rock, Fat Bottomed Girls, Keep Yourself Alive, Bohemian Rhapsody, Tie Your Mother Down, Sheer Heart Attack, We Will Rock You, We Are The Champions, God Save The Queen [cut]


The audience recording from this show is in decent enough quality.


Recording length: 6 minutes (incomplete)
Quality: A
Source: Audience
Lineage: super 8 reel > MOV (Apple ProRes 422HQ 4000x2900) > DaVinci Resolve > ffmpeg > MKV (H.265 2160x1536)

       

This fantastic super 8 film emerged in 2021. Without question it's one of the best films of Queen in existence.




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