| City: | London, UK |
| Venue: | Wembley Arena |
| Date: | September 4, 1984 |
| Setlist: | Machines (tape), Tear It Up, Tie Your Mother Down, Under Pressure, Somebody To Love, Killer Queen, Seven Seas Of Rhye, Keep Yourself Alive, Liar, It's A Hard Life, Staying Power, Dragon Attack, Now I'm Here, Is This The World We Created?, Love Of My Life, Stone Cold Crazy, Great King Rat, keyboard/guitar solos, Brighton Rock (ending), Hammer To Fall, Another One Bites The Dust, Not Fade Away, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Bohemian Rhapsody, Radio Ga Ga, I Want To Break Free, Jailhouse Rock, We Will Rock You, We Are The Champions, God Save The Queen |
 
 
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This is the first of four shows at Wembley Arena. Although the July '89 issue of Record Collector magazine claims the shows were properly recorded, sources close to the band have since denied this. At the point of the show where he dispels the rumours about the band breaking up, Freddie says, "If you want us to be here, we'll be here every night. Otherwise forget it." Just before the big vocal intro to It's A Hard Life, tonight Freddie says, "I'm gonna try the fucking thing." He hits the initial high notes, but he's clearly starting to struggle with it now. Brian says a few words before the acoustic portion of the evening. "It's very nice to be back. We spend a lot of our time going all around the world, to all the four corners of this strange place that we live in, and when we come back here it's... feels something special. I don't know what it is. It's home. We're kind of more exposed and naked than anywhere else. I don't know what it is, but it's great. So this is something to listen to if you wanna cool down for a sec." He then plays the intro to Is This The World We Created. After the audience sing the second verse of Love Of My Life on their own, Freddie happily says, "Wunderbar!" Tonight for the first time he sings "I still fucking love you" before the guitar break, something which he'd do pretty often from this point onward. He adds, "You better believe it." Most of the lights go out at some point during the guitar solo. After the Brighton Rock bit, Freddie inquires, "Something happen to our lights or something? Are the lights okay?" He then addresses the audience. "These million-dollar lights are fucked up! The honest truth, can you believe it, we pay all this million pounds, or whatever you read about, for the lights, and there's one plug that works the whole damn thing. And that's got a fuse or something." The show must go on, and the band have to make due with what few lights still work. "Well, we have three more here, and three over there, so... okay, we have Hammer To Fall!" Before Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Freddie performs a short improvised version of The Crickets' "Not Fade Away", like he did in Stockholm '82, but this time Roger adds some nice drum fills between lines. The last line is, "I'm gonna get you, I don't know the words." Before launching into Crazy, he asks his long-standing head of the crew, "Did you tune this guitar, Ratty?" He jokingly adds, "Or I'll kill you!" The band really let it rip in Jailhouse Rock. It's surely one of the strongest, rocking versions of the song they ever played. Brian does some nice Jeff Beck-like whammy bar work in his solo. The four pictures from this show were taken by Yvonne Lindenhof and submitted by Ducksoup. The second set of pictures could be from any of the four nights at Wembley Arena. The first five were taken by Martin de Jong. Pics 11-13 were submitted to Queenconcerts.com by David Webb (but are not from the second night as specified). More pictures from this show can be found at http://www.repfoto.com. You have to register as a user. A review of one of these shows from the September 15 Melody Maker is more of a hit piece on Freddie than a concert commentary. |
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| Recording length: | 106 minutes (2 CD, complete) |
| Quality: | B+ |
| Source: | Audience |
| Lineage: | "Not Fade Away" (Gypsy Eye) silvers |
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| Track listing: | Machines (tape), Tear It Up, Tie Your Mother Down, Under Pressure, Somebody To Love, Killer Queen, Seven Seas Of Rhye, Keep Yourself Alive, Liar, It's A Hard Life, Staying Power, Dragon Attack, Now I'm Here, Is This The World We Created?, Love Of My Life, Stone Cold Crazy, Great King Rat, keyboard/guitar solos, Brighton Rock (ending), Hammer To Fall, Another One Bites The Dust, Not Fade Away, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Bohemian Rhapsody, Radio Ga Ga, I Want To Break Free, Jailhouse Rock, We Will Rock You, We Are The Champions, God Save The Queen |
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This bootleg has digital clicks all over the place and the usual Gypsy Eye crackling sound. The tape itself is very good, as it was recorded very close to the stage, although a bit distorted in a few places. |
