City: | Cologne, Germany |
Venue: | Sporthalle |
Date: | February 1, 1979 |
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, Don't Stop Me Now, Spread Your Wings, Dreamer's Ball, Love Of My Life, '39, It's Late, Brighton Rock, Keep Yourself Alive, Bohemian Rhapsody, Tie Your Mother Down, Sheer Heart Attack, We Will Rock You, We Are The Champions, God Save The Queen |
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This is a pretty energetic show with many wonderful musical and vocal moments, and Freddie sounds relatively strong by early 1979 standards. Highlights of the show include If You Can't Beat Them, Now I'm Here, and Brighton Rock. Mercury attempts to introduce Now I'm Here, but an audience member interrupts him. "No, it's not Tie Your Mother Down. That comes later!" Before Love Of My Life, Freddie says: "We have a song right now that requires a very, very big choir. And that is you. So we're gonna give you the first few lines in this next song, and you can take it wherever you want." After the song, Brian formally introduces Roger and John back to the stage. "And on wondrous vocals, Mr. Freddie Mercury." Freddie forgets most of the words in the first chorus of It's Late. Later he introduces Bohemian Rhapsody from the piano, something he rarely did after the A Day At The Races tour. Brian gives a great performance as well, although his G-string is very out of tune on Sheer Heart Attack (but considering the nature of how the song is performed, it still works). And then at the final peak of the show, just before the final "Of the world" during We Are The Champions, he plays a completely wrong chord, hitting the 7sus4 chord in B instead of C. Here is a brief write-up about the show, referring to a record-setting audience. It also says, "Before the carnival there are a few rock concerts in the Sporthalle, starting off with sold-out Queen and Udo Lindenberg concerts. Uriah Heep and Status Quo sold thousands of tickets for their concerts as well." The first 29 pictures were taken by Wolfgang Trabitzsch (and later colour-corrected by Nino Trovato, along with pics 30 to 32). |
Recording length: | 118 minutes (2 CD, incomplete) |
Quality: | B+ / 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, 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, Don't Stop Me Now, Spread Your Wings, Dreamer's Ball [cut], Love Of My Life, '39, It's Late, Brighton Rock, Keep Yourself Alive, Bohemian Rhapsody, Tie Your Mother Down, Sheer Heart Attack, We Will Rock You, We Are The Champions [cut], God Save The Queen |
This is the pre-LP/pre-silver tape used for the bootlegs listed above. The quality varies throughout, with much of it sounding a couple tape generations worse than the source tape used for "Save Me" - although It's Late fortunately sounds just as good. The audience chant relentlessly for Mustapha before the encores, even though Mercury already sang the intro earlier in the show ! |
Recording length: | 107 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, Death On Two Legs, Killer Queen, Bicycle Race, I'm In Love With My Car, Get Down Make Love [cut], You're My Best Friend, Now I'm Here, Don't Stop Me Now, Spread Your Wings, Dreamer's Ball, Love Of My Life, '39, It's Late, Brighton Rock, Keep Yourself Alive, Bohemian Rhapsody, Tie Your Mother Down, We Will Rock You, We Are The Champions, God Save The Queen |
Sheer Heart Attack is missing from this second audience source. The tape plays too fast. |