City:	Philadelphia, PA, USA
Venue:	Spectrum
Date:	July 24, 1982

Setlist:	Flash (tape), Rock It, We Will Rock You (fast), Action This Day, Play The Game, Staying Power, Now I'm Here, Dragon Attack, Now I'm Here (reprise), Save Me, Calling All Girls, Get Down Make Love, guitar solo, Body Language, Under Pressure, Fat Bottomed Girls, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Bohemian Rhapsody, Tie Your Mother Down, Another One Bites The Dust, We Will Rock You, We Are The Champions, God Save The Queen
The audience is so enthusiastic tonight that one can only question whether Queen's popularity in the US was declining at all - with only one exception: before Staying Power, Freddie throws the Filthy-delphia card like he did in 1978, and he once again receives a mixed reaction. A fan recalls: "This is where Freddie drinks his champagne(?) and then throws it on the crowd and speaks. In this case my friend then threw a cup of beer on Freddie and soaked him pretty good. He laughed about it and on the tape you can hear Freddie’s comments on not being cheap champagne (as Ratty brought him a towel to dry himself). A funny memory from that show." The abridged version of Body Language has been moved from the encore to earlier in the set. Freddie, after Under Pressure: "One of these nights Mr. Bowie might jump on stage and do it with us." The audience definitely like the idea, but such an event would never take place. It is actually said that Bowie didn't care much for the song at the time, but he would warm up to it in later years, finally playing it live by the mid 1990s. The photo was taken by Scott Weiner.

Recording length:	93 minutes (incomplete)
Quality:	A-
Source:	Audience
Lineage:	ANALOG MASTER>NAKAMICHI DR-1 (W/MANUAL AZIMUTH ADJUSTMENT)> CREATIVE SOUNDBLASTER X-FI HD MODEL #SB1240 WAV (24/96KHZ) > MAGIX AUDIO CLEANING LAB FOR KRW TRACK MARKS VOLUME ADJUSTMENT AND EDITS > WAV 24/96 > TRADERS LITTLE HELPER FLAC (LEVEL 8)
Track listing:	Flash (tape), Rock It, We Will Rock You (fast), Action This Day, Play The Game, Staying Power, Now I'm Here, Dragon Attack, Now I'm Here (reprise), Save Me, Calling All Girls, Get Down Make Love [cut], guitar solo, Body Language, Under Pressure, Fat Bottomed Girls, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Bohemian Rhapsody, Tie Your Mother Down, Another One Bites The Dust, We Will Rock You, We Are The Champions, God Save The Queen
A transfer of the master tape emerged in 2019. Previous circulating copies were many tape generations from the master and were missing the encores. The beginning of Get Down Make Love is slightly cut for a tape flip, and the master tape has a few more seconds of tape in this spot. There are ten seconds of extra tape at the beginning of the show as well.

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