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| Recording length: | 105 minutes (2 CD, complete) |
| Quality: | A- |
| Source: | Audience |
| Lineage: | AUD > Master > CDR (1) > WAV (GoldWave speed correction, EQ) > FLAC level 8 |
| Track listing: | Machines (tape) [cut], Tear It Up, Tie Your Mother Down, Under Pressure, Somebody To Love, Killer Queen, Seven Seas Of Rhye, Keep Yourself Alive, Liar, It's A Hard Life, Staying Power, Dragon Attack, Now I'm Here, Is This The World We Created?, Love Of My Life, Stone Cold Crazy, Great King Rat, keyboard/guitar solos, Brighton Rock (ending), Hammer To Fall, Another One Bites The Dust, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Bohemian Rhapsody [cut], Radio Ga Ga, I Want To Break Free, Jailhouse Rock, We Will Rock You, We Are The Champions, God Save The Queen [cut] |
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This is a better copy let out by the taper, although there is some manipulation in the balance between the left and right channels throughout, with a few spots being reduced to mostly tape hiss in one channel - no doubt by design by the taper. There are also a few bits of missing tape that are present on the Gypsy Eye bootleg. The tape speed of the first nine songs was a bit too fast. |
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| Recording length: | 30 minutes (incomplete) |
| Quality: | B+ |
| Source: | Audience |
| Lineage: | AUD > ? > CDR (x) > WAV (EQ) > FLAC level 8 |
| Track listing: | Somebody To Love, Killer Queen, Seven Seas Of Rhye, Keep Yourself Alive, Liar, improv [cut], It's A Hard Life, Staying Power, Dragon Attack, Now I'm Here |
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This recording allegedly from the September 8 show is actually a compilation of two nights that switches to source 1 of the September 4 show for these ten tracks. It's likely that both recordings are by the same taper, who applied an EQ job that's very sharp in the top end to most copies they circulated. Unlike the uncut copy above, the taper saying "Queen live at Wembley" after It's A Hard Life has not been edited out here. |
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| Recording length: | 30 minutes (incomplete) |
| Quality: | A- |
| Source: | Audience |
| Lineage: | AUD > Master Cassette (WMD6 w/Aiwa CM30 external mic) > Cassette > WAV (GoldWave speed correction, EQ) > FLAC level 8 |
| Track listing: | Somebody To Love, Killer Queen, Seven Seas Of Rhye, Keep Yourself Alive, Liar, improv [cut], It's A Hard Life, Staying Power, Dragon Attack, Now I'm Here |
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This copy of the two-show compilation has a couple seconds less tape around the cut after Liar. It sounds a tad better than the 105 minute copy, calling its given lineage into question. |
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| Recording length: | 2 CDR |
| Quality: | B+ |
| Source: | Audience |
| Lineage: | "Last Show In The Arena (Breakdown) |
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| Track listing: | Somebody To Love, Killer Queen, Seven Seas Of Rhye, Keep Yourself Alive, Liar, It's A Hard Life, improv, Staying Power, Dragon Attack, Now I'm Here |
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Breakdown's 2006 bootleg is the two show mash-up, with these tracks being from September 4. |
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| Recording length: | 104 minutes (2 CD, incomplete) |
| Quality: | A- |
| Source: | Audience |
| Lineage: | AUD > Master Cassette > WAV > MP3 > CDR (0) > WAV (GoldWave click removal) > FLAC level 8 |
| Track listing: | Machines (tape), Tear It Up, Tie Your Mother Down, Under Pressure, Somebody To Love, Killer Queen, Seven Seas Of Rhye, Keep Yourself Alive, Liar, It's A Hard Life, Staying Power, Dragon Attack, Now I'm Here [cut], Is This The World We Created?, Love Of My Life, Stone Cold Crazy, Great King Rat, keyboard/guitar solos, Brighton Rock (ending), Hammer To Fall, Another One Bites The Dust, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Bohemian Rhapsody, Radio Ga Ga, I Want To Break Free [cut], Jailhouse Rock, We Will Rock You, We Are The Champions, God Save The Queen [cut] |
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This second source is one of the better recordings of the tour. It's very well-balanced, and nearly the complete show. Although it's a direct copy of the master tape, it has unfortunately been converted to mp3, and this is all the taper would let out. Now I'm Here has a very small cut for a tape flip (and the last minute of the song after the cut has a bit of tape damage), and the first minute of I Want To Break Free is missing. Aside from a bit of tape warble in the last couple tracks, the sound is otherwise great and stable. |
